City plan keeps user pa

- Homeowners bear

o - HOMEOWNERS will pay for their own street ‘paving ex-
cept on those which the city deems as essential main
_ routes,

So says city council's new paving plan, a document that
~ entrenches the system of Local Improvement Projects
~~ (LIPs) in which residents pay for their own paving.
~~ But what hasn’t been made public yct is a proposed map

of which streets will be declared esseritial and which ones
will be user-pay.

Public works committee chairman Gordon Hull says ear-
. Tier ideas of a 25-year paving plan — in which everyone's
. taxed and all streets eventually get paved — was abandon:

ed because LIPs stretch city tax dollars further.
. Critics of the LIP system say it will result in a patchwork
_ Of paved and unpaved streets that corresponds to rich and
: poor neighbourhoods in the city.

Hull said a farge, across-the-board and unpopular tax in-

crease would be necessary to pay for large-scale paving.
“What do you say to the guy who's on year 24 of the 25-

‘| year paving plan? Pay your taxes for 24 years and then it

will be your tum?"?

- With an LIP system, he said, homeowners at least sce a

.. direct, immediate benefit — blacktop in front of their

‘ . house — when they have to shell out.

_. They also get the option to vote against the project if
they don’t want it or can’t afford it

“T think it deals more fairly with the people getting the |

benefits,” Hull said. “If you pay the tax you get a paved
strect, if you don’t want to pay you stick with ruts and
dust.”’

The plan says rebuilding arterial and essential streets will

be entirely the responsibility of the city.

Non-arterial streets will be cost-shared, with the city
paying 40 per cent and the residents paying 60 per cent,
Alleys will fall 100 per cent on residents,

Hull said the formula could reduce the average LIP cost .

to homeowners from the present $67 per frontage foot to
about $47 per frontage foot.
Money from the city budget for LIPs will be allocated on
a first-come, first-served basis.
, The policy also calls on the city to spend at least
. $450,000 to $600,000 a year on street improvements,
Tt suggests that those improvements would “‘reduce the

PEOPLE IN Terrace will have a chance to recycle paper

products this Saturday for the first time in nearly three
” years.
"Recycling volunteers from Kitimat are coming here to
“collect Terrace’s newspaper, magazines, cardboard and of-
~ fice paper.
>. Kitimat Understanding. the Environment’s
“mobile depot will be open Saturday, Nov, 4 from 9:30 a.m.
_ fo 3:30 p.m. on the corner of the northwest comer of the
-Skeena Mall parking tot.

‘- They’se also looking for Terrace volunteers to help out.

The newsprint is recycled at Eurocan’s pulp mil] in ~

Kitimat. The other recyclable materials are packed and
barged to Vancouver.
~ Project organizer Wendy Clement says they plan to oper-
_ ate the mobile depot in Tertace monthly. °
She said thei: main goal is to encourage some more recy-
cling in Terrace, and perhaps generate some support for
the recycling provisions: proposed in the Tegional solid
waste management plan.
-. Terrace’s recycling depot closed lale in 1992 after city
- council refused to continue subsidizing it

4

pave cost

. perceived need for street rebuilds,”?

Hull says that doesn’t mean the city thinks. residents can
be fooled by some cosmetic face-lifts of streets,

For example, he says, there are many streets in good con-~ |

dition, but that have horribly potholed shoulders. When
opposing traffic forces a motorist is drive on the shoulder
— and bang through a series of ruts — curses result.

Etiminate a few serious potholes in shoulders and around
comers, and you will eliminate much of the perception that

“all our streets are falling apart.”

“All our streets aren’t falling apart. We have some good
streets, some medium ones and some tough ones.”

The plan also mentions cut strips of pavement for utility
lines. — which Sometimes happen just after the pavement
has been put down,

Hull says that’s been a sore point and the city will work
towards a better standard of ulility cut patches by both
public works and utility companies.

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