Al? - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 9, 2000

Road cost deal paves way
for new school on the bench

A NEW $3.5 million ele-
mentary school on the
bench has overcome a
major hurdle, raising the
possibility construction
could start this fall.

The school board had
threatened to shelve the
. project if city council held
firm to its earlier position
that the school. district pay.
all the initial costs.of |
building roads to the new
school.

The board said its hands
were tied because’ the
provincial government,
which pays for school con-
struction, had refused to
pay the more than
$600,000 originally de-
manded by the city to
build roads, sidewalks and
sewers that would serve
the school.

The roads are needed so
traffic can get to and from
the school -— which is at
the corner of Cory Drive
and Bailey St. - and can
reach McConnell Drive
and the rest of the bench.

The roads also set the
stage for further residential
development east and west
of Bailey Si.

The cily viewed the
project as a major deve-
lopment that would change
traffic in the area and ac-
cordingly the developer
should pay for the new
roads.

Rather than lose the
project, however, council
agreed to accept the
school district’s ultimatum

that it wouldn’t pay more
than $115,475 required to
build the portions of road

- immediately adjacent to

the new school.

“If we impose too much
on them we'll lose the
project,” city planner
David Trawin told council-
lors.

The. city is expected to

pay $125,000, which it

may recaver when 14
acres of Crown land north
of the new school is even-
tually sold off and deve-
loped, to cover the cost of
developing most of the
western half of Bailey to
Soucie Ave.

The deal on cost-shar-
ing between the city and
school board also depends
on ETV Holdings Ltd.,
which owns undeveloped
property to the east of Bai-
ley, paying $179,000 up
front to finance the eastern
half of Bailey, Trawin
said,

The city still wants to
build Bailey all the way
north to McConnell, at a
further cost of more than
$200,000, but it may delay
that portion for a few years
now that the cost won't be
shared by the school dis-
trict.

Trawin said the city ex-
pects to acquire nearly
eight acres of Crown land
immediately south of the
school for parkland, but
noted that will mean an
extra $173,500 in city
costs for sidewalks and the

Burning rules coming

NEW burning rules mean more people will be on the
phone to see if they can burn land clearing debris.

Marcel Georges

like.

The next hurdle for the
school] will be when the
required rezoning and
change to the Official Ca-
munity Plan goes to public
hearing later this summer.

Opposition could come
in the form of parents of
children at Parkside Ele-
mentary School, who fear
a new school on the bench
could further reduce Park-
side’s numbers and prompt
the district to close the
school,

nae thes

“All we're saying is
den’t build the school
now,” said Randy Hall,
who has a son attending

. Parkside.

He wants to know
where the students will
come from to fill the 250
spaces at the new school,
and what that will do to

‘existing schools.

The school board has
tried to ease those fears
and maintains the new
school is required because
of a provincial initiative to
climinate portables, which
are heavily in use at Up-
lands Elementary.

“There’s nothing to
worry about,” school dis-
trict secretary treasurer
Marcel Georges said. “We
need both schaols.”

The district also has ap-
proval to spend nearly
$700,000 building addi-
tions at Cassie Hall and
Kiti K’Shian schools on
the south side for the same
treason, he said.

An architect is finishing
design work for the new
school, and the project
could go out fo tender as
soon as the land is re-
zoned, Georges said.

“We have to start con-
struction within the next
six or seven weeks,” he
said.

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The changes apply only to land clearing debris and
not backyard foliage, which is subject to local restric-
tions, People wanting to find out whether or not they can
burn debris from land clearing can call a new number as -
of Sept. 1, which replaces the pricey 1-900 number.

According to the environment ministry, the move
comes after complaints about too much burning and poor
air quality. Local municipalities will also be able to
form their own backyard burning policies based on the
air quality and weather information provided by the hot-
line, The numbers in the Skeena area will be 250-847-
7679 or 1-888-281-2992,

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