Convention centre, walkway over tracks appeal to locals WHAT WOULD you like downtown to look like in 20157 Already proposed is a new convention centre in the Greig Ave. Co-op building, expanding the downtown core to Atwood Street, creating live\work studios on Greig and building a pedestrian walkway at the bottom of Kalum Street over the CN yard. David Witte, senior plan- ner from Urban Systems in Vancouver, local architect Dan Condon and city plan- ner David Trawin presented a sketch of how downtown might look in 20 years from now to citizens at the Ter- race Inn June 25. The potential plan came after planners met last month with 17 local busi- ness owners, property owners, city staff and mem- bers of the beautification society to discuss ways to enhance the downtown. The group brainstormed and Witty took their ideas and drew a potential sketch of what a new downtown could - look like, “The design charette CITIZENS SUCH AS Annalee Davis attended a meeting with city planners at the Terrace Inn June 25 - to give her Ideas of what downtown should look like in the future. She's putting a green dot beside the ideas and concepts she wants to see in the future downtown and a red dot beside those she didn't like. (plan) gives focus to things people want to see happen downtown, ”’ said Wiite. ‘‘It identifies key issues and op- portunities for the downtown.”’ Witte said the potential design is necessary so that city planners can start plan- ning for the future in terms of bylaws and rezoning. “This plan is a broad con- cept of how the community plan can be restructured,”’ he said. The potential concept for downtown included a vari- ety of new additions such as redeveloping Lakelse Ave- mie by expanding the downtown core commercial area from Emerson Street to Atwood Street and adding residential housing to the tops of businesses. entrance points into downtown were also pra- posed. Witte explained that when tourists can identify a downtown, they'll stay and spend money, Also on the list was build- ing a convention centre in the Co-op building to create an anchor jn the downtown. A pedestrian overpass at the bottom of Kalum Strect, over top of the train tracks, was also on the list, The plan showed the east end of the city by the curl- ing rink completely —re- developed with townhouses and three-storey apariments. New live\work studios along Greig Avenue, cast of Atwood Street were also proposed. Approximately 20 locals showed up at the meeting and most were impressed with the future vision of downtown. They were asked to comment on the potential design and offer different ideas. City planners will now take a look at existing The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 1, 1998 - A7 Specially identified bylaws and zoning to make giteways to welcome the city compatible with te visitors and to mark revitalization of downtown. Alcan finds smelter costs too high ALCAN ’S TEAM looking at expanding the company’s Kitimat smelting capacity is looking for Plan B now that it has determined ihat what it wanted to do is too expensive. used, Now the team would look at how the calculation worked with different sizes of smelter and different technologies Team member Bob Vanstone would release figures, -— weighing the capital costs against the operating costs in other than to say what's been calculated is ‘higher than acceptable’’ and fails to meet what the company wants for a rate of return based on. its investment. Vanstone wouldn’t release figures. News reports place the suggested cost at $1.8 billion, well over what Alcan wants to spend. But while the team must now search for alternatives which will meet company goals, Vanstone downplayed the effect of the decision. “It’s one of those things that happens in feasibility studies,” he pointed out, The first run had been based on certain assumptions as to the size of the new smelter — 250,000 tonnes per annum capacity — and the types of technology that would be - Fare applies 10 Tuesday and Wednesday travel only. ” Fare is one-way, some wstrictions apply. AEROPLAN @® ' Premier Clark: ‘DON’T SAY “NO” TO OUR RIGHT TO KNOW B ritish Columbians are fed up with secretive government. Public business is OUR business, and we deserve the facts. In 1992, the NDP recognized that. They ran - for office on a promise of “Open Government” and followed through by passing Canada’s finest Freedom of Information and Privacy Act. Under the Clark government, attitudes are changing radically. 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Pointing to the compa- ny’s experience with the Alma project in Quebec, Vanstone said that had originally been conceived as a 250,000 tonne smelier, It too bit problems when it came to the Initial cost analysis and ultimately the company de- cided on a 375,000 tonne operation, And while repeating the conceptual stage will take 3-6 months, he said it didn’! necessarily mean the project was back ai square one, “conbucte We helieve. we in helping. Anyone. Anywhere. PLEASE GIVE'1 888 3213433. | . a James W. Radelet —— RADELET & COMPANY faristers & Solicitors Tax Law * Trusts * Corporate & Commercial 1330 - 1075 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C, V6E IC? Z Phone: 404- 689-0878 Fax: 604- 689-1386 _ LOF NORTHLAND DRUG MART IN GAZELTON REGULAR | MARKED PRICES “EXCLUDING PRESCRIPTIONS. RELATED PRODUCT! 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