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Tetrace Review — - Wednesday, Sepember9, 1987 3

: ‘Convenience store development proposal -
on Kalum met with. opposition

Glannino- Prato, manager of Terrace Shell and Car Wash, says the majority od.
of the traffic on Kalum St: is headed for the bench and his proposed 1,400 -
~ Square foot convenience store wouldn't add to it. “If more people move to. -

the bench, there. will be more: traffic,” he said. “It's as simple as that. If
anything, cars stopping at the store would. slow the. traffic down.” Pretto

names |f | wanted to".

‘says he has-a lot of public. ‘support and he. could: get a Patition with 300

| TERRACE — Two public hear- -

ings for zoning changes last -

week saw no opposition to the’

proposed ‘‘re-zoning of Greig

Ave. between Apsley and School |
from Public Administration to °

Residential, but a requested by-
law change that would allow
Terrace Shell to add a conve-
nience store to their present

~ facility was a different story.

David Dediluke, a spokesman

- for Terrace Shell, said that pro-
‘posed plans. would provide six:

full time jobs in a-7 a.m.-to-11

p.m. convenience store operat-

ing seven days per week. He also

‘Said that the business would be

well maintained and kept clean.
Edna Dahlgren, manager of

- Sandy’s Grocery, led the opposi-

tion by presenting a petition
with 177° signatures to city
aldermen. The petition argued
that there are already enough

convenience stores in the. area,

and the addition of another

would add even more traffic to

an already hazardous. situation

‘on Kalum St. and increase noise

pollution ‘beyond the intoler-
able level. it is at the present
time’’.

Other residents at the meeting .

expressed concerns ranging from
littering, safety problems, van-
dalism and drunks fighting, to
exterior lighting which could be

Fire report

On Friday, Sept. 4 at ap

proximately 7:15 a.m. a fire was
reported in a trailer in Kalum

. Trailer. Court. The trailer was

totally in flames when the fire
crew arrived. The approximate
value of the trailer less its con-
tents was $4,000.

a residential nitisance at night.
Dediluke responsed by saying
he too is.concerned about van-

_.dalism-and fighting in the area,

but-he said he feels that it is a_
policing concern, and it will not
increase because of a conveni-

ence store at the Shell station.

He also ‘said. that he feels
business competition in the area
would be a healthy thing, and
there. would: be ‘no increase ‘in
traffic; in‘the area because most
customers. would be local walk-
in traffic. ° .

In .answer to’ night lighting,
Dediluke’ gaid ‘that the business
had. heard concerns about ex-
terior lighting and‘ had already
removed some of the floodlights.
from the plan.

No decision was. made on the.
rezoning request and the matter
was sent to the Committee of the
Whole for discussion and a rec-
ommendation to council.

When Dahlgren was asked to
comment on Terrace Shell’s pro-
posal following the meeting, she
said she had been told the fuel
truck already had problems get-
ting into the service station and
she didn’t believe: the property
was big enough to permit a
building expansion.

She also said the whole area is .
‘slowly turning into a slum’
and the addition of another con-

Police report

A. Terrace: man will face
charges of impaired driving and
refusing to provide a breath
sample after he was checked
while operating a motor, vehicle
on Sept. 4.

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_ Edna Dahlgren, manager of Sandy’ Ss Grocery, says. there's no room in the: e neighborhood for'a! second convenience. 0

' store and if Terrace Shell were to opan one, it would.not only create a traffic hazard for childran and. the elderly. but... -°
also “increase noise pollution beyond the intolerable jevel it is at the present.time". Dahigren presented a petition to”
‘elty council signed by 177 residents who opposed the addition: ofa convenience store to Terrace Shell. ,

venience store, that may even-

tually be open 24 hours,’ would’

_only add to the problem.

“It’s getting ‘really. bad, ‘Peo-
ple pass out in the middle of the

street, they tear out flowers. and -

then ‘knock against: the ‘wall at:
one and: two in the morning, ”
she: said.

According to. Dahlgren, a

- teenage ice cream vendor had

been held up in the area recently
by an 18- year-old, and that is
only one example of the problem

‘in the neighborhood.

~ With ‘the new store, ‘This

“neighborhood will not. shut

down. It will be going 24 hours a

day,’’ she complained, and add-.

ed that every. other 24-hour
operation in town ‘‘was not sit-
ting right beside apartments and
houses’.

Giannino Pretto, owner/-
manager. of Terrace Shell and

Car Wash, -defended his -plans, ©

saying they were drawn up with
the expertise of Shell Canada

-Ltd., who are adding conveni-
‘ence stores to many of their
_tetail gasoline autlets.

According - to.. Shell - ‘Canada.

_blueprints, construction will re-
quire a 20-by-40-foot addition to
the rear of the building in order
to add a 1,400-square foot con-

‘ venience store to the business. It
is intended to include a fast

items.

-. Pretto said plans also include
‘a handicapped washroom facili-
ty: and ample parking. -He
estimated the cost of the renova-
tions at $194,700.

After hearing: the » arguments
against the development, Pretto
said Kalum St. traffic had in-
creased over the years,’ but. he
also said it was because of an in-

foods section’ and a sandwich -
bar besides the normal ‘grocery

creasing population. on ‘the
bench and had nothing ‘to do -.
with what was happening within

the neighborhood.

“Tf the population ° of: the . _
bench area grows, the traffic will ..
increase,’’-he said.’ “At ‘Sas sim-

ple as that.’

He added that, if anything, —_
his proposed store. would slow
traffic down because they would .

be stopping.

Pretto said he. didn't blame
Dahlgren for her opposition. “I
would probably do the same

thing,”” he said, but concluded —

- by saying that he has had a lot of

community support for his pro-

posal, and claimed that if he

were to circulate a petition of his.
own he could easily set 300.

signatures.

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