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Wednesday, February 27,1991 — AI1

FIRST HOTEL SIDNEY, Beacon Avenue, early 1900's. The east wing of the first Hotel Sidney was
builf in 1891 for Capt. WA. Bissett, the first proprietor. Two years later the west wing was
added: From its early days, the hotel was popular for its saloon. With the introduction of
extra troops at Sidney in 1916, the overloaded facilities at the hotel were expanded to
include a full length bar in what was later fo become the dining room. Hotel Sidney was
also known throughout the area for its chicken dinners. A 1922 advertisement proclaims:
sianey Hotel, real meals and service; our specialty: fried chicken and hot biscuits...$1.00. A
fire in 1948 destroyed the original building but in 1951, A.M. Dore promised a new hotel if he
was allowed fo sell beer by the glass. The proposal was passed and plans were drawn up
for a new building on the same sife, according to information researched by Sidney

Museum assistant Curator Susan Kilpatrick. sipney museum photo

Council dismisses report

A regional government study on

affordable housing which includes
recommendations that Mt. Newton
slopes and Tod Inlet be developed
was shunned by Central Saanich
council, Feb. 18.
~ Council voted not the support
the Capital Regional District’s
Maintaining the Affordable Com-
munity land-use study during a
discussion on rental housing.

Published last fall, the study
suggests Central Saanich should
provide water and sewer servicing
for Tod Inlet and the Mt. Newton
slopes within the next decade to
help prevent a chronic housing
shortage.

Ald. Clarence Bolt said the
report is flawed in its assumption
that Central Saanich is a “housing
land bank.”

However, council said it will
endorse “measures which promote

In a Celebration of
St. Patrick’s Day

MARCH 15th, 6:00 p.m.

An Authentic Irish Buffet
in our Beautifully Decorated
IRISH DINING ROOM

sustainable land use planning to
protect agriculture, industry and
other human activities over the
long-term.”

Expansion of housing into areas
presently used for non-urban
activities cannot be supported,
council also said.

Council agreed to endorse any
CRD initiatives to place controls
on demolitions and conversions of
homes to prevent greater loss of
affordable housing.

A move to expand the number of
secondary suites in the municipal-
ity should also be considered,
council said.

Further, council said it won't
support the expansion of the
regional housing department.

Bolt said such an expansion
would merely “create another
huge bureaucracy.”

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