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Town administrator’s first task is OCP

_ by Girard Hengen

The Review

Sidney council’s search for a top
bureaucrat has ended with the
appointment of Albertan David
Bartley to the new post of chief
administrative officer (CAO).

Aldermen voted unanimously to
hand the Town’s top job to Bartley
at a special in camera meeting Feb.
10.

Bartley, 48, will receive a salary
of $70,000 per year, said Mayor
Marie Rosko.

He will leave his position as
executive director of the South
Peace Region Planning Commis-
sion based in Grande Prairie, Alta.
The commission functions like
Victoria’s Capital Regional Dis-
trict, with 23 municipalities under
its umbrella.

Bartley will start work at Town
hall March 23. His appointment

was announced to Town staff
Thursday.

He was plucked from a short list
of seven candidates for the job,
which was vacated when former
administrator Geoff Logan was
granted a leave of absence last fall.
There were 110 applicants from
B.C. to Nova Scotia, said Rosko.

“We felt he had a general back-
ground in all the areas that Sidney

is in need of pulling together to

provide this community with a
strong sense of direction,” said
Rosko.

She noted Bartley, a native of
England, has been involved in
economic development, planning
and development issues and tour-
ism initiatives.

He is a member of the Canadian
Institute of Planners and has over
22 years experience in local gov-
emment.

He began his career as an assist-
ant planner in England in 1969.
After emigrating to Canada in
1975, he was town manager in
Innisfail and Hinton, two Alberta
communities, before moving to the
Grande Prairie post.

One of Bartley’s first tasks will
be to sit on a selection committee
for a Town clerk.

Creating the CAO and clerk’s
positions was recommended in an
operational review conducted by
George Cuff and Associates, an
Edmonton-based consulting com-
pany.

Rosko said Bartley will assist
council as it implements other
recommendations from the report.

Other items on his immediate
agenda will be to help in the
process for developing a new Offi-
cial Community Plan, and resolve
transportation issues with the Pat
Bay Highway, she said.

4] per cent want interchange — survey

Public sentiment on an inter-
change for Beacon Avenue and the
Pat Bay Highway is shifting,
according to the findings of Sid-
ney’s Official Community Plan
questionnaire.

Results of the questionnaire,
which was mailed to all house-
holds, were released earlier this
month.

Included were questions on Sid-
ney’s greatest traffic bottleneck.

The survey noted the provincial
Highways Ministry has delayed
implementing an interchange.
Respondents were asked which, if
any, of the following proposals
they would support.

One item was a major inter-
change as proposed by the Minis-
try to provide the main access to
Sidney. On a percentage basis, 41
per cent said they would support
this plan, while 37 per cent would
not support it and 22 per cent were
not sure.

Another alternative presented
was a “scaled-down interchange,”
also providing the main access to
the town. The responses were 52
per cent in support, 24 per cent not
sure and 24 per cent not support-
ing it.

To an alternative for two inter-
changes, one north of the town and
one south, 40 per cent said they
would not support this, 30 per cent
were not sure and 30 per cent
would go along with it.

Closing Beacon at the highway,
with access provided by two inter-
changes, was opposed by 64 per
cent of respondents and supported
by 16 per cent.

These are just some of the
results, which were tabulated by
Venture Market Research Ltd.

Brian Killop, of the company,
told a recent public meeting the
high level of “Not sure” responses
on highway questions indicates
people want more information on
the issue.

“That is a very valid response of
many people,” he said.

People were asked what type of
housing development should be
encouraged in the town. They
could pick more than one.

Most popular was single family
detached homes, being the choice
of 74 per cent of respondents.

Other responses were: afforda-
ble family housing, 67 per cent;
mixed family and senior housing,
47 per cent; townhouses, 42 per
cent; congregate care facilities, 40
per cent; duplexes, 32 per cent,
apartment buildings, 20 per cent,

cent.

said single family detached homes
should be built on the same lot
size as presently allowed, while 21
per cent said lot sizes should be
permitted to be smaller.

On the question should base-
ment and second suites in homes
be legalized, 55 per cent approved,
29 per cent did not and 16 per cent
were unsure.

A big majority — 69 per cent —
favored maintaining the height
restriction for condo/apartment
buildings at 50 feet. Ten per cent
said it should be raised, and 21 per
cent want it lowered.

For commercial buildings,
which have a 30-foot height maxi-
mum, 77 per cent want it to stay
the same, 16 per cent said it
should be raised and seven per
cent lowered.

Sixty per cent of respondents
believe residences should be
allowed above commercial build-
ings on Beacon.

And 73 per cent want to con-
tinue underground wiring down-
town.

The top four features people felt
would improve the downtown
shopping core are: benches and
sitting areas (56 per cent), future
hydro transformers underground
(51 per cent), trees, shrubs and
flowers (49 per cent) and more and
safer pedestrian crossings 44 per
cent).

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parking, people were asked if par-
kades up to three levels high
should be built at some of these
sites. The response was 42 per cent
yes, 40 per cent no and the rest not
sure.

Most (71 per cent) feel indus-
trial use should be limited to the
west side of the Pat Bay Highway.
Respondents said the east side
should be zoned for: single family
dwellings (35 per cent), affordable
housing (28 per cent), no change
(29 per cent) and townhouses and
three-storey apartments (four per
cent each),

Just over 50 per cent approve of
Sanscha Hall being rebuilt in the
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An even 50 per cent said they
would favor consolidating services
like police and fire, while 28 per
cent responded no and 22 per cent
were not sure.

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