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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1991 '

Vol. 7, Issue No. 2 :

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The parking situation downtown Is desperate, RCMP spokesman Cst Don Oldham said it came loose from a tow truck's

but that isn’t what put this car on its side itr trachack lane of the Skeana Mall. hook while being towed around the corner at the north

end of the Sande Overpass and slid down the embankment, startling a few people on the other side of the wail.

by Tod Strachan

An apartment building is. not going to be built at Eby and Davis, At least not in the immediate future. A standing-room-only crowd attended a public hearing in city council chambers Monday night, and when all was said and done it was a draw.

Aldermen Ruth Hallock, Mo Takhar and Rick King were opposed; aldermen Bob Cooper, Danny Sheridan and Darryl Laurent were In favour. This left mayor Jack Talstra with the decid- ing ballot and he voted against the

proposal. "If a change of this im- portance is to take place in this

community we must have a better consensus of council," he said.

Talstra pointed out that neigh- bouring residents had expressed concern over increased traffic, the vagueness of the proposal and the quality of life in the area, But he also indicated that if the developer, Ray Lovstad, could "clarify or tone down" his proposal he could bring it back to council for a second look.

Lovestad described his proposal during the public hearing, saying it would be an attractive, three-story, 27- to 30-unit apartment building set on a nicely landscaped lot. He said cach unit would be in the middle to upper range witi two or three bedrooms and self-contained laundry. A type of rental accom- modation, agrees city planner Marvin Kamenz, that is rare in

Terrace. Lovstad also said traffic woul not be a problem: parking would flow off Walsh Ave. and exit onto Davis Ave. All he needed was to have his property rezoned from R2 two family residential to R3 mul-

tiple family residential.

One thing Lovestad didn’t have, though, was a sct of drawings to show city aldermen and neighbour- ing residents what his building and landscaping would actually look like. This caused what alderman Rick King described as a lack of confidence in Lovstad’s proposal; some residents suggested that once the property was rezoned, Lovstad could build almost anything he wanted.

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Lovstad if he brings a new pro-

posal back to council, however.

Besides the trust and support-of his neighbours, Lovstad will have to prove to everyone that an apart- ment building is a suitable buffer between the downtown core and residential areas. And with this established, will have to convince council that his property, presently zoned R2 and fisted as high den- sity residential on the Official Community Plan, should be rezoned to accommodate a mul- tiple family dwelling.

In suppotting Lovstad, Cooper said he didn't believe traffic would be a problem and added that the dedication of a 33-foot strip of

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by Tod Strachan

’. & number of weather records

have been broken in the last cight months. 1990. was a year of extremes. . ae

Last summer ws broke an old high-temperature record. On Dec. 3 a record snowfall all but closed roads in the area. The storm began Sunday aftemmoon and by the time it was.over the Terrace weather office had recorded a total of 100.6 centimetres (39.6 inches) of snow and 20 millimetres of rain..

On Dec. 3 alone we had. 82.8 centimetres (32.6 inches) af snow, _and this set a new 24-hour snow- fall record for the month of December. The previous record was set on Dec. 12, 1978, when we got a 50.6 centimetre (19.9 inch) dump of wet, heavy, snow. Even though this was a December record, however, the all time record is still secure. It belongs to Jan. 17, 1974, when we gat 103.1 centimetres (40.6 inches) of the white stuff. A close second, which 7" ‘still holds, was recorded Feb. 18,

1972, when 102.4 centimetres (40.3 inches) of snow were measured, .

On Dec. 5 it began to rain... and forgot to stop. We got 162 millimetres (0.64: inches) of rain that day, another 20.2 millimetres (0.79 inches) the following day, and on Friday, Dec. 7 — you guessed it — another record fell.

We broke the all time, one-day

rainfall record for December with ae 111.4 millimetres (4.39, inches) of © " rain. The previous record for any

month was set on Tuesday, Oct.

3i, 1978, when we got 1148 millimetres (4.52 inches) of rain.

We missed this one by just 13/100ths of an inch. .

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