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January 24, 2013 ❖ www.CloverdaleReporter.com ❖ 604-575-2405
City ponies up for schools Surrey to front $5 million for new school planning
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By Sheila Reynolds The Surrey School District is putting up $5 million of its own money to get the ball rolling on two long-awaited and much-needed new schools and two school expansions – with the hope that the provincial government will pay the cash back. The move to front the money, says longtime Trustee Laura McNally, is the first of its kind by a B.C. school board, but is necessary as homes continue to be built at a breakneck pace and schools are busting at the seams in some Surrey neighbourhoods. “We owe it to our students and our parents to move quickly,” McNally said at last week’s board meeting, in presenting a motion to fellow trustees which was passed unanimously. She said residents have been “incredibly frustrated” by school over-
crowding and can’t understand why homes pop up continuously, while schools aren’t built until years later. McNally said it’s no longer an option to wait for the provincial government to dole out capital budgets, as the process has become highly political and entirely unpredictable. Gone are the days when boards would submit a capital wish list in the fall and find out by February which were approved so they could start planning by spring. “For the last little bit, we’ve been in limbo. We don’t know when projects will be approved and we just continue to grow,” said McNally. The $5 million will be used to hire architects to start the lengthy design process for new secondary schools in the swelling Clayton and Grandview
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Long vacant, historic corner to be redeveloped By Jennifer Lang The lonely-looking northwest corner at the entrance to historic Cloverdale is being redeveloped after lying vacant for more than a decade. The Cloverdale Gateway project at 17577 Highway 10 is a two-story retail and office building designed by PJ Lovick Architect, the Burnaby-based company behind Clayton Crossing and other recent commercial developments in Surrey, including Sullivan Phase II. The property, which has been assessed at $1.1 million, was most recently home to a Shell gas station, but it’s been vacant for at least 12 years, surrounded by a chain link fence due to remediation efforts. As with Brick Yard Station, another recent addition to the Cloverdale bypass
corridor, the building’s design will be in keeping with the heritage rail theme and in compliance with the Cloverdale Town Centre Plan. Concept drawings show a low rise building with large windows, red brick columns and stained wood beams. Landscaping will also make a nod to Cloverdale’s heritage by incorporating plants seen more frequently in its early community days such as robinia, a golden locus tree with a large canopy, lavender, boxwood and ornamental grasses. The proposal went to public hearing Dec. 10. The property is in the process of being rezoned from Comprehensive Development (CD) to Town Centre Commercial. “We’re pretty close to getting a develop-
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ment permit and the building permit is [already] in,” said architect Andrea Scott. “Hopefully, we’ll start construction in the spring.” The project will take about eight months to complete, Scott said, adding, “It should be open for 2014.” The development calls for a retail floor with 533 square metres, another 642 square metres of offices space on the second floor, and 30 parking spaces at street level. With the addition of Cloverdale Gateway, there will be “a nice, continuous facade [of buildings] all the way down 176 Street,” city planner Lee-Anne Pitcairn said, pointing out that the Telus switching station immediately adjacent dates from the 1950s. See HERITAGE / Page 3
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