Thursday February 28, 2013 (Vol. 38 No. 18)
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Fair play: It’s all in the accents for Southridge School’s students who will be performing famed musical My Fair Lady at the school’s theatre this Thursday through Sunday. › see page A31
Cody Green performs
Stepping out at the Oscars Alex Browne Staff Reporter
Sarah Massah photo
White Rock residents Cindy McMullen (centre-left) and Margaret Woods (second from right) join attendees of Monday’s public hearing in taking a closer look at a replica of the much-debated development proposed for the former White Rock Mufflers site.
Surprise concessions aim ‘to marry aspirations and concerns’
Muffler-site height conceded Mufflers site, at the base of Oxford Street – and offered to remove two townhouse units The developer of a contentious White Rock in order to create more green space. project made surprise concessions MonThe announcement – made by project day following pressure from architect Tim Ankenman – residents for the city to reject ❝We’d be in court faster came late into the lengthy a proposed bylaw amendment hearing for Bylaw 2001, which than you could say that would allow extra height. would amend the current muffler site.❞ At a public hearing held at bylaw restricting the height of Wayne Baldwin the White Rock Community commercial buildings in the White Rock mayor Centre, Richmond-based LLW area to 37 feet. Holdings Ltd. conceded an “This is a lot about balance extra two feet that had been requested for and finding a solution to the site that marthe project – originally proposed as a blend ries aspirations and concerns that the public of apartments, townhouses and ground-floor have rightly spoke about tonight,” Ankencommercial units for the former White Rock man said, noting the common thread in Sarah Massah Staff Reporter
concerns was height and lack of green space. “I’m hoping with these two compromises that we don’t do the wrong thing and defeat this and go back to the original rezoning. Again, that has fewer parking stalls and more units. Rather, we can get rid of those two units and bring building one down to the height that is allowable.” The extra two feet had been requested following a miscalculation – missed by the city and developer alike – that led to residential units of one building being designed to start below the floodplain. Monday, more than a dozen people spoke – with all but Ankenman and one resident › see page A4
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There was a familiar local presence in the spotlight for Semiahmoo Peninsula viewers of Sunday’s Oscars broadcast. South Surrey-raised dancer, singer and actor Cody Green was prominently featured in several song and dance interludes during the 85th annual Academy Awards show, including the opening number, in which his hoofing colleagues included Daniel Radcliffe and host Seth MacFarlane. He was also highly visible among the chorus joining Catherine Zeta-Jones in her steamy reprise of her All That Jazz number from Chicago (2003). Green moved to Los Angeles last year to concentrate on movie and television work, forsaking Cody Green a New York-based dancer career that had brought him lead roles in the Broadway and touring versions of West Side Story (directed by Arthur Laurents) and Movin’ Out (directed by Twyla Tharp). The Earl Marriott graduate, who also attended the Juillard School in New York, was grand prize winner of the Bravo TV Step It Up and Dance competition in 2008. Green’s mother, Susie Green, internationally known dance and movement teacher and founder of the Crescent Beach-based Joy of Movement Studio told Peace Arch News Green was direct-booked for the Oscars gig by choreographer Rob Ashford, whose Broadway credits include Promises, Promises and How To Succeed In Business. “He loves Cody!” she said, an assertion borne out by Green’s highlighted status in the Oscars choreography. Green is also featured in an episode of the locally lensed series Once Upon A Time, which he shot in January during a brief trip home.