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COMMON SENSE MUST TRUMP ERSATZ POLICY EVERY TIME
Deal with Kitchener extends development options in Breslau
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A trip back in time on Remembrance Day
STEVE KANNON WOOLWICH WILL PAY KITCHENER $1.5 million for the sewage capacity that will allow for more development in Breslau. A new cross-border servicing agreement won tentative approval from councillors meeting Tuesday night. The deal will augment extra capacity from a 2013 agreement, which expanded a 2003 agreement in which Woolwich gets 25 per cent of the wastewater capacity of the Victoria Street North pumping station in Kitchener. The new arrangement adds another 25 per cent of the facility’s capacity. Director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley called the price tag “appropriate and fair.” The money will be recovered in development charges levied on the sale of new properties developed in the area served by the new sewer lines. The extra service could be used for a spate of residential and commercial projects slated for the area, new subdivisions, and a Smart Centres big DEAL | 4
Veterans from Canada and the U.S. gathered with their spouses in St. Jacobs on Wednesday morning to take a steam engine train ride on the Waterloo Central Railway to Waterloo city hall for the Remembrance Day ceremony. From left: Evelyn Berg, Russell Reuthe, Julie Reuthe, Yves Marchand, Joe Strock, Margaret Mathers, and Bob Berg. [WHITNEY NEILSON / THE OBSERVER]
Back to the drawing board
Woolwich councillors unwilling to support blanket policy that would see sidewalks built on both sides of all streets
STEVE KANNON A BLANKET POLICY – sidewalks on both sides of every street – is a nonstarter with Woolwich councillors. Meeting Tuesday night, they sent engineering staff off in search of a better solution. Sidewalks have long been a contentious issue with the public, and this week’s meeting was no exception as residents of an Elmira neighbourhood vented their frustrations. The township is going to reconstruct Green War-
bler Crescent and wants to install sidewalks on both sides of the street where today there is only one sidewalk. Residents of that street and neighbouring Grey Owl Drive overwhelmingly oppose that plan. At the Nov. 10 meeting, delegates spoke out against a blanket policy, castigating the township for not following through on a pointsbased system discussed at an informal meeting last month with the mayor and Ward 1 councillors. Pronouncing himself “ex-
tremely disappointed,” resident Jarrod Leis said a proper system would take into account the likes of pedestrian levels, proximity to schools and the volume of cars on the road in determining the need for more sidewalks. “Green Warbler is one of those streets that you need to think about,” added Steven Grant. Phil Willms argued council should be looking at a points system like Kitchener’s rather than a sweeping SIDEWALKS | 5