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A Newton-area business group is pushing Surrey City Hall to put the brakes on plans to build Newton Community Centre on a vacant lot on King George Boulevard, at 70A Avenue. Newton Business Improvement Association (BIA) suggests the estimated $100 million might be better spent on redeveloping existing recreation facilities and lands located just a block northeast of there, off 72nd Avenue. “The Newton Arena, Wave Pool, Recreation Centre, Senior Centre & Library need a comprehensive plan for revitalization, not a political promise that does not fit into the Official Community Plan,” the BIA says in a news release. “Community consultation matters!” The Newton Community Centre project was revealed in 2020 by then-mayor Doug McCallum and council. By 2022, drawings of the project’s first phase showed a 10-lane, 50-metre lap pool, leisure pool, lazy river and other water attractions on the site, which is about a half-kiloContinued on A3
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