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Tower project up for debate
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Mahogany hardly welcome say Mill Lake neighbours CHRISTINA TOTH CToth@abbotsfordtimes.com
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Switching ‘psycho’ for social RAFE ARNOTT RArnott@abbotsfordtimes.com
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public forum on psychopaths, social predators and drug addictions held at the Matsqui Centennial Auditorium at Abbotsford’s city hall tomorrow night is meant to engage the public and not frighten parents, said police. The Abbotsford School District and the Abbotsford Police Department will present the information forum with the lengthy title: What once was a fist fight is now a knife fight
and what was once a knife fight is now a gunfight. The presentations will start at 6 p.m. Wednesday and will feature forensic behavior specialists, drug experts and former addicts. The forum is meant to educate the community on how a lack of social engagement contributes to violent behavior, drug addiction and predatory and psychopathic behavior in youth. “People might hear terms like ‘psychopath’ and ‘predator’ and think of Hannibal
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Lecter-type scenarios, but we don’t want to create fear. We want to create information,” said APD Const. Ian MacDonald. Police are concerned about the tendency for modern families to isolate and ‘cocoon’ themselves, he said. “Pe o p l e a re n o t s o c i a l l y
engaged the way they were a generation ago. “Fifty years ago, you knew everybody on your street, you knew their business, good or bad. [Now] you don’t know who your neighbour is,” MacDonald said. see FORUM, page A11
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Hiding and happy, this girl found refuge under one of the hundreds of cars featured at last weekend’s British Columbia Classic and Custom Car Show inside Abbotsford’s Tradex. For more photos of cars, and the kids of all ages who love them, see page A3.
he $100-million Mahogany at Mill Lake residential tower proposal was back before a public hearing last night for the second time in less than a year, to what was expected to be vocal opposition. The developer hopes to win over critics with geothermal heating, traffic calming measures to avoid congestion and attractive greenery on the site, which is at 32828 Bevan Ave., one block from Mill Lake Park. Due to neighbourhood opposition, the Abbotsford council denied an application by Quantum Properties Mahogany Inc. last May to build the 80-metre concrete tower and a four-storey apartment block. Critics fear the tower will cast shadows on adjacent family homes and increase traffic in the area. H o w e v e r , Read more @ d e v e l o p e r abbotsfordtimes.com Diane Delves, president of Abbotsford-based Quantum, said she received significant feedback encouraging her to go on with the project on the three-acre site. This time, the tower proposal includes environmentally friendly geothermal technology that will produce 70 per cent less greenhouse gases than a standard building, said Delves. While the number of storeys in the new plan drops to 26 from 28, the tower’s height will stay at 80 metres, as the new design lifts the floorto-ceiling heights to nine feet from eight feet to accommodate the geothermal system. City planners like the highrise project because it is consistent with the city’s Official Community Plan (OCP), which calls for mixed residential use in the Mill Lake area, and for high density specifically on the three-acre parcel. Whatever happens at the site, highrise or not, it will be a high-density project, said Jay Teichroeb, general manager of economic development. The council voted 5-4 in March to put the proposal to a public hearing. If the project is approved, Delves said it could take five years to complete. For a report of last night’s meeting, visit www. abbotsfordtimes.com.
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