LeasideLife issue 35- 32pgs-draft 4_LeasideLifev1 14-12-17 7:22 PM Page 1
No. 35 • January 2015
Leaside Life leasidelifenews.com
Waiting for a BIA By ALLAN WILLIAMS Bayview merchants had expected to have an answer on whether they would have a Business Improvement Area by our deadline, but Michael Saunders, of the BIA office of the Economic Development Division at City Hall, said that ballots were still being counted and verified. There has to be a minimum 30 percent voter turned out of eligible business and property owners, with a majority in favour. Trae Zammit, owner of The Smokin’ Cigar and spokesperson for the BIA steering committee, says, “When we started working on this in January 2014 there were 13 empty stores between Davisville BIA, Page 8
PADDY DUNCAN
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Happy New Year
DOUGLAS OBRIGHT outlines the big developments facing us in his keynote address at the Leaside Property Owners' Association annual general meeting.
If we are to continue to enjoy the attributes which prompted us to move to Leaside, we must be engaged and proactive both individually and collectively
By GEOFF KETTEL
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Because we face major planning challenges, we need to think of aspects of Leaside that we value and how those aspects might be preserved as the community deals with an ongoing onslaught of new development proposals. That was the message delivered by Douglas Obright, Leaside resident and Registered Professional Planner, in his keynote presentation to the Leaside Property Owners’ Association (LPOA) annual general meeting on Nov. 25. To drive home this message he challenged attendees to think of how those aspects of Leaside – low density, small town feel, leafy streets, Georgian Revival and Tudor Revival homes, consistent streetscapes and setbacks, good schools, recreation and community facilities, peacefulness, cleanliness, safety, walkability and bikeability, ease of access to public transportation and downtown – might be impacted by new development.
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