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Consultant recommends new bridge be built at Second and Alma News – Campbellford – IBI Group has recommended that a new bridge be built over the Trent River at Second and Alma streets – the same recommendation another consulting ďŹ rm made ďŹ ve years ago. “This has been a very difďŹ cult assignment,â€? project manager Don Drackley told the committee overseeing the process to determine where another river crossing should be built. The other option is to construct a twin bridge beside the one in the downtown. “There are ways to make trafďŹ c work reasonably well in both alternatives but we’re talking more than just the movement of trafďŹ c,â€? Drackley told the committee February 7. He and his team of engineers and planners concluded the Second Street bridge proposal was better than a twinned bridge in most respects when evaluated according to six criteria – transportation, impacts on the economic, social, cultural and natural environments, and the overall cost. But “the thing that bothers us the mostâ€? is the lack of redundancy that comes with putting another bridge at the IBI Group project manager Don Drackley said completing the environmental assessment on two options for another river crossing in Campbellford proved to be “a same location, and continuing to funnel trafďŹ c that’s growing at the rate of one very difficult assignment.â€? Photo: John Campbell per cent per year over one river crossing, Drackley said. Another drawback with the threelane twinned bridge alternative is that having a middle lane at each end of the bridge for left-hand turns would prevent vehicles from moving to one side to alBy Bill Freeman allowed them to transfer $17,680 into re- $8,000 cost for a roads need study. The largest single expense for the low ďŹ re trucks and other emergency reNews - Norwood - Municipal taxes will serves. The draft capital budget is down 4.72 municipality in 2014 is transportation at sponders to pass through, as can be done go up 1.24 per cent after Asphodel-Nor$783,406 which represents a slight .35 per now. wood council unanimously approved its per cent, or $23,145, in 2014. The design includes a recreational There are some key factors affecting cent increase over 2013. That line item 2014 draft budget. The $3,037,908 budget will generate $2,351,508 in municipal the 2014 budget, says treasurer Mela- is just a little bit higher than the town- pathway, but it would require the retax revenue, an increase of $28,907 over nie Stubbs, including a 5.49 per cent de- ship’s policing bill which will come in at moval of more buildings and further changes to the intersections to allow crease, or $39,900, in Ontario Municipal $778,091 in 2014. 2013. Administrative expenses ($439,903) for the construction of approach lanes, A typical house assessed at $189,000 Partnership Funding; a nine per cent jump will actually see a municipal tax levy de- ($61,963) in police contract costs and a are down .35 per cent while the munici- to turn the pathway into a fourth lane, pality’s conservation authority bill has Drackley said. crease of $20.11. A property facing an as- $13,269 drop in gas tax funding. The modiďŹ ed three-lane bridge opOther factors inuencing the shape skyrocketed by 157 per cent to $85,539. sessment increase of $1,900 to $200,400 Environmental services has seen ex- tion, previously developed by another will see a decrease of $15.82 in its mu- of the 2014 budget are salary increases of .90 per cent, a 3.56 per cent increase penses drop 18.80 per cent or $30,572 to consulting ďŹ rm the county hired, “is a nicipal levy. complicated piece of engineering.â€? Councillors decided against a second ($13,882) in taxable assessment, $4,635 in $132,088. The two alternatives are comparable Planning and development costs have option that would have had municipal additional water billing costs at the comin price – $28 million versus $26.5 miltaxes rise two per cent which would have munity centre and an estimated $6,000 to Please see “1.24â€? on page 2
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