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istory last Thursday
hen its members, fun -
in committee, decided
mmend at tonight's
ouncil session that the
permit requested by
Dixon of London 'to
apartment building on
o Street be denied
the .design of the
is not suitable to the
ings• of council
committee
decision from .a
is
presentation , given by Gary
Davidson, Huron County Plan-
ning Director, and Nick Hill,
Huron County Planner.
According to Hill who
prepared the study for council's
perusal, the ' design of the
building is "a simple brick box
measuring 101 feet x 65 feet x,
28 feet; high" containing 22
apartment units in, three floors.
"The roof is flat and the
walls are pierced by aluminum
framed sliding windows," Hill
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went on. "Metal balconies oc-
cur on the second and third
floor and run half the length of
each elevation."
The proposed site for the
apartment building is- 26,936
square feet and the building
area is 6,570 square feet, the
parking lot 15,591 square feet
and open space 4,775 square,
feet.
"The building consumes 25
percent of the site while an
open parking lot consumes well
over half of the site area," said
Hill.
The report by Nick Hill read
as• follows:
"According to the engineers
it is intended to build the apar-
tment building for $12 per
square foot. For comparison a
single family residence as is
being put up in the south side
of Goderich costs between $17
and $2,O per square foot, a faces
tory costs between $11 and $14
per square foot and an in-
stitutional building such as a
school costs between $22 and
$24. per square foot.
"The proposed apartment
building, therefore, ism being
constructed at a very low price
per square foot and is more in
line with factory construction
such as the recently completed
Dearborn Steel Tubing Plant in
Goderich than residential con-
struction.
"The exceedingly cheap cost
of the proposed apartment
building may be due in part to
the fact that the developer, Mr.
Dixon, is also a building con-
tractor. However, budget has
hlundoubtedly had an influence
on the design of the building,
resulting in an undistinguished
and austere design.
"Having briefly described the
building and its construction
and costs it is most important I
believe, now to study the
character of the neighbourhood
within which the apartment
building is situated.
"The leading question is
"How well does this building fit
into the neighbourhood?"
"The proposed apartment
building is located in an old
established residential area,
characterized by residences of
substantial size, and in many
cases splendour, and of
spacious tree -lined streets. The
architecture of,the residences is
both old and new, but generally
an early nineteenth century
style pervades of Gothic
proportions, steeply inclined
roofs, and an abundance ,`of
decorative woodwork. The+ar-
chitecture is enhanced by a set-
ting of mature treescape along
the streets and in gardens, and
of well established .and ten-
dered flower borders.
"Public open space is well
provided in the neighbourhood
especially towards the
lakeshore. Vistas of the lake
are also glimpsed from streets
in the area.
"In conclusion
bourhood within
the neigh -
which the
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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1 973
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y recommendations upcoming tonight
Would prohibit mobile
Goderich Town Coun-
in com nittee last Thur -
ening, several recotn-
ons were made to be
Wheeler of 206 Shore
1 became the first
of the Goderich Golf
e Centre to register
none. The memorable
occurred on the 140-1 slashed wrists had run into the
and hole which Is a
• Wife Bev and his
Wren Roberta and
Ke playing with him.
Lyndon witnessed the
nice hit the hole -in -one
Ns Iron. It came on
night, (Staff Photo)
voted on at tonight's regular
open council meeting.
From the Administrative
Committee, the following
recommendations ,were made:
Permission for James O.
Fraser, Eldon Street, to operate
ice•cream carts during the sum-
mer months to be denied;
The matter of purchasing an
easement across the property
owned by'Mrs.' B.M. Homan to
be left with the Chairman of
the Administrative Committee
and the Chairman of the Public
Works Committee with power
to act;
The 24 by 100 foot strip of
road allowance owned by the
town on Gloucester Terrace to
be offered for sale to Maitland
Chambers at a price of $1,500;
The building permit
requested by W. Stokes for
renovations at the former
Richardson` feed mill in the
harbor area to be denied;
The offer of Imperial Oil
Limited to purchase property
on Cambridge Street to be ac-
cepted at $7,500 providing Im-
perial Oil's intention to pick up
all expenses for servicing the
lot is included in the
Five agreement;
Canadian Pacific Railways to
arebe approached with regard to the Town leasingthe beach
• • • property now occupied by lin-
en iiiciden_vacateperial dOil aswhich soon is a,to ,ubne
Fie young people, four from
Goderich, face charges today in
court following a Saturday
night incident at the Falls
Reserve -,• Conservation Area,
Benmiller. -
`Ronald Russell Craven, 18,
Stratford,' was taken to hospital
after it was reported to Ontario
Provincial Police, Goderich
detachment, that a youth with
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bush.
Investigating officers said a
disturbancebroke out involving
Craven and about 20 youths on
two campsites as Craven was
being removed to hospital.
Craven is charged with wilful
damage,
OPP officers returned to the
r
scene later "with search
warrants after it had been ob-
served during the first in-
vestigation that liquor and/or
drugs appeared to be in the
possession of the youths.
During the second visit to the
site, a second altercation broke
out from which the following
charges resulted: James Albert
Demers, 17, Goderich, causing
a disturbance; Barry Begman,
17, (Goderich, causing a distur-
bance; Janet Steep, -1-6
Goderich, assaulting a police
officer and obstruction; and
David John Schwanz, 18,
Goderich, obstruction.
The matter is still under in-
vestigation.
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derground tanks are `installed
at the Cambridge Street
location.
From the Public Works Com-
mittee, the recommendations
proposed apartment building is designed the proposed,apart-
located, is thoroughly pleasant ment building to fit the site a
and as fine as can be found meeting was held between
anywhere. myself and Mr. MacAdam (the
"As well as studying the architect with Haas-1tuebsam
relationship of the site of the Ltd. who 'drew the plans) on
proposed apartment building to Tuesday, June 1'2.
the surrounding neigh-
bourhood, a relationship with
the Square should also be con-
sidered; for the site terminates
a vista obtained from the
Square looking down Montreal
St. Montreal St. is one of the
'radiating streets from the cir-
cular plan layout of the Town
of Goderich.
"I was perturbed to learn at
that meeting that Mr.
MacAdam had never seen the
site or Goderich before that
meeting. Accordingly, no con-
sideration was given /to the site,
or the neighbourhood. The
building might well have been
for Sarnia, Hamilton or
Wingham.
"A walk around Goderich - "As a consequence the apart -
will reveal that many fine old
buildings are situated at the
end of the radiating streets of
the square and act as focal
points in an overall architec-
tural composition. It is such
finer points that make
Goderich a truly unique and
beautiful_ town. For the
analysis at hand it means that
a critical examination should
also be made of how the
proposed apartment building
terminates the vista down
Montreal St.
"So far my analysis has con-
sidered the proposed aparttrient
building and the neigh-
bourhood separately. I have
described some of the intrinsic
qualities of the area which
should be cliosely considered
when analyzing the "fit" of the
proposed apartment building
which should complement and
harmonize in with the -area.
"To establish more objec-
tively how- the architect
treat stores
whicht.were forthcoming are:.
Approval. of DRMCO's
request to Have their parking
lot on Victoria Street paved
when the Town is paving Brock
Street, at the firm's expense;
Acceptance of the county's
offer for the Town to utilize the
services of the. Huron County
weed inspector;
Permission for. the Goderich
Recreation and Community
Centre Board to use the
grassed area and the roadway
of the Square for Summer Fest
73 under the condition that the
event close Kingston to
Hamilton Streets for Thursday
and Friday and Kingston to
North Street only during Satur-
day."
The recommendation which
brought the most comment
came from the Administrative
Police looking for
man in green car
Goderich Police have many
warnings for 'residents of the
municipality ' this week, among
them a description' of a man
who has been reported confron-
ting young girls on their way to
school.
The man, with dark features
and a gold or capped tooth in
oti t,
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tor"dthithal,„ Nx lbun4 adults and one gift won resPon-
rrtage last week to the bandshill In -Harbor •
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raft. Police Into he IMtIs oatNn�;ed at > (staff hobo)
the Investigation
front,'drives a dark green car.
Although the man has not yet
accosted anyone, police want to
talk to him to determine his in-
tentions.
Police Chief Pat King is
asking anyone noticing a man
of this description to telephone
the local station, giving the
licence number if at all
possible.
Chief King also is asking
parents to warn their young
children about the dangers of
swimming near the boat laun-
ching ramps. Police have had
several reports recently of
children in that area, some
even hanging onto the craft as
they are being put into the
water.
"This is dangerous," the
Chief explained who added
that some serious injury could
be the result of such playtime
activities.
The police are also receiving
numerous CRIIS now from
residents who are complaining
about dogs barking incessantly
or for extended periods par-
ticularly at night.
Chief King noted the police
are advising the complainants
to first speak to the dog owner
to determine if some quick and
amicable solution can be found
to 'the problem.
"We encourage them to see
the neighbor first before the
police go down," said Chief
King. "It sometimes proves to
be the answer without upset-
ting anyone."
Committee cmncerning the ice
cream vendors.
The matter had been resear-
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Jail film
new project
for group
The Huron County Branch of
the Architectural Conservancy
of Ontario held the first of its
monthly meetings in the Parish
Hall of St. George's Church
June 13. Mrs. Joan Vanden
Broeck was chairman.
This association is made up
of members of the former Save
The Jail Society who have
become a Branch of the Conser-
vancy with the immediate pur-
pose of raising money toward
the establishment of the Huron
County Jail as a museum.
The secretary ofEthe former
Save the Jail Society,. Mrs. J.
Wallace reported on attending
'the annual meeting of the Ar-
chitectural`Conservancy of On-
tario in Toronto June 7 at
which the application of the
new members to form the
Huron County Branch was of-
ficially accepted.
The financial statement of
the Save the Jail Society was
read and showed a balance of
$43 after the payment of all
Margaret Bushell, Wingham, a
graduate of the Library
Technician program of Fan-
shawe College of Applied Arts
and , Technology in London,
has recently Joined the staff of
the Huron County Public
Library, 60 Lighthouse Street
in Goderich. Miss Bushell is
the first library technician to
be hired in Huron, and County
Librarian Mists, Ethel Dewar
expressed her pleasure that
the library could hire someone
from Huron County. (photo by
Beta, Photo Studio)
Three major
accidents
on Victoria
Three major accidents on
Goderich streets were reported
this week by local police, 'all of
them -in the Victoria Street
district. Fortunately there were
no injuries.
The first, on June 14 was at
the corner of East and Victoria
and involved John Reynolds,
RR 4 Kingsville and Donald
Shetler, Goderich. Damage to
the Shetler vehicle was listed at
bills including the fees of $30 and to the Reynolds car rit
William Byers, lawyer, $550:-J ,$250.
and Kyles, Kyles and Garrett,
architects, $580.
The teen group of the Save
The- Jail Society reported that
It had raised $14 on the sale of
T-shirts and that more shirts
are available.
The current project of the
Huron County Branch is the
production of a documentary
film on the history of the
Huron County Jail to be made
by Ron Shaw.
Permission to film in the jail
has been given by county coun-
cil under the provision that it
be completed by July 10. This
film will be used for fund
raising and will be available
for showing to any interested
group.
Financial backing for Shaw's
film was guaranteed by the
members and plans were made
for raising funds for the pur-
pose.
The
Huron
next meeting of the
County Branch will he
.July 11 at 8 p.m. in the same
location. The public is
welcome.
ment building as it is designed,
I believe seriously destroys
many fine features of the site
and contrasts in a negative way
with the neighbourhood,
Specifically:
" 1) The apartment building
is a square brick box of dull
and austere proportions with
no effort being made to bend
in with the domestic scale‘,of
the residences in the neigh-
bourhood. 1
"2) No effort has been made
to articulate the plan con-
figuration in such a way as to'
"soften" the large unrelieved
exranse of the brick elevations.
3) No effort has been made
to visually reduce the height of
the building by use of, for
example, a shingled' Mansard'
roof. - '
"4) No effort has been made.
to preserve the natural features
of .the site such as the mature
(Co.ntinued on page 12)
'The second was at the corner
of Victoria and Bruce Streets.
It was a rear -end collision in-
volving cars driven by Morgan
A. Moore, RR 4 Goderich and
Dennis C. Bricker, 44
Caledonia Terrace. There was
$425 damage to the Moore car
and $150 damage to , the
Bricker auto.
The third crash was Monday
at the corner of Victoria and
Britannia Road. Two out-of-
town drivers, John J. Palcit,
Windsor and Harold F. John-
stone, Parkhill, were involved
in a rear -end collision.
Damages amounted to $300 to
the Palcit car and $125 to the
Johnstone vehicle.
Through the week, police in
Goderich investigated 128 oc-
currences including 26 criminal
matters resulting in two
charges being laid; 14 charges
under the Highway Traffic Act;
and four charges under the
Liquor Control act.
As well as the three major
motor vehicle accidents, there
were 11 minor mishaps.
Marina gasnot
expensive
AIex,Wilkins, Marina Super-
visor, advised council last week
at,ti-ts committee meeting that
certain local individuals have
complained regarding the price
of gasoline at the Marina.
price is 58 cents," said-
Wilkins.
aidWilkins. "All other Marinas,
both north and south, are
charging 60 cents. Our pur-
chase price is 47 cents, which
gives us an approximate profit
of 20 percent." •
"It should be noted here that
Marinas are in :no way sub-
sidized by the oil companies,"
continued Wilkins. "Threfore,
gasoline profits represent one
of two major,, sources of
revenue, the other being dock
fees."
"It should be, understood by
this council that the tourist
contributes approximately 85
percent of all revenue
generated at the Marina, and
with very few exceptions, is not
interested in- the price of
gasoline," said Wilkins.
"The profit we are making is
in my opinion the minimum if
the' Marina hopes to break even
on its operating costs," con-
cluded Wilkins. "Less 'than
1,000 gallons are sold to local
boats per season."
"I do hope that is the last we
would hear of that," added
Councillor Bill Clifford, chair-
man of the harbor affairs.
Police Assoc.
donates $200
to workshop
The Goderich Police
Association is donating $200 to
the workshop for retarded
adults in Goderich which is un-
der the direction of Mrs.
Evelyn Carroll.
The gift is part of the
proceeds from the circus which
recently played Goderich under
the auspices of the local police.
The Goderich Porice
Association is also sponsoring a
:.occer team this summer with
Sergeant. Mery Witter helping
with the coaching duties.
Boat, crew
plucked
from water
A 14 -foot motor` b'at o4vned
by William Kerr, New Ham -
b a g, was caught in cross -waves
IA . weekend and overturned
and sank at the mouth of the
Maitland River.
Kerr and three companions
were brought to shore by
passingboaters. The small
craft was later recovered from
the water.
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