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Times-Advocate, 1980-08-27, Page 2TERM DEPOSITS 11 ONE YEAR TERM See your Credit Union Clinton Community CREDIT UNION 70 ONTARIO ST. CLINTON 482-3467 EXETER BRANCH: 374 MAIN STREET EXETER 235-0640 Current Rate 1 toinUlelNvfll3n h. trihi rinaininiOri di‘ndluri.l3niRfpsy porcustomiq. ring this bag with you Aug. 28th, Aug, 29th or Aug. 30th and we'll give 20% off anything you can stuff into it!' • Disoount Daves low, low ptitesAte even lower yet—iot.3 days only You can. Bag It • . at Conklin's. : • and really SAVER —we'll show you how. 0 ROME CENTOS You've got a paper bag in today's newspaper. It's from your local Discount Dave's Home Centre and it can save you a lot of money on your home improvement and hardware needs. Simply bring in the bag to our nearest store this Thurs., Fri., or Sat., stuff it full of anything on our shelves that fits into it, and the cashier will take 20% off on the spot. Nuts and bolts, power tools, a gallon of paint or any- thing else that fits in the bag—all 20% off. This Thurs., Fri., and Sat. value is really in the bag at Discount Dave's. VISA POSO 2 Timos,Adv9cats, August 27, 1980 OMB reserves decision on new Exeter zoning TOP RATES FOR Continued from front page planning director Cary Davidson had testified for the Sprackman firm and, the OMB accepted his testimony, Mitchell said gxeter had accepted the principle that the large space users should incate on the periphery and there should be complimentary uses between the core and the shopping centre but that a CI zoning on the centre would not be good planning. To have whatever uses the developer wants on, the shopping centre site "is not the way the ball game plays" he argued. It was contended that the question was whether to put large space users in the core or the periphery and Exeter had exercised those powers in a fair and democratic way. Prior to the final arguments, Fogler had called urban planner William Dolan, Sprackman and Jeryl Jaque, a market analyst, to testify, Dolan suggested there were areas of poor planning in the proposed documents and agreed that the shopping centre should be zoned as general commercial and the balance of the property as highway commercial with an expanded range of uses. He listed these as outlets for hardware and appliance store, bowling and billiards, paint and wallpaper, drugstore, gasoline bar, auto repair, large furniture and carpet outlet and pet hospital. He said there was no argument that the core was vital and thriving, but replied to a question from Mitchell that large and small stores can fit together in a shopping centre. He admitted he had not done a market study on Exeter in specific to see whether more uses for the north end site would hurt or help the downtown. Mitchell said that if CI uses were allowed in the C5 designation of the shopping centre, it would put Exeter in a position of having two cores which would be in direct competition in a major way. Dolan said the uses can be limited through the zoning bylaw and Mitchell said that was what the town was at- tempting to do in the new documents. The planner, however, argued it- was too restrictive. In his testimony, Spraa- man said he had lost three prospective tenants and that litigaton was ensuing against the town for damages in that regard. Be also lost a $200,090 mortgage.at 101/2 per cent becausetheincome was short due to the vacancies and this necessitated getting financing at 18 per cent. He said that in his discussions with council, he had told them there would be a Zehr's and other adjunct retail uses in the centre and he did not limit the number of stores. When asked by Fogler if the town acted in good faith, the developer replied that he didn't know if it was good faith, but they hadn't done what they were com- mitted to do under the development agreement signed. "Iwould like to have what I was told I could have." He admitted to Mitchell he had been aware of proposals to change zoning but noted he had never signed any agreement limiting the number of stores . Saying he had built more shopping .centres than anyone in Ontario in the past few years, Sprackman said he would have taken 'out building permits for the entire property had he en- visioned the problems he faced. He said the facility would be full now it he had been allowed to put in the type of stores that had been agreed upon and said the proposed changes give him nothing because they already exist in the community. Noting he could put in a liquor or beer store under the new bylaw, he said that was not prac- tical because those facilities already exist on Main Street and will be there for 100 years. Jaque described Exeter as a very prosperous market area and said the retail commercial development was one of the major in- dustries. He said the vacancy rate in the core was "quite modest" and the core was vigorous and healthy despite having substantial commercial area for a town this size. He contended that the shopping centre had no negative effects on the downtown and in fact had been .a positive effect in increasing the sphere of influence from which the entire town attracts con- sumers, Jaque said an im- provement in one (the Core or shopping centre) resulted in an improvement to the other, and additions to either reflected benefits to the ether. The analyst said there was no need for estrictions on the use of the vacant part of the shopping centre and it was untypical to have restric- tions, "The market will dictate who is prepared to locate there," he explained, adding that it was to Exeter's distinct advantage to have it running properly. He also suggested it was a fallacy to suggest all small space users should be in the core and not in the periphery. In cross-examination by Mitchell, Jaque said there was about 20,000 square feet of vacant commercial space in the core, with 8,300 of that being in the recently opened centre mall which is just starting to be leased. Mitchell questioned whether competitive uses in the core and shopping centre would result in the centre being able to provide one- stop shopping and people would have to visit the core. Jaque said he would find it highly unlikely that the downtown stores would have difficulty competing one-on- one with any shopping centre stores. Former mayor Bruce Shaw, who was also chair- man of planning board, told the hearing that council listened to Sprackman's plans and also the objections of the downtown businessmen and "tired to satisfy as many people as possible." Bob Swartman, chairman of the Exeter BIA, was also called by Mitchell and related the history of the formation of his group and- their current restoration project. He sad a ,group of businessmen presenfed a. brief to council in 1977 which objected to the magnitude of the" proposed shopping centre and said in reference to that session "when You. don't win, you don't think it was, good." Ina statement to the0M.),. Swartman said he saw vacancies downtown and was. concerned and curious as to where the commercial development. Will come from. He said business had experienced a slow-down since November and he just couldn't understand the move, to more commercial growth in the community, criao-nurn G41, c,41 and C22 IIIIII111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111011111111111111111111111111111111111RE 7-7.* F_--. SE Er: nninunnuunnnnnunuuunnminllunnnuuuullllllllllllnlmlunnnunnnmuuounnnnnnnunnnuunununnnnnnnunnmulnunnr To all our friends and customers,. We wish to thank you for your patronage and kindness during the time , we have been in Exeter. We welcome you to visit us in our new home in Kenora, Ontario. Mike and Gail Wright, Canadian Tire eC1/14 • p11 '12-exposure 0-exposure colour negative colour negative Y©1 s e.veloped rolls developed and rioted aonntiprinted only s maximum • orders ACM' E ?blot MOO MAIN Si 235,1570 PENNIES STRETCH — Youngsters attending the Crediton. 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