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investment is needed to renovate the city chants will renew their own faith he says But at present The chamber has plans to survey Barrie residents to find he says there is little reason out what the want to do with gage five 10 or 20 years from committee of planning board with the help of city council the with the bay have new downtown as soon core for merchant to improve his the downtoth area and if the will it be redeveloped into W111 hOIdapUbIlC meeting In the provincial government and AMENDMENT ESSENTIAL as that goes through think all the downtown property Vibrant new city centre with booming retail trade and exten Sive cultural and recreational faCilities all tied in with Kempenfelt Bay Will it be focal point for the citys office buildings and ser Vice businesses with all to day storekeepers having fled to suburban malls or gone bankrupt Qri will it be much the same as it is today spruced up bit if we are lucky abut more down attheheels if we are not The answer could depend in part on what Barrie residents organizations and businesses KEN BYLES council chamber at city hall to find out what role the people of Barrie want the core area to play in the future The meeting was called largely as result of approa ches to city hall by the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce whose civic affairs committee has been pressing for concrete steps toward downtown renewal CLEAR IDEA The committee headed by lawyer Marshall Green has clear idea of the kind of downtown it wants to see ro vided public support for eir ideas is forthcoming The committee wants to make dOWntown Barrie peo ple place where residents can do all their shopping find the necessary services get wide range of entertainment and make full use of the bay all within walking distance Earlier this year the chamber endorsed committee recommendation calling for an official plan amendment which Would designate the downtown core as the heart of the city and as the primary retail commercial cultural enter tainment institutional recrea tional and administrative cen tre for the City of Barrie The committee plans to have draft amendment implemen ting that policy statement ready before this weeks meet ing Committee members have been collecting information on successful downtown renewal projects in other cities notably other civic organizations Ideally the chamber would like to see downtown with wider sidewalks and narrower streets to accommodate fewer cars and more people build ings in harmony with one another instead of serving as slap in the face to one another in Mr Greens words parking in garages instead of The chamber regards an of ficial plan amendment as es sential to any form of real im provement downtown The cur rent official plan Mr Green charged earlier this year is paving the road to nowhere directing retail trade to upper Bayfield Street and waiting for Street merchants to perish by attrition But only such an amendment he says will show the sort of municipal commitment which will convince the provincial government through its new dowmown revitalization pro gram and other programs and private enterprise to invest money in downtown Barrie Sivce neither the city nor the province is going to pay the needs is show of faith by major developer and the mer Since neither the City nor the province is going to pay the price of rebuilding everyones store private investment is needed to renovate the city core think all the downtown needs is show of faith by major developer and the mer SIIOULD BE READY City council Mr Green says shouicl be ready to work With developers to mutual advant age Council should also direct the city planning department long tied up with residential planning to spend more time working on the downtown area now that the urgency of resi dential work has eased GOOD AND bad blend in the heart of Barrie at the Five Points intersection of Dunlop Bayfield and Clap perton streets The cluttered intersection has long been the subject of controversy but the renovated Wellington Hotel left is often cited as an ideal example of what can be done with downtown buildings Examiner photo Removing parking meters from Dunlap Street one of Oneway traffic on Dunlop downtown renewal along with yetunspecified addition to the area All are looking forward to Thursdays public meeting on the downtown areas future at which Barrie residents will have chance to voice their own views on the subject Mayor Parker says she would like to seek parking meters re moved from Dunlop Street and shoppers directed to offstreet locations where longer parking terms could help eliminate the parking tickets which she says do more than anything else to drive people out of the core area Traffic on Dunlop she says could be restricted to estbound motorists with Collier Ross Shape up staff told LANSING Mich AP The state of Michigan is paying some of its employees to shape up Employees can spend up to three hours of work time week jogging and exercising under pilot physical fitness program run by the department of public health We started it here because we think that the public health department in its commitment to good health should try its own medicine deputy depart ment director Theodore Ervin said Joggers can run along lane in back of the health depart REMOVE THE parked cars and point all the traffic east away from the camera and and other streets used for west bound cars IMPROVE APPEARANCE The mayor would like to see many of the downtown build ings improve their appearance the way Municipal Savings and Loan and the Wellington Hotel ment buildings and there is small exercise and shower room The program began when the departments public health ad visory council set up com mittee in 1974 to help formulate yettobeappointed Michigan council on physical fitness and health In the course of its work the committee suggested that the public health department set up its own employee fitness pro gram as an exam le for state government asa ole Everyone weve talked to especially those from industry where such program have been installed say that use of work time is more than repaid with improved productivity higher morale and just generally live lier employees Ervin said mayors suggestions you have Mayor Dorian Parkers vision of better Dunlop Street The Greater have done and in particular she would like to see improve ments to the store backs which face Kempenfelt Bay Robinson Hardware she says is one ex ample of how this can be done its just as attractive when you go out the back door toward SimcoeStreet One thing she does not want is wholesale bulldozing of down town buildings do object to tearing down everything that appears to most people to be old She says Though she does not want any more fill put in the bay between Bayfield and Mulcaster Streets you can create park on land any time but you cant create bay she does want the shore in that area levelled seeded treed and provided with picnic tables walkways and other park facilities Mar ina facilities east of Mulcaster PHONE 728468 AFAMOUS PLAY 15 THEATRE 46 OUNLOP ST BARRIE Barrie Chamber of Com merce would add wider would be good idea too she says focal point is also impor tant she says suggesting the firehall as good choice The mayor says she does not agree with the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce that now is the time for an official plan amendment to facilitate downtown redevlopment She says city should wait until issues created by the Simcoe Georgian Area Task Force re port and the citys bid to annex 20000 acres from adjoining townships are settled Ald Perri says he would like to see office and professional establishments combined with for owntown core sidewalks to that proposal Examiner photo viable economic retail out lets INDOOR MAII5 Stores will have to steer away from the sort of trade pursued in suburban malls for the time beign he says but eventually there may be downtown in door mall dont think the city alone can develop thedowntown Ald Perri notes Redevel opment of other cities has hap pened when businesses have decided to spend money downtown Land prices are one of the deterrents to private invest ment he says and no one has been able to tell us how to help with them But the city is will something whether major commercial establishment recreation complex or some thing else to get moving SYMIATIIETK He he is sympathetic with the Chamber of Com merces request for an official plan amendment He says it may be true that as Ald Perri has said the official plan already allows for down tOWn renovation but if an amendment would make it eas ier letsgeton with it Some Barrie residents are convinced that it is too late to save the downtown pri mary retail area But Mr Ri chardson Ald Perri and Mayor Parker all aree retail BeieedtflUEI 1269944 CINEMA IRAYIXIN RICHARDSON ONE SNOW NIGHTLY AT 730 KEG PRODUCTIONS Present Wilderness IIEAKIIEART PASS 715 GATOR AT 915 survey shows that everyone is happy already or that no one cares the civic affairs commit tee will go back to serving as watchdog on city council its traditional role But Marshall Green isnt ex pecting that outcome Were pretty sure in our hearts that if you asked people would want strong down town he said earlier this year Thursdays meeting will feature presentation by George Przybylowski of the On tario Ministry of Housing who will outline the provinces new downtown revitalization pro gram followed by briefs resentations and comments rom organizations and in dividuals The atmosphere is intended to be informal and nonargumentative We hope that anyone who has ideas would feel free to of fer them says Ken Byles planning board vicechairman and chairman of the subcom mittee in charge of the meet ing Mr Byles and his subcom mittee Mayor Dorian Par ker Ald Jim Perri who is chairman of city development committee and board member Doug Skelton hope to report on their findings from the meeting at the next planning board neeting Sept 28 The meeting will not be aimed specifically at an official plan amendment but Mr Byles says the subcommittees rec ommendations to planning board will probably come out for or against such an amend ment thelie pend on planning meeting this week The Barrie Examiner Tuesday Sept 14 19765 MARSHALL GREEN Healing Substance Shrinks Piles Checks Itch Exclusive healing substance prmcii to shrink Iiciiiorrlioidsand repair damaged tissue IMPERML CNFMA HELD OVER 3rd WEEK 705 905 1111 In stunt saltcrackle Imth 0101 in Im II IMPERIAL CINEMII III tun NOW PLAYING pm FUTUREWORLD BEGINS ENTRY FEE 51200 PER DAY EXIT FEE YOUR LIFE Ikuidd 1269944 CINEMA DOUBLE FEATURE BURT REYNOLDS IS GATOR MITAKI IONIKJd Mn you WWW HEMP mm UFEGUARD PLUS pm TIICIoIh PRICE ROOT BEAR now 103 BRADFORD 7189792 BARRIE to ADULT IIIIIIAIIIINI DAYS OF THE coupon Shown daily at700 Condor at 700 Lifeguard ot9210 in ALISTAIR MACLEANS BIIEAKIIEAIIT PASS PETER FC JA BLYTTIE BANNER FUTUREWDRLD BARRIE TWIN DRIVEIN OW OPEN EVERY ERISATSUN mo Im on In no Imp tupyiiulil 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