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~|n jeopardy Development change could affect Brighton Mod” Mattinuk Chrooicie Statt It's not often that a city council decision is greeted with cheering and applause from the audience: Waterloo could be "YNr'pardizing" its efforts to save Brighton public school by permitting Waterloo-Wellington Non-Profit Homes Monday to proceed with plans for developing the Peppler Streot former city works yard. A A This is according to three city aldermen, led by Aid. Doreen Thomas. who maintain that the housing development now being proposed for the site will not "generate" the numbers of children needed to convince the school board to keep Brighton open. Both happened Monday evening, when aldermen unanimously gave the green light to the start of phase one of the Bearinger Road recon- struction, instead of waiting for 1986 as had been planned. “I think we are making a mistake by going ahead with this proposal." argued Thomas at Monday's council meeting. "By going ahead with it, we're Jeopardizing the school... "There's no" wUy this is going to generate enough children to keep the school open." Last year city council persuaded the Waterloo County Board of Education to hold off closing the school for two years, in order to give the city a chance to stimulate residential development in the core, thereby increasing the number of school-aged children in the Brighton catchment area. Representing Lakeshore resi- dents, former alderman Glen Wright asked aldermen to step up the reconstruction and realignment of Bearinger because "it would eliminate a number of safety prob- lems for the (motorists) pedestrians and children on bikes," who use the road. Central to city arguments were plans for the works yard property. Developers were asked to submit proposals for developing the site, and of the four submitted, aldermen selected a project from Waterloo-Wellington calling for construe tion of a 56-unit co-operative townhouse com- plex. Public hearings were held, the land rezoned to a newly-created Medium Density-2 class, and it seemed the project was on its way. Long a campaigner for the road- work, Wright told council that Bearinger is too narrow for the Big cheer for council " heavy traffic it carries daily (8,000 9,000 cars, 218 pedestrians and 320 bicycles according to a 1982 study), adding that the Albert St. and Parkside Drive intersections are "very congested" during the morn ing and evening rush hours. Council approved a three-stage plan for the roadwork, which engi- neers estimate will cost a total of $436,000 to complete. Ateording to city engineer Jim Willis the im- proved Bearinger Road will be ready for use next summer. He said the realigned Bearinger Road would allow an "easier and more convenient access" to the Lakeshore subdivision, and elimi- nate many of the traffic problems now experienced in that area. But, as representatives from Waterloo- Wellington told council Monday, preliminary studies subsequently released by the Grand River Conservation Authority on flood suscepti- ,bility along Laurel Creek has placed restrictions on development of the site, necessitating a complete re-design of the project. lnétead of 56 iwo and u/ee-bedroom town, houses. revised architect's plans show a combi- nation of 11 one bedroom apartments, plus f? two and three-bedroom units in a "terraeed" building. The new site plan lifts living space above the floodline. by providing garages and storage areas at grade. A A "We are aware that some of the changes to the design may not make it not as good a plan as the original, but under the circumstances. we feel the architect has done quite a good job," said Eliza Moore, of Waterloo-Wellington Non-Profit Homes. The plan wasn't good enough, however, for Thomas, who calculated the development would only generate " children in the area. 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