NEW CITY HALL Is RECOMMENDED

City enjoys greatest building, expansion boom

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TYPICAL OF NEW CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING DEVELOE MENT 1 IS THIS 54-HOUSE PROJECT ON NORTH RIVER ROAD

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=| Major projects _ ready for 1962

Perhaps the most extraordin- |dump, the Government Pond, |ary accomplishment during the |clean-up week and construction year was the collection of taxes. |of a new bathing house at Vic- | which climbed to unprecedent-|toria Park. }ed heights. The collection of | taxes and arrears amounted to | jooked into during the year and |99 per cent of the net levy for |improvements made. These in- the year. cluded off-street parking areas,

As a result the city showed a | the establishment of one - way

‘| modest surplus of $6,443 come | streets, introduction of the traf-

pared with a deficit the previ- | fic school patrols, and improved three-lane facilities at the .Long- Building permits during the worth Avenue entrance to the year increased 340 per cent-over | city. 1960, to $5,060,785.40. |. The year 1961 saw the balance Turning to streets, tremen- lof the city completely sewered dous accomplishments were | and watered except for the new made during the year with the co-op development, which by completion of 12.1 miles of pave- | mutual agreement will be com- ment, which completed paving | pleted in the spring. “ all oe except those open \'TOWN PLANNER up in some of the newly de- | veloped areas. A total of 1.8 mil- | Perhaps the main highlight of es of sidewalks were also laid, |e year was the securement of jthe services of a professional An agreement with the pro- | town planner, Walter P. deSilva, | vineial government enabled the | folowing negotiations and wor.

Many traffic problems were |

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= Pies =| city to proceed-with the widen- | king out of @ joint a greement | ing rm paving of the North Ri- | with the Federal and Provincial ver Road from McGill Avenue | Governments, which was com- it would reveal the planning and to the city limits. | pleted in 1960 a phased development pro-| Snow removal was a major | Dorian ‘ae 2 gram for the next 20 years of the | problem at the start of the year oa ng — a tree sur- city and surrounding area. resulting in a new by-law being pl = completed and the first Planning concerns itself with introduced in regard to over- : oe year program for their land, how it is used and with night parking on the travelled | a ration and care was com- buildings, where they are erect-| portion of the city streets. | ee In the winter as pari of ed and how they are related to . é city’s first winter works pro- the various functions. NEW CITY HALL , | Jeet, the removal of the dead : A highlight of the year was

| trees, and necessary trim- ci the report of the citizens’ com-. ; a, | Sievey, Sotee ©. &, Clais Traia.| nn ae je a ain- The members of t c nor, Major T. E. MacNutt, Ho- mittee undertook ae let com ward Douglas and Miss Iphe- of aif our street lighting to the genie Arsenault, who were ap- new mercury vapor lights and

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PLAYING ROLE IN BUILDING BOOM WAS $700,000 HOME FOR ‘AGED

Housing survey expected to clear

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The ultimate goal of the hous- building. survey, which Will show

ing survey of Charlottetown now underway is to provide accum- modations for citizens not. able to provide them for themselves The survey, initiated two years ago, when Mayor A. Walthen Gaudet took office encountered delays for various reasons.

An application to Central Mort- gage and Housing Corpora- tion for an urban renewal study was turned down because they said Charlottetown had no sium areas, but only: slum “pockets."’ Instead, they recotfmended a housing survey to determine current conditions and present and future needs.

The city agreed on this, and working with the provincial gov-

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the growth factor of the city over a period of years and the structural condition of the city properties and their assessment values

(3) Population and density survey, which will reveal the conditions of overcrowding, un- der density and blight conditions. |

TO SHOW NEEDS

In addition information re- garding schools, open spaces, traffic flow, traffic congestion, facilities. or rather the lack of

parkirtg, will be revealed.

When all these factors are analysed planners would be in a position to show the of

MAYOR GAUDET

| pointed to review the city-hall | thig

program, while red to facilities, and bring in appro-' the availability of rabB song and

priate recommendations. of Maritime Electric staff, will The committee recommended | jixely be completed early this

that the 75 year-old structure be | year,

aced within the repl. next Another major occurancé dur-

7 jing 1961 was the announcement

that three new schools would be of permits issued amounted to | ‘built in the city. Two of them,

only $77,000. Permits for the building of | ewe city sci totalled $720. and Prince Street School, have

tutional construction to a value of $1,430,000 from the 1960 mark |gertane Sent Rest Sebedt will

of $817,000.

One of the schools, Queen The year 1961 also saw the Square, located on the corner of | *tart of a new industry with the Stewart Street and Upper Queen | Setting up of the Enheat Plant Street, accounted for $385,000 of | 8* the Charlottetown Airport

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« housing such as simfe family ~ ernment,~ eventually was able : . the total while Princ Street

to obtain the celina of a qual. ee — or an School. located cn ie nas site | TY -FLOAT Nothing preserves like pai +. No

ified town planning expert, Wal- 2%! homes for senigf citizens as the former building, account-| , TM City council designed a paint rves like GLIDDEN paint. og

prese There is a GLIDDEN paint for every special job that can occur. On your

. » The survey will also show up Buildin the pockets of blight that exist g

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ed for $835,000. Also in this class | (st during the year depicting the province last year. -

Fathers of Confederation in ‘ There’s an outstanding selection:of fine .

is ti - Rochford Street wp $700,.| 2e88ion in the historic Confeder WORKING STEADILY possibilities of redevelopment. 000 of the total. ation Chamber. The float was next paint job .. . specify and use : Since then. he has been work- Street widening lines that 1S over The department of transport |*%0w> during the lobster Carni GLIDDEN paint ,from Rogers Hard- quality cooking utensils displayed at all ‘ i ing steadily on the project, byt .would “be established to safe-| © was responsible for the jump in val Float parade in Summerside ware j e early in bis work saw the need guard future traffic patterns is e¥4e permit values under the heading | #%4 took the parade plaque and ie times in Rogers Gift Centre. In. addi- : oan oneal pan. and come oot, port ct ot SS million (si cmeesa SF cane wee Gertaved cer INTERIOR PAINT , . quently the necessity for an. should be revealed from the sur- ‘as the wharf at the foot of |i Old Home Week as part of tion gift shoppers will find a superb aerial survey to provide a com- | vey. Proper zoning and the need Queen Street with its $1,500,090/*e Gold Cup and Saucer par : plete set of maps from which to to establish ee ee o| Permits for the building * of value brought last year’s total oS was later sent to Toronto $ oa or . Spred Satin - selection of china, novelties, glassware, ‘work. protec proper elopmen ‘ assification shown in the Grey Cu 4 Spred Tred ‘These maps are needed in dif- of the city will also: be neces- sod cond eer ees e on cami reagofp Value | Parade. ' @ Floor Enamel trays, woodenware . everything ; ferent ranges to serve different sary. of 200. Last . f purposes. First requirement was Before any ‘projections can be er —ieypermet ed caine. Oe eatnes sm but iat aye eve be EXTERIOR PAINT you could want for interesting shower ‘ @ metropolitan map char- made, s ve town's const st Commercial construction ger, if , . lottetown and its surrounding tabulated: but this is not con- Sean lease te tee of ess underway last year in May & ideas are seed at anes @ Endurance @ Marine Paints gifts. Visit the Gift Centre soon. :' areas. This is prepared in the sidered a problem. It is only @/ highest peaks, dollarwise, in the issuing of a permit for $60,000! Two major problems to be House Paint , ‘ range of 600 feet to the inch time _ consuming a history of the eapital city. for eka of a new build- | dealt with this year are the pro- @ Ripion Yachting Paints - ~ : ot figures. | i Kent Street-hous ing’ vision of adequa 7 - 200. 100 and 4 feet to the inch. and measurements. The es-| during 1960 reached $1.731,960.00, | Ste : lores - he parking areas; / i ‘ . tS : The survey has been serious- sence of the survey study will | but last year the value of per- Oil ootaniay added | ever increasing traffic flow to tate ai eae Se Se a be copied onto maps and diag-| mits soared to $5,060,785.40, am | greatly to c construc: the business district and the tival of the maps. The first full rams from the analysed data, |inerease of $3,324,925.40 or 340 tion last year with several com- | start of a new city hail : set of the 200 feet to one inch which has been gathered. per cent. ‘~ |panies adding to their holdings. The f Z series was received as late as A mass of statistical data, Practically all elements of Irving Oil added $25,000 in July, | former is expected to > would mean very little to the | eonstruction participated in the |and in A August permits were is- | follow fast, when action is tak- . i canoe Se Ee ee nee tee Medline (Ee eee Sa. residential | saad te ee a ie een. ees ee covered are: matter, to planner, unless | units showing a sharp upswing | ‘exaco (1) The land use survey, which they are translated in a com-|from the $407,000 of 1960, to a (latter adding another $8,000 the wy, syn on © Me ‘wories. =e "i le's Hardware We Have it” WA show every parcel of land prehensile manner nto maps. /Righ paint of $1,204 following month. “Jatter now appears cap: in the city, which is being used Then the meaning of the survey Building permits for the co-op, In November, the federal de-|*ble of solution, in view of Ot- 137 Queen Street . for various purposes, such as takes real form. Therefore, the’ housing development, be ing | partment of works receiv-|tawa's announced for aid residential, commercial, indus- maps are the most basic tools |constructed along ‘orth River |ed a permit for for work |to local in plan- trial, civic, recreational and to the planner. Road, amounted to $699,900 and around HMCS ,Charlotte, | ning projects of a lasting na- @pen space When the survey report with |were issued in June. During the for steel sheet retaining | ture to commemorate co @ (2) Age and condition of recommendations is presented, same month of 1960 the amount walls ada’s centennial tn 1967.