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By Philip Jolsovac sun Writer The Chronicle has learned the city is giving serious consideration to a proposal by Major Holdings and Developments Ltd, to build and lease to the city a $5million, six-storey office complex with specially designed council chambers. But Major Holdings' bid to provide a new city hall for Waterloo may get some stiff competition from Greg Schiedel, developer of Allen Square on King St. _ If council decides to move out of the Marsland Centre, where its lease expires at the end of IMI, and it opts out of building its own city hall, then the two bids from Major Holdings and Séhie- del to lease space for ad- ministrative offices and council chambers will likely get top priority. CITY CONSIDERS OFFER TO BUILD NEW CITY HALL Shoppers who park illegal- ly at Conestoga Mall take heed. Council in committee, in conjunction with local po- Bee and mall management. approved Monday the ap- pointment of Jim Smiley, maintenance supervisor at the mall, as a bylaw enfor- cement officer. Conestoga to curb illegal parking 126th Year No. 28 Wednesday, July 9, 1980 Waterloo, Ontario 15 Cents Cttrttraehor, . Isnowtrustao . I Committee rejects longer gas sale hours SEE PAGE - 4 . Iv the Chronich Stl Waterloo motorists hoping to buy gas in the evenings or on Sunday shouldn‘t hold their breath for a change in city poi_iey_. . _ . . ' . . . Following complaints by a local operator. the eity's service station ad- Li,'a'ior'et"riitetfse met to review a by- law t restricts the hours of as sales. Committee chairman Robert Henry told The Chronicle that his committee will recommend to council that the status quo be kept and the request of aerator Gregorio: Asimis not be grant- Asismis had approached, council on Jae 0 for permission to sell gas during- the restricted hours. At present. mentors can only sell be. two-thehoorsd‘lam. ard'lpm. and Mum’s. Onlyonceamonthmaa v.eartittersetlaria-. A city hall atecommoM- tioit committee is scheduletl to report to council July 21 009mm tht 'Miers, .. Mayo'r Mariorie Carroll said in an interview that three "firm proposals" {ram Marsland, Major Hold- ings and Schiedel are being looked at by the committee. The Major Holdings pro- Mall management say they have always had prob- lems with illegal parking in designated fire routes. par- ticularly during peak shop- ping periods. Smiley will now be re- sponsible for enforcing the prohibition of parking in fire routes marked with signs. committee" meeting were Jim God Asimis keeps his garage open during those hours to do mechanical w‘ork. and he told The Chronicle “people see me at my place and get mad when I tell them I cant sell gas." “It's irritating trying to get gas at night." he said. "We try to Klan ahead as much as we can so we'll ave enough gas when customers call, but I wouldn‘t mind seeing more stations - at night or at least with longer business hours." Attending the service station advisory tricted hours When contacted. Joe Lima of Wa- terloo Taxi Ltd. said his drivers are upset when they have to drive to Brid- geport or other stations outside the city to fill up their tanks. He said he regularly gets complaints. inglgding many from land ttrivers, ___ po_sal consists g fag gm?- ter gorgeous" him in the niversity Business Park, according to Colin O'Brien, leasing manager for we peveloper. - The Park, on 18 acres of land at Columbia and Philip Streets. is home cite J.M. Schneider Heritage Group, Wiebe Realty Ltd. and cor- porate head office of Major Holdings, a subsidiary of Union Gas. He said artist's sketches of the proposed Building have been Submitted to the city committee. along with a rendering of a council chamber that would occupy two storeys of space in the structure. Per!!! Mair-9! plan.-. "We'd love to have them tthe city)," O'Brien said, "we think we can provide them viith the ultimate." O'Brien said the office tower has been part of the (Cominued on page 3) New dean named at university SEE PAGE - " dyear, Gary Voight and George Randall, all) operators belonging to the Gasoline Retailers Association. along with Asimis, who is not a member. The association members argued for keeping the by-taw as it is and told coun- eil previously that changing it would require all stations to stay open the long hours. Goodyear has said the oil companies stipulate in their contract with opera- tors that they operate "competitively" with other stations. Goodyear said Ionger hours would put a strain on ownera' family life. adding "it wouldcneale hardship hecauaconhe increased chance for robberies and wed Alderman Henry said the main! from Mimi: was the firgt his culminated: has received about the by-taw. "Will you give me a push?" asks Jennifer Schaeter of Waterloo. Swing- ing is a favorite summer pastime tor this young lady who win be two in September. THIS IS THE LIFE! “We've had no complaints from the public or the service station people," he said. "Everyone seems to be happy with the by-law," _ _ . _ A telephone survey by duputy city clerk Lou Ayers showed that eight of " stations do not bother to exercise their option to stay open during restricted hours when their turn comes up once a Hemaid that it the coinmittee meet- ing. operators expressed the View that "there Huang“ so ','g,'ihg,g to be. pa "a t" e vea 't- “why-law becaumlere LWiS',i "They're not breakng the law. "tt playing around with it a bit if they don‘t feel like working that day," he said. The c'ommiuee will present its recom- mendation to council " the July 21 meeting.