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council reject controversial mall CDC recommends 128th Year No. 39 Wednesday, September 29, 1982 Waterioo, Ontario 25 cents at the Newstand Waterloo developer Abe Wiebe wishes to build an exclusive 16â€" unit shopping mall on a King Street site north of University Avenue. Last month he asked city council to approve a zone change to allow his project to go ahead at that location. Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff How far should the city of Waterloo go to protect its core area? This was the issue Waterloo‘s Civic Development Committee (CDC) grappled with Tuesday as they considered a proposal from a local developer to construct a shopping complex outside the core and, further, discussed recommending to city council that Waterloo impose a one or twoâ€"year moratorium on such developments. â€"Archives _ find home Kathy makes mark As well, couneil approved a recommenâ€" dation from the city‘s administrative committee to hire a student in 1983 whose responsibility it would be to research records, document items in the collection and begin conservation and restoration work on those artifacts in need of repair. All historical items donated to the city for the 125th have been catalogued and are now being kept at the Waterloo Public Liâ€" brary. "At some future date," the administraâ€" tive committee report said, ‘"it may be possible to find a building which would be suitable to be used and known as the City Archives. Until this takes place, it is felt that the recommended courses of action recognize the problem (of protecting Waterloo‘s historical archives) and proâ€" vide a major step in developing proper safekeeping for our memorabalia." Mayor Marjorie Carroll applauded the program saying, "It can be done slowly and carefully with planning so that we aren‘t spending a great amount of money at one time." The mayor added that she has received numerous calls from qualified individuals in the community who "have offered their support of the program" and have volunâ€" teered to supervise the student restoration work. Chronicle Staff The city of Waterloo has adopted plans to protect historical records and photoâ€" graphs donated and collected in the celebration of the city‘s 125th anniversaâ€" At a committee of council meeting Monday night Waterloo‘s aldermen unaniâ€" mously endorsed a proposal to incorporate a record storage area into the plans for the new works and community services faciliâ€" ty to be built in the northeast corner of the city. SEE PAGE 29 THIS WEEK INSIDE At that time, council deferred making a deâ€" cision on the matter pending a report from the CDC. After more than an hour‘s discussion, the CDC unanimously deâ€" cided Tuesday to recâ€" ommend that council turn down the project, because, in the words of Mayor Marjorie Carroll, ‘"it is premaâ€" Wayne Deyarmond, the Uptown Waterloo Business Improvement Area‘s representative on the committee, said ‘"at this moment I am totally against it." Waterloo Chamber of Commerce representaâ€" tive Dave Sandrock agreed with Deyarâ€" mond saying that "I support the core area ... basically the thing is the unfortunate timing, and that‘s not his (Wiebe‘s) fault." ‘‘This committee isn‘t against this type of development," said Ald. Robert Henry, chairman of the CDC, ‘*but the timing is wrong ... we need time to get something going in the uptown." Council, he said "has made a commitment to the business communiâ€" ty, the residential comâ€" munity and to the city as a whole that they will work to make the uptown viable and try to keep it alive." But, the Wiebe appliâ€" cation sparked discusâ€" sion of a more imporâ€" tant question at the meeting, that of whether the city should impose a moratorium on all zone change apâ€" plications for retail deâ€" velopments outside the core. The moratorium would only apply to (Continued on page 9} Deyarmond asked that the proposal "be postponed for a future date ... we can look at it in two or three years." ‘"‘I‘ve traditionally been pro new developâ€" ment in the area," said Carroll, "I‘ve certainly been a great freeâ€"enâ€" terpriser, but time has come that we do have to plan carefully." He‘s been . a cut above % the rest % â€"â€" SEE PAGE 10 The Waterioo Public Library‘s new McCormick Room in the Albert McCormick Arena on Parkside Drive got off to a rousing start on Saturday with performances by Jack Pearse and the Boys Camp Band and Dr. Zed. Dr. Zed, alias Gordon Penrose, a retired science teacher from Scarborough, not only entertained his young audience with scientific experiments, but actually let them get into the act. in the above photo (left to right) Robin Shillum, Steven Wittsch, Sheila Hummel and Mark Shillum are given a chance to create the Dr. Zed character themselves. Pat Arbuckie photo WHAT‘S THAT YOU, ZED? Lots to cheer about â€"â€" SEE PAGE 20