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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 16 Jun 1999, p. 12

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P"""" - _._____s. "_-'-------'-'----.-..'--" - V777 ------- 1 . ' o i W W "Le"ATp? Residents support 1 2-screen Cinema, a: U "l . , o I 9 a 0 councillor s survey indicates . ut i fi LII Tim Gardner to let him know how they felt he meetings on the issue this ‘ ' O ( hmnule Stuff about the proposed cine ma past March 9 and May " there g project, The phone-m survey appeared to be a lot of opposi- , a A survey conducted by a was conducted between May tion to the proposed develop- i g Waterloo my councrllor sug- lo to June 10. meni although Alexander said ( , gests that twouhirds of rest- “Constituents have clearly he originally believed a lot of t ui dents in his ward support a said the project is valuable for people favoured the project i d O 12-screen cinema complex m ourcommunity and will have a Although Alexander origi- i g uptown Waterloo. posttive impact on our nally set up the survey Just for i E . ‘ Central Ward Coun. Bruce uptown," Alexander said In a people in his ward. a couple of 1 o L" Alexander said Monday 56 news release. “I support in uptown businesses promoted 8 people in his ward responded principle the proposed devel- the fact that he wasconducting " T u n: . ‘ to the survey which was origt- opment. the survey and asked people to l 'd-' Enter our . . nally distributed with the "lt seems pretty clear to me call the hothne' number to j g Waterloo Chronicle May 26. that people like the idea of a express their opinions on the L LI f, Oi the people in Alexander's cinema in their uptown," development. But because I . y, ward who responded to the Alexander said Monday, when Alexander asked all people ' L" survey, 37 (66 per cent) said asked if the survey would who responded to the survey L N J they favoured development of influence his vote on approv- on his hotline' to leave their J8kC'; a cinema on the cit -owned in ro r zonin for the cin- names and addresses, he was i A,“ y gp pe g I C " C: former Seagram lands whlle 19 ema complex at the June 28 able to keep the responses I 3 said they were opposed, council meeting. from in and outside his ward l 4e First GulfDevelopment Car "And the fact that it (Alexan- separate. i poration of Mississauga is cur- der's ward) is around the Besides the 56 people mthm l Just complete rently proposing to build a uptown yet not directly in the his ward who responded to the I O h f ll . A 12-screen cinema complex on uptown also gives, I think, survey, Alexander also received I t e 0 f,"ll'5 ta..';")), [) the former Seagram lands and council a good direction of an additional 25 calls. Seven- /- .. z ' a 150-10 200-rmrrn hotel anda what the average citizen out teen callers were opposed to and you cou d 'cieTCai ' 160,000-square-foot depart- there thinks," Alexander said. the Cinema complex while CT',."-"'; J merit store on the current site "When you think about the eight were in favour. c I of Waterloo Town Square by other 70,000 people who live Three of the 25 calls were A ' // q, 2006, Waterloo council is around the uptown but are not long-distance calls, he said. A -9 / scheduled to vote on approv- in it, it's a project that Impacts Alexander also said he wasnt l " I V "' ing proper zoning for the Cln- all ofus. And they need to have disappointed that callers from . , - - ptls51. CPS' ema complex at a City council a voice in this." he said. outside his ward may have q - ticers-, meetingJune 28. One of the reasons Alexan- been trying to influence the L', Alexander actually distrib- der originally undertook the results of his survey uted 5,000 surveys with the survey was because he tell he " understand why they tried 2 Rounds o Go an use May 26 edition ofthe Waterloo wasn't getting an accurate to do it," he said. "The/re Just Chronicle, at his own expense, sense of how people in his out to try and voice their opp0- . and asked ward residents to ward felt about the proposed sition to the project whatever of a drive cart at call a special hotline' number uptown development, At pub- way they can," - El . G lfCl b "r "il,";,',')"::",:,", g 's, "rg), t" YI . 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