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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 6 Sep 2000, p. 7

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Waterloo retailer claims city unfriendly "Who says that a person can't ride a bike or go horse- back riding in a pair of jeans," she said. "I don't know who they were making their restriction on what is sportswear because when I go do my buying it's all casu- al sportswear that I'm buy- ing." Grand Rivet Trans" (CRT) officially launched the new Regional lartk Services routes bl and 52 yesterday, Establishing the regional transit link allows residents Ht access social, medical, educational. recreational and commercial services and employment located "Nl the work I did to get the sports Stuffin didn't mat- ter __ they still said that unless that piece of clothing goes with that sport you cant have it." Instead of continuing to fight city hall Huegle decid- ed to fold up shop and re- open her doors in a more receptive area on Regina Street before her Aug. " deadline. Unfortunately, it also meant moving her more than 25 product lines from a Grand River Transit launches new links Continued from page 6 Huegle was particularly upset that the city had now become fashion purveyors. saying which clothes belong with which sporting goods, on top of bylaw enforcers Each week {or the next four weeks the Waterloo Chronicle will publish 0 hint as to the whetaobouts of the Beethoven bust which will be hidden somewhere in the K-W area. If you Mink you can correctly identify Beethoven's Bust location this week. 'ill in this ballot For a chance to wvn 2 PASSES (value 3144) to the KWCHENER-WATERlOO SYMPHONY'S 2000/2001 SEASON OPENING FESTIVAL All entries must be received by the Wotedoo Chronicle by Sept 12rh The draw will be made Sept 13th and the winners will be ootified by phone _ last week’s winner was J. M‘DONALD beetboven was bond Twelfth Night of The Atrium KITCHENER WATERIDO SYMPHONY Mad About Beethoven lakes place September l3 - 16, 2000 --MADaBoutBEEmovtNwsTHuNttNTttrrottM""'"""N tit wATEjii?ji"j"'"i"'j"iii"iiiEIcIE Mad About Beethoven Kitchener-Waterioo Symphony presents the throughout the three urban areas of Kitchener. Waterloo and Cambridge. 4,000-square-foot store to an BOO-square-foot house. Specific markets include Conestoga College students living in Cambridge, Preston high school students living in Kitchener, and employees and customers of the Gateway Park retail The cramped quarters prevented her from properly displaying all the merchan- dise she still had in stock prior m the August move, and left her little room for new product lines She has also had to scale back to two suppliers from the more than 20 she had before the move. . Kaye Crawford, team leader of bylaw enforce- ment, said the city gave Huegle the time tO comply and made it clear that the zoning didn't allow retail clothing stores of any kind in University Plaza. "When I was in that store it was dtfmitely a clothing store." said Crawford. "The store would have to do a lot to bring it into conformity." "I've had to work really hard with all the customers I've had over the years to let them know l'm here," she said. "It's only three blocks down but it's really like start- ing over." Bust Hunt SponsWorld was instru- mental in the CRTs provi- sion of bus service to SponsWorld Drive in 1996 and 1997; as a direct result of their financial support, the CRT has officially opened the SponsWorld bus terminal. Crawford said all poten- tial businesses can easily ftnd out if the zoning of an area will allow them to set up their operations. centre and vicinity. "Most people are pretty responsible in checking out their zoning and making sure they are locating in a place where council has approved those types of uses," said Crawford. "Even our business license process sends them to zoning to make sure they can open there. "The City ofWaterloo isn't in the business of putting people out of busigess." But Huegle said her expe- rience with the red tape she had to deal with in setting up her business would sug- gest otherwise. . "When you go into small business in Waterloo they don't say this is what you can do, and we're here to help you do that. They only tell you what you can't do." said Huegle. "YouYe not making me want to stay in the com- munity at all."

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