Plans revealed for hotel/condo complex Port to get major face-lift Wednesday, September 23, 1981 28 Pages Mayor Bob Attersley is seen here pointing to the location of a hotel/motel that will be constructed with the redevelopment of Port Whitby. Plans for the area - often regarded as the oldest part of the Town of Whitby - were revealed at a special meeting of Whitby Town Council's administrative committee. Aside from the hotel/motel complex, plans were made public for the construction of a 500-plus unit condominium complex as well as other plans for Port Whitby. Area residents attending the meeting had nothing but praise for the plan, however, they raised manyconcerns about inadequate water and sewer services, poor roads and sidewalks as welI as other municipal services. - Free Press Staff Photo meaningless. A decision on whether 9or not to com- plete the project should be made during next year's budget deliberations. h. Vol. 11, No. 38 Showing off the new Port Whitby ip mmugg L Al depends on diversion sewer construction By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff Port Whitby is destined to becone a vital, thriving part of the Town of Whitby if plans revealed last week come into being. At a special meeting of town council's administra- tive con-'mittee, the future of the Port - long acknow- ledged as the oldest part of Whitby - was discussed. However, the highlight of the evening was an an- nouncement by Mayor Bob Attersley that Kesrnark Holding Ltd. will redevelop the present McNamara Marine and Texaco storage tank sites at the base of Brock Street South. The redevelopment plans call for the construction of a 150 unit motel/hotel complex and a 538 condo- minium complex. According to Attersley, this multi-million dollar project will take three to five years to complete on- ce all of the planning requirements are completed. However, there is an even more important fac- tor. The project cannot go ahead until the Region, of Durham authorizes the completion of the Pringle Creek-Corbett Creek Diversion Sewer. Although the first phase of the project has been completed, finishing the work was deferred by Durham Regional Council earlier this year on the grounds that they could not afford the $2.65 million price tag. • However, when the project was deferred regional council indicated that it would be reconsidered if development plans came forward. The area residents in attendance at the meeting were generally in accord with the proposed Kesmark development, however, they expressed concerns about the poor quality of present water and sewer services, roads and sidewalks in the area. They attempted to impress upon the committee's members that while they wanted this development, improved water and sewer services were needed to prevent flooding problems in their own home. Residents also demanded that roads and side- walks be improved and brought up to the standard enjoyed by the rest of the town. The thrust of the redevelopment of Port Whitby centres on the harbor. Current plans call for the area to be developed as a residential and recrea- tional facility. In a report prepared by Project Planning Asso- ciates it statedthat this was the best possible use of the land. That report stated that heavy harbor industrial uses had been rejected. "It was determined that the most beneficial basic land uses for the area would be a combination of residential and open space," the report said. "It was also concluded that the continuation of these resident open space land uses to the lakeshore would be additionally beneficial to the development of the harbor and the community as a whole." Project Planning Associations referred to Port Whitby as "one of the finest small harbors in the Toronto centred region and has the greatest untap- ped potential of any of the harbors east of Toronto." Their report indicated that the growth of recrea- tional boating over the last five years was a "dramatic illustration" of the harbor's potential. They projected that as recreational boating becomes more popular the harbor will also increase in popularity. The report also said that there is an unsatisfied demand for waterfront residences. "Due to the natural beauty and the recreational potential of the Port Whitby harbor, there is an un- paralleled opportunity for quality residential development adjacent to the harbor," the report said. The officiai plan amendmrent prepared by plan- ning director Bob Short calls for the utilization of the harbor as a small craft port with adjoining open space lands for recreational purposes. It also calls for residential and recreational uses "unique" to harbor areas. The report will shortly go to Whitby Town Council for its approval. After that, it will have to go to Durham Regional Council for its approval. However, both bodies can approve the document but unless the Pringle Creek-Corbett Creek Diver- sion Sewer is constructed, the plan is essentially