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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Pridey, February 26, 1965 29 7 stant tenance anim nid maint CITY'S PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM SETS RECORD Oshawa's Public Works Program in 1964 saw the heaviest ever completed by the city in any single year. The. City Engineering De- partment . was_ responsible for the detailea planning and carrying out of this vast project. The man in charge of this department is City Engineer Fred Crome shown above with two of his assistants, Keith W. Kearns, design engineer (left); and Robert F. Richardson, field engineer (right). The de- partment's construction work totalled $3,690,000 in 1964. Road paving, granular base and curb and gutter accounted for $2,247,000 of this amount, --Oshawa Times Photo Works Dept.s Budget $3,690,000 In 64 The Works Department of the City of Oshawa undertook the most ambitious, expansive, and successful program in the city's history last year. Under the direction of city en- - sewed Fred Crome, and with a udget of $3,690,000 to work with, the Engineering depart- ment built about 11 miles of roads and surfaced about 17 miles for $2,247,000. They also turned out $229,000 in sanitary sewers and connec- tions, $533,000 in storm sewers and catch basins, watermains and $149,000 in connections, $460,000 in bridges and culverts| and $42,000 in sidewalks. Over 5.5 miles of pavement was included in the roads proj- ects, and an additional 5.5 miles of granular gravel base was laid in preparation for future paving. base and 2.5 miles of paving was on arterial streets. The greatest evidences of pro- gress were on:the city's most important, and most used streets, King and Bond. King street west, between Mc- Millan drive and Park road was almost entirely rebuilt, mains, and sidewalks. constructed and widened, west, underwent the greatest transformation in a preparation to make it a one-way west- bound street. It was opened and paved for' three lanes from Park road to Stephenson road at the west end and from Riverside drive to French Veto Inspections Slow New Uranium Deal LONDON (CP)--An executive of Rio Tinto Zinc Limited said Tuesday French government ob- jection to Canadian inspection of French atomic plants is stall- ing negotiations of a £250,000,- 000 uranium contract with two Canadian companies. "Tt is a matter of French gov ernment principle and of natu ral prestige," said A. F. Lowell chief of the uranium section of Rio Tinto. son Mines. itry. Of this length, 2.0 miles of com- plete with storm sewers, sani- tary sewers, water mains, gas King street east, from Har- mony road to Wilson, was re- Bond street, both east and The proposed 25-year contract would be with Rio Algom, con- trolled by Rio Tinto and Deni- The Canadian government, which must give its approval before uranium can be exported, is asking for the usual bilateral agreement. to ensure the ura- nium is used only for peaceful purposes, The treaty would give ,|Canada the right to send in- spectors to the receiving coun- Wilson road and from Roxhbor- ough avenue to Ritson road at the east end. Only the central section be- tween Ritson and Park is hand- ling two-way traffic. OTHER ARTERIES Park road, another main artery, was widened in three places to accommodate the in- creased traffic burden. Three miles of pavement were laid in new residential areas, where curbs and gutters are charged to. the subdivider. Granular base in preparation for future pavement, has been constructed on these additional arterial streets: Adelaide ave- nue east--Roxborough avenue to Wilson road; Darcy street -- Grierson street to Oshawa rail- way; Farewell street -- 258 feet south of Raleigh avenue to 295 feet north of Raleigh avenue; Harmony road south -- King street to Dean avenue; John street -- Centre street to Park road; Wilson road north -- Ade- laide avenue east to 1200 feet north of Adelaide avenue east. The Engineering department continued its program of hot- mix treatment of roads, sur- facing 16.05 miles of gravel roads, and 1.3 miles of pave- ment. At year-end, boast 179.37 miles of roads and streets. Of this total, 69.6 miles were paved, 6.53 were gravel with curbs and gutters, miles were gravel with a hot- mix surface treatment, 6.01 miles gravel with treatment, and primed gravel. The Bond street east construc- 39.5 While Oshawa 1s witnessing an. unprecedented boom in the building of apartment houses, another significant development' has started to prepare for the ulation increase of the ure, This is the invasion of the Buffer Zone. The City last June increased its residential area by 574 acres "overnight" when City Council approved the buffer zone study, creating six new residential land parcels around the edges of the city boundary. It is estimated at City Hall that full development of this Residential Area Grows jand watermains through (inter- area will eventually see some 300 lots built on with a corre- sponding population boost of ap- proximately 12,000, "Substantial plans" for de- velopment in these areas are' now before the plauning board, says Mr. Wandless. He said no actual building has been started] because of the "prohibitive" cost of bringing trunk sewers vening) undeveloped land. The city's policy is that de- velopers must bring these serv- ices to their subdivisions, 'This prevents "leapfrogging' and "forces" what the planning board calls orderly develop- Mr. Wandless said these buf- fer zones were opened up last year mainly because of pleas of small builders. here who com- plained of the unavailability of small parcels of land. (Prior to adoption of the buf- fer zone report there was only the city for about seven years ot residential development, he estimates. Now are some 1,530 acres enough land: in there which. can be sewered,) Buffer zone areas are review- ed annually, says the planning director, and this latest study showed that much of the land able to be developed for resi- dential building was held by few large developers -- hence the rezoning. From the BZ report: 'It is " pied fer zone acres) and the vac completely filled by 1975," The report suggested two al daries, or some foim of r al government. sewer and water.) Population projections indi- cate that within the next. seven years all lands currently legis- lated for residential develop- ment will be completely occu- "At our present growth rate the land for which rezoning has been recommended 'the 574 buf- land now residential (1,702) with 1,529 sewerable) will be ternatives; extending city boun- (Exploratory talks have been held among elected officials in the Oshawa area on joint planning, particu- larly for engineering services -- (CFA Brief Presented OTTAWA (CP) -- The Cana- dian Federation of Agriculture presented a brief to the govern- ment Tuesday containing more than 50 resolutions passed at the organization's recent con- vention at Regina. : "The suggestions to the cab- inet -- many of them long- standing policies of the feder+ ation -- were presented by @ delegation headed by president J. M. Bentley of Edmonton, q ; 1- emphasized that most of the land now zoned for development is controlled by builders or de- velopers. It is also evident that this situation will continue no matter to what extent rural areas are rezoned for full scale ment. development, LARGEST TANNERY Robson - Lang Leathers Ltd square feet of year. one of the largest leather tan- neries in the dominion is cap- able of turning out 20 million leather each Seven 9 ~-- ae on dairy policy. One was for a sobetautiad increase in price- support levels for milk and cream other than for fluid con- sumption. It 'would set a max+ imum price of $3.50 a hundred. lweight, an average increase of about 50 cents. PRINCE'S HORN BLOWS MONEY LONDON (CP) -- Prince Charles' interest in trum- pets has blown a hole in his pocketbook--to the tune of £80. ($240). That's what it cost him when he went shopping at a musical instrument sales shop in London's Soho dis- trict, it was reported Mon- day. 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