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‘Dated’ town centre strategies get a fresh look
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SURREY — The City of Surrey is spending $9 million to replace all of the copper wire in its streetlight system with alloy wire. At Monday’s council meeting, Surrey’s engineering department proposed an overhaul of the city’s streetlight system to deter wire theft, which has cost the city about $3.5 million in repair costs over the last two years. See more CITY COUNCIL › page 9
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“Although the rate of loss has been declining from previous years, copper wire theft appears to be linked to the price of copper as a commodity and thus it is expected that copper wire theft will increase again as copper prices rise,” read a corporate report that went before council.
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As part of a pilot project last year, the City of Surrey replaced copper wire in three locations in the city that were troublesome areas for copper theft. According to city staff, there has not been any wire theft in those areas. (Photo: KEVIN HILL)
SURREY — Town centres like Newton, Fleetwood and Cloverdale may soon look a bit different, following the city’s reevaluation of their respective community plans. On Monday, Surrey city council approved recommendations in a corporate report to review and update each of the city’s town centre plans between now and 2016, with Newton, Fleetwood Bruce Hayne and Cloverdale to be considered first. A second phase of the review is proposed to complete the Semiahmoo plan and develop a new plan for Guildford. Coun. Bruce Hayne stated that the review of the plans has been top of mind for the city. “This is important work that we’re going to be doing this year and I think it’s time that we did it,” Hayne said. see TOWN CENTRE › page 3