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STUFF At a meeting on Friday, the board voted 3-1 to keep the name. Two of the board members, city councillors Mike Davidson and Pauline Cotter, were absent. Board chair Emma Norrish said her reasoning for keeping the name was “quite simple really”, saying the name of the lane was not the same as the disgraced liquor baron.
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Earthworks at 480 Hills Rd – a property linked to businessman Harjit Singh. “The name of the lane is, to the general public, not associated with him unless people delve into the history,” she said. Norrish worried about the precedent the board could set if it revoked the name.
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Golden Healthcare Group, which operates three rest homes on Harewood Rd with up to 134 residents in care and 48 residents in villas, was also concerned the proposal would affect residents negatively. The consultation period has already been extended by two weeks following public backlash, and will now close on March 8, but this is not enough for Keown and MacDonald. They want the entire process to start again. Keown said the cycleway needed to be far less engineered, and he wanted businesses and school kids to help design it. “The problem is for our community this is being done to them, not with them. That is the whole problem here.”