Setback For West Side Business Improvement Area and Levy

A bid to establish a west side Business Improvement Area and levy has hit a brick wall. Council accepted a report from the common clerk's office indicating almost 35-percent of businesses opposed the idea -- and -- that's enough under provincial legislation to kill the proposal. Mayor Ivan Court says the clerk's office did a thorough review and polling of business owners in the proposed area. Court says the West Side Business Association will have to wait a year before bringing the proposal back to council.