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10 - Friday, December 23, 1988 - North Shore News

FIVE-YEAR-OLD Kimberly Mullins has a sitdown with Santa Claus as other members of Queensbury Kindergarten await their turn. The brief

Must be Santa...

heart-to-heart with Santa at Lynn Valley Centre is an annual event for the youngsters.

George Galicz

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NY club site
to be rezoned

THE REZONING of the old Hip-
popotamus Club site at Third
Street and Lonsdale Avenue for
festaurant use has brought back
memories of honking horns and
squealing tires to a neighboring
resident.

Margaret McGuire recently told
council about being woken up by
patrons leaving the Hippo Club
yelling and hollering as they went
home. ‘‘It has just been hell,’’ she
said. ‘‘Since that place has been
closed, we've been asleep at
night.”’

But council members voted
unanimously in favor of the rezon-
ing, saying the new rezoning laws
should be enough tu control the
patrons.

“IT have been convinced by what
I’ve seen that we cannot treat (this)
tenant differently than any other
restaurant down there,”’ said Ald.
Barbara Sharp.

Ald. Frank Morris said the res-
taurant would not be open to the
kind of abuses that had occurred
previously in the cabaret. ‘‘It (the
holding bar) doesn’t serve more
than 25 people.’”’

McGuire said she was also con-
cerned about the pressure on park-
ing that the re-opening of the spot
would create.

City licensing director Fred
Smith said the parking require-
ments for the new restaurant fell in
line with other restaurants along
the Lonsdale strip. He said the
developer will be required to pro-
vide eight parking spots for a max-
imum of 150 patrons. Smith
estimated the occupant load for
previous clubs on the site to range
between 225 and 300 patrons.