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This week council gave its endorsement
to a Special Occasion License for GranFondo
that will have a maximum 2,500 capacity with
service from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Plaza.
Like other festival organizers in
Whistler, GranFondo organizers wish the
province’s liquor laws would allow all their
participants to be together and enjoy a beer
at the same time. This is the next best thing.
“We feel our event caters to a very familyfriendly
audience, and the atmosphere
that we’re trying to create is very much
full of camaraderie and celebration, versus
drinking, that it would be nice to be able
to lift those types of limits,” said Lindsay
Carswell, GranFondo’s director of marketing.
That said, Carswell added that the beer
garden is one facet to the overall event.
“We’re not concerned about delivering a
great experience for people on the day.”
It is anticipated there will be roughly
1,000 guests at the event under the age of 19.
The GranFondo last year generated $2.7
million in economic activity for Whistler
and $8.2 million for the province.
This year the event will take place on Sept.8.
PLAZA NOISE REPORT COMING TO COUNCIL
Noise issues continue to mar Whistler’s
second annual summer concert series.
At its first meeting in September
municipal staff will deliver a report to council
looking at a range of issues surrounding the
concert noise from Whistler Olympic Plaza.
“They’ve been out taking measurements in
various locations so we want the results of that
monitoring,” said the mayor after the meeting.
“And then there’s been some consideration of
changing the location of speakers and things
like that. So it’s just to give us an update on
what we’ve been hearing.”
Council heard again Tuesday night in a
letter from Whistler Cay Heights residents
Sherry and Alex Klopfer who say any concert
is “clearly audible from our deck and
bedroom” about one kilometre away.
“Any claim that this noise is acceptable
before 10 p.m., or that it’s a trade-off for
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legal challenge would be whole-heartedly
supported by the hundreds of homeowners
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“These concerts should be moved to the
Callaghan Valley, or, at the very least no
noise pollution should be permitted beyond
the perimeter of the Plaza.”
The report is expected at the Sept.4 meeting.
2011 ENERGY REPORT DELIVERS MIXED NEWS
The Resort Municipality of Whistler spends
one million dollars every year on electricity
from its 130 BC Hydro accounts.
That’s just part of its $1.7 million
energy costs.
And while the good news for the
municipality is that energy consumption
in the organization as a whole was down
six per cent over last year, 2011, however,
was the second highest year on record for
energy consumption.
Costs are only slated to go up in the
coming years — about five per cent annually.
“We’ve got to continue to target five or
six per cent energy reduction or else those
(costs) will go up,” said Ted Battiston, in
his report to council.
The community as a whole, however,
is seeing an increasing trend for energy
consumption.
“We continue to consume more
energy year over year across the whole
community,” said Battiston, for a total
community spend of $78 million.
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions at the
municipal level are on the decrease, due in
no small part to the more than million dollar
upgrades at the Meadow Park Sports Centre.
“We’re doing well as an organization; most
of it is being carried by Meadow Park,” he said.
The community as a whole has also reduced
its emissions; most of those meaningful
reductions coming from the landfill gas
capture project, and the change from propane
to natural gas in parts of Whistler.
“There’s not a whole lot of those left,”
said Battiston of the big projects with impact.
“The challenge for the rest of the decade is
we need to find another 3,000 tonnes per year.” ■
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