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weekender april ii 1987 p3 omb hearing is there a doctor in the house by bruce etheridge markhams doctors and de ntists who operate practices out of their homes will have to close up shop if the ontario municipal board upholds an ammended council bylaw in july of last year council approved a bylaw prohibiting doctors dentists and drugless practitioners such as chiroprac tors from treating patients at home other than to provide con sultation or emergency ser vices dr david peachey directorof professional affairsfor the ontario medical association said that doctors operating offices out of private residences is an ongoing practice throughout the province in metro 23 out of 24 municipa lities permit medical profession als to offer services from their homes four of those municipali ties do regulate such practices under the new bylaw doctors would be allowed to consult but not treat a patient dr peachy said but consultation would be fruitless if a doctor were unable to assist a patient a doctors office must do both concerns about permitting such uses for singlefamily dwell ings were outlined by town solici tor ray kallio he said medical offices in residences disrupts neighborhoods and undermines the planning and zoning intent of the town he also said it causes traffic and parking problems and increases hazards for pedestrian saftey but paul johnston a planning expert disagreed mr johnston appeared before the board on be half of dr kenneth ng a main st doctor with such a practice according to mr johnston a medical practice operating out of a doctors home provides neigh borhoods with a wide variety of healthcare services close at hand he also said it makes better use of available space in homes and offers greater employment opportunities for medical practi tioners mr johnston also ac cused council of bypassing stan dard procedures in implementing the bylaw he said the town failed to carry out any studies to verify potential problems or notify resi dents of the proposal it would be preferable to reg ulate rather than prohibit doc tors from practicing out of their homes he said such a bylaw would drastical ly restrict community access to medical services particularly for the elderly and handicapped said dr brian moore a rich mond hill chiropractor but mr kallio said that munici palities must have balanced planning and protect the integrity of residential neighborhoods he suggested town council has already provided doctors with adequate zoning other than re sidential districts to locate medic al offices hospital lands to be studied accounting firm peat marwick has been recommended for a 35000 study to determine what will be builtbeside and around the markhamstouffville hospital markham planning committee tuesday accepted the peat mar wick proposal over two others in a closed session the recommenda tion will be considered tuesday by council the committee voted to spend 32000 on the study with an addi tional 3000 fund for overruns regional councillor ron moran said the study will categorize needs on lands near the hospital to provide orderly and related de velopments its expected to take about two months we just dont have the staff to possibly undertake it ourselves said councillor moran of the deci sion to hire a consultant be- cause of the rapid growth in mar kham everything has become a priority ed and q he took me to the jewelry store yesterday im taking him to go riders shortchanged local residents charge by paul pivato staff reporter local go transit riders are being- shortchanged so says unionville resident greg armstrong who is spearheading petitionbacked drive to get additional train runs and improved parking at the un ionville milliken and markham go transit stations at present there js only one morning train run and that says mr armstrong is not enough theres a great number of peo ple not using go transit facilities because of the risk of missing that one train he says many local transit users drive to the richmond hill go transit station because the trains run more often and there is more parking space he adds the sheer number of people who live in markham and whose employment is in toronto is stag gering says mr armstrong brampton has four runs and cer tainly their population is not four times the size of ours mr armstrong and a group of other riders circulated a petition several months ago and collected about 500 signatures supporting an additional train run the group banded together af ter several sessions of grumbling and carping on a crowded morn ing train we decided that rather than complain all the- time wed try do something about the prob lem says mr armstrong frances shepherd former president of the unionville rate payers association and a member of the group says that because of our complaints were finally going to be noticed the groups call for action spur red local mpp don cousens to host a forum on go transit ser vices to be held at the sheraton parkway hotel on thursday april 23 york region chairman eldred king and officials from go tran sit and the ministry of trans portation will make presentations and the forum will wrap up with a questionandanswer session this is a number one issue for our riding says mr cousens expanding the parking lots wont solve the problem we need new stations with markhams population increasing at a phenomenal rate the local community is being underserved says mr cousens recent statistics show that the number of go transit passengers throughout the province in creased 34 per cent since last year frances shepherd says that when the group of disgruntled rid ers first voiced their complaints a go transit official told her they had never received complaints about the number of runs in the past she says the official also told her that not many markham peo ple use the go trains because everyone drives their rolls- royces to work anyways it was a facetious comment but it was an absolutely asinine thing to say says ms shepherd the lack of parking space has reached critical proportions she says adding that many riders are forced to park on adjacent streets and end up getting ticketed theres just no place to park she says it would be nice if you could fold up your car and put it in your purse but you cant basically says mr cousens we need new and larger sta tions board and its caretakers have tentative settlement by paul pivato staff reporter york region public school jani tors and school board officials have reached a tentative contract settlement following a 10hour bargaining session thursday the boards 378 janitors mem bers of the local 1196 of the cana dian union of public employees will vote tomorrow on whether or not to ratify the contract details of the agreement were not made public the caretakers union was seeking a 6 per cent wage hike and a oneyear con tract the contract dispute has forced the cancellation of all afterhour events including nightschool classes at local schools everything from danceathons and latenight volleyball games to palm sunday church services have been cancelled since thurs day when the board temporarily revoked all community group permits without caretakers theres no supervision said board admi nistrator david neale that means no groups can use the school after six oclock one of the groups affected the unionville alliance church which regularly holds sunday ser vices at unionville public school has riad to seek another loca- lipnqc toqiirowpamsunday services r we were taken aback by the cancellation said associate pas tor alex parachin the school boards problem has now become our problem its awkward but well manage the church is going to hold an afternoon service at st phillips anglican church milliken wesleyan church which usually holds services at milliken mills public school was also affected by the permit can cellations but rev allan summers said school prinicipal joe frohlinger has promised to open the school on his own so they could have their palm sunday service also 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