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st tribune february 16 1994 p3 analysis municipality cant preach morality to business tracy kibble staff reporter moving to stouffville five years ago with dreams of opening a business has turned out to be a bureaucratic nightmare for joe colicchio he says he is the victim of bad planning by politi cians at the local council table politicians who would now choose to toss him aside like yesterdays consul tant studies colicchio bought an industrial condominium in the barren ringwood drive commercial section with the idea that he would run an entertainment spot for local business people their clients passersby and residents the zoning clearly states that a private club plus a slew of other permitted uses is allowed but colicchio wanted to open up his establishment for the general public in an ongoing struggle to keep his business prof itable colicchio had come up with many ideas to attract customers including changing the name and the theme of his business several times to best suit his customers and to keep them coming back officials told colicchio last year that he could run his business on a temporary taverntype basis because he really doesnt have adequate parking for such a long- term venture each condo owner has his own parking spaces which they own along with the unit and you cant have late- night customers using other peoples parking spaces council has said why then was private club an allowed use was it presumed that people booking the club would load into buses and then get dropped off on this point alone it seems there was no thought put into which types of businesses should be allowed before units were sold some officials especially ward 6 councillor ken prentice have gone even further and made it quite clear they dont want any hanky panky going on in whitchurchstouffville the stripper word was never actually mentioned but colicchio was warned on several occasions that he had better not indulge stouffville residents in such naughty entertainment such tarnished endeavors just wont be tolerated in sleepy stouffville a community dotted with churches colicchio says he doesnt run a strip joint but like any other businessman admits he has to do what he can to survive councillors should be aware that the supreme court of canada the highest and most powerful court in the country ruled in 1985 that municipalities have abso lutely no authority nor the right to enforce morality what they do have the authority for is to provide good planning in their community something clearly not done here even councils strongest probusiness advocate ward 5 councillor bob ancheril remained curiously quiet during the discussion when most would have expected him to come to the businessmans defence but he never did this is just one local case of extremely poor planning and a case which strips this businessman of his free dom and right to thrive catholic board supporters will see 7 hike in 1994 julie caspersen staff reporter separate school trustees used their imagination to produce a surplus after slicing their 1994 budget by 13 million one hour into the final bud get meeting thursday the york pjday photosjoerd w1ttcveen summltview public school grade 2 student katelyn smith lis tens to a story clad in her pajamas during pajama day last week carnival in full swing theres a wide variety of events slated for the claremont winter carnival which begins this week the 11th annual event kicked off tuesday with a youth dance and later a talent show at clare mont public school activities tonight include lioness bingo at the community hall and kids movie night at the legion things heat up friday with the torch light parade at 630 pm from the united church fol lowed by opening ceremonies and the lioness skating party at 715 pm at claremont park saturday is a full day starting with pancake breakfast at 8 am at the united church followed by the claremont mile race and the winter carnival parade at 11 am claremont park is the scence of sports activities such as hockey and broomball all day the trappers ball is 8 pm to 1 am at the legion region roman catholic sepa rate school board was 430000 away from balancing its books for the year but by playing with numbers and paring program consul tants staffing levels the board came up with a surplus of 334528 at the suggestion of french trustee fran hill trustees added 400000 to their project ed supplementary taxes the extra taxes gained during the year from people moving into the area or transferring their taxes to the separate board hill was told by finance superintendent john sabo that any money amount can be slot ted into the supplementary tax line there is no right answer he said however some trustees werent convinced that manipu lating numbers is the answer to balancing the budget its called plugging its called cre ative financing said trustee luigi tucci one of four trustees to vote against hills motion trustees then reinstated grade 7 and 8 french immer sion at a cost of 107770 deciding it would be less expen sive to give in to parents demands than risk losing tax support from the parents of the 90 french immersion students markham trustee lorenzo rossi would rather spend now than lose later we dont want to erode the tax base thats already eroding faster than land in california he said but trustee maddalena smir- nakis warned the board not to start of trend of rethinking cut backs already made if we consider this one par ticular issue why dont we reconsider all the 13 million other cuts she said asking for a tally of all cuts that are revis ited in light of the excess funds the majority of trustees voted in favor of taking a second look at some of the cuts in areas such as library clerks caretak- ing chaplaincy and safe schools we still have 237000 its not a lot but id like to think of it as weve bled the system dry and are pump ing something back in board chair terry ryan said more than 150 people will lose their job as a result of the budget cuts trustees were forced by the ministry of edu cation and training to elimi nate last years 187 million deficit through taxation and cutbacks and start shaving its 35 million accumulated debt trustees tinkered with lower ing the tax increase from seven per cent the hike promised last december to 695 per cent or 682 per cent but the seven per cent won ratepayer pat henry said with this latest increase his taxes will have jumped by 857 per cent since 1988 builders to pay for new schools the lot levy bank account of two york region school boards will be reactivated monday the public and separate boards have won a legal battle with the ontario home builders associa tion over the right to charge a special fee on new construction to pay for new schools we want to start collecting monday said york region board of education lawyer martha mackinnon the public and separate boards were the first in ontario to adopt lot levy bylaws in november 1991 under the 1989 develop ment charges act one month later the ontario home builders association filed a court chal lenge which it won the boards and the province appealed and the ontario court of appeal has deemed the levies constitutional in a unanimous decision mackinnon said yester day the court ruled that develop ment charges are not a form of taxation and that the builders group does not have the status to challenge the act on separate school rights because it is not catholic costs were awarded to the boards and the province municipalities in york region collected 16 million in lot levy fees on behalf of the boards by charging 3623 on each new home built in york region the money was spent on new school construction until the bank account was frozen last june fol lowing a ruling from the court of appeal the next step according to mackinnon is to determine how to retrieve the money lost in the past eight months hot noon lunch the legion ladies auxiliary is hosting a hot noon luncheon on wednesday march 2 from 1130 am to 130 pm for 8 call 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