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THE ERA The Era Newmarket A The Second Section Sports News District Entertainment York Region how it will look in growth In the county Mr said a ceiling of people about double the population today will be placed on the area Newmarket will go north to Green Lane If East remains separate and south to St Johns Siiteroad Aurora goes from St Johns Sideroad south to a line north of the Oak itidges- Wilcox area Richmond Hill extends from there to the line The minister said growth in he NewmarketAurora area could result in merger of the two and added in all honesty 1 would prefer to see one King Township west of will become new municipality and Whitchurch Township and Slouffville will be amalgamated and the new municipal ity will pick up strip of Town- North and Sutton were joined to become the Township of Gcorgina Vnughan and church TWOTIER SYSTEM The area will have a twotier system of government intended to stren gthen municipal government by giving 1 of Mayor and councillors of the I governments will be directly and the mayors will with one representative for each 10000 of population said Mr A chairman for the new region will be appointed by Premier John Ro- elect its chairman either from with in its own ranks or from outside them Mr said the first chairman will probably be a York County Elections for both levels of go vernment in the new York region will be held Oct and county school board elec tions will probably be the same day Police villages will bo abolished under lie regional system CRITICISM The only harsh criticism levelled by the minister In lie report came when he decreed thai East Heights must join Newmarket The development of this const a classic example of tire lo coordinate the planning and vicing programs of adjacent municipali fail The regional council will a total responsibility in five major areas it will take over the water system the regional sewage works all regional roads the health and welfare services and plan ning The Toronto and York Roads Commission and the Health will disappear The health unit will be replaced by an eightman York Region health board composed of five regional councillors and three members appointed When the region takes over water sewers and roads from member munici palities it will pay no compensation but will take over existing local debts on the facilities The regional council will estab lish an official plan for the area and nil municipalities in the region will have to make their plans conform All municipal REGION of YORK Townships argument that it should lose this urban area because its municipal services have already been paid for Mr said this Is not sufficient ar gument for deferring municipal changes Now that this area Is developed there will continue to be a broad range of mu nicipal services required by its residents and the problems of poor ONE POLICE FORCE The region will have force administered by a board of perpetuated he ted sit on the regional council Where has more than one seat on the council members of the local council will fill the second scat from among their members The positions of reeve and deputy reeve will be abolished s MAJOR RES However he stipulated that the new council protects East Heights residents from paying for these sjrvlces twice by excluding them from that portion of the property tax designed to recover the cost of equivalent services provided in the present Town of Newmar- of police The board will be composed of two members of the reg ional council appointed by council a judge of the county court and two other members named by the province Policemen who were members of a county force on May will bo guaran teed a job on the regional force Under the new system big parks will be administered by the region small ones by local councils recreation fire protection and garbage collection and dis posal will bo a local responsibility Mr McKeough said hydro com missions will continue during 1971 and would become local boards of the muni cipalities in which they are situated but ha promised a major reorganization of these bodies The regional government will le vy its own taxes and a local municipality will towards regional costs in proportion to the ratio of its total assess ment to the assessment of the region The province will provide out right grants to cushion the cost of chang ing systems of government Mr Keough said the grants will guarantee no property tax increase due to regional East residents wont have to pay more than their share of New markets existing debt load YORK KEYSTONE IN A GREEN ARCH the keystone of a green arch across south ern Ontario The greenbelt will force new population and new industries being push- another around Metro to hop scotch to such northern centres as Mid land and Big losers in the York area will be the land speculators who have been up our farmland at prices because they expected Metros ur ban sprawl to continue north during the next decade Rig winners will be the residents here now They wont see their small towns inundated by an uncontrolled ur ban sprawl Instead they will live in a solidly planned area of small cities set south and with close by According to Ontarios TorontoCentred Region pi Lake and Municipal Affairs Minister said last week the Lake Wil cox area which will be in the new town Richmond Hill will need complete re development and he hinted he Metro Toronto Conservation Authority may re develop the whole area as a park The Authority already owns a large parcel Growth in the county will be funnelled into an urban core up St from Richmond Hill to Bradford but the mirVcr warned that strip develop ment along St would be forbid den the area must continue to develop He also warned development in this core will be limited so that it does not draw people from the large urban centres plan ned for the area The plan places a ceiling of people on the towns of Richmond Hill Aurora Newmarket and Bradford LAKE SIMCOE Too much of the Lake Simcoe shoreline is in private hands and will be taken to make much of the lake available for public recreation areas The plan also indicated the pro vince will take action to return large por tions the county to farm uses The report said the country re5id3nt who is employed in Toronto is taking up larga tracts of land from use large of the i ijj will cut Highway which exists but will planned Highway which is a of Metros Don Valley Parkway and will run up the cast side the Lak Lake Couhiehing syiteni an GO Transit Mr said has yet been mad on whether Highways End 10t will be developed as service and parkway corridors as is planned for Highway 107 across the south of the Only light industry will be allow ed to locate in the area north of this Highway corridor but whether it is built in he towns or along the two north- south must be decided by the planning committee The plan may have one latent in for the new York Region Mr McKeough said Yorks outside boun daries may be permanent He hinted that when Metro takes over the southern tip of York in 1973 wits of Ontario and Simcoe counties may join York One area for this would be around the Holland Marsh minister said he would like to the marfh in either York or Another wculd be the strip of On tario County south of eastern Up of of del for development up to tho huge area centred on Metro Toronto Metros sprawl must terminate at a mile to fourmile wide parkwayhighway belt which just leaves the bottom tip of the county in the urban growth area The plan describes this Toronto- centred area which now is populated by million people but in 30 years will have million as part or the Chicago- DetroitTorontoMontreal megalopolis and as tie financial manufacturing cultural and communications centre of Canada and especially of Ontario According to the plan by the year 2000 million people will live in the urbanized area along Lake Ontario from to Hamilton in the adjacent commuting zone of which York forms the centre piece and two million in the outer zone incorporating Midland and Among the key policies spelled out in the pa i and agri culture Carefully encourage selected commu nities along the northern route between Metro and Richmond Hill Aur ora Newmarket using existing and public facilities Maintain the Georgian Bay shoreline Lake Simcoe Kawartha Lakes and the Niagara Escarpment as well as parts of the Lake Ontario shoreline for conserva tion and recreation uses Develop a transportation pattern to provide the best possible service for all parts of the region The plan will have a profound effect on the future of York County WHAT IT MEANS What it means is that most of the county will remain an Speculation names five for chairman NEWMARKET The first chair man of the York Region will be appointed about July Municipal Affairs Minister Darcy McKcough said last week The only hint beyond that the minister dropped about the chairmanship was thai it will probably bo by a York County man job Former East Gwillimbury Reeve Garfield Wright who was warden the year county council took the Initial steps to push York into regional government is known to be interested Donald Martyn a former Pro gressive Conservative candidate who Is now a provincial civil servant is said to be a possible candidate Mr Martyn has attended many of the meetings of the Committee on the York Region at the request of Premier John He a Sutton area resident Former county warden Stewart Rumble the of Town ship and incumbent warden Gordon Cook Reeve King Township have also been mentioned So has former Newmarket Mayor Drew The first council of the Region of York will have members 16 of whom represent approximately 10000 REGIONAL BREAKDOWN Here is a table showing the popu lation of each of the nine new municipali ties in the region and the number of seats each will be entitled to on the council Newmarket 16000 Aurora King Whitchurch East Georgina Richmond Hill Receives two seats because of residents Yorks first major overhaul since NEWMARKET York County will get a new look next January 1 the first major revision since the townships and villages of this part of Ontario were entrusted with the management of their local affairs under elected councils and a county council in 1850 York County as a geographical unit came into existence much earlier however The County of York was cre ated July to provide a territorial unit as an electoral division and for the militia The land had been purchased from the Indians four years earlier apparently for a short bill of merchandise which included braided hats for six chieftains and 96 gallons of rum The pen that marked out the or iginal limits of the county was in the hand of John Graves Simcoe the first Lieuten antGovernor of the province The area of the county has since varied but when created a municipality it had a 30mile frontage on Lake Ontario extending from the Etobicoke River on the west to the Rouge on the east and north to Lake A major change in these boun daries didnt come for over too years In the province created Metropolitan Toronto and the area south of Steeles Ave left the county Now years after the first county councillors took their seats the province has consolidated the town ships towns and villages many of them represented into nine and possibly eight municipal units within a strong regional