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Page 16, Thursday, March 16, 1972, WHITBY FREE PRESS Government Has Not frozen Land Prices At Proposed Airport Site Say Provincial Authoritles The so-called "freezing" of proper- ties around the new airport site in Pick- ering Township is actual ly a measure to helpguarantee the orderly development of the area, Ontarlo government author- ities said today. The measure took the form of orders i s s ued March 2 by Ontaio Treasurer W. Darcy McKeough, under the PIanning Act. Theeffect of the orders is to zone certain designated lands for agricul tural purposes. Co ntrary to one widespread notion, the gove rnment has not frozen land p r i ces or prohibited buying or selling of the lands, the provincial authorities said. However, they added, theorders are bound to inhibit the buying and selling thatotherwisewould likely have occur- red as soon as the airport site was an- nounced, since no new uses can be made of t h e I a n d s unless they are directly rel ated to agriculture, and no new farm- in g can b e under taken on less than 25 acres. Property owners who have been in- t e n ding to erect buildings on land now vacant are therefore being denied buiId- ing permits, at least fort the time being, the provincial authorities explained. They said the ministerial orders are s e r v i n g as a stopgap to prevent 1and speculation and incompatible develop- m e n t s f r o m occurring in the interim p e r i o d while local zoning bylaws are r e v i s e d to take t h e new airport into account. Affected by the orders are portions of the towns of Whitchurch, Stouffville andMarkham, portions of the townships of Uxbridge and Pickering, and ail of Scott Township. The orders do not applîy to more than anorthly fractionof the parcel the pro- v i n c ial government intends to develop as servicelands and the new community of Cedarwood. These lands, however, are coveredby anew legislative amend- men t which in effect means that land- priceincreases resulting from the air- p o r t 's presence wil not be taken into ac count when.the properties are being acquired. Except for the Scott Township land, theproperties designated in the orders faîl within the "noiselands" - the areas most likely to be affected by noise from the airport. Scott Township was cover- edby one of the orders "because it has no official plan to guide the new devel- opment pressures that could otherwise occur", theprovincial spokesman said. Mc Keough said he is anxious to see local authorities resume zoningcontrols as soon as possible. With that aim in mind, he added, meet- ings are being arranged with municipal r e p r e s entatives to discuss revisions needed in their official plans and zon- ing bylaws. T r a n sport Minister Don Jamieson met Federal Government'splan for the dev- last Friday with Norman Cafik, M. P. , elopment of a second Toronto internat- Ontario (riding), Barnett Danson, M. P. ional airport that will be located about Y o r k-Nor th and John Roberts, M. P., 30 miles northeast of downtown Toronto. York-Simcoe to discuss aspects of the E frm 'THE HUNGRIESewelome you tothe RED BARN ONLY SPECIAL Regular BIG ÀMEYPrice FRENCH FRIES LARGE SOFT DRINK Paul Freeman i I mgr. WHITBY 668-7026 1536 DUNDAS ST. E. qI Mike St.Thomas mgr. OSHAWA 723-0553 488 KING ST. W. - T- Hou, r Opening Specala 1