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Reg ionrej eets Brooklin sewer study YOUNG YACHTERS These young yachters are piaying foliow the leader at .,Upervised by quaiified Canadian Yachting Association Whitby Harbor this summer as they take part in the Whitby instructors. A Wintario grant provided for the purchase of the Yacht Club's Learn to Sali program. Chiidren aged 9 to 16 are boats and sali equipment. enjoying sailing, many of them for: the first time, and are Free Press Photo by Brian Winter Edwards wants decision on Brooklîn by Monday, Administrative Committee Chairman Councilior Tom Edwards would like to see a decision made on Brooklin's growth at council's next meeting Monday. A consultant's report on the financial implications of Brookin's growth to 10,000 people, exclusive of sewer and water costs, was received by council in committee of the* whole last Monday, and has been referred to the next regular meeting. Consultant Donovan Pinker outiined the alternatives of the report, based on a housing mix of 76 per cent single family, 12 per cent cluster, an 12 per cent garden plots, adopted by council May 28. The key to development of Brooklin is the acquisition of industry said, Mr. Pinker andd Brian Cox, a represen- tative of Price Waterhouse Associates who prepared the financial study. Mr. Pinker told the council that it is proposed to develop Brooklin witb 1,860 upper andd middle management type bouses, which would cot about $86,000 each. Thfis would create 23,00 new jobs and require the development of 390 cares of industrial land in the Town of Whltby, ha sald. Alr.dy thore am '. IMsa«« --of4 industriai land pianned for the' immediate Brooklin area. Mr. Cox told the council that with this substantial industrial assessment, the miii rate would go down 25 per cent or $164 for the average Whitby householder once the development of Brooklin is completed. If the industrial assess- ment is much lower, the miii rate would be reducedd only 14 per cent or $92 per house- hold, he said. With no industrial assessment, the miii rate would remain static, said Mr. Cox. Mr. Pinker outlined a number of capital projects which were included in the financial report, totalling about $2½ý million. These included a softbali diamond, two basebal diamonds, two soccer fields, a new bridge on Way Street, a park near Cashway Lumber, a parking lot for 240 cars, a haîf million dollar enlargement of the arena. An outdoor Olympic pool, four flood-lit tennis courts. an expansion of the library a nd purchase of 7,000 new books. Mr. Pinker said the plan outlined the construction of a blgh school, additions to Meadowcrest and St. Leo's Schools and two new elementary - sehWgl.*'Tiwo thirds of the cost wouid be paid for by the province, leaving $1,900,000 to be paid by _the Durham Board of Education, he said. Members of council had some concerns about the operating costs of such facilities once they are built. Councilior Joy Thompson said: "it's ail ifs, ands, buts and assumptions." The whole financial analysis hinges on industrial assessment, she said, and she wanteçl some proof that it wouid come. Councillor Tom Edwards suggested that the capital expenses could be reduced if revenue from industrial assessment was not coming in. Mayor Jim Gartshore replied that residentiai lot levies would pay for the capital projects. Councilor Gerry Emm said he would like to see a water and sewer financial Impact studdy like the study brought in Monday. Councilior Thompson replied that the regional council had turned down the water and' sewer study because many regional counciliors feel Whitby has not been able to rnake a decision on Brooklin's growth and is waiting for the region to make that decision instead. A decision on Brooklin's growth is possible at the next council meeting Monday, and Councillor Edwards, for one, is expecting it wili be made. In a close 14-13 'decision, region should undertake the I)urhamn Regionai Council job," the mayor told the refused Iast Wednesday to council. authorize a study of the "We (Whitby) could financiai implications of undertake such a study, but extending water and sewer it would be next to useless services to Brookiin. because regional council Mayor Jim Gartshore makes the final decision in made a strong plea for the any event and such a study- study to proceed, but one '0f without regional input would Whitby's regional council- be suspect," he said. lors, Joy Thnmpson voted Councilloi John Aker of against approving the study. Oshawa repiied that the At a previous committee region had undertaken many meeting held before the studies of this nature and regionai council went into shouid show restraint. session, Councillor Gerry However, Councillor Gary Emrn, a member of the Herrema of Uxbridge urged region's finance committee council to proceed with the voiced -his aprovai for the study "once and for ail." study, but councilior Thomp- The Oshawa members of son, a member of the regionai council voted regionai planning committee solidly against the Brookiin voted against it. study, while Newcastle and When coundil went into Brock counciliors supported session, Mayor Gartshore it. Mayor Gartshore said he said a financial impact considered the Oshawa report on sewer and water couniciliors were "'short- mains for the village, now sighted" in their refusai to serviced by septie tanks, is support the Brooklin an essential,.stop;!U&oeklin, inaniail.study- is to grow. Consoiidaied Building "For nearly two years, Corporation, the major development in Brookiin has developer in Brookiin, bas been talked about, but before offered to pa.y for the cost of any deveiopment takes trunk sewers to Brooklin, place, a report of this type and growth of Brooklin had must be made and since been discussed on the basis water and sewers are a of this proposai, said the regional responsibility, the mayor. Plant capacity doubles More than one-million construction wiil be a federai government dollars mechanically cleaned bar are heiping the Regional screen, primary settîing Municipality of Durham to tanks, two aeration tanks double the capacity of its with mnechanicai aerators, Corbett Creek Water Pollu- and final settiing tanks. tion Control Plant in Whitby. The plant expansion, Release of the funds, which has an estimated life- which total $1,083,333 in the span of 20 years, will aecom- form of a Centrai Mortgage modate an anticipated 40,000 andd Housing Corporation* population growth in Oshawa grant, was announced last and Whitby. week by Urban Affairs Total cost of the projeet is Minister Andre Quellet. estimated to be $6,500,000. The Corbett Creek plant is Other fund ing is expected located on Corbett Creek to be provided by the Ontario close to Lake Ontario. The Ministry of the Environ- extensions to the present ment, the Ontario Ministry faciities will increase their of Housing, and, the capacity to process sewage Municipaiity. from four million gallons per Work on the expansion ia day to eîght million gallons alread y underway. per day. Included in the new $40,OOO grant set The Town, Of Wbitby bas Bennett announced A..ývp AV Un VAM ev 5141 under tbe Ontario Home Renewal Program (OHRP>, Housing Minister Claude A 4th Whitby couneilor? Ajax Counciblor Colin Mackîe may soon introduce a motion in regional council whicb would give Wbitby four instead Of tbree regional counciblors, and reduce Oshawa's represen- tation of Il councillors by two. Oshawa Mayor Jlrn Pottlcaryhas cowitered with a proposaât toreduce. ti reglonal <cowil by il members, depriving the tbree northern municipali- ties of aIl representation. Mayor Potticary's proposa is for one represen- tative for eacb 12,00 popula- tion. It woubd aIso cause Whitby to bose, rather than gain one councillor. The two proposais for the restructurlng of the reglonai cSencil are .xpected to ho introduced wlthln the iiext two weeks. OHRP provides per capital grants to Ontario municipal- ities te administer drectly as boans to homeowner occu- pants te repair their bouses to an acceptable municipal minimum standard. The prime objective of the program is tbe correction of faulty structural and sanitary conditions and the upgrading of plumbing, beating, insulation and electrical systems of the owner occupant's home. "&OHRP is directly oriented to bow and moderate incarne homeownors wlth a- maximum snnaI Income of $12.500. Mr. Bennett, sald. 'or replairs Loans of up to $7,5Scan be given to elligible owner occupants to bring their homes up to the standards adopted by their municipal- ity. A portion of the boan can be "dforgivenÎ' depenin upon the income of the recipient. Interest rates vary from zero to eigbt per cent, ae qdeening on income. Whitby ia eigible for -ÎLe home renewal grants because it bas adopted ia minimum standards bylaw which was passed inf96 Any bomownewfrhtag more information about tbis Pworam May cSl the Whltb.v muniipi offleS at 1