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THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill. Ontario. Thursday. July 29. 1971 iiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiu : i Postponing The ‘ Tax Bill (Hamilton Speectatori Ontario's planned assessment freeze is a moratorium; it's no; An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 more than that. But it will v v ' , - . s “ATER SHORTAGE CRITICAL Subscription Rate $5.00 per team United States $6.00; or since my 5.:2'..T:.i:-\...:: Illffiétilmli it. too..- ._ Mel’nbel‘ AUdlt Bureau “f C‘rwlatlons. _ 1:3 i7 "9 ".mi’ The recent flood of letters to “The Liberal" Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association - m hi m c- i'egarding the ever present shortage of water in our town has prompted me. to write you and ask the following question which I feel is directly relevant to the crisis. I would like to know how in the world we are ever going to supply water and treat: the sewage " created by the influx of new housing in our newly enlarged town. when we cannot. apparently. satisfy our present demands? The new housing I refer to is as follows: mcnts worth up to $2.500 iintil‘ 1975 ~7- is the first real break ‘a senior government has offerfi ‘erl the home-owner through the assessment. field. 1 In essence. assessments would stand at. 1970 levels until 1974 tthe 1974 assessment will he the base for the 1975 taxestl illome improvements which in-i crease a property‘s real valuei ii to $2.500 \v at b add d t . . mi. assessmento um? 197: (at; O Housmg for 30,000 people in the new BAIF De- 1\\‘hich time the province hopesi Velopmfmt . , to have all properties assessed; . 600 suite apartment building on the Bond Steel at. market. values‘. That means a‘. site on Markham Road recreation room added “115 year 0 142 new luxury homes east of Bayview. with at wouldn‘t. affect taxes until ‘mfi' . least one acre lots to be watered. rm- inammmi homemmml O 153 suite apartment building near completion on Plaque Commemorates First Steam Train‘im in Ave. Published by Richmond Hill Liberal Publishing Co. Ltd. W. S. COOK. Publisher “Second class mail. registration number 0190" Should Freeze Develmeni and operate on septic tanks so it will not tax the present facilities of the town. Assessment will be high on the luxury-class homes. will serve to increase the tax base of the town, and help relieve the tax burden. Moreover. the development will not create a large number of children to crowd available school space. Such development is permitted under the. Water shortage, evidenced by nec- essary restrictions on lawn watering and rumors that the water situation is more desperate than is being told. lead us to believe that an immediate freeze on development (even in-fill- ing) should be instituted by the Town of Richmond Hill. _ Coupled with the water shortage is the demand for schools which resi- . , V . or more before. the day oil 0 High-rise and townhouse development suggested ' t creates. A present zoning in the gmemlnfl . . . . . . . - . ‘ -1 ' . " a - -" ' denhlal ogeV‘SEigmggo York County Markham Township Bylaw On Dominion Day a historical plaque commemorating the first “lgt’fraw‘maf for the nmtlHW-‘t ('Ol‘ner OI Elgln Mills Road and ‘ E30012: of Education approved deben- But. higher density development at steam train in Canada. West to travel from Toronto to Aurora was. lplnpemys‘value eventual]; ‘wm: Bal'l‘lew AVemle North. _ tures in the amount of $2 million for lower assessment will serve only to unveiled at the site of the CNR Station, Aurora. This plaque is one of a show Up on the tax biiis_ that These are some Of the new DI'OIECtS that l .31“ ew schools and additions (only the place an additional burden on already series being erected throughout the province by the Department. of Public homeowner adds to the. value of aware 0f- I am sure that there are m0“? pendlng :iddition at Thornhaven is in this overtaxed municipal services. The Records and Archives, acting on the advice of the Archaeological and '3“ house for UP to three tax-s approlllal by our towns Plannmf Commlttfl 311d - . . . . . ree years. councl . ‘ ‘ ‘ 1 addin to the taxa- revelation that any person has the Historic Sites Boaid. . . P 1‘ l K ,‘ . o ' , ,_ lbbri‘hldhydnaldcal prosperty owners. right to tap into services passing his Shown (left to right) after the ceremony are: Jolly. vice- .hafol;§\.e::;1:na&i: , 099 95h“ llnfOItllltate 35138Ct 0f tins “meal And there are still more new schools (or her) property, recently. removes president. Aurora Historical Soc1ety; Eric Scott, president. Aurora. principle is wrong _-_ that map. Slttuatlon 18 the fact that We cannot DOSSIbly attract in the lanning stages. We are not. another weapon from the municipalâ€" Society; J. McIntyre. director. Aurora Society; Dr. G. L. Oliver. past erty‘ owners should not. be f“ u“? Commemlal delelopmeflt tOVOUI‘ area Whlle critici7i1iig the board for it is its itv in controlling development. And president. Aurora S0ciety; S. E. Spencer. Toronto Area Manager. CNR; punished With hlgher taxes for our Water supply Contlmles 3" ‘5‘. We have’ Ipndel" . . i _ f “i . . H m St be re (red to Aurora Maw", Richard “lingwnrth. John Roberts MP Ym.k gimme: WI D. improving their homes and lots. stand, already spent some. $1 million in serVices in duty to prOVide accommodation or e muniCipal .V U l) W . -. . . . . . - The moratorium doesnt break' ih «m f F} M n R d w d t i the children generated by housing give the Municipal Board a good reaâ€" Piggott. assistant, vice-president. Great, Lakes Region, (bill: C. Hickson. with the, has“. min‘cip'le hm! ' Eda??? 30:] f“. 1 3”} 1 s “a ' e aspen e-V developments. It has no chOice. since son for turning down any proposed former station agent. Aurora; William Hodgson MLA lorkborth: “'5 mp first construmvp mnd_ 2919' _' 9 "1 .‘lstvl‘lal de‘elopment 311d Sllbsequent lax arents object to their children being plan of development. E. S. Rogers. representing the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites crating influence any grwem- t0 3'5. 1° “may Whatever dEbentures .ate 1189de housed in "second-rate" portable Other municipalities have forged Board: and Rev. H. W. McAvoy. Minister of St- Andrew's Presbyterian “‘9'” has mam" : to rpmffithle will”. “mph. pmblem' A vmous “me . ‘7 ‘ - - ~ ~- 0 . ' . .s . classrooms. themselves 3" EffeClll'e “‘33le by Church Who ded'mled the plaque" .* a liii'riilgsemidhi Editing“ 912319 qHI'thoiiâ€"id eiii closing like to raise one other Point . n ' Al ‘ 7) ‘ " 7 7 7‘7 77 7 777 77 7777 77 “7‘7 7 777 77‘777â€" 7 777V77 7- 77 I 7 ‘ 7- - ’ ‘ p k . . A I, ,1 A ; Nor do we bellth-i: that a Dl'Opoifid Dasimtli at glimg (133%)};- W9 SW“ 0 0 general mmmunitl’ lumVP' in regard to the studv and resulting master plans “ n I . _ ‘ ‘. y , . . . estatetype deve 0Pment m e 395‘ a. m “l”. 1 ‘3“ 3”." Notes On A n A rlcan Sa art 1mm“ ‘0 WWW "‘9 Won-i obtained from the owac (Ontario Water Resources BayView - Gormley Sideroad area “self Wlth 3' 5mm.” bylaw 1mm . . 1mm" m try-me “"29 again 7’ Commission su ' ' at we on a r should be discouraged. This develop- water and sewage disposal problems .m'l'” mgke I“ permanent“ . qyam... inmfig hiiiglliirbhnio Syslgiiileci knbwwtligt ment will have its own well or wells are solved, at least. (Roy Smith. ! teacher in will publish Weekly- EXP-r“ lh“ mist" "l “5' mm?» Expert-Sip '1 -f 6-, mg run‘ amp-"s ' d M 7 T B >th ' t d' Th Mm Secondarv gchm] win‘enced In educational travel. Mrnsuggestz that it. come from thei ,“k. ‘Snlgfxactl-V ‘play'ng “nth .8 counc‘ “n er ayqr om ma urs all m parâ€" . O i or '1 'i' i E ' dSmlth. in conjunction .with"‘ruffs" or“piccadlllies" worn by'fIre 1" El‘mg. people 31.1 assess' tICUIar lVan Mansbrldge. former Councmor and “u about his tr." 0 "Elan {Ship‘s School. has been condue. the local gallants in the 17th mem b'eal‘igln hT’me lmp’fove' deputy-reeve. put a great deal of hard work and y 9 and to Africa this Sllmmt’l'i “C'lting trips for several years. It Century. The more romantic. wfdlwfiggket [agilgnaSZg‘S/ESS; effort into obtaining this master plan. I hope Reg- . . - ‘ v . companied by a group of stu-'is suggested that students clip however. look upon it as a cor- .' " . ' ional Councillor or on ow wil] not as he has Outraged Cl'leS 0f b91113 unfalrly Shelman s pall' bUt 3n_ understand' ‘dents. several from this area in these articles for further use in ruplion of Pickadilly“, a name dueom take (fleet 1“ the A“ qtated he will d0)G 1.225111}: th: OWRC I”); greatly to ~ taxed by the powers-that-be are able one. After a. while, you Just ascries of articles “The Liberal‘Uschool. â€" Editor) reminiscent, possibly. of the Ills’k mil“) as'Sesshmentlsh‘ii“9 K r th‘ Fh th h 1 1"d hardly new ones issuing from the give up. . beautiful wild flowers which 8mg“: 9355::54‘1‘3323“); SUPRY some llllg a 93' ave area 3’ supple a lips of landowners but they keep There was a suggestion that perâ€" The Slghts And Sounds Of London. 2:ch ifo Igoide; nthe western who... new be“ game. i preufiuicgi‘iimslibcei'e hope that the present council a enin nevertheless. . ' ‘ _ - i v 5 ° ° 0“ 0' Th , - . .- ' ‘ ‘ h Rp recegnt case involving a Whit- ham.- Coilinfl shgfilfhdmg‘isg Mr-fihsl‘l The Changing 0f the Guard i THE STRAND operimlfirfie’gamfi‘:35:32:: Wlll put this critical water shortage problem at the h r h Stouffvme landowner would man S p g WI. 8 C 1e “MP?” To continUe our description of Thousands gather a i'n u n di One of London‘s most. famouslor the ‘complete new étock- top of its list of priorities for the balance of its term c u c ' .d . {I . th PSbessment Officer 0f,the mummpai' last issue. we are still in Lonv Queen Victoria's Monument in streets. was started as a bridle- taking When its finished em of Office. our mwn is fast becoming. the most seem a. very vali , 1f fu 1e cry 11’! e ity and explain the Situatlon. This don and enjoying every moment. front. of the palace to view the path for long ago. there was a My property in Omario Wm b9 beautiful in the reg-Ion and it is such a Shame to Wilderness. The owner, Joseph could help, but we doubt it. The Our next planned tour includes famous ceremony of the chang- strand or path which sloped ev‘aluated 0'" the same basis __W‘ _ 3th .t th. h d. Sherman 0f Willowdale, appeared bE- assessment department follows pro- Buckingham Palace and the ing of the guard each morning. down to the River- Thames. market price _ instead of on Larry W1 1 IS unnecessary an Icap‘ fore Whitchurch - Stouffvdle Town cedures too, and the matter would Watching of the famous Chang- The Queens guard .5 provided This name has survwed. .and percentages that vary from one BRUCE VENNI Council regarding two 10 acre lots ' t b d d d d mg of the Guard. Buckingham by the guards diVision. In the thiough the years the Stiand town to the next_ 'd b ‘d h' h h 0 us on Con_ Jus e p.asse on an on an upfan Palace is known all. over tIieceremony. the new guard has developed into the leading Uniform provincedvide 35,: 419 Crosby Avenue, 81 e: y'S1.e W 1c 8. .w . up to hlgher government Offlmals- world as the home of Britain‘s marches behind a band from thoroughfare between the City sessmem a cornerstone of [ax Richmond Hill, (39551011 6 m that mumfnpah’W- _ The changes, If any, W111 have to Kings and Queens. It isagray- either Wellington or Chelsea of London proper and West- reform {equires updated evaiu. it it n t t ' Mr. Sherman described how hlS come in the Legislature and that; ish-white rectangular building. Barracks. The guard‘s division minister. ations ’The reassessments pm” . - ‘ ‘ ' ' . ‘s '- ‘ C A 'E . ' . _ CHOOSING SENECA approach to the location of all. * taxes under prov1nCial reassessment could be along way Off_ whose very mention IS a mess conSIsts of five regiments. and PETTI OAT L N Vlde the latest lnformatlon _ f of develo ment if the ad- at market value have jumped from Th 1 . . h . age from home to Britons in from these. squads of personnel Is a “must”. and we found,including many interesting dev- COLLEGE SITE QUESTION orrtns of anp reei'i belt are $85 on each lot to $214 on land pres- e on Immedlate elp Counul every corner of the earth. and sale chosen to be the guard of the trading being done right elopmems that escaped official: OF GREEN BELT [van atge‘b I-Y gd t] b h] d .-th .mmediate could pl'OVlde Ml‘. Sherman and other symbol of unity to millions of the day. The Grenadiers (white on the sidewalk or street from notice in the past. Now a“ thosetD Mr ECHOT.“ ievar; 0th? “3.126 1‘ ideal en y us an. wl no 1. . landowners in similar predicaments men and women of the Com- plume on the left. and singly market stalls and \A'iieelbarrowsfitax dodgers who bum jndoor‘ ea“ ‘ l “ iv mas [5 Singusyc‘glsllel "' prospect? of being able to bUIld on It. would be to exchange its zoning monwealth. .placed buttons; the Coldstream We had to park our coach someitennis courts in their clothes) One consideration in chaos-.1“ 9 case 0 me“ ° 35' He’s being taxed for recidential ropâ€" - F w eo 1e know anything of‘iscarlet plume on the right. distance away. because only .- ting a site for Seneca Collegei ROY CLIFToN, r . . . . bylaws such as CounCiIlor Gordon 8 p p r . . - “059‘s “1le caughlom' ‘ i erty Whlch isn’t even resxdential. R'atcl-ff ted the simple. dignified ToyallWllh buttons in sets of most pedestrians could get onto the: In effect. the 1974 assessment does.not seem to have been} 105 wood Lane. Mr. Sherman said he was sick of u ’1 sugges ' _ home. which. though it lies be-.the Scots [Guards (no plume. with street. Also. we had to tune ourimll “in be started on a c1..'.‘-minientioncd in the reports of that York Centre NDP Paying exhorbitant taxes and wanted . We have to Clear up the S‘tua' hind their“ gates “f ‘1 1331*“ muons 1‘” “"995” “1.9 IllSh‘ears 1” “‘9 CWkneyla‘gonlAndisheeli “'5 9851”. “Om a“ aid-.d."bate .0" the "latter “1 mun‘l Provincial Candidate. H th 1 t b t u it n th 10 tion regarding our Zoning bylaws is in its essentials. so like thou-IGuards tblue plume, with but- beware of pickpockets! It wastmmistration viewpoint to catch 01‘]. wmch one w,” rake Out of to 59 e o s u 93," Se .9. such as. this Ma be we Should'anow sands of other homes all over tons in fourst‘. and the Welsh colorful and interesting, and aiup with all home improvementscirculation the least area of "cirmrmwcfiwc " "" acre lOtS because I can t get bUIldmg' ‘b ild. ‘ ' -t yt b - d f Britain. The outside world. too, Guards lgl‘een With White “Ch EXPf-‘l‘lencei long talked in 1974 than it is to make adâ€" g°°d farm 1am“. . permits for them.” [1. mg perm] s 0 .,e Issue or knows little of the suite of of- plume. on the left, with buttons about by our students as they justments to old assessment fig. If we. are serious about im-l The Whitchurcbsmuffviue zoning- thls type 013 property fices which are the background in groups of fivet It is a sight compared purchases and anec- mes in the 197144 years. plementing any kind of green; ' This is an admirable idea and one worth seeing, and thousands are dotes. there each time the ceremony is performed. A bit of educa- tion right out of the history book! of the Queen's public work, the setting in which she plays her strenuous pait in the life of a constitutional monarchy. Purchased from the Duke of Buckingham in 1762 by King George III with his own money. the unpretentious mansion be- came the home of the King and his wife. Charlotte. George IV commissioned John Nash tarchi- tect of London's famous Regent Streett, to remodel the palace. but the king died in 1830 before the repairs were completed. William IV disliked the palace belt planning. It is obviously good sense to locate non-farm- ing uses on land which has less value as farm land. In the ten- mile green belt around London, England. it is accepted as a principle that the farmer is the normal custodian of land zoned; as green belt, and 60% or so of bylaw prohibits issuing of any per- mits for residential building purposes on lots less than 25 acres. All the members of Whitchurch- Stouffville Town Council could im- mediately offer Mr. Sherman was tea and sympathy, which they did. It's a familiar story. Mr. Sherman‘s beef is with the province’s assessing procedures which treat his “dead” land on a par with developed. residential properties. He had appealed his case but received little initial success, and then gave up before carrying it to further lengths. Obviously, this was a mistake on Mr. As for the cost to govern- , ment. it's probably negligible. A place far dlfferent from If the freeze inspires new home Pemmal ,Lane and the “F193 improvements, the enlarged fut- Market". Bond Street. caters tome tax base could more than NUMBER 10 those who can afford only the‘COIâ€"npensate for the 1055 of taxes DOWNING STREET best ~â€" stil‘l it; cost us nothing on improvements people would This is a plain, brick house.to look. One glance at the have made without official en- which is the official residence sleek. chauffeur-driven cars and couragement. And there is the _ ‘ ‘ of Britain's Prime Minister. We‘the elegant shoppers. confirm it. administrative saving on not the land there is being farmed. noted that there were no official Bond Street was once a mudâ€" having to make adjustments to There is obVious value 'for guards here. only two of the dy lane used by highwaymen assessment r0115. .city dwellers. from the View- famous London “Bobbies” tnam- and robbers. Today it is divi- Although provinciaily equai-lpointi of exposure of children to ed after Sir Robert Peelt. onelded into the old tbuilt in 1686), ized assessment is a necessary country life, the purification of on either side of the front door..and the new [built in 1700” and positive step toward taxiair. and the mere enjoyment of Such jovial men, they seemed as One store which our students reform _ and the moratorium country landscape, in having pleased to see us, as we were to‘found reasonable Is Marks and adds Zip to that step _. the permanent farm areas as bar- see them! Incidentally. Number Spencers large department freeze maps demonstrate the tiers between the. restrictions 10 was the residence of Sir store. Then of course. there is utter iueievancy of the p1‘0pâ€" on the growth 0f.CIileS. George Downing. the secretary Selfi'idge, John Lewis 8; Co., at}, tax‘as a base for municipal} We must re-orlent our wholel of the treasury in 1667. and Bourne 8: I-Iollingsworth. financing Since our students travel on a‘ One should never VlSIt Lon-1 The province may arbitrarily ‘ to take good pictures on limited budget, it is often funidon without going to St. Paul's cut Off a source of potential your vacation . . . and all year long. Bring in your camera now for a FREE CHECKâ€"UP (no obligation). Don’t let a_poorly working camera spoil those priceless picture memories. PHOTO council should seriously consider BOND STREET when it gets around to changing or revising its old bylaws. It seems very unfair that any landowner should be in the predicament that Mr. Sherman is in. paying high taxes for what amounts to be a white ele- phant at the moment. Council can’t dictate to the assessâ€" ment department but it can strive to remedy the situation via its zoning bylaws, and should do so. Otherwise it could almost be accused â€"â€" as Mr. and refused ,0 live the... He Sherman ventured 0f “getting tried to sell it to the army for money under false pretenses.” a barracks. The 18-year-old Business Reference Available At North York Public Library Queen View“ mmmd everyone in 1837 by moving A reference library in minia- MARRIED? . Only a professional photog- rapher should be entrusted to create your once-In-l-life- time picture story. Photique Studios where photography is an art Weddings 0 Portraiture Advertising , O 44 Levendale, Richmond Hill Telephone 884-5361 from St. James to Buckingham. changes throughout Canada. and its fame and permanence rofilm and fits in four cubic ture for businessmen is now Businessmen interested initeet of cabinet space. iwere assured. In 1851. the to browse and perhaps pick uplICathedral and the speakei‘s‘.civic taxes_ even though local ‘Vauf‘ble. “3 “‘9 N°rth Yuk mark“- foreCBSlingi analySlS.l Microfiche is a 4“ x 6" sheetiMarble Arch was moved to its a souvenir item. Some of theycoi‘ner. tiaxes now an. hopeleSSly in- PUbllc lel‘flrY- CANFILlCaM‘ underwriting. investment res-lof thin. transparent photo- present. site so that the palace better known places of interest ST. PAUL‘S adequate to pay for 10¢“ set- dian Financial Information Lib- raryt is an information bank re- cording In detail the financial affairs of nearly 2,000 Canadian companies. It is kept up to date with almost daily additions. The Information Is gathered in ac- tive collaboration with securi- ties commissions and stock ex- earch and portfolio manage-lgraphic film containing up to ment now have in Willowdalei98 pages of original matter in access to enough material to fillimici-o form. easily interested in a battery of filing cabinets fioia microfiche reader. could be enclosed by the East'along these lines which our That jewel of Sir Chi'ist'opherches. Municipalities must, trust Front, which is seen from the group found absorbing, \verelWren. following the Great Fire‘ihaL the province Wm make up‘ Mali. This east front was paid.Carnaby Street. the mod capitallin 1666 ~ has been called “The the difference in grams. for by the sale of George IV‘s â€"« just a short. narrow sti‘eet.iPai'isli Church Of The Common-i Ontario won't have truly re-' yards long â€" if it were in The same information con-[Royal Pavilion in Brighton. and but a wonderland for youngywealthl‘. I think the motto tnlsponsjblp incai government un. Piper form. tained in the library files is'was not borne by the people people to visit and shop ai‘ound.‘Wren in St. Paul‘s sums it allm the municipalities __ not the However. the information lsiobtainable from the Ontario of Britain. So this palace is in. PICCADILLY ‘iip, when in translating it \Veiprnance _ make the decisionsi compactly stored on microfiche.‘Securities Commission, but every sense the personal proâ€"1 The only thing which Picca- read "Reader. 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BY HAL BLAINE SUPPLIES Heavy criticism was level- led at the Ontario Govern- ment's Toronto-Centred Re- gion Plan during the recent Central Ontario (York-Peei- Halton-Ontario Counties) Re- gional Development Council conference in Mississauga by Bruce McLaughlin. president of the McLaughlin Group of Companies. Developer McLaughlin Is mainly involved in creating a huge city centre for the sprawling new Town of Mis- sissauga. but he has otherin- iei'ests including property in the Thornhill area. McLaughlin sees the To- rnnto-Centred Plan as only planning for a fraction of the population that should be foreseen. He sees the plan as going overboard on overly expen- sive commuter facilities built. to move too many people every day ever unnecessarily long distances to a single focal point. Particularly of interest to the people of Markham. Vaughan and Richmond Hill is his condemnation of the transportation parkway belt along the Highway 7 align‘ ment. The province has an- nounced plans are being pre- pared for such a parkway. McLaughlin says the basic regionalized city concept of the Toronto-Centred Plan is absolutely wrong for people. He says the plan should provide for a lot more peo- ple. but in a large number of separate downtown cen- tres that would reduce com- muting distance and transit costs. 70-LANE PARKWAY McLaughlin warned the plan means something like 70 lanes of traffic creating an impenetrable wall through the Woodbridge. Langstaff. Thornhill. Old Ma r k h a m Town strip. He added that hydro can‘t be buried and the Torontoâ€" Centred Plan will mean an unbelievable jungle of steel towers. He predicted the proposed parkway belt between Richâ€" mond Hill and Thornhill will be like the shoreline express- ways between Toronto and the lake. where yet no device has been found to bridge the barrier to livability for peo- p19. "The parkway belt \vill destroy the quality of urban life as we can enViSion it to be. It should be somewhere north of the Ontario lake- shore cities. A communica- tions and transportation corâ€" ridor is intended to unite cities. not to split them. This is going to split the develop- ing cities to the north." he said. “The Torontoâ€"Centred Plan will tend to increase commutâ€" ing. When it should minimize it. The planners aren't de- signing to an optimum scale. We need systems designed Cities. "Are we designing a mega- lopolis that is workable. economical and pleasant for people?" he asked. McLaughlin said the gm- ei'nment is spending too much money on transportaâ€" tion. education and bul‘eauv ct‘ac_\‘. He said it is planning to spend too much trying to make Toronto a commuter orientated centre. INFLATION CAL‘SE He said these kinds of wrong and excessive spend ing are the real cause of inâ€" flation. and that, the d11‘9c~ tion the government is tak- ing is indicated by the de cision to stop the Spadina EXDI‘FSSua,‘ McLaughlin said the hasn- concept of transportation and population in the Torontoâ€" Centred Plan is fundamen- tally wrong. He said planning for eight. million people for the "Gol- den Horseshoe" of Ontario is sill)’. since the 60 million people of Great Britain could be put in the area. “This is a grosst inadeâ€" quate plan. We should be. aiming for a minimum of 10 million people and a maxi- mum of 20 million," he said. McLaughlin said one of the main problems causing the skyrocketing c0sts of home building lots in the Toronto- Centred Region is the time it takes to get them approvâ€" ed by government, He said there is a need for time limits on development regu» 13110115. The MisSIssaiiza developer warned that the Toronto.- (‘cntred Region Plan should be given the serious atten- tion It. deserves. since it. could â€"- in perpetuity ~â€"â€" b9 injuring the public interest. of this “hole region. Onâ€" tario’s first meealopolis. and the “hole province. SL’DDEN WRENCH (The DPSth for Dpiomp- ment for the Toronto-Cenâ€" tred Region is with respect: to many fundamental points. contrary to the intentions of many of the municipalities within the region. The proâ€" posed planning concept. does not reasonably accommodate developments and projects which have been evolving over the past two decades. under the direction of local governments in conjunction with responsible major de- velopeis. “While the principle of a regional master plan is sound. the arbitrary imposi- tion of a plan is undemocra- llt'. uneconomic. destructive of bona fide private rights, and at least risks doing enor- mous in_iiir_\~ to the long term public interest. "lt IS imperanve that pt‘1‘ rate developers and local governments be permitted to play a larger role in the early creation and PStahllSh‘ men! of the master plan [The basic concept behind the design proposal is the in- temion to cause Toronto to become a commuter-oriented. regional city "While there must 8N?!“ be convenience of access to the central citv of Toronto. it is “ton; to cause Toronto to become a daily or even frequent focal point. for the people of a large geographic region such as is dealt with under these design proposals, said McLaughlin. PEOPLE NOT MACHINES “Planning should not. be dominated by transportation concepts of dubious merit. The technological ability to cope with the time-distance factor of transportation is not. justification for creating a need. and then establishingv expensive transportation faci- lities so that increasing num- bers of people can and uiil be moved over longer (itsâ€" tanccs. People are not machines to be plugged into a mechanical tianspoi'latiori nciuork. notuitlistanding the enormous social costs. human tension. and urban pollution generated by such a system. “Therefore. the basic con- cept of the proposal. the reâ€" gionalned city. is absolutely “Ton: for people. Rather. we should seek to create a mill» tiplictty of “ell-integrated communities. of optimum Size. \iitli high selectivity of service and amenities The“2 ('OmmlinllloF should. be sub- ‘lfil‘liai'i. wit-sufficient, ia the! pi'imari‘.‘ art than a: dormitory communities. "We must structure our first megalopolis to minimize transportation costs, tension. and pollution. We must. defy unpleasant sprawl. The re- gionalized city is merely mechanized sprawl GROSSLY INADEQUATE ."A reasonable population forecast related to mature or optimum development is an essential tool in the creation of the regional plan. Under the design proposal. Zone 1 is expected to accommodate 57 million of the region's 8 million people. by the year 2000. The basic structure selected is based upon these forecasts and related to deâ€" vclnpment at the year 2000. This is grossly inadequate planning "The world population preâ€" sently is 31;; billion. L'nlted. \‘ations demographers pre- dict a \iorld population of 6,7 biilion by the year 2000. World population is doubling every 35 years. In theory at. least. within 100 years the world's population could ex- ceed 25 billion. "The rate of urbanization at the present time is pro: habit double the population 'Continued On Page lZi Richmond Heights Centre 884-3221 RETURNED BY POPULAR DEMAND Chinese Buffet Friday. Saturday, Sunday Only FROM 5 PM. TO 9 PM. Ladies' Night on Friday $3.50 $2.50 for ladies only Reservations: 884-4278 889-3036 Business Men’s Luncheons Monda.v 10 Friday from 12 - 3 pm. Banquet Facilities Available YANGTZE PAGODA TAVERN YONGE STREET NORTH. RICHMOND HILL