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BOWMAN VILLE LIBRARY 62 Temperance St. 1 1 0 4 Bowmanville, Ont. L1C 3A8 $1.00 GST Included ! Wednesday ; February 26, 2003 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 ? Jack Burns, aged seven, of Orono isn't nearly done with winter yet. Newcastle residents leery of developer Port of Newcastle residents residents wanted assurances from Council that the town- house units, the subject of a rezoning application by the Kaitlin Group would be no more than two storeys tall. Kaitlin is proposing to reduce the density of housing housing on the lakefront parcel of land, replacing apartment buildings with townhouse units. The rezoning proposal before ClaringtoiVs General Purpose and Administration Committee Monday was for 42 one storey townhouse units with a loft, and 12 two storey street townhouses. Clarington's Planning Department assured Ms. Candace Parsons, a Port of Newcastle resident who attended Monday's meeting, that the proposed townhouse units would be no taller than 12 meters, the maximum allowed for single family residence in the municipality. municipality. Many Port of Newcastle residents claim they were told by the developer's sales staff prior to their new home purchase, that the development development would only contain single family dwellings. Zoning permission to build apartments on this particular parcel of land was granted by Clarington Council in October of 1997, prior to the occupation of many of the homes in the Port of Newcastle area. "I think this is a good idea for everybody," said councillor Jim Schell at Monday morning's General REZONING continuât pagt 4 $10 million gift on hold :% v-v' B-'ijh ; ' ( i. . > i • • • y . *lilE A motion to funnel $10 million million from a regional Rate Stabilization Reserve Fund (RSRF) back to the municipalities municipalities is on hold. Uxbridge Mayor Gerri Lynn O'Connor said in her opinion, taking $10 million of the reserve fund and giving it to the municipalities municipalities was a travesty to the Region. "I'd like to suggest that if this was any- ----■ thing other than an election year, this would not be on the books," she added. "This is an overtaxation fund to balance inflation," stat ed Oshawa Mayor Nancy Diamond. "When we get over $40 million million we've gone beyond just a little „ surplus from previous years," she stated. "It's a parallel budget that does not receive the same scrutiny as the overall budget. It depends which meeting meeting we're at, we get different numbers as to how much money is in it." There were conflicting Statements Statements rnnHp at the mnnr.il mee.t- was anything anything other than an election yean ing as to how much money is in the account and how much of that money is already committed committed to various Regional projects. At the same meeting, Regional Council approved the expenditure expenditure of $9.5 million from the RSRF towards the construction cost of the new Regional Headquarters. There is also an outstanding commitment from the fund of $10 million made to --Cancer Care Ontario for the cancer treatment treatment centre in Oshawa. The RSRF was established approximately 10 years ago to stabilize annual tax rates and for The fund was was built up from surpluses in other Regional budgets and generally $2 - $3 million annually is used to reduce the Regional tax levy according to Paul Richards, Director of Budget, Economic Studies and Risk Management for the Region. CCOVC Cl nan rnntinnari nana 1 Laura Williamson photo Thieves smashed front door window to gain entry. Early morning break and enter Police are asking for the public's assistance in locating a white Lumina type van with black swirl type decals on the side in connection with a break and enter of an Orono business. On Friday February 21st, 2003 at approximately 2:45 a.m. officers responded to a call regarding a break and enter at Orono Electric. Officers discovered the glass on the front door of the long time Main Street Orono business business had been smashed and property stolen. Witnesses from the apartments above the stores across the street informed police that a white Lumina van was observed leaving the store north-bound on Main Street in Orono. A witness heard a large bang, then observed two BREAK & ENTER continuât page 9