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Thus the students pulled together a good deal of data which the coâ€"ordinator of their workshop, Prof. Leonâ€" ard Gertler, feels should be useful to the community. A number of the townspeople would agree; including Mayor Frank Lisso. s ‘*"They did a wonderful job and council was pretty happy that they did it," Mayor Lisso says. **Moreover, we‘ve used the handbook already; it has helped us."‘ Their efforts resulted in a thick, 229â€"page report, reâ€" cently published, entitled ‘"Ayr Planning Handbook" which could help in the planâ€" ning for any future growth and development that might take place there. The handâ€" book embodies a wealth of information about Ayr â€" its using (400 houses), indusâ€" ies, â€"historic buildings, downtown business core, reâ€" creation areas and environâ€" mental problems. It tells how residents feel about their community and what they think of future growth (they‘re in favor, but want it to be gradual). "It wasn‘t our intention to offer the people of Ayr soluâ€" tions to their problems," says Prof. Gertler. "Inâ€" stead, we were concerned with exploring the issues and the factors affecting .:em, and feeding back our ndings. We did this throughout our seven month involvement and tKhe handâ€" book is a summary of our discoveries. Hopefully, it will be a useful reference." ‘Graduate students in the ‘planning workshop‘"‘ courâ€" se offered by the University of Waterloo‘s School of Urban and Regional Planâ€" ning learn their profession by studying real communiâ€" ies in Southern Ontario. i‘l‘he current workshop, for ample, coâ€"ordinated by Prof. Doug Hoffman, is conâ€" cerned with land use planâ€" ning in Huron County. Last year‘s class concentrated on Ayr, a community of about 1,300 people in North Dumâ€" fries township, about 13 miles southwest of Kitâ€" chenerâ€"Waterioo. He says Ayr is an interestâ€" CONESTOGA MALL 8844181 !!USE OUR SHOWER GIFT BASKET AT NO CHARGE!! Students study â€" planning in workshop **Some vital decisions will have to be faced shortly . . .as to how and how fast Ayr is going to grow,"‘ he preâ€" dicts. Prof. Gertler says a number of developers are already active in Ayr. If all their projects were to go ahead together they could give rise to serious concerns over such things as: the imâ€" pact of a large number of ‘‘new‘‘ people into the comâ€" munity; the adequacy of exâ€" isting facilities such as schools, the hockey rink, and so forth; the compoundâ€" ing of traffic and parking problems in the core area, and the impact on water quality in the river or in ponds in the community. . Though the UW students‘ report may prove useful as a forewarning to townspeople the major accomplishment, from the university‘s perâ€" spective, has been to proâ€" vide a fruitful learning exâ€" perience for students. Proi. Gertler sees the workshop as bridging a gap between **processed"‘ or theoretical knowledge the students would normally expect to gain in a classroom and the real life situations a planner can expect to be involved in if he or she is to work in any actual community.. The workshop was also an exerâ€" cise in teamwork. The students found they had to develop a questionâ€" naire to find out what resiâ€" dents‘ attitudes towards the community were. They also talked with citizens, went to their meetings, attended township council meetings, drew up reports and elicited feedback on them,. got to know the viewpoint of the editor of the weekly newspaper in town . . . in short. they got to know a ing community because it typifies a general developâ€" ment issue in Southern Onâ€" tario â€" a small community that suddenly finds itself in the path of metropolitan deâ€" velopment. This kind of pressure, Prof. Gertler notes, is expected ’to inâ€" crease in the immediate fuâ€" ture with the addition of water and sewer services in the community. A total of 16 students inâ€" cluding three PhD students were involved in the proâ€" ject. Several other UW faâ€" culty members were also inâ€" volved, along with Prof. Gertler, including: Dr. Murâ€" ray Haight, on ecological problems; Prof. Don Mcinâ€" tyre of UW‘s School of Arâ€" chitecture, on design issues, andi Dr. William Shalinsky, an expert on small group dynamics who advised stuâ€" dents on working with comâ€" munity groups. One of the students, Marg Boggie, who is also a specialist in graâ€" phics for planners, also served as a resource person as did Dr. Ken Westhues, soâ€" ciologist, who consulted with them on the design of the citizens‘ survey. ‘‘*Many seem to feel their wishes as individuals won‘t count for much,"‘ Prof. Gertler says. ‘"They‘re afraid the big decisions will be made by the regional council, or the provincial goâ€" vernment, or the deâ€" velopers, without much reâ€" gard for their concerns. This surprises me a little." He says he was a little surprised to find a strong taint of "fatalism‘"" â€" a feelâ€" ing of being powerless â€" among Ayr residents. > good deal about Ayr and how it functions. ‘‘*Admittedly, some of our findings won‘t come as any great surprise to the resiâ€" dents,""‘ says Prof. Gertler. ‘*They already know that they want better shopping facilities â€" most notably a supermarket. They are also probably aware that most of them prefer gradual growth to rapid growth and that they prefer occupantâ€"owned homes to rental housing. Still, we are able to docuâ€" ment these things for them for the first time." The friendly neighbourâ€" bood exercise. normracman BP Wartke un hok k Padix & %\ 1000m1 * n LISTERINE u ANTISEPTIC Mouthwash and Garg‘e PARKDALE PHARMACY PARKDALE PLAZAâ€" ALBERT AND HAZE IN WATEtRLOO $84â€"3860 MON. to SAT. JA.M. â€" 9P.M. _ _ _ SUNDAY 12 NOON â€" 6 P.M. ontact Waterioo Chronicile, Wednesday, April 18, 1970 â€" Page 11