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Working Chronicle Staff A meeting between university student rep reeentativee and residents of the Central St. area last Wedn-uy went "very well" said Deve Minna, who In?“ at 77 Dozier. St. l "Time was a lot ofagreement," he added. "But the question is how do we translate that into Residents of the area, located between Wilfrid Laurier University and the Uptown area of Waterloo, have asked city council to re-Bone the neighborhood to prevent further developments of single family dwellings into boarding homes and rental tsecommodation. The city planning department is expected to report to council by the end of the month on the feasibility of the demand. Student unions at WLU and University of Waterloo have opposed the re-zoning, citing the serious shortage of student housing in the city. Lina Skinner, the vice-president of the UW Federation of Students said of the meeting: "They (the neighborhood residents) were co-oper- ative and very nice and willing to listen. We sympathized, but aren't willing to give up on the need for more student housing." Residents and students agreed that the city must seek a long-term solution to the student housing problem, rather than concentrating student housing in a small area of the city. "We're the only neighborhood near the imiver- sity where zoning allows for boarding houses to helm in,') Baid_Minsys, _ _ _ - _. The students "are feeling excluded from other neighborhoods. Why should our neighborhood have all the burden of student housing. Why ghouldn't it be shared?" with charities in the country. The next eye clinic is scheduled for next April in the Amazon River area of Brazil. More than 10,000 pairs of used eyeglasses have been collected for this mission, and a one-night work party has been organized for Fri. Nov. 27, 6:30 at Calvary Memorial United Church, Sympathy yes but what are the solutions? It won't be easy, but there is a solution to the problem faced by residegts of the Centr_al_St. area... _ . The neighborhood has asked city council to declare their neighborhood "balanced" and re-mne it to an 'SR Zoning" which would allow only single detached units. In the meantime, they say, they want a freeze on further conversions. Residents believe their neighborhood has achieved a balance of single family and multiple-unit dwellings, and is endangered by the threat of further conversion of homes into student housing. City council has asked the planning department to produce a report on the neighborhood by the end of the month. Resident concerns were triggered by the realization that 44 per cent of area properties currently occupied for single family purposes are owned by senior citizens. Seniors often sell houses and move into homes. And then, of course, some will die over the next decade. Residents fear that means even more boarding houses and student properties - perhaps lots more. And with the current ratio of two single family residences for every boarding house and/or multiple unit dwelling, the neighborhood thinks they have done their part for helping the student housing crises. They want a freese. Meanwhile, of course, there is a serious student housing crisis in this city. Just ask any student in July or August how their house hunting is going. The universities do their share. On-campus resi- dences help one the demand on local housing. University of Wele also recently entered the town- house development business. But We not enough. wwi-uhmu. museums:- 'etetqa-iaoMtguo'tt.rt-gmttor hump-u. ("Continued fmm page 1) Skinner agrees. "We have to start convincing other residents in other areas to use up and allow more student housing.” - - Boarding bonus alone "may not be the an- swer," said Skinner. "There are other solutions such 'as duplexes." "The solution (to both the neighborhood's complaints and student housing shortages) is a study to look at zoning in Waterloo - a look at all Aaked whether the suggestion by students and residents that the whole city be designated to allow boarding houses, with exemptions made for neighborhoods which have achieved a balance of rental accomodation and single family dwellings, Tom Slomke, the city's director of planning said, "That's exactly what we should be looking at to respond to concerns of the Central St. neighbor- "I'm going to think about that more. It's a very interesting prospect." Waterloo has grown over the years, “and the number of university students in this city has grown with it. There are now over 20,000 full-time undergraduate students attending the two communities. Then there are the part-timers, graduate students, and students enrolled at Conestoga College. We're talking one quarter of this city’s population. Each student spends at least $5,000 a year living in this community. The annual contribution to the businesses and landlords of this city exceeds $100,000. That doesn’t even include the salaries of university teachers, administrators, white and blue collar work- ers whose jobs depend on these students. This city owes a lot to the universities. Without the WLU business school and the engineering and high- technology tsputum' and march at UW, Waterloo might never have grown up from a pleasant little backwater of Kitchener into the "leading edge city" our honorable council members and city trdminitstrtr. tors like to brag of, When you’re Fully honest. it’s obvious that students are getting a raw 's?l in this city., _ u - A A Eity Iii-law (which is currently being challenged in the courts) limits to fwe the number of students allowed to reside in any house. _ - A -- These are the challenges. The solutions require a rethinking of zoning in Waterloo. Residents and students met at city hall to explain their positions last week. There was a lot of e thy on both side. Both sides agreed that the real 1',tll'd to this problem lies in establishing boarding homes throughout this city, and spreading the student populition around. Park and Glasgow Streets Kitchener to sort the donations. The Boyds are also still accepting used eyeglasses, 37111013 can btleft at the _Waterloo Chronicle office, 45 Erb St. E. Waterloo. In great need are sunglasses, prescription or not, and children‘s glasses. "We're not saints . . . we don't want you to make us sound like that. This is just something we like to do. Boarding homes are Hugely limited to the Central St . . tua-1n's-ertitive-itimsinthei-tiimalmark, 'd'Jl2C'Sldthh' W: ofCanuh and the Natural Science. and Rrrtri-imrR-x:hcouneilhnv-mt-dj80,oooiodturtrr nlr-rehehniratthoUni-ityofWntarioo." ' Announced Monday, the M will use Win] research to im-tseo-nd-tf-rim-ot-dei-s-x-hunt ustteem-fu11rmrliodinJtesfhrdmastltdissnowtteintr introducedtoNorth America. GMU qto-hipMtheeuirrofleeta its beliafthatunderstanding nndimprovintrqualitytutdpeoduetivityutsttralto-tainintrn -oattrinduatruluseintunun,snidJbhnUrunic,Go-alMotew dim of materials management and component operations. "'NethmeofustGM,NtMtc,UW)und-tandtheseeissane-1.With thissweuveuunehesdagott0ppeomehfesrueqtintrussinthere6oest hey a txmtrytitiye pertqtrtive,_" said Urbanic. 1htadintrtheehairwu1beDr.C.P.hfrWu,apmte-inthe University of Wisconsin's Department d Statistics, one of North America’s foremost experts in quality and productivity research. He will work closely with We Institute for Improvement in Quality and Productivity, and will have an offire at GM’s Oshawa headquarters. Wu,wholtasbmmawnrdedaN1lprxrfe-mshipinsrtatisrtiasand sausrial science, with a croarappointment in engineering, will work closely with several researchers in his own department, guide a group ofgraduatestudentsandpmvideakeylinkwithengineeringfaculty members with overlapping interests. The award is for a ti-rear term, beginning in June 1988. According to UW President" Dr. Douglas Wright, the [Ingram will bolster research already underway at the university. "We see in this the prospect that Canada may move into centre stage for development of world-class technology.” He believes the chair will lead to the establishment of an interdisciplinary undergraduate program in mechanical engineering and statistics. While most people think of statistics as only curta, Wu said, trtatuticseanbeunedtomonitasrnndimproveesreeyfmxstufbuaime fromproduetdeaigntopackaging,marketiagtusd-ice.Hitsnid statisticsarethe“secretweapon"uledbytheJapaneeeuineethelnte 19403 to improve productivity and quality. "But I don't think we should just follow the Japanese, we should learn from them. We must doreeearch an4desrth1t?toolsthatnrebettasrthanwhattherturetoget ahead of them," said Wu. “‘th ttiy-irttrAndtsatrial 'rePdur8ivitr and Ma ned Products and manufacturing to benefit from research chair ttttAeuNetMttxE,glq0't_0tl-te.ter-.ttdhE8 There's no point in treating this as an isolated case. The residents of Central St. area have done their share. They shouldn’t be asked to do more. Yet, student housing is in a crunch, and will be until this city gets its act together. Some creative solutions Rather than picking out of the air the number fore as the upper limit of unrelated people permitted to reside in a house, the city could establish a minimum alum footage per resident in rental accommodation. municipal government has no business regulating the number of students permitted in a house. I'm inclined tothinkthst,aftersafetystandsrdsaremet,thecity has more constructive ways of utilizing its tstaff than policing stupid laws in an overcrowded market. Yet, the real solution may lay in the city zoning all neighborhoods for boarding houses. Once a “balance" between single family dwellings and student lodging has been achieved, a neighborhood should be 'frozen' from further student housing. But the onus should be on neighborhoods to prove that they have achieved that balance. _ areliouies whichcanreammabl, 1toidtftarormore mic. - - -_--_- The Futures committee recently recommended that boarding houses be spread throughout the city, but separated by 800 yards. That’s the kind of imagination that bertts a vibrant, creative city like Waterloo. Students deserve a better deal. The Central St. area residents have done their share. Now it's time for city council to have the courege to do their bit. Students should be encouraged to speed Whom this city. The legal resources of city hell d he brought to bear to "make it hsppen." o?courr,thatuaamynintrtreeetadon'tfiPdthft Thatmotherwhocanmseherchildforthefimttime, that girl who is not longer disfigured, the person who cantaeetowork-thesenrets11thethintprthatmake you/autism-ere-sth-hero-kan year to collect glasses. We are a tremendously lucky country and we alljust want to share the wealth," said