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“AI t Kl i M I CHRONILLI'. ' Wednesday. Mini J.‘ All?! ' J . BECII'I‘IIOLID SM“ Ilene Immune-l m: 519-634-5852 PETERS!!!“ Governed Grunts I Rebates .. ”7-7”, , , d,,fi_.,.A._,,fi_.__d___.,_â€"_%cfi_7.__ M Windows 0 Doors - lutiuttublc Sue-mm W ’ y b y ’ b ‘2 on t 011 e m 1191 Olll‘ . O O O O O Heated dialogue continues between competmg interests m Northdale area By Gui-1; MMDoN/uD 1 . ~_: g“ {5 ' problems and more time on ("Nu/tide stat} ____ ' 3 . x . 1 4! enforcement. - , . .‘ t. . y i: “I expected to hear the Cit) ‘s fthere was one theme to tome out i ‘1,-§;' I‘ if A t i U vision for a vibrant and health) Int Saturday's meeting about the l ‘ 51k , f - ' _ t 4 z " ; ' A» Northdale neighbourhood today. I state of the Nonhdale neighbourâ€" % i 5,0 ’ " 5 - ;- didn't expect to come here and hood. it was that no one is happy in the “ y 3; â€" v BA _ ,.. ' spoonfeed it to them." he said. mmmtmity _ _ ' ‘: l' . Other participants also had Not the longâ€"term residents. not I: as _ , . . ,. . ' "4" l... . strong words for the city, the studentsand not thelaiidlords. - __; , ' Christine (Iarmody, a long-time (fotin. lati d'AiIly organized the ' ’, resident, believes that the neigh- meeting. held at St. Michael's ‘ bourth is about to reach critical (Ihtirch on lJiii\'ersit_\ Avenue, to let ‘e “ i a. mass. the residents discuss ways to ‘ l A.” “Right now, and l'm telling you improve Nortlidale. _ . . . _kÂ¥ , , this as one of the few remaining Residents of all stripes had horâ€" / ' - '. a; ' .. g.» permanent residents, this situation ror stories of sleepless nights, g L ‘ p. M ~ - “A is going to implode ifthe city does- . . . u - 5 . A 3- it , . .. . egged houses and decrepit living ' “a 7? 3 r ”as: ntdo something, she said. conditions in the neighbourhood . A - - \_ . ti ___: f \ »\ U‘. i] ' * y. 9g, L ' w Carmody believes that filling a around the city's two universities. -, - ' ‘ - . a I .., ‘ " ' b small neighbourhood with any one loe llohin has lived in the area 3, 91. . . - , 5 is f)- _.-._~. vs ’ “it“ " demographic is dangerous, for tnore than five decades and said .\ {it ';{ . “ff ’ it", ' ' ‘ _ H, . t ' “If you want a riot. you're going he has seen the neighbourhood E gfi Pa}; 1 at 65 In. , \ ' » ‘ togetit." shesaid. transform over the last five years. 3 " _ ,_ ' 3 ~ ,-. (Zarmody wants to see the area "l‘ve had windows broken, my w}? ~ 3 p y upzoned so that developers can car egged and my house egged," he ‘ "’" q ‘ ,, intensify the area and add in told the 100 participants at the t ‘N / amenities such as grocery stores meeting. “Being woken up at 2 or 3 " g and other retail, am. isn't too nice." '= That way students. profession- And while everyone at the meet- , als and the elderly can live in hair ing had a tale to tell. they also had _ mony, she said. ideas of how to fix the Northdale y / ’\ That's what the city wants. too, area. which is bounded by (lolum- i! . - said Coun. Ian d'Ailly. hia Street and University Avenue to 3 The municipality's first step will north and south and Phillip and i be to compile the suggestions and King Streets to the east and west. .' act as quickly as possible on any of llobin wanted to see the city ‘ the “able ones. d'Ailly said. remove its grandfather clause for He also wants to see a new lodging house licences. which neighbourhood association allows the licence to be maintained formed. after an ownership change. “I think we need to get a conr He also wanted to see the uni» munity group organized with rep~ versities step up and take more This was some of the trash collected during last year‘s student exodus Then are some of the problems that a resentation from all the stakehold- responsibility for the problems, meeting held last Saturday between permanent residents, student lodgersand landlords was organized to ers â€" students, permanent resi- “l'd like to see the schools give a address. ' at more dents, landlords." d'Ailly said, little more direction about what the Greg Evans, 3 student at Wilfrid Mark Stapelton sees the con~ “That is the problem. The city The interaction between those hell their students do when they're Laurier University, believes that his centration of rental houses as a doesn'tenforce anything. These stakeholders at Saturday's meeting away from home.“ llobin said. peers are mad about the had problem. Stapelton has been 8 places have no licence. no fire was encouraging, he added. (Ilaude Wood. a landlord with behaw‘our. too. landlord in the area for years and code, no regulations whatsoever." “I think there was a lot of a dia- properties on Hazel Street, put it ”Ninetycight per cent of stu- believes that the problem isn't the he said. logue between all the residents and more bluntly. dents don't act like this. We don't licensed lodging houses, but the “The illegals are why there are the realization that the [neighbour “lite students need to stop act- like those two per cent either," he illegal rental units. so many students in the area. hood) belongs to all of its." d'_.fl\illy ing like students and start acting said. "We see students all painted The current rule about lodging That's what everybody is pissed off said. like adults," he said. under the same brush, btit we want houses is that they have to be at about." "There are two sides to every But students believe that parrot to eradicate [bad behaviour) too. least 150 metres apart. But many Stapleton's fellow landlord story," the problem is that they‘re being [his behaviour is unacceptable. We houses in Northdale are being ille- Wood thinks the city should spend The city will hold a follow up negatively stereotyped. can't accept it from anyone." gally rented. Stapleton said. less time on meetings about the meeting in September. 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