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es eT -- | ---- "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, October 2, 2001 - 3 Scugog wants more money from developer Township, Ribcor debating policy for parklands By Kay Langmuir Port Perry Star A Toronto developer building homes in Prince Albert is balking over demands from council that it ante up prime land or more cash to ensure the area has enough parkland and recreation space for an influx of new residents. Ward 2 Councillor Marilyn Pearce said recently that Prince Albert needs more parkland or funds for recreation space set aside now. "When people move in and find out they don't have parkland they're going to be lining up to yell at council," she told council. Ribcor Holdings Inc. says a new bylaw which requires it to hand over to the municipality 5 per cent of the land in a develop- ment or a minimum of $2,000 per residential lot "is totally unreasonable and unfair." The bylaw, passed in September, requires _ Ribcor to pay $224,000 or give 9 of an acre to the township from its [I12- " home dévelopment in Port Perry's south end. "This is equivalent to about one quarter of one million dollars for one acre of land," Ribcor President Martin Stein stated in a recent letter to council. But Councillor Pearce said Ribcor is building hundreds of homes in the town and it and other developers need to con- tribute to the infrastruc- ture required by so many new residents. "We're trying to supply these families with ball diamonds, soccer fields, playgrounds, you name it, and all we've gotten out of it is a few linear parks and trails," she said. "It's up to us to make sure the com- munity still works when (the developers) leave." In the past, developers had a choice of handing' over a cash-in-lieu of park- land fee of $1,500 per lot. Since March, council had briefly allowed devel- opers to donate 5 per cent of their land or 5 per cent Marilyn Pearce of the appraised value of a development. But appraisal amounts were lower than expected, lead-, ing council to change the bylaw again last month. It now requires that the cash- in-lieu of parkland fee work out to a minimum of $2,000 per lot. Ribcor officials com- plained the bylaw retroac- tively affects a develop- ment in its final stages of implementation and urged council to allow it to pay a fee determined by appraisal alone. That would Ribcor paying result in about $50,000 on its 1}#2 units rather than $224,000. . The company has also offered to give council the requisite parkland from another parcel it owns adjacent to the develop- ment. But Councillor Pearce said that parcel is unserviced land not scheduled for develop- ment for another 10 years, and would be of no use to residents moving in over the next few years. If council and Ribcor can't agree on an amount for cash-in-lieu parkland, "then we should take the land but take it in the area currently under develop- ment," Councillor Pearce said at a recent council meeting. Township staff has been meeting with Mr. Stein to hammer out a draft agree- ment at the request of council. Parks and recreation director Jay Todd said Monday there has been progress made but no agreement reached yet. . Got something on your mind? Email: editorial@portperrystar.com [ BE Local reps worry about fallout from province's new directions Council concerned with Nutrient Management Act By Kay Langmuir Port Perry Star Scugog Council continues to worry about fallout from the province's draft Management Act, land application of untreated sewage for at least five Nutrient would ban years. "I'm afraid that, good and positive step," which across province, what's meant as a good and positive step is not going to be a Scugog Mayor Doug Moffatt told council's Environmental, Fire and Safety com- mittee recently. Mayor Moffatt suggested there likely isn't enough available capacity in sewage treatment facilities to han- dle sewage pumped from septic tanks. The municipality should ask Durham Region officials to assist in determining the number of septic tanks in the township and how fre- quently they're pumped, he advised. The mayor said he's also con- cerned that septic tanks can be designed with a draining device that bleeds off some of the tank's contents the underground so the tank doesn't have to be emptied as frequently, which results in a cost-saving to the owner. Local homeowners on septic sys- tems have endured sharp rises in pump-out fees in recent months as a result of new provincial regulations. 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