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st prestige office development planned by stouf f ville man l mx tracy kibble staff reporter farmer jacks new develop ment burrows business park will enhance the interests of the town said jack burrows at a recent planning advisory meeting hoping to start construction in july mr burrows told the com mittee members f done a lot of research and are aware of the types of businesses the town would benefit from the 145arfe parcel located on lands directly behind and to the east of the stouffville gardens elaza- would house prestige usinesses including financial in stitutions law firms real estate brokers and patiofireplace stores to name a tew affordable housing in stouffville limited tracy kibble staff reporter insufficient sewage capacity will limit whitchurchstouffvilles i ability to provide affordable housing units that the province wants i municipalities to set aside said mayor fran sainsbury but the town voted to supply the province with an affordable hous ing statement provided it receives funding and grants as well as regional approval she added we have to look at what we have and decide how we can cope with that the province is requesting that rural ontario municipalities set aside 25 per cent of future planning sites for affordable housing we have no sewage capacity for density housing 25 percent of nothing is nothing if we cant provide the physical housing why do the study she said the town willhire the starr group to prepare the housing state ment on the basis of 75 per cent provincial funding through the ministry of housing and a 25 per cent municipal share also requesting the regions support the town will ask for funding from theministry of municipal affairs to carry out a residential in tensification study that deals with existing housing to see how we can accommodate housing in town without sewage there may be ways we could accommodate to some small degree the mayor added she pointed out two kitchens in one home are illegal and some older farm homes in the rural areas already have two kitchens in place this could be one area looked in at in the intensification study council passed the special resolution to undertake the two affor dable housing steps last week but mr burrows said the main problem in getting a commit ment from potential tenants comes down to sewage allocation of which the town has ten tatively reserved 73 acres half of the entire land size the development scheme would consist of 163 acres for an industrial condominium 256 acres for a packaging warehouse 443 acres for an in side ministorage shed the re maining 269 acres would consist of roads to and from the business areas although mrw burrows said he wouldnt need sewage capacity for several acres including the ministorage location ward 4 councillor wayne emmerson pointed out that sewage alloca tion is granted on acreage and not what types of businesses or buildings are erected on the land the region looks at the amount of area of the building he added mr burrows also told the com mittee he is dealing with the ministry of transportation of on tario before signing a site plan agreement he said hes getting very close to construction and hopes to begin in mid- july mayor fran sainsbury pointed out construction should be started as quickly as possible because we have to allocate to people who are serious to build we need a timeframe we need taxes and cant tieup the available sewage space mr burrows has applied to the region of york for rezoning photumcx madok1k v perfect spiral v markhamstouffville hospital wilt benefit from the artistic talents of ron and linda baird whose sculpture the spiral of sharing will hang in the main stairwell of the new building the piece being displayed by the artists here is actually a scale model of the finished product which will be 25 feet tall and six feet in diameter crushing demand drains funds from life centre tracy kibble staff reporter phototracy kibble phantom pharmacist stouffville main street pharmacist bill gibson was all smiles behind the counter of houstons pharmacy recently in preparation for a night at pantages theatre in toronto mr gibson won tickets to see the smash hit phantom of the opera in a draw sponsored by the stouffville business improvement area as part of its festival of bells celebration the tickets were used at a jan 22 performance r t t t r r 1 ii zuj the markham stouffville family life centre wants to clarify that its financial short comings are not due to a lack of funding by the united way executive director ed meade said the reason the service agen cy is suffering financially is because this centre is the most used agency in york region the family life centre of fering counselling to needy families ran out of money last year and had to delay services dr meade said but the united way is not the stouffville man charged a 20yearold stouffville man faces break and enter and posses sion of stolen goods charges after he and three newmarket men broke into and removed mer chandise from a consumers distributing store in newmarket last sunday york regional police officers obtained a search warrant to a newmarket home where they discovered stolen property valued at about 40000 officers arrested the four men on jan 21 and made 14 charges in total seven break and enter charges four charges of stolen goods possession over 1000 and three charges of possession of a prohibited weapon while one of the men was released police held the other two newmarket men and the stouffville resident in custody un- 4ila court appearancomvm reason the centre was short of funds last year he added we were very busy with needy clients like single moms with three kids who cant afford the fees we would continue to see them he said dealing with violence abuse and other family problems dr meade said the centre had to go out on a limb to help these people we went to such an extent that we went under this year and had to get a loan the centre will receive 102000 from the united way 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