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t tribune march 20- 1991 p3 lack of water system hampers builders plans tracy kibble staff reporter a local doctors dream to con struct a medical centre in ballantrae is being shattered by delays and now timing is critical council heard tuesday dr john bare has been trying to get approval for construction of medical offices at the comer of iro quois drive and hwy 48 in bal lantrae since 1989 but delays in approving a piped water system for musselman lake and ballantrae is hampering plans says bares representative and for mer town building inspector bruce arrowsmith im running out of funds and out of time to make this happen bare told local officials tuesday night arrowsmith said bare wants a public meeting scheduled to ensure money spent on further studies will not be wasted need approval we understand the concerns and implications of ground water con tamination but we just want the planning process to proceed to the public hearing stage to give us some flexibility arrowsmith said he added the plans emerged two years ago when it was thought the water system would be available in 1991 now its realized the sys tem wont be installed even in 1992 arrowsmith said ward 2 councillor stephen bellerby asked how efficient the proposed private septic system at the site would be to ensure sur rounding wells are protected arrowsmith said he was willing to dig to the third aquifer to ensure safe health standards and- added there would be about 4100 litres coming from the building a day equivalent to the amount from one and a half residential dwellings a scaledown from the original plan of 18000 litres a day prepared and although he said york region health unit is prepared to approve the development on private sewage town planning director michael saunders warned officials there are many holes in the plan there are a lot of things to think about here before making a deci sion saunders told officials saunders said the site is located in an area prone to flooding and that no decision should be made on any construction in the area until the water system and other prob lems are resolved what leaves this site may affect surrounding properties which could create a problem with well con tamination saunders said he added there are 15 other appli cants from ballantrae that want to construct local commercial busi nesses an approval ofthis plan could be precedent setting saunders added but the plans have already been scaled down by 33 per cent to meet health unit and government agency concerns of ground water contami nation arrowsmith said into a hole each delay puts me deeper and deeper into a hole and a public hearing would speed up the plan ning process by two to three- months bare added ward 6 councillor jim sanders said the key issue was to ensure water quality is protected for surrounding residents council voted to allow the pro posal to go to a public hearing but said reports from outside agencies must be completed and approved by the towns review consultant gartner lee gormley plans not to be dump yard mayor whitchurchstouffville wont accept outside storage uses at gormley industrial park whether a scaleddown version of the project is approved or not it was con firmed tuesday council was opposed to york regions approval of outside storage on an appli cation recently and said this week it does not fit the gormley plans whitchurchstouffville does not wish to be a dumping yard to other areas that want to be serviced on the big pipe mayor fran sainsbury told proponents she added the town has already told gormley residents there would be no out side storage and approval of it now would have mislead homeowners in the area local officials heard two more proposals to construct industrial subdivisions in gormley but are not supporting the individual requests cardico developments ltd and gormley business park ltd owners filed their own separate application following york regions approval of a scaleddown ver sion in january armbrobuttcon a10 however local officials want only to proceed with development under the aus pices of opa60 ward 5 councillor doug alles told applicants at the meeting opa60 is the original plan to build a 1300acre industrial park at woodbine avenue and council does not want to piecemeal the project by approving sepa rate applications town chief administrative officer bob panizza told the tribune the municipal affairs ministry is obligated under the planning act to refer opa60 in its entire ty to the ontario municipal board but because the plan is on the backburner individual developers are going alone in hopes their proposal will be approved on a smaller scale panizza said one by one they will all end up at the ministry for omb approval and theyll have to look at opa60 panizza said however alan paton solicitor for gormley business park ltd told officials the reality is that opa60 will never be approved and urged council to approve each application on its own merit council supported staff recommendation to not support the cardico or the gorm ley business park proposals whitchurchstouffville fire department officials worked to free a truck owned by laird and sons after it ran into overhead wires the driver of the truck was forced to remain in the cab because of cau on a wire pholosteven peer the fear of electrocution here fire chief bill brown at right supervises the operation as workers cut the wire the incident occurred on friday morning of last week something has got to give too many restrictions stouffville has to rethink the whole process when it comes to small development in this community mayor tracy kibble staff reporter photosteven peer business makin dough stouffville has a new pizza par- bahman jalalifar and morteza lor on main st 241 pizza amiryaghqobi prepare pizzas opened on friday and gave for the customers who visited away free slices from left the shop on its first day whitchurchstouffville is going to have no future development if strict guidelines are not eased up on said one local councillor tues day ward 1 councillor margot mar shall told officials something has got to give if the community is to increase its commercial and indus trial tax base marshall was referring to a pro posal to build a medical centre in ballantrae which has been delayed two years because there is not a piped water system in the area dr john bare wants to proceed with the public hearing and wants council approval in principle before spending more money on groundwater contamination stud ies hold off meanwhile town planning direc tor michael saunders said council should hold off making a decision on the matter until a commitment is made for a communal water sys tem but marshall said york region and the government has already frozen or nixed the gormley plans by placing strict guidelines for industrial development on private services or dry land and the town has placed a freeze on development in mussel- man lake and bal lantrae and other parts of the community- until sewage and water prob- lems are solved what is left mar shall asked rethink process and mayor fran sainsbury agreed the town should reasses some applications for small- scale development we have to rethink the whole process when it comes to small develop ment in this community sainsbury said she added applicants that are left dangling should be given public hearings were probably the margot marshall before studies are approved only municipality to be there is plenty of time super careful but we have to do later to do the studies sainsbury something marshall added said kids earn extra money become a carrier today call 2948244 mkm or 6402100 stouffville attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your flyers for as little as 312 a piece so far this year we have delivered 5036989 flyers doortodoor in markham unionville milliken stouffville uxbridgc clarcmont dickson hill locust hill gormley goodwood victoria square brougham whitcvale rrs markham unionville we can deliver your flyers on the day you 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