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v weekender saturdayjune 7 1997 p 3 caution is key to growth in preston lake vandorf joan ransberry staff reporter look but dont touch is the message being delivered by two local ratepayer groups when it comes to connecting vandorf to auroras communal water and sewer systems local ratepayer association officials want whitchurchstouffville council to take a cautious approach communal services usually attract growth including industrial and commercial residents of van dorf and preston lake are worried that growth will alter the rural char acter of their area on tuesday the vandorf ratepay ers association and the preston lake association were once again successful in their bid to have the two communities studied under one plan even though staff recommend ed that two separate secondary plans be carried out staff recommended separating the study area into two in order to accommodate the town of aurora and york region working with whitchurchstouffville to provide municipal water and sanitary sewer services to the community of van dorf we compromised said chris diamond vandorf associations spokesman we agreed to council taking a look at the aurora ser vice but thats as far as we went a secondary plan is struck to help municipal government deter mine what goes where whitchurchstouffville is in the throws of completing a 300000 study of the downtown core itll be presented to york region development in the fall the plans are critical to the com munities stressed diamond if in the process of the secondary plan its recommended that an agreement be ironed out with the town of aurora water and sewer services could find their way to the hamlet translating into substantial residential and industrial growth vandorf s population could climb to thousands and industrial growth would increase a great deal stresses diamond officials of both ratepayer groups continue to remind council that area residents opted for the quiet life when choosing to live in both van dorf and preston lake schickendanz plan discussed joan ransberry staff reporter most of the residents of the new the rest will be link houses more information on the proposed 150million adult lifestyle commu nity slated for ballantrae will be pre sented to local council monday evening the new community which includes an 18hole golf course will be built on the 370 acres on aurora rd near hwy 48 its being pro posed by the schickendanz brothers the developer hopes to start con struction of the golf course this fall as for the residential part of the plan schickendanz hopes to have all government red tape out of the way before the end of the year development will be 50 years and older while the development will take about 15 years to complete about 80 per cent of the homes will be onestorey bungalows while the development will be a condo minium setup with residents owning the houses and the lots while all out door upkeep is done for the resi dents excavation gets council okay a stouffville company has been given the goahead to excavate 13000 cubic metres of wood waste on tuesday whitchurchstouffville council and canada building materials struck an agreement for the company to bring in a temporary waste processing facility to get rid of the waste made up of construction material and some rubber the cleanup will take about seven weeks the neighbors on concession 8 will be notified in writing the process involves cbm securing a certificate of approval from the ministry of the environment moe and getting a building permit from the local fire department well miss you the stouffville office was a hive of activity as friends coworkers and clients of our retiring advertising sales representative joan marshman centre dropped in to her farewell open house on hand to wish joan best wishes were tribune publisher pat pappas left and stouffville mayor wayne emmerson joan retired this week after 43 years at the newspaper j j r f photo by sjoerd witteveen were first in distribution weve delivered 21 21 9861 flyers doortodoor so far this year for further information on how we can deliver your flyers call joan or ruth at 64021 00 the tribfne watch for these flyers on saturday june 7 1997 walmart loblawssupercentre searssears today coupon clipper zellers biway ap weston produce m m meats stux iga- stouffville sears catalogue loblaws canadian tire richmond hill soloctod areas only