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z is i 1 v a f j z ir economist suntribune ispyypsisqturday october 27 2001 j ct v v y wt 5 v x tf 1 r v v by linda johnson v staff writer- two v months after former toronto mayor david jcrombie betweerievelopers and envi- jronmentalists over housing on fftheoakridges moraine the two sicles seem more polarized than vfever2f 7at tissue is aplanbyvariou aeyelopersto duildsooohouses ey6ngesmwafstoulvilie roadt5 m richmond hill environmental groups say the rhassivedevelopment will ring bond lake and philips lalce with houses cutting wildlife off t from their habitat j mn august after a lengthy struggle at the ontario municipal board municipal affairs minister chris hodgson asked crombie to reach a com- fred de gasperis developer says hell buy a lot of pigs for prop- erfon the oak ridges moraine wrong but he said the group sup- ports offers from the provincial government to buy developers land or swap it for property in promise between five develop built up areas but according to ment consortiums and environ- de baeremaeker developers ment groups s have consistently rejected the xbutbothsidesinbw say any idea x cpmpromiseis highly unlikely that way the developers itsnofgduigverywellsaid whove invested their money freddj7gasperisipresident of wont lose a lot because they can condranandfy metrus build houses somewhere else developments vvvrelvery dis- he said appointed m the provincial gov- at the same time tie said emmentlliey tried to muzzle us developers have refused to thefejfaufflgin the footsteps of reduce the number of houses theenvkaentalistsjwerevery they want to build in one of the upset but were notfiriished with last openareas on v yonge trlefnit f strpfif rnrridnr tfiem cerirohmehtalists glen de were allowed tp put pigs in degasperis said so were going to buy a lot of pigs and well be in business we offer half thetandallthe environmental land thecwet- land the trees everythingrthey can get it for nothing biit its hot j gpbd enough they want more so were upset novv now we go to war- n de i baeremaeker said ehvi- ronmentalists are now looking to the provincial governments forthcoming legislation whichlt h must introduce when its six- month freeze on oak ridges moraine development is lifted nov 17 he expects the new law v will set a minimum width for wildlife corridors from about 600 metres to 12 kilometres 1 wide where the law applies to their development applications they wont be able to build a sin- gle house not even a tool shed he said de baeremaeker said devel- opers are playing a high risk game theyre gambling they can change the legislation theyre hoping they can weaken orpver- turn it before it getsentrenchedi inlaw but degasperis said he does nt believe the provincial govern ment will go as far as the envi ronmentalists hope this is not four members of a markham family department that a family which had i have been charged with welfare fraud been onwelfare following a 10month investigation were employedrand earning uhde- which 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