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thursday nov 25 2004 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 36pages1 including gst sdss spartans daw back to win york volleyball title opinion 6 calendar 17 sports 22 classified 24 builders challenge greenbelt by patrick mangion staff writer bobby bhoola bought a farm in king township five years ago with the hopes of cultivating indian vegetables and one day cashing in on a land sale but if the provinces proposed greenbelt across the golden horseshoe is approved the land he hoped would provide a retirement nest egg would become useless the soils at his sprawling 10th concession property proved inhos pitable and mr bhoola avaughah res ident how leases most of the property to another farmer for about 30 per acre not enough to cover his property taxes v retire on farm as a fulltime construction worker he hoped to turn in his hammer and farm during his retirement at the very worst he figured the 78 acres of land would garner interest from developers as residential growth encroaches i bought it to farm but rthink i have the right to make the best use of my land mr bhoola told provincial officials at a conference on the green- belts impact hosted by the greater toronto home builders association the liberal government first tabled its plan to protect 18 million acres of gfeenspace across southern ontario including the holland marsh in york region last month but the province needs to give greater consideration to such issues as whether are hot farmlands are pro ductive before it bans development mr bhoola said during the more than twohour conference the fivemember panel including provincial officials and see developers page 9 illll j- i making the cut staff photomichael borisko olivia shanab 4 from aurora looks on as santa checks his list at the ballantrae girl guides annu al breakfast with santa at the ballantrae community centre sunday santa returns to town dec 4 for the stouffville kinsmen santa parade through downtown stouffville walmart dominion on list for lebovic proposal another g plan for stouffville by hannelore volpe staff writer with a giant 341438squarefoot retail complex now proposed by lebovic enterprises ltd for whitchurchstouffville shoppers might be shopping in stereo iri futures an earlier proposal by geranium corporation includes the construc tion of an even larger regional power centre on hwy 48 south of ringwood the lebovic plan is for 32 acres on the ninth line south of the pro posed hoover park drive extension it extends south to proposed business park expects to create 2000 new jobspage 5 park drive extension at the southern border of the municipality just north of 19th avenue in addition to two big boxsized buildings and two smaller ones suit able for businesses such as grocery stores plans show six other smaller buildings of between 3500 and lb60osquare feet on the east side of ninth line there have been negoti ations with at least three giant retail ers walmart dominion and canadian tire there will be parking for at least 1000 cars and about 50 apartments would be built while lebovics team of experts was out in full force taking in at least two rows of seats at tuesday nights public hearing not many residents voiced objections to the see construction page u 85k aa iissiiilislifiiksksess 4ss5lssis5slssssssslsl ihoustosi k up to 60 m0wths houston ford ltd 578s main st stouffville 905bv404541 www billhoustonf ord com oimly or cash incentives up to on selected models- units left lll stock llarkham- stouffuifle hospital charity angel rarthau 5 wewellers 6312 main st stouffville 9056404646