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the tribune thursday march 13 1969 page 9a local farm prices rose sharply during 1968 shea according to thos n shea fri prices for rural acreage rose sud denly during 1968 in all townships in york and ontario counties the unusual increase in price per acre in the stouffville area resulted largely from the acquisi tions in the uxbridge twp of approximately 7000 acres by revenue properties limited a toronto based land de velopment company the company plans to build a new town cen tury city with a proj ected population of over 100000 people within the next ten years mr shea also noted that the rise in acreage prices was associated with the prevailing ru mour of a new interna tional airport in the every wcfclv the tribune prints 7000 coriss is ji an xncbease of over 1000 copies in a tlttue over sfsa sear 4 pickering twp area to gether with the unbrid led activity and land speculators around the century city project acreage prices have risen from s500 to s600 per acre in early 1968 to 1500 to 2000 per acre at the beginning of the 1969 season a slight levelling of the market has been no ticed subsequent to the anouncement of reven ue properties that they have obtained sufficient land for their uses for 20 years and also follow ing the announcement of transport minister hel- lyer that the new air port was not going to be located in this area during 1968 the cen tral ontario region de velopment council met in the village of stouff ville to absorb local op inion regarding the four alternative goals of the metro toronto and re- g i o n transportation study mtarts the provincial government proposes to encourage land development ac cording to whichever of these goals is finally rec ommended two facts were appar ent at this meeting first that land values in the area were no longer de termined on the basis of an economic farm oper ation secondly that stouffville would parti cipate in considerable expansion no matter the worlds most versatile vehicle now available through cullough 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