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omb hearing explores dulverton stouffville the ontario municipal board hearing into the proposed dulverton subdivision is proving to be a drawn out and expensive affair a bevy of lawyers officials and technical experts have spent the past four days at latcham hall the hearings adjourned today thursday and fc will not reconvene until july 24 the bearings began monday at latcham hall and the entire first day was taken up with argument on a motion by david greenspan lawyer for alliance investments to adjourn the hearing and to consider the dulverton subdivision along with all other proposed sub divisions within the former village limits of stouffville as part of the interim official plan hearings alliance investments which has been refused per mission to develop lands it owns north of elm rd has requested a second omb hearing into their subdivision proposal and a belated request was made by the company to have the alliance and dulverton bearings combined this move failed and supported by lawyers representing century city which owns 80 acres located east of highway 47 and zoned in dustrial and counsel for ber nard aaron owner of 35 acres in the southeast quadrant of town alliance introduced a motion to have the hearing adjourned until all subdivisions could be considered as part of the official plans of the region of york and the town of whitchurch- stouffville neither body has come up with an oj since regional government was for med in 1970 in denying the adjournment request chairman samuel spiegel was of the opinion there ought to be some finality in the planning orocess mr greenspan said he would attempt to show that the town acted inconsistently with the 1977 interim op preferentially toward dulverton precipitately in withdrawing amendment no 9 to the op and that the town has given all the capacity from the proposed sewage treatment plant expansion to dulverton to the detriment of other wouldbe developers the new oj said mr greenspan allows for a population in town of 7500 people by 1980 and he said he wribum vol 90 no 45 whitchurch stouffville march u 1978 20 cents 20 pages town orders indepth study for west end of stouffville stouffville an in- depth study of the western approach to stouffville was debated at the planning board meeting march 7 the study to be done by jh faulkner and associates is to cost the town 3000 and will take three to four months to com plete essentially the study is to determine the desirability of providing hard services from the limits of the present serviced area to highway 48 councillor bill mcnalley found himself alone m resisting the expenditure of monies for the study his main points were that the presently serviced industrial lands in the town were not attracting new industry and that the limited capacity of the new sewage treatment plant allowed for no expanded in dustrial serviced lots he also worried that if the study was done and as a result services were provided the lots might not attract industrial in vestors either he pointed out that a future study may then be needed to investigate the situation again the majority of the board however felt that the study was needed by the town to determine not only the suitability of ser vicing the area but as an overall indepth study of the approach area this would give the town a basis for determining what type of enterprises would be acceptable and feasible in the approach area and would allow the town to present coherent arguments to any land owner who might be opposed to whatever new developments might come to the area could prove that the present population including population that is committed by subdivision approvals is 6080 which only allows for 1420 people before the town reaches the limit the dulverton subdivision is expected to bring 2200 people into town likewise the sewage treatment plant expansion is expected to serve 7500 people although town officials are hopeful this will prove to be the bottom limit of the plant the town uses a figure of 5600 as the present population of the former village the first expert witness called by town lawyer paul mingay was regional engineer wayne bando who is in charge of regional sanitary sewers and water the lawyer representing century city charged that the town had committed so much sewage plant capacity that they will be unable to service land presently zoned industrial he had mr bando work out the sewage capacity that would be taken up on century citys 80 acres if general motors decided to move out there mr bando estimated the acreage would take up the equivalent capacity of 1600 people the century city property has been almost completely removed from in dustrial use in the forthcoming interim op mr mingay was critical of century citys inactivity in developing their lands which have been zoned industrial for the past eight years mr greenspan accused the town of rushing through the see developers page 19 tai chi in stouffville eb hyatt is currently teaching stouffville and area residents the wonders of tai chi tai an ancient chinese martial art involves a number of movement exercises that flow into one another eb demonstrates just one of the moves that combined with meditation during the moves leads to better health and well being to find out just how tai accomplishes that see story page 13 gravel pit may endanger aquifer i stouffville the sabiston gravel pit belonging to pit haulage limited caused some controversy at the march 7 planning board meeting the pit at lot 10 concession 8 lies near the hamlet of bloomington and more im portantly is being mined for gravel near the main water bearing aquifer for both bloomington and stouffville the minings operation- has been going on for 17 years and was to have been completed by december 31 1977 with rehabilitation of the site to have been completed two years later however a new and lucrative vein of gravel has been discovered and mining will now begin below the water level of the presently existing pond legally the owners of the pit do not have to ask the towns permission to proceed they can mine the pit until the gravel supply is exhausted as the site is entirely owned by the sabistons they appeared at the meeting simply to get feedback from council the town is concerned that further mining of the site would adversely affect the water table causing local residents and possibly the town itself to lose all or part of its water supply such a situation presently exists in unionville where many residents are having their water transported from scarborough by truck james sabiston the owner of the site and his lawyer donald hindson appeared before the board and aisured the members that they were prepared to cooperate fully with the town as they always have in the past mr sabiston agreed to present the town with a hydrology report and to foot the bill for monitoring possible fluctuations in the water table in the vicinity councillor jim doble felt that the prospect of a company monitoring itself would lead to nothing but grief this position was supported by councillor bill mcnalley who pointed out that the council is getting few reports from the york sanitation dump councillor becky wedley would rather the town do its own monitoring so long as local taxpayers would not have to foot the bill a report from the ministry of natural resources says that the gravel operation is not af fecting the water table in any way both mr sabiston and mr hindson told the board that if the mining of the pit did do damage to the water supply they would be responsible for correcting any problems arising both councillors bill mc nalley and jim doble pointed out that if the main water bearing aquifer was opened it would be impossible to close it off and mr doble continued if a problem does occur it would be up to the town to prove where the problem started mr sabiston indicated to the board that the main aquifer would determine the cutoff point for the mining operation he hoped than an extension that all gravel would be removed from the pit by august 1979 and that rehabilitation of the area would be completed either by december 1980 or july 1981 present site could be left in the same condition topsoil taken from the area during the mining has been retained for the pur pose of final regrading although sabistons would prefer to leave the pond that they have been creating the pond could serve as a reservoir said mr sabiston and would be fenced in deference to the new homes going into the area in an earlier phone con versation councillor doble told the tribune that the gravel pit was mr sabistons bread and butter and that any of us in his position would probably do the same thing but if the water table were to drastically drop it could cost us millions hitsp 6 lice cruis er plan corner development some rather unusual gambits were featured in at the sdss gym last wednesday night when the harlem diplomats played the high school senior boys for more pictures see page 14 stouffville the corner of highways 47 and 48 had mantia realty and planning board marching together but each to their own drummer the realty company came before the board requesting direction in their attempt to find desirable business en terprises to grace this front door to the town mr mantia and architect joseph barna are prepared to bring autorelated businesses a deluxe restaurant an antique shop a financial institution other than a bank and a home centre my clients said mr mantia want a guarantee as to the type of facility being of fered councillors jim doble and eldred king both indicated that they favored knowing in ad vance what specific use was going to be made of the corner and mayor gord ratcliff felt that it was a challenge to the realtor to bring prestige clients to this development the board cerned about pearance of rehabilitation was also con- the final ap- the pit after mr hindson produced several pictures of presently rehabilitated pit areas all of which met councils approval and indicated that the saturdays snow storm was the cause of many fender benders and a policemans nightmare in one 3300 freak accident on the gormley road involving a police cruiser and another car pc ron newton 19 division yrp was eastbound at 935 pm about one half mile west of the 7th concession on his way to a call at gormley with his red roof light activated the driver of an eastbound car saw the cruiser light slowed down spun around 180 degrees in counter clockwise direction and ended up in the westbound lane in front of pc newton damage to the cruiser was estimated at 1500 and to the other car driven by wm soumakis 41 of king city l 1800 no charges were laid at howard johnston 31 of oshawa was northbound on hwy 48 half mile north of ballantrae when he lost control and his car a 75 honda rolled over both mr johnston and his passenger gregory kean 29 of cannington were wearing seatbelts and were not injured damage to the honda was estimated at 2000 york ohip newmarket the new provincial budget introduced last week cost the regional municipality of york 68000 in increased payments under the ontario health insurance program ohip chief administrative officer jack rettie said the added cost had to be tagged on to the budget 29000 of it in the police departments portion 14 per cent increase york budget gets approval newmarket with only two members dissenting york region council last week ap proved a 453 million budget which represents a 14 per cent increase in spending newmarket mayor bob forhan and vaughan councillor david fraser voted against the budget with mayor forhan arguing that no regional department should have more than a six per cent increase because of provincial grants totalling almost 50 per cent of the budget assessment increases and other revenue the tax levy increase impact will be about 43 per cent said chief administrative officer jack rettie the tax levy on the regions nine municipalities will actually jump 94 per cent to bring in 117 million here is a partial breakdown of proposed region spending this year engineering including roads 197 million police 92 million health and social ser vices 92 million general government and administration 16 million and planning 14 million a case of eat and run police are looking for two men who entered the regal restaurant 19 main st stouffville at 740 pm march 9 ordered dinner and liquor for two amounting to 36 then left by the rear door without paying one is described as 510 blond wearing a brown coat the other sll 190 lbs with black hair and full black beard wearing a black jacket twelveyearold courtney wallis a grade 7 pupil at orchard park elementary school stouffville will take her plant growth science project to the york region science fair april 6 8 at bay view secondary school richmond hill at the area 2 fair last friday in aurora she showed that blue and red lights encourage photo synthesis and plant growth because they emit long light rays thirty of184 entrants from 25 schoolswere selected for the regional competition overall students from the stouffville area captured more than two thirds of the prizes winners will be listed as soon as we get all the results jim dalziel