1 0 stouffville suntribune thursday nov 1 1 2004 province may have to pay farmers from page 1 and environmentalists congratulating the mcguinty government on its vision while asking- it to also protect richmond hills leslie north area boyd park in vaughan or the farmland of south simcoe county its big thinking its exactly what we need said steve marshall of markham who argued a greenbelt around london england has worked well for 50 years but jim murphy of the greater toronto home builders association responded london is one of the worlds most expensive cities for housing thats what greenbelts do law next month several environmentalists and liberal mpps say theyre confident the government will not weaken its plan which could be law next month and would be reviewed every 10 years along with current protections for the niagara escarpment and oak ridges moraine weve gothockey tonight at 750pm vs aurora tigers thursday nov 18 huntsville otters at stouffville sfouffville arena 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included ontario beg- 3210542 there is no godgiven right for anybody to have their land rezoned mpp brad duguid repre senting municipal affairs minister john gerretsen stated before the meeting its big thinking its exactly what we need but later markham mpp tony wong said the province might have to answer farmers complaints with environmental payments or quebecstyle price subsidies duringhis premeeting talk with mr werry mr wittred said he didnt see any easy way to save farmland from urban sprawl but sacrifices must be made unhappy peoplf theres going to be a lot of unhappy people he concluded mr werry however delivered the last word ill even give a guy a farm he said challenging anyone to support a family for 10 years by farming theyd starve more public meetings on the greenbelt are scheduled outside the region this month the plan including detailed maps is available at wwwgreenbellontarioca and the province will accept written submissions on it until dec 12 at greenbeltmahgovonca or by fax at 416- 5854245 roads community centres get money from page 1 fulltime firefighters hired recently costs for volunteer firefighters and maintaining fire halls and equip ment the amount budgeted for vol unteer firefighters fell below the 2004 amount since there were fewer calls requiring volunteers chief tim beckett said reserve funds for replacing out dated vehicles were increased to 120000 from 85000 future planning for the depart ment includes the possibility of the town having three fire halls for a time under a 2003 fire services master plan the downtown stouflville hall is to be relocated to the west end of town in 2007 but the original hall wont be decom missioned until the department has fulltime firefighters working around the clock chief beckett said councillor clyde smith noted there is 500000 in the capital budget for the fire department negotiations are under way to see if a station being built by central york fire services at aurora road and leslie street could cover the vandorf area the leisure services depart ment came up with a 3percent increase in ice rentals for this budg et rates will most likely change once its user fee policy is complet ed early next year leisure services director tom graham noting town facilities need to have their life cycle costs examined received approval for a 7500 study of the stouffville arena renovations to the lemonville community centre should be starting shortly funding of 80000 over a threeyear period was approved by council stop studies if we keep doing these studies and putting off the work it will go from 80000 to 90000 to 100000 you will never get any repairs councillor rob hargrave noted renovations on vandorf community centre are slated for 2006 work on several parks including those in the mattamy madori and mauro subdivisions begin in 2005 and 125000 has been earmarked for a ballantrae parkette portable equipment will be bought for the overtheedge skate park after structures are removed until 2009 10000 is being set aside annually to make town facili ties more accessible for the physi cally challenged some funding for renovations to the old town hall is already in place for 2006 of the 15 million required 750000 is coming from town funds the rest must be acquired through fundraising in transportation improve ments are going forward on park drive harold avenue and manitoba albert and william streets to accommodate growth design work for improving and widening main street will start in 2007 the project will be the biggest job undertaken in whitchurchstouffville in its his tory councillor ken ferdinands said i look on this as a fouryear project mayor sue sherban said before any work is done how ever the extension of millard street and hoover park drive must be in place mr ferdinands noted an additional 60000 was put into the road reserve fund for 2005 on the trash front large article pickups will be reduced to every other month for 2005 next september the town adopts the green box 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