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Region's travelling circus comes to town next week Whitby residents are invited to examine and çom- ment on the draft proposal for the Durham. Region official plan at a public meeting in the council chambers next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Copies of the draft plan, known as discussion paper four, are available from-Town Clerk Bill Wallace and there will be information displays at the Whitby Mall Tuesday, Jan. 27 and Thursday, Jan. 29, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.,, and at the municipal office Wednesday, Jan. 28 from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Although the draft official. plan deals with numerous concepts related to the region as a whole, there are several specific references to Whüby. Two special study areas designated in the regional official plan which will not have their future determined until local studies by the Whitby cte ncil have been completed. The Brooklin area will remain subject to the results of the secondary plan study under way in 1976, and it is the region's policy to permit limited growth on the basis of septic tanks and a communal water supply until the study is completed. The other special study arez is the land bounded by Rossland, Thickson and Taunton Roads, and the Oshawa-Whitby border, ad- jacent to the Oshawa airport. This • area also will await Whitby's own secondary plan, althoujý the region recognizes the determination that the Oshawa airport remain in its present location. The draft official plan places the centre of the region as the Whitby- Oshawa-Courtice area, with a population of 365,000 by the year 2000, thus creating a focal point which contri- butes to the development of a regional identity. Whitby 's urban population south ofTaunton Road is expected to grow from 21,000 to 100,000 in the next 25 years and the rural population is designated to remain at the existing 7,000, exclusive of Brooklin, which is the subiect of a special study. The draft official plan also designates that the develop- ment of Pickering and Ajax. shall not exceed 50 per cent of the Oshawa-Whitby- Courtice population. The plan sets out the maximum total floor space for retail and personal service co'mmercial areas in the town of Whitby as follows: 350,000. square feet for Brock and Dundas, and Thickson and Dundas Streets and 800,000 square feet for Rossland Road and Garden Street. Sho Id the atric ospital of i s lands rec eational p rposes, a study would Whitby Psychi- l sell or dispose for other than or institutional comprehensive be necessary to determ ine the future uses of this area, the report states. If there is any change deter- mined; an amendment to the regional office plan wouid be required. The plan'suggests examin- ing the possibility of phasing out the Pringle Creek sewage treatment plant, and . states also that an a'iendment to the regional official plan will be required once the province determines the route of Highway 407.' There is also a proposal an additional 40-foot right- of-way along Highway 2 from Siincoe Street in Oshawa to Liverpool Road in Pickering for public transit, except in the urban areas of Oshawa and Whitby. extension of GO rail service to Oshawa, with stationi at Ajax, Whitby, and Oshawa, and consideration will be given to providing a major sports complex in the region. Agricultural reserve areas are designated north of Brooklin, and the region wîll designate the ham': ts for growth after consultation with the local municipalities, the ministry of natural resources and, the ministry of environment. The region also recognizes Whitby harbor as a recreation- al facility and promotes the preparation of this plan, the region will allow the develop- ment of marine facilities after due consideration by the local municipalitv. Consulting firm is ready for comprehensive study The administrative commit- tee has recommended to Whitby Council that the Town apply for a grant from the province to help finance a detailed planning study for Brooklin by Donovan F. Pinker Consultants Limited. The firm, commissioned by the Town to conduct a feasibility study of Brooklin, recently completed that study and . recommended, among other things, that Brooklin eventually grow to a popula- tion of about 10,000 togeher with an employment base of approximately 2,500. The firm will develop a comprehensive study program to include: a public parti- cipation program design and process including municipal, regional, provincial, and res- ident liaison, and developer input; defining goals, objec- tives and performance interia; range of households by type, size, income ranges and occupations/labour force par- ticipation; housing by type, mix, price/rental range and ownership/tenure pattern; an- alysis of ail non-housing functions and activities including type, floor space/ unit demand, employment characteristics; social delivery system for all communal facilities; general environmen- tal analysis; design of a move- ment system including street characteristics, public trans- -M la portation and pedestrian system; environmental ser- vices including regional impact and local water/sanitary sewer distribution, storm drainage and stream conser- vation; preparation of alterna- tive community concepts with reference to environmen- tal and design policies, 'and use pattern, densities and staging of development; methods for evaluating opti- mum development concept; evaluation of the financial impact of proposed develop- ment on Whitby/Durham; formulation of statutory secondary plan documenta- tion; consultant qualifications, timing schedule and cost of services. Somebody is tamperng with records- resident Whitby resident Patrick Dooley charged Moriday that records of public meetings are manipulated by someone in the Town's administration before they appear in sub- sequent council reports. Mr. Dooley made the charge at Monday's adminis- trative committee meeting after illustrating examples of errors and omissions in council reports of public meetings on two con troversial subdivisions, to which opposition bas been voiced by the Corridor Area Ratepayers Association. Mr. Dooley, a member of the association claimed that he was speaking on behalf of the association when he said, "public input is wasted. The people of this lown don't trust public input. The people here are being taken and they're paying for it". Mayor Jim Gartshore responded "that is probably one of the greatest misstate- ments I've heard". Mr. Dooley then made his accusation that the minutes of the meetings . were manipulated. "We should find out who's doing it and censure that person", he said and suggested that a fail proof method of recording proceed- ings be implemented. At that point, Whitby Clerk Bill Wallace said he did not believe that ail of the views expressed by Mr. Dooley were those of the association. "You do them an injustice sr". .r. AssociaionPrsident John Buchanan then spoke up, saying "our view was that the minutes of that particular meeting were not accurately recordéd". Shortly thereafter, Mr. Dooley left the council chambers. Mr. Buchanan, apologizing for Mr. Dooley's behavior, said that, although Mr. Doolcy was authorized by the associa- tion to speak on its behalf, lie was not authorized to speak in the manner in which he did. "He did say things that we did not authorize him to say. We didn(t intend to put any inference on any particular person. He embarrassed nie", said Mr. Buchanan. The Free Press has learned of a bizzare plot, headed.by Prince Anthony 1 and Princess Linda 1 Von Loïeley, to kidnap the Chairman of the Region of Durharm Walter Benlîth and the mayors of the eight m er m unicplities during todays regionl c oncilnieeting. A55-mfembér g'onpwill .storm the 'regional palace taou :0an ilc!rry' Mi the mass abduction shortly thereafter. Each hostage will be handcuffed to a member of the Funken Guard, the prince's platoon of bodyguards or to a member of the Prussian Guard. who perform the equialent duties for the princess. They will be whisked away to a fortress in Oshawa. The hostages are not likely to put up much of a fight as the mass kidnapping is part if Club Loreley's Durham Karneval which began on January 17 and runs until Marei ., during which time the club expects its edicts of merrinment to be followed. Prince Anthony 1 is represented by local businessimai Tony -Lang .nd lrîmiees I1inda I by Linda-Sehatz.