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Declicated to thie envioment: pag 20O Wbitby's 'Younig Gun' return page 2 Horse sense pays off page, Funding, staff cuts at psyclihospital 24 1,page Shorles on hold. By Mike Kowalski Final approval of the contro- versial Lynde Shores develop- ment project has been deta.yed. Town council Monday deîerred makinq a decision on subdivision plansAor a 420-acre industrial- residential development e ast of the Lynde Creek Marsh. Draft. plans of subdivision sub- mitted by the three parties ini the joint public-pivae sector initia- tive were tabled by council des- pite having'received the unani' ~fplenffingand week. Council's action pùit thé pro- posed Lynde Shores Comrmunity temporarily on hold and mysti- fied a spokesperson for the Roe Corporation, who along with the Ontario- governrnent and 'Dur- ham -Region, a re the project's developers. "'ve no idea what that: mneans, " a perplexed Ken Fergu- son told reporters following couni- cil's tabling of the subdivision plans. "Council knows we've brought it to the 0MB and it was in council's interest to get their position before the board," he said. Earlier this year, in anticipa- tion of objections te its plan, the Rose Corporation applied for a hearing before the Ontario Muni- cipal Board (0MB). The request. was made to shor- ten the time required bo obtain a hearin g date, Ferguson explainedt. 'We asked that it go te the 0MB because of the long delay ingetting to this point," he said. 'msurprised they wouldn't want the Town's position miade clear before it goes to the board.» The decision bo table ail three subdivision plans came after council rejected a bid by council- lor Marcel Brunelle bo defer approval of the Rose Cor- poration's portion of the project. Roses proposai calîs for a 560- unit housing development, m mediately east of ,t he marsh, south of Vitoria Street and west of Jeffrey Street. The province through the Ontario Realty &orporation, pro- p oses to build a 1,255-unit deve- lopment, south of Victoria and east of Jeffrey. Together, the mixed density subdivision will house approxi- mately 5,000 people. A 185-acre industrial park planned by Durham Region for and north of Victoria, between business news Jefrrey and Gordon streets, is also part of the project. Brunelle, 'a long-timé foe of developmnent near the inarsh wanted the matter delayed -until a three--year-old consultant's report, which- assessed the. im- pact of' developmen-ht on . the environmientally 'sensitive"wet- land, could be, subjected bo an SEE PAGEW3 Prout Is nowa candidate. JoAnne Prout, co-chair of the Save Our General Hospital citi- zens' commritte., will challenge incumbent Dennis Fox for Whitby's east ward seat in the municipal election this faîl., On Sept. 15, following a SOGH rally at Heydenshore Pavilion, Prout wouldn't comment about her plans for a run at a council seat, and rejected rumour 's that an announcement of her candi- dacy was imminent. She denied using the hospital isstge for personal political gain, and'stated her involvement with the comnmittee should not be mis- construed as prelude bo an run for a-seat on council. - SBut on Monday, when she announced her c andidacy, she said her involvement with SOGH had «conflrmed" the need for representation by an uindividual who has an understanding of -the concernis of the citizens of SEE PAGE 3 -S paqqs 3