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~ 2 Scugog Citizen -- Tuesday, May 28, 1996-- 5 Major battle ete over Io 6c Residential developmen in places like Port Perry could "grind to a halt" if the provincial government relaxes the rules on lot levies, says Scugog regional councillor Marilyn Pearce. Changes in the Land Use . Planning Act which went into effect last week preyent prevent municipalities | from increasing the amount * charged for lot levies or introducing new ones. But councillor Pearce told the Citizen the real battle will a op if the province decides to limit levies strictly to roads, water and sewer projects, and cuts out levies for such things as recreation, libraries, baseball diamonds, arenas and fire departments. Organizations repre- senting provincial developers ' are now lobbying the government furiously to that end and a decision could be handed down as early as this fall. If the levies are restricted just to "hard services" councillor Pearce said a lot of municipalities would have to 'judge new residential development as "premature," because they don't have the funds to pay for new and expanded "soft" services that are charges about $4,000 for each new resjdential lot" approved By severance or subdivision. * The Townships uses about $1500 for road improvements, and the needed when new remainder is used for residents move to a «things like recreation community: facilities, the<library and "How would a community ""deal with this new growth" without the levies. "We can't put it on the taxpayers and the province has cut grants," she told the Citizen. Scugog Township now fire department. Scugog is also putting lot levy money into a special fund for a second ice pad at the Scugog Arena. Councillor Pearce said the - Association of Municipalities of Ontario Big fines for unsafe trucks The cost of operating an unsafe truck in Ontario is going to be expensive--a lot more expensive. New legislation introduced at Queens Park on Monday will increase the minimum fine from the current $60 to $200 and * the maximum fine will go up ten times--to $20,000. i In the last three years, trucks on Ontario roads that failed to meét safety standards increased by 241 per cent? "Existing truck fines are considered (by the industry) to be nothing more than the cost of doing business," said transportation minister Al Palladini who introduced the changes. 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