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2- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, July 1, 1997 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" 'Home invasion' probed Police are investigating a complaint of a home invasion after a Blossom Court residence was forcibly entered by three males. A 22-year-old resident says that shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday (June 26) three men dressed in black "ninja" suits walked into the home. One of the invaders had a knife, but told a 16-year- old female also in the home that no one would be hurt. The three asked who else was in the house and when the 22-year-old said only one ill man and her broth- er and sister, they pro- ceeded to look throughout the house. The residents said nothing was taken; the three invaders eventually left. 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Contact someone who lives in your eommunity; Scott McEachern - Commercial Insurance Broker SINCLAIR-COCKBURN INsuraNCE Brokess 1200 Sheppard Ave. East, Suite 400, North York, Ont. M2K 255 Direct Line: (416) 494-9883 ext. 349 1-800-328-7887 the regional CCC Low turn-out for public review Scugog OP ready for presentation to region officials By John B. McClelland Port Perry Star The first ever Official Plan (OP) for Scugog Township is nearing com- pletion, but the biggest hurdles are still to come, says the man who drafted the 80-page document. Planning consultant Jim Dyment says getting the new OP approved will be up to township council- lors. They will have to con- vince officials and politi- cians at the regional level that the Scugog plan as written now is a good one that fits the special needs of this municipality. By law, a local plan like Scugog's must conform to " Durham's Region Plan. But there are about 15 parts of the Scugog plan that don't dovetail with that plan, said Mr. Dyment. That means 15 amendments to plan if Scugog's is to be approved "as now written, he told a public meeting last Thursday evening. The 15 points "are all reasonable," Mr. Dyment said, but it will be up to Scugog politicians to con- vince their counterparts at the region. [f the region refuses to endorse the "Scugog plan, it could be sent to to the OMB for approval. Mr. Dyment is hoping the Scugog plan will be at the region by September and approved before the municipal election this November. The new Scugog plan, which has been months in the making, is the first ever for the entire town- ship. It will also replace - the plan which has covered the Port Perry urban area. Thursday's meeting was: the last in a series of public workshops designed to hear what Scugog resi- dents want to see in the plan that governs where they live. 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Speaking at Thursday's meeting about projected population growth in Port Perry's serviced area, Mr. Dyment said the present sewage treatment system will handle 7,000 people, and the allocations have been designated. In order for the popula- tion to grow to 10,000 peo- ple, the sewage treatment system must be expanded at a cost of $8.2 million. That expansion would allow only another 700 housing units to be built. Future residential development in rural areas will be severely limited to existing hamlets and what are known as "country neighborhoods," according to the new plan. Any development on prime agricultural lands will be strictly limited, while restrictions will be relaxed in the general reserve (class 3 to 5 lands) to permit farm related industry and commerce. 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