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Today‘s INSIDE Paper By SAL BOMMARITO Oakville Beaver Staff he impact of the recession on I Oakville homeowners can best be measured by the rising number of people who are no longer paying their taxes on time. According to a report from Erica Mathews, the town‘s tax collector and manager of finance, the number of Oakville homeowners not paying their taxes on time has increased drastically since 1989, and reached an alarming New working trend Taxpayers owe town a record $15.8â€" 184 Lake 389 PcC A Metroland Community Newspaper Vol. 31 No. 38 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS Daniel Group, The Bay, Woolco, Shoppers Drug Mart TH VBN & LASMR CEeNTRES OF ONT ARD April 1st marks the start of Cancer month and fundraising for the Oakville Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society. On Fri. April 2nd and Sat. April 3rd, volunteers from the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority will be malls and other public places in town, sellâ€" ing daffodils to raise the $400,000 total target set by the local unit. That amount includes monies raised from a new corpoâ€" rate donation program called the President‘s Milestone Club, Page 11 fi'l Wflfi | s Â¥ 4 + \\\\\ | Toh $ H O l & % eshore Rd. E., Oakville 845â€"5582 & earl St., Burlington 639â€"1372 | inâ€"â€" in ce acncnduesc annsvan mesnn, RMHEC T CUTENHAATE : Cegtice. o n Call 842â€"VEIN Working at home has its benefits Guidelines set for development of Bronte Quadrangle section By SAL BOMMARITO Oakville Beaver Staff More than 18 months after setting up a committee to study possible land uses in the Bronte Quadrangle, Oakville planning and development council approved the committee‘s final recommendations, Monday nisht. By SAL BOMMARITO Oakville Beaver Staff A heated and controversial issue at times, developâ€" ment within the Bronte Quadrangle â€" a oneâ€"hectare area bounded by Bronte Road, Ontario Street, Jones Street and Marine Drive â€" will largely be determined by those recommendations. "The recommendations in the final report represent A provincial draft report on planning and developâ€" ment reform in Ontario drew the criticism of Oakville council and planning staff Monday night. A detailed response from the town‘s planning serâ€" vices department to the Sewell Commission report was approved by council, but not before councillors levelled strong criticism at the provincial governâ€" ment‘s attempt at improving the planning system for Ontario. + "It‘s most unusual to amend major legislation such as the Planning Act without much input from the pubâ€" lic. It sets the pace for the rest of the document," said Ward 2 councillor Kathy Graham. Town critical of Sewell planing reforms Graham supported planning staff‘s recommenda JAKVILLE . level in 1992. In 1989, the town was owed $4.7 milâ€" lion in outstanding realty and business taxes. That figure has swelled in the last four years to $15.8 million. "Just how difficult times are is eviâ€" denced by the number of property ownâ€" ers attending the tax collector‘s office with genuine stories of hardship," Mathews said in her report to the town‘s administrative services committee Tuesday night. "Your Awardâ€"Winning Community Newspaper the Second Annual Great Ride for Cancer on April 25th and the John Rizzuti Dinner Dance on April 30th. Checking out the new crop of fAlowers this year are: Jane Mitchener, Judy Bindon, Ulin Foster, Judy Bongard, Joan Gibb and Peggy Budd. The fAowers cost $3. for a bunch of eight blooms to two bunches for $5. WEDNESDAY. MARC Approximately 120 notices of perâ€" sonal bankruptcy and power of sale under mortgage agreements were received by the town‘s tax department in 1992, Mathews said. "In addition, telephone calls and visâ€" its by property owners to the tax diviâ€" sion reveal a sense of anger and frustraâ€" tion never experienced by (tax departâ€" ment) staff before," she said. Mathews said the town is "faced with 80 impending tax sales compared to 18 SPRING AMALEFIS HAVE ARRIVED tion to circulate the town‘s response to provincial agencies, Oakville members of provincial parliament and opposition critics of Municipal Affairs and Housing and the Association of the Municipalities of and opposition Housing and the Ontario. "(The Sewell Commission report) allows the Ontario Municipal Board to plan for all of us. The opportunities of recourse to the OMB are larger, as are the opportunities to have the public pay for those hearings," Graham said. If the Sewell report is approved, Graham said the four municipalities of Halton would have control over planning issues affecting Oakville citizens. Issues which are currently in the hands of town council, she said. open space uses. â€"specific land use emphasis in certain parts of the area, including commercial uses on Bronte Road, institutional uses fronting on the waterfront park and residential uses on Jones Street, Ontario Street and (The Sewell Commission report) is a very imporâ€" (See ‘Reforms‘ page 4) See ‘Development page 4 sUNrISe "WHERE HOT WATER FUN BEGINS!!" Photo by Paeter McCusker) mig EAVER SPAS DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER DROP BY OUR SHOWROOM at this time last year." Some of what has happened over the last four years can be attributed to an increase in Oakville‘s population, said Michelle Seguin, the town‘s finance director and treasurer. . However, Seguin said the numbers "purely reflect what‘s happened in the economy." According to Mathews‘ report, outâ€" standing realty taxes jumped by 1.14% in 1992 â€" from 5.22% in 1991 to 6.36% 461 NORTH SERVICE RD. W. COMMERCIAL POINT PLAZA Dangerous offender should be deported say Halton Police By ANGELA BLACKBURN Oakville Beaver Staff A convicted rapist who broke into an Oakville woman‘s apartment and brutally raped her a few months after his release from prison was declared a dangerous offender, Friday. & Jose Gabriel Fagundes, 30, was sentenced to an indeterminate period in a penitentiary following the ruling by Mr. Justice Patrick Lesage in Milton‘s General Division Court. f . When he attacked the Oakville woman in 1991, Fagundes had been on mandatory supervision after serving four years of a sixâ€"year jail term for three sexual assaults and one indecent assault against women in Oakville. The rape occurred just after the woman‘s husband had left for work early in the moming on July 19, 1991, and while her children slept in her bedroom. Two Oakville residents attending the University of Western Ontario have been charged with sexually assaulting a 19â€"yearâ€"old London worman during Frosh Week last September. + A Toronto man was also charged and police say they are still lookâ€" ing for a fourth suspect. * | The victim is not a student at the university, police said. I Samson Gill, 18, of Guilford Crescent, OakvilleRyan Cardinali, 28, of Whittington Place, Oakville, and Michael Fabro, 20, of Millwood Road, Toronto are each charged with one count of sexual assault. N Local men charged in sexual assault IN Convicted rapist out of jail on mandatory supervision brutally raped Oakville woman iwestigating officer, Det. Sgt. Peter Hodgson. f "I‘m happy the system worked this time," said the victim, a 29â€"yearâ€" Id Oakville mother of two whose identity was protected by the courts. _ 66 Pages last year. Those numbers represent the percentage of total realty taxes which have not been collected. In all, the town is owed $9.417 milâ€" lion in realty taxes from 1992, along with $769,382 in outstanding business taxes for a total of $10.18 million. (See Woman‘ page 2) Including $4.1 million in outstanding taxes from previous years, the town is owed $14.3 million in taxés. Interest penalties totalling $1.5 million bring the total to $15.8 million. Overall, the percentage of realty and (See ‘Business‘ page 2) FIRST DAY FREE ON A 3â€"DAY WEEKEND =â€"Buoget == EAST * 1012 South Service Rd. 842 WEST * 636Fourth® ine 842â€"1610 75 Cents (GST included) 827â€"31716 €â€"Hamilton Sunrise Spas 1644