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X | | J LZ .Monday 4d 5d A , 4 pepe Ey fy adhe 7 Better start practicing your parallel parking. It's only a few weeks until work will get underway on Port - Perry's Queen Street and with the construction will | Vol. 114 ZF TT : come the elimination of angle parking. A delegation to council Monday night failed to convince the town fathers that angle parking should not be taken away. Wednesday, March 12, 1980 32 Pages Group home may proceed without zoning amendment A group home for mentally retarded adults will likely be estabished on Scugog Island without an amendment to the Township zoning by-law. Central Seven Association representative Ron Deeth said Monday that it appears the wording of the present. by-law legally permits the group home proposed for Gerrow's Beach on Scugog Island, and Central Seven will be proceeding within the next three or four weeks to move four residents into the home. Mr. Deeth and a lawyer acting for Central Seven met with Scugog council and Township solicitor Tom Jermyn for almost an hour afternoon in-camera, and both Mr. Jermyn and members of council agree that the zoning by-law does permit the group home without an amende- ment. However, at an open council meeting Monday evening, a committee rep- resenting property owners along the Gerrow's Beach expressed concern for the group home proposal. "If this (the group home) goes ahead, there could be considerable animosity towards the- home and Central Seven because the property owners still do not have all their questions answered or concerns addressed,"' said Gary Fitchett, one of the commut- tee members representing property owners on Gerrow's Beach. Speaking to council Monday evening, Mr. Fitchett said the two main concerns on the part of the property owners are the possible depreciation of their property values and the safety of young children living in the area. Mr. Fitchett told council that he was told by the past president of the Canadian Real Estate Assoiciation that property values could depreciate by as much as 20 percent. . However, a report prepar- ed by a real estate company for the Toronto Association for the Mentally Retarded apparently concludes that group homes do not have an adverse effect on the values of neighbouring property owners. Although the Gerrow's Beach property owners have asked for a copy of that report, Mr. Deeth said Monday night that the company which prepared it will not release it to the public. The in-camera meeting (Turn to page 7) "Plans for Queen St. reconstruction will go-ahead as planned An angry Scugog council has rejected last minute eff- orts by several downtown business people to retain the angle parking on the north side of Queen Street. With less than a week to go before a contract is awarded for the reconstruction of Queen Street, council was presented with the petition Monday evening, and it was signed by 23 business people in downtown Port Perry, and 248 residents of the Town- ship. Members of council react- ed with anger and dis- appointment over the fact that these business people had waited until now to collectively voice their objections. '""To be honest,"' said Mayor Jerry Taylor after the petition had been presented, "I'm surprised and dis- appointed." He went on to tell the delegation led by Tom Mitch- ell of Settlement House that the plans for the reconstruct- ion of Queen Street have been public knowledge for almost a year, including the fact that the angle parking on the north side of the street will be replaced by parallel parking. *"The council went through a lot of planning to make the Queen Street project work," said the Mayor. "We had a good working relationship with the Cham- ber of Commerce and the Queen Street business peo- ple. Until a week ago when I first heard of this petition, I thought we (council) had been going in the right dir- ection." "I'm dismayed at this last minute approach," said councillor Reg Rose. "There was a series of (three) public meetings over the Queen Street project last year. I take exception to (Turn to page 3) Scugog considered for fertilizer plant Durham Region is one of four areas in Ontario being considered by United Co- operatives as a site for a large fertilizer blending plant. A member of Durham Region council revealed last week that the company has considered locating in either Scugog, Brock, or Uxbridge Township, but a spokesman for United Co-operatives told the Star on Monday morning that sites in Hamilton, Toronto and Windsor are also under consideration. The company spokesman added that a decision will into various forms of fertili- zer which would then be shipped out either in bulk or in bags. The plant itself would be about 20,000 square feet in size with storage facilities adding another 20,000 square feet. The cost of construc- tion woudl be about $3 million, and the plant would employ about 25 people. The company is also now in the process of negotiating with the Oshawa Harbour Commission for land to be : used as warehouse for ferti- lizer raw materials which come in by ship. likely be made within the, ., If these negotiations are next three months to allow construction of the plant tb begin this summer and go into operation by the spring of 1981. The plant would be set up to blend raw materials such as potash and phosphates successful, it would suggest that the blending plant will be built in the Durham Region area. The company now owns blending plants in eastern, southern and western Ontario. Police = vag N 5 ond SES Durham Regional police have started to issue tickets to vehicles parked illegally on roads and streets in Scugog Township. Depending on the offence, the fines are either $7 or $10. Last week, several vehicles in downtown Port Perry were issued with warnings because of parking infrac- tions. However, a spokes- man for the department said that officers have now been instructed to issue the tickets. By handing out the tickets, police are enforcing a muni- cipal parking by-law which was passed by Scugog coun- cil last year. But it was only at the end of last month that tickets were printed and distributed to the police start crackdown on parking officers. There is a long list of potential parking violations that a motorist could get a ticket for, but the main ones are blocking a fire route, parking too close to a hydrant or an intersection, blocking an entranceway, double parking, or parking on a street for longer than: three hours. 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