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~ identia Editorial Comments Land Use Policies Scugog Township councillors Howard Hall and Har- vey Graham did some verbal sparring at the council meeting of May 16. There is nothing really unusual about that. Members of Township council from time to time have been known to dis-agree. What is significant about the difference of opinion ex- pressed by the two councillors is that it pertained to land use policy in the Township: specifically land use policy concerning where rural subdivisions should be allowed to be developed. The council has taken the position that new subdivi- sions should be permitted only in certain areas of Scu- gog: within the urban boundary of Port Perry, within the designated boundary of the hamlets, and along the wa- terfronts of Scugog Island and areas east of Caesarea. The one significant exception in recent years was the Oak Hills residential and golf course development north of the Chalk Lake Road, which was approved under the Ssiats residential" provisions of the Regional Official an. Councillor Graham is a staunch supporter of the above policies. He simply does not want to see subdivi- sions popping up on every 50 or 100-acre parcel of va- cant land which has marginal or no value for farming. Likewise, councillor Hall does not want to see this ei- ther. But he did say quite clearly that there may be excep- tions. There may in fact be subdivision proposals which come in front of the council which are technically outside the policy, but still deserve some consideration on their merits. Their difference of opinion surfaced during a discus- sion with a developer who'is trying to get approval for a 32 lot subdivision that technically does not conform to the council policy. This particular one, called Oak Meadows is on the west side of the Oshawa Road, about three miles south of Port Perry. It is not within any designated development boundary, and it is not within the estate res- guidelines of the Official Plan. Township council has voted down Oak Meadows, but we suggest that maybe the municipality ought to be tak- ing a second look at the hard and fast policy of where new housing should be permitted. In saying this, we are not in any way championing the cause of Oak Meadows, but we wonder why the council would not open up the policy to allow a few such devel- opments, if they meet all the normal requirements such as proper soil conditions, adequate water supply and so on. Councillor Graham said there are numerous land owners in Scugog who would jump on the band-wagon. Maybe so. But we suggest quite strongly that most of these amateur developers would quietly abandon the idea when they looked a little more carefully at what's in- volved in turning 50 acres of raw land into a subdivision. The up-front costs are staggering, the delays, the red tape, the potential for OMB hearings, the public meetings, the fees tor lawyers and consultants are all factors that would quickly discourage the amateur developer with (Turn to page 6) XA XA X TAXPAYER % ag & > -~ " RE ¢ > el 1) SALE + LEASE-BACK \\ : OF UNIVERSITY ( ud LIBRARIES Ey, CORPORATE \ WRITE -OFF% Port Perry STAR a . Cn 235 QUEEN STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO Phone 985-7383 P.0.Box90 LOB INO J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Community Newspaper Association. Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. J.B. 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Other women, like pretty girls walking down the street, the voluptuous co-worker, and blonde bomb- shells in dirty jokes, are very much on men's minds. However, when women get together, their main topic of conversation is men. Their men. In particular, their husbands and boyfriends. And if they have neither, well, conversation hotly pursues methods of finding one. 2) If a woman is tied up at work, if she de- cides to go out "with the girls" for a couple of drinks, if she has had a flat tire, if she has been delayed for whatever reason, she will call home to let her mate know she's okay. She will do this, even if she has to walk ten miles to find a phone. She will do this if she is only half-conscious on an operating table. She will give up her "one phone call" to her mate rather than a lawyer, if she's been thrown in the slammer. Why does she do this? Because women come equipped with a "worry meter", something they're born with, that allows them to worry about their loved ones. Women make the mistake of assuming men also have this worry meter--so to prevent their men from worrying, women always call home if they're going to be late. Always. However, men do not have a worry meter. They only begin to worry if their wife hasn't come home from work yet and three days have passed. And because men don't worry the way wom- en do, men rarely, if ever call home to say they're going to be late. First of all, it's not "cool" to leave your drink- ing buddies to "call the wife". A man who "reports to the old lady" is invariably thought of as a wimp. So a man worth his salt will not be caught dead calling his wife to say he'll be ate. But even if a man couldn't care less about the stupid macho paragraph above, even if he's a sensitive kind of a guy, chances are he won't call to say he'll be late--simply because men lack worry meters. You see, when a woman is late coming home from work, a man simply assumes she' ot tied up doing overtime, or she ran into a riend, started yakking, and lost track of time. A man, thinking that, doesn't worry. But if a man is late coming home, the woman sends herself into spasms of worry. She is thinking that the worst has happened -to her loved one. She pictures car wrecks and her mate's bleeding body spread all over the highway. She imagines him out at a tavern, drunker than a skunk, eyeballing the strip- pore, She thinks about the possibilities of him aving run off with the secretary he'd been having an affair with. The later her mate is, the higher the needle reads on her worry meter. Heaven help a hus- band that gets home at 2 a.m. when he was supposed to be home for dinner. Her worry meter has driven her anxiety level to unequal heights. Her stomach is tied up in knots. Her head is pounding. She has alread called the police and checked with the hospi- tal. She is thinking about funeral arrange- ments as she goes through a mourning pro- cess that's completely akin to the real thing. She thinks about how she loved him, how she'll miss him, how she might not cope with- out him, how much insurance she'll get, and if she'll look any good in black. So when he finally comes in the door, un- harmed, she is overcome with relief and pure burning anger about why he didn't call to pre- rey her worry meter from hitting an all-time igh. 3) Husbands can participate in a huge fight and then roll over and fall asleep like they ha- ven't got a care in the world. : Wives, on the other hand, saturate their pil- lows with tears, and stay up for hours stewing and worrying. They cannot sleep. They look at their snoring husbands and feel like smother- ing them with pillows. That's how mad they get that the big lugs have no conscience. 4) Women listen to every word that comes out of a man's mouth. Men tune women out. This is absolutely true. Men are superlative tuners and can figure out how to install a new engine in their car, or how to re-arrange the basement workshop--while their wives tell them how their day was. When men complain about something, women believe their words are gospel. When women complain about something, men think they're whining. 5) When a man gets angry, he gets angry. When a woman gets angry, she gets bitchy. Life's not really fair, is it? 1