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Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 25, 2000 - 9 From page 1 The mayor went on to say that since the province turned all land use and plan- ning matters over to regional and local governments, "big developers are driving tractor trailers through the loop-holes" when it comes to developing on the envi- ronmentally sensitive moraine, a band of land that runs roughly 100 miles from the escarpment to east of Bowmanville. It is a water recharge area that provides many communities with drinking water, includ- ing Port Perry. Mr. O'Toole answered that the province does not want to intrude on the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), which has been asked to rule on the massive Gan Eden housing proposal on the moraine in south Uxbridge Township. "If the province overrules the OMB, | will be very surprised," he said. That prompted Councillor Gadsden to question whether development issues on the moraine should be left to "appointed OMB people who have no environmental training." And Councillor Gadsden said some smaller municipalities could "go bank- rupt" retaining lawyers, planners and con- sultants in their fight to protect the moraine at OMB hearings. Mr. O'Toole called the issue a "polariz- ing one" with "very powerful forces at work on both sides." He said 100,000 people each year are moving into the GTA, and they all need housing: "The housing industry is very robust now." But he did agree to take the message from council to Queen's Park and the appropriate ministers, saying "this is obviously a very significant local issue, and | won't just skate over it." Council also urged the MPP to take up the fight to keep the OMAFRA office in Port Perry. In response to a question from Ward | rep Keith Bacon, an active farmer, Mr. O'Toole said he has already outlined local concerns to the agriculture minister. But he went on to suggest that rather than providing "bricks and mortar" the province wants to concentrate on giving the farm industry four key components to Councillors urge O'Toole to take moraine message to caucus compete in a global trading market: research and development; technology transfers; market development for food produced here; and improving the farm revenue safety nets such as NISA. "We are shifting from field offices to providing high level technical support offices and facilities," he told the council. And at one point in his reply Mr. O'Toole said that he has not been del- uged with a "tremendous outrage" from the farm community over the closing of the ag office in Port Perry. Mayor Moffatt agreed that farmers are not by nature prone to expressing "tremendous outrage". 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