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# / s biziton it Uls»® S 0 7 m 2209 Weston Rd e L0 FOML;’O‘;'C:’M ; C 241â€"6951 244â€"1701 t "\‘ 241.5261 FORDâ€"FAIRLANE â€"F A 8 Send Flowers Anywhere BIRDSâ€"MUSTAN In The World By Wire * }vOLUME 8 NO. 46 North York council this week gave retiring mayor James Service a compromise victory in the last fight of his mayoralty. The councillors refused to authorise negotiations to buy an 81 acre site at Downsview airport for Mr. Service‘s proposed 60,000 seat domed stadium â€"â€" but they voted 11 to 6 to seek a oneâ€"year option from the federal government on the land valued at 3.5 Rmnillion dollars. . Ward three Alderman Robert Yuill, who represents the Downsview area, wanted the issue deferred until council had received reports from officials on the impact stadium traffic $3,000 by council to Ward Funeral Homes Ltd. The 420 square foot piece of land has North York Council - ‘ Approve option on stadium land Members of Silverthorn Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion sound "Taps" at a Rememberance Day Service held on November 11, 1969, at York‘s Cenotaph. Naval guard of York council has sold a piece of municipal land in Weston to a funeral home to straighten out a property line. A section of the York library board land on Weston {toad north of Lawrence venue, has been sold for mitted that by|selling one Alderman _ Douglas Saunders and Cyril Townâ€" send contend (that the property on Weston Road is worth almost $1,000 a foot frontage. Planning Comâ€" missioner Peter Allen adâ€" an 11 foot frontage on Weston Road. This reduces the library board land from 56 to 45 feet of frontage. would have on residential streets and already crowded arteries in the airport area. He also wanted the board of control to report on other possible sites for the stadium, and asked for a written statement on how the multiâ€"storey stadium would conform with or violate building height restrictions laid down for the airport vicinity by Department of National Defence. Mr. Service assured Mr. Yuill that the stadium could be built to conform to existing height restrictions by digging it deep into an excavation at the site. And he said that if the metrodome was built by a developer, steps third of the frontage of the library land on Weston Road, the value of the remaining portion has been reduced. Mayor Jack Mould said the former Weston Library Board approved of the sale but couldn‘t carry through because the Metro act was changed at the time to bring Weston into York. The mayor said THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1969 this particular piece of property was not needed in the plans of the York library. The site containes a twoâ€"story library building. The mayor said the building would eventually be sold. Alderman Chris Tonks contended the the land should not be sold. He said the site might be useful for a fire hall. Mayor Mould said that the site is not big enough Lure Major Leagues Mr. Service wanted some council backing for his efâ€" forts to buy the land because he hopes to lure one of the two baseball major leagues into deciding, at their upâ€" coming December annual meetings, to transfer a baseball franchise _ to Toronto and the metrodome. A site for the stadium, a baseball franchise and relocation of the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey club into the metrodome must all be pushed simultaneously to make the dome project happen, Mr. Service said. Mr. Yuill voted along with five other councillors to refer the whole issue of land buying negotiations to the new council which will be elected December 1. When this motion lost, Mr. Yuill voted with 10 other councillors to authorise the board of control to seek the one year option from Ottawa. Aldermen John Booth and Joseph Gould also voted to seek the option on the land. The motion carried. Mr. Booth and Mr. Gould, however, had voted against the earlier motion to refer the whole issue to council. would be taken by the borough to insure that local streets would not be used for access and exit from the stadium. But he received bitter opposition from Downsview area Alderman Murray Chusid. The ward five alderman argued that the mayor was trying to tie the council into negotiations which the new council in January would "have the greatest difficulty exâ€" tricating itself from.‘" He said council had no inâ€" dication that the federal government was ready to sell the land to North York. The site sought by Mr. Service has been made surplus to the Department of National Defence by the agreement to _ extend Sheppard Ave. west across the airport. Mr. Service had led the way in negotiations to have Shepherd extended and since last year he has been trying to have the federal government transfer the 81 acre site to North York for a token one dollar. _ These efforts were not producing results fast enough so Mr. Service sought and received Board of Control approval last week to negotiate with Ottawa to buy the land at a fair price â€" probably around $3.5 million. Spadina extended Mr. Chusid attacked the mayor‘s statement that the Spadina expressway would probably be extended north from Wilson Ave., to Steeles and later to the proposed highway 407 in Vaughan Township; This would handle much traffic to and from the stadium. _ Mr. SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS public unrest over the southerly extension of the expressway into the city meant that, if there were to be a northern extension, it wouldn‘t be built for 20 years. Mr. Service underpinned his plea for the land by stressing that it could be resold by the borough for private industrial development if no provate developer agreed to build a stadium. This way, he said, there was no way that North York taxpayers would be paying to subsidize the stadium. In addition, the mayor said that all land purchase agreemenits would be scrutinized by the Ontario Municipal Board to protect taxpayers interests. Controller Gordon Hurlburt, a consistent opâ€" ponent of Mr. Service‘s proposals to spend public money to improve the Yonge St. civic centre area as an encouragement for an adâ€" jacent high rise developâ€" ment, backed the mayor on the dome issue. â€" But he stressed that it was wrong to make any connection betâ€" ween the purchase of the Downsview land and its possible use for the stadium. Mr. Hurlburt said the land was in the best industrial area of North York, inâ€" creasing steadily in value, and it would be in the borough‘s intrest to buy and later resell or lease. Mr. Service proposed to sell or lease the land to any satisfactory stadium developer. In opposition, Alderman John Williams said council had no information on the scarcity of potential of inâ€" dustrial sites. _ Alderman Walter Cassels opposed the mayor‘s ~statement that "council has the duty to acquire the site, if possible at a reasonable price and on reasonable terms.‘‘ nz; Cassels recorded: " we have a specific nmr‘?ldp‘l don‘t have the right to acquire these lands."