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Such a step would not be within the jurisdiction of the licensing commission or Metro Council. James Neville, administrator of the commission said plumbing and building bylaws appear to differ from one municipality to another and that different regulations have to be followed with regard to electrical installations. He admitted that it would be a task of major proportion to standardize the existing bylaws. He said it would require the full coâ€"operation of all the municipalities. Metro Licensing Commission officials have suggested that there is merit in the municipalities in Metro Toronto stanâ€" dardizing bylaws that deal with plumbing, heating and building regulations. Standardize regulations Council, however decided to follow Alderman Cy Townsend‘s advice (("C‘mon, let‘s give the guy a break") and passed Mr. Bosa‘s motion by six votes to four. And Mayor White spoke against it stating he wanted a motion ‘"a little more in keeping with the concern." Controller James Trimbee wanted to defer the motion until a joint report on possible solutions to the traffic situation is submitted from York‘s and North York‘s traffic coâ€"ordinators. He estimated that it would be ready in two to three weeks. Cut Spadina at highway Mr. Bosa said that because council had previously defeated a motion asking that the Expressway be extended to St. Clair Avenue West, this was the only alternative left to alleviate "‘disastrous" traffic conditions on Marlee Avenue. York council passed a motion made by Alderman Peter Bosa Monday night that the Cabinet of the Provincial government be asked to close the Spadina Expressway at Highway 401. ‘‘Where could you get 60 Canadians to fill three rings?" he asked . . . innocently. ‘"Right here." came the notâ€"soâ€"innocent reply from somewhere in York‘s council chamber. Mr. White also said that for six nights the grandstand show features an International Circus. .‘‘Snowbird" composer Gene McLellan who appears with Charlie Pride, The Bells from Montreal on Johnny Cash‘s program, and also show headliners The Guess Who as examples. The Mayor pointed out that Canadian talent is appearing at the Exhibition this year, albgit in second bilgng status. He gave "In 1968 the CNE had an allâ€"Canadian talent show called "Sea to Sea" which lost $480,000 and the taxpayers had to unâ€" derwrite this loss," he reminded Mr. Nobleman Although most councillors were willing to pass Mr. Nobleman‘s motion, Mayor Philip White was opposed it stating it is "not as simple as it appears." He cited such Canadian stars as Gordon Lightfoot, Anne Murray, Ian and Sylvia, Tommy Hunter, The Irish Rovers . . . (The Irish Rovers?) as possible future headliners. the Canadian Nat.i(;'n;lfilflflwxlfil-)'it‘i_gn“; ‘t’l.se Canadian talent as headliners of the Grandstand Show. Mr. Nobleman explained that the CRTC has recently decreed that all radio and television programming be 60 per cent Canadian content and that he felt the CNE should also follow this policy. the Alderman Ben Nobleman brought forth his "annual" motion at York‘s Monday night council meeting asking the directors of NEWS BRIEFS Vol. 10, No. 36 Three ring circus 17 Daybar Avenue â€" Phone 247â€"6137 Off Martingrove Rd. 1 block South of Beifield YOoU ARE INVITED TO ourR NEW SHOWROOM ALL MODELS ON DISPLAY from 1990 Council also approved a 28 car parking lot on the north side of Emmett Avenue that must be paved, fenced, and the boundaries landscaped. The merchants will not be allowed to erect an outdoor sign advertising their presence, nor will they have a store window facing the outside of the building. It was also decided that Pealmac Holdings Ltd. build a play area west of the apartment building at 65 Emmett Avenue before May next year. The stores will be located on the upper basement level of the apartment building. Only a grocery store, stationary, delicatessen, restaurant, drug store, barâ€" bershop, beauty shop, dry cleaners or bank will be permitted. 250 copies of the justâ€"revealed Price Waterhouse study on the economic inâ€" fluences of apartment redevelopment in the borough. According to the plan drawn up by the planning department and approved by council, the entire commercial area in the building will be no larger than 7,000 square feet and no individual store greater than 2000 square feet in area. The trouble arose at York‘s council meeting Monday afternoon when councillors argued over a report from Board of Control stating they had authorized the printing of York council gave final approval Monday to Pealmac Holdings Ltd.‘s proposal to have retail stores in their high rise apartment building at 55 Emmett Avenue. New stores and park The play area is presently located east of Stupid‘ reports cost $1600 If Pretty girl... Westonâ€"York Times ‘"‘Store owners cannot depend on the motorist to stop and buy goods," he declared. ‘"‘Besides, the public goes to regional shopping centres now,‘" he added. Mr.AW:_Y_me said that York currently has the ‘""most liberal‘"‘ parking policy Mayor Philip White stated that strip shopping areas serve only the immediate communities. Mr. Keyes also called for a conference of York and Metro parking authorities to consider providing offâ€"street parking in that area. % The Alderman stated that the local merchants will go out of business unless some help in parking is given. ‘‘We have a responsibility to our fringe businessmen," Alderman Gordon Keyes told his fellow councillors at Monday night‘s council meeting while supporting his motion that consideration be given to a plan providing parking exemption for patrons of Eglintonâ€"Keele area stores. 55 Emmett Avenue. Neighbours had been complaining of the noise and general disturbance caused by children who were often still loitering in the play area late at night. Strip parking Alderman Lloyd Sainsbury wanted the 250 copies in the possession of the borough to be The price of the first 100 copies was inâ€" cluded in the $25,000 fee charged by the consultants Price Waterhouse, however, the remaining 150 copies already ordered by the Board of Control will cost the borough $1600. Inis pretty miss, getting all the attention of York South Liberal candidate Ed Direnfeld, left, and York Controller Douglas Saunders, is fiveâ€"yearâ€"old Kim Blanchard. She became Miss West Fairbank at the West Fairbank Ratepayers Association‘s field day at Bert Robinson Park last Saturday afternoon This pretty miss, getting all the Thursday, August 19, 1971 Council also voted down a suggestion by Alderman Gordon Keyes that no further copies of the report be issued until a distribution policy is decided upon at the next council meeting, with the exception of 10 copies given to the Mayor to be used at his own discretion. Council finally did approve Alderman Peter Bosa‘s motion that the Mayor get five copies, the borough hold back 25 and that the fate of the rest of the 250 Price Waterhouse reports on order be decided on another day. Council, however defeated a motion which would have given complimentary copies to ratepayer groups and senior Metro Officials and would have charged all others inâ€" terested in having a Price Waterhouse study of their own $15 for their copy. Alderman Michael Waclawski expressed surprise at the "outrageous‘‘ $1600 price tag for the printing of 150 copies, but stated that it would be "almost niggardly" to tell ratepayer groups they couldn‘t have a copy. ‘"You can‘t get anything free," he declared, ‘"We‘re not rich enough to do that anyway." copyrighted by them ‘"at whatever price we want." Alderman Ben Nobleman doubted that 250 people would want a copy of what he called ‘"a stupid report," but if by chance someone did want to read the Price Waterhouse study then they should have to pay for it. Mayor Philip White stated that Metro was "one big family" and that he wouldn‘t want to charge his "confreres‘" for a report. "It would be embarrassing," he admitted. Mr. White did agree, though, that some policy should be formed on requests for copies from outside Metro Toronto. It‘s a give and take situation, explained the Mayor, who said he wouldn‘t want to have to charge the clerk of the borough of Scarborough for a copy. York Mayor Philip White hailed the Price Waterhouse report as "one of the most The study predicts that tax differences which exist today will be eliminated if the provincial government completes its policy scheduled for 1975 of uniform tax assessment of all property at market value. The study also indicated that if all borough property had been reasssessed at 90 percent of market value, the average single family homeowner would pay about $35 more in annual taxes. ‘‘But these gains would have made only a small difference to individual home owners," the report continues. The report stated however, that "more intensive redevelopment of the 29 acres belonging to Levy‘s Truck Service on Weston Road might increase net revenue by more than $300,000." The study indicates that none of the potential apartment redevelopments would have contributed more than $80,000 in direct net revenue to York. ‘"Conversion of industrial land to single family dwellings has a negative economic effect compared with other kinds of redevelopment," he said. Peter Oliphant of Price Waterhouse Associates presented his company‘s study to council. He pointed out in his presentation that low and medium density residential development also has a negligible impact on the taxpayer. ‘‘The cost of redevelopment is substantial and may well represent the most that can be accomplished in the borough for some years," the study states. The study concludes that ‘"if the best redevelopment decisions‘"‘ had been made in each location, the average taxpayer in York would have saved $5.76. If apartments had been built on all seven sites, the taxpayer would have saved only $2.12, and if lowâ€" density development had taken place only on the Levy and Dundasâ€"Scarlett Road sites, the taxpayer would have saved only $1.96. Two of the chosen sites alreéd{t’u;;; -l;een developgd _for high rise apartments. If high density redevelopment took place on all seven sites, approximately $160 million would have to be spent to achieve maximum development in the borough. The total assessment of these areas in 1968 was approximately $7.5 million, equivalent to 2.6 per cent of the borough‘s total assessment. Selected sites were: Weston, Levy Auto Parts Ltd., Queensbury House, Dundasâ€" Scarlett Road, Elhurst, Janeâ€"Woolner and Hopewell. The 5 month study by Price Waterhouse Associates, management consultants and Marshall, Macklin and Monaghan Ltd., consulting engineers, studies the effect on taxes if $160 million were spent on apartâ€" ment developments on seven sites in the borough. The borough is 43.9 percent single family homes, has the highest mill rate in Toronto, and a l_.)elow average income. Difficulty in finding new industry to settle here is the high cost of landâ€" believed to be in the vicinity of $200,000â€" $300,000 per acre at the present time. ‘"‘But there will be no moratorium on apartment development", he stressed. York budgeted $25,000 for this report last March after council argued whether the borough should plan for high rise development, as other area municipalities are doing. base‘"‘, he continued. We will have to sit down with present industrials in problem seeking sessions. We can‘t afford to lose any of those established in York." ‘"‘The taxpayers of the borough are therefore free under present conditions to choose the kind of community they wish without incurring financial hardship," the report states. ‘"We will also have to concentrate on and stress improvement in our industrial The report states that York‘s financial stability s not dependent on apartment redevelopment, nor will the borough gain a tax windfall from it, contrary to the exâ€" pectations of high rise proponents. Mayor White says that there will be a major cutback in high density apartment construction and a shift of emphasis toward stabilizing present residential areas with a view to improving neighâ€" borhoods and upâ€"grading the quality of housing within the borough. High rise development won‘t save the borough of York taxpayer much money says the Price Waterhouse report released at a special meeting of council Monday morning. No apartment moratorium Mayor Philip White believes that the Borough of York will have to take another look at their drawing boards following delivery of the Price Waterhouse report on the merits of high rise development. PRICE WATERHOUSE REPORT No tax gold in highrises Mayor White suggests that a series of public meetings with businessmen and residents would solve a lot of problems. ‘‘While we still have a moral and social obligation to supply housing, we should be giving taxpayers the kind of comâ€" munity they want and be concentrating on imprioving our present environment." ‘‘Weston will see an almost immediate cutback on development", said Mayor White. "Traffic problems will just about eliminate a higher concentration at this time. A few projects are already in progress, but we‘ll take a second look at all future development." The mayor stressed the need for some development in the Mt. Dennis, Rogers Rd.â€"Silverthorn and the Keeleâ€"Eglinton areas. Local business in .these localities needs a higher density of population to survive. ‘"There will be a drastic difference in tax savings for the taxpayer living in a single family dwelling when the park figures are adjusted," he predicted. ‘"‘Council still has an obligation to its merchants and we will continue to look at reasonable developments." Mr. Saunders said the report based its figures for parkland and purchase on 1 acre costing $200,000. Mr. Saunders said this was unrealistic as the purchase of the 165 Eglinton Flats cost the borough only $700,000 three years ago. ‘"The report was not based on actual parkland needs in each specific location," he explained. "In our Official Plan we designate 2.5 acres of park for every 1000 people, yet in the report, in the Dundasâ€" Scarlett Rd. development they allow $427,000 in costs to purchase parkland when Lampton Park is situated right across the road. This could significantly change the overall figures." Controller Douglas Saunders criticised the report stating it is "not applicable, just hypothetical." "Is it worth the aggravation and the concern of the ratepayers to push for a development they don‘t want?" he wonâ€" dered. "Should we help the Metro housing problem by redevelopment even though we know it doesn‘t benefit us that much?" Alderman Cy Townsend said the report focuses on the question whether it is best to redevelop "even though the return is not as great as we thought." ‘We‘re back to reality. We have to use what we have," commented Controller James Trimbee. to look at every day." He suggested York p]arl for large industrial tracts. Alderman Fergus Brown told council the study gives York an opportunity "to clean up the borough by getting rid of small in dustrial complexes that homeowners have ‘"‘Now that we‘ve been told that assessment is not based on high rise development, what is the alternative?" he asked, ‘"We don‘t have the large tracts of land that attract industry." Alderman Ben Nobleman, a critic of the report since its conception, attacked the study because it did not provide any alternatives. He said the impact of the report would be felt all over Ontario and that it definitely will "shake the development and potential population growth of York." important studies ever made by local government." Peter Oliphant SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS