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'l '7/ United Appeal gets underwny In the Borough of York In Mayor Phil White VOL. IO, NO. 42 " Davin: Avon.» -- "who 147-6131 OH Mining's!” Rd. , block South M 30m.“ NEWS BRIEE§ Shot 6 times Weston man seeks deputy leader spot York residents celebrating a 50th wedding anniversary will be the recipients of a gold cup and saucer (value $2.50) courtesy of the borough, it was decided at Monday's council meeting. Citizens who have their 90th and 100th birthdays will not be overlooked by the Borough's public relations department either. They will be receiving a floral arrangement and congratulatory letter from the municipal fathers. In fact, if Mayor Philip White has his way, York couples celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary and other notable occasions will also receive recognition from the borough. A Weston man has been charged with attempted murder following the alleged shooting of a co-resident shortly before midnight last Sunday evening. Mr. White asked council if he could be allowed to use his own descretion in certain instances where time does not permit eouncil's seal of approval. Vincent Pasqualino, 33, of 4750 Old Weston Road is in Northwestern General Hospital recovering from five bullet wounds to his body and one to his hand. Police say he was shot as he embarked from his car in front of his residence. Casimo Beale, 35, of the same address, was arrested at Waterloo early Monday morning and a charge of attempted murder was laid against him following his capture and return to Toronto. Officers from divisions 12 and 14 say the shots were fired from a .25 calibre automatic. Investigations are continuing. . Council agreed to this, tfsi only after the Mayor promised not to be "too frivolous." Members Yom across Canada - even though not in attendance at the conference - will be voting on the party economic package through a one member - one vote system arranged with a national trust company. Leon Pushong, 2099 Lawrence Avenue, is seeking the deputy leader position in Paul Hellyer's Action Canada Party. The party's first policy conference is taking place at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto this weekend, October 1, 2 and 3. Ontario director of Action Canada, Don Routly, stated Mr. Pushong is one of three candidates seeking the deputy leadership. The others are Marvin Wallace, of London, and George Skelton, of Vancouver. As yet, no other nominations other than Mr. Hellyer's has been put forward for the party leadership. YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR NEW SHOWROOM ALL MODELS ON DISPLAY Gifthorse from 'l990 and Cnntroller Jim Trimbee get get to mine the standard at the municipal buildings it Council, in a dramatic move Monday, passed a stack of bylaws to secure its ownership of scores of other properties in the area, comprising nine major parks and parts of four others. The parkland, mainly in the Willowdale area of the borough, is in danger because North York missed a legal technicality -- they didn't pass a bylaw declaring the lands seized for back taxes are reserved for municipal purposes. The Aodphdies were discovered by Controller Paul Hunt during a routine check last month. North York Council will ask the Ontario Government to intervene and prevent the loss of $150,000 worth of parkland reclaimed by a lawyer for the heirs of original owners who lost the land for tax arrears during the depression of the 1930s. __ Harm»,- "" A g: F :uk? e a, fur;- um 4-}; rm; ..qtt8r.fir7Pitiii'iWAt'ai' F JY _ir','.rb'itii','i2,r 53" iayu. ' , T Liberal hopeful Jim Fleming running in the Yorkvlew riding does a little polishing up on one of his campaign posters. Several posters Weston-York Times North York moves to save threatened parks noon last Monday. The camp-In In seeking 812.850,... trom the metro Controller Hunt, as acting mayor during the past two weeks, led a task force of municipal officials to prepare bylaws protecting other parks in the vicinity. Mr. Hunt said he is prepared to fight a long legal battle against giving up the parkland properties on which the taxes have been paid. The lawyer involved is Duncan R. Phillips, a staff solicitor in the Borough of North York legal department until he went into private practise last year. In one area, $7,028 was paid in back taxes to reclaim five properties worth $75,000 to $100,000. The action may be too late, however, for six key properties on which back taxes have been paid in the past few months. The lawyer acting for the original owners claims the land must be returned to them. Toromo region on beta" of the " hum-I care services. Photo: Bill Salmon! THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,197] At Monday's meeting Mr. Chusid was confused by Mr. Williams' position. "i expected swipes from the mayor and perhaps Mr. Hunt and Mi. Knox but quite frankly I thought l had complimented Alderman Williams. I admired his position not because l agree with it but because it was an honest and frank position." Mr. Williams, however, was not calmed by Mr. Chusld's intended compliment. "What we have here is a member of this council in tt very hot political election. But he Is not going to get elected by nlenderlng a member of this council," Mn Willllml said. Mr. Williams said statements made by Mr. Chusid about him are “slanderous and defamatory." In the article Alderman Chusid criticized Mayor Basil Hall, Controller Paul Hunt and Alderman John Knox for not pushing for the establishment of a park for York Downs at the Metro level. He also referred to Mr. Williams in the article as having taken an honest stand against the park. "He votes that way ahd he talks that way," Mr. Chusid said of Mr. Williams. “The others - Knox, Hunt and Hall - talk as if they favor York Downs but vote to defer it and keep it deferred," he said. Most of the lands in question were acquired for tax arrears more than 30 years ago. One parcel has been maintained as part of Hollywood Park for 15 years. Four others are adjacent greenbelt which North York has planned to add to the park. Another is a former watercourse on Douglas Avenue in the Lawrence-Avenue Road area, designated in the district plan as open space. During the depression, special legislation was applied to municipalities in the Toronto area giving owners unlimited time to reclaim land lost for tax arrears. North York councillors were apparently unaware of the special provision until they were confronted this year with a rush of applications for reconveyance. North York Alderman John Williams accused fellow Alderman Murray Chusid Monday of slandering him in a recent newspaper article concerning the York Downs Golf Course. "Even it we are wrong from a legal, technical standpoint," said Controller Hunt, "we are justified in retaining ownership of the land." He contended that only recently, with escalating land values in the Metro area, has the value of properties become more than the taxes owing. And the increase in value has been the result of roads, water, sewers, and other services paid for by the taxpayers. Controller Hunt wants Ontario Municipal Affairs Minister Dalton Bales to confirm North York's ownership of the parkland in question. McCAULEY TELLS COUNCIL Price Waterhouse, he charged, looked at all the costs of the projects studies but they didn't consider all the revenue. Nor did the consultants consider the commercial aspect of the projects, Mr. McCauley maintained. Speaking specifically of the proposed 200,000 square He urged council to press for corrections in the Price Waterhouse study as "the report says something it did not in fact find out at all." "To say taxes will go up or down in this case is an untruth, since taxes are a total bill," he charged. "There is no assurance here as the experts only looked at 25 per cent of the tax bill. It is like diagnosing cancer over the telephone." Mr. McCauley was appearing as lawyer for Levy Industries Ltd., owners of one of the seven sites selected for study by Price Waterhouse Associates in their report on the financial effects of high rise development. "There are clear, calculable, negligent errors in this report" he said. Robert McCauley Q.C., former cabinet Minister of Trade and Development in the Roberts government, told York council Monday that "any report containing errors can constitute public mischief". “The basic principals in our report are correct," he said then "The Commissioner's comments do not affect the overall picture." Mr. Allen had criticised the Price Waterhouse report for not taking into account the 75 per cent of the taxes which go to Metropolitan Toronto, whose benefits, he says, are probably the highest. This resulted from the $25,000 Price Waterhouse study on the cost benefits of high rise redevelopment. The study concluded that if the best possible apartment redevelopment was implemented in York, the tazpayer would save only 82.12. and therefore the taxpayer is free to choose they type of community he wishes without incurring t1nancittl hardship. York council passed a motion calling for planning board to study limiting the number of apartments on the proposed Official Plan until the effects of the new provincial re-assessment are known. The report also stated however, that if the tax assessment basis were 90 per mm of market value the average homeowner would have paid $35 more In taxes in mo. Mayor Philip White proposed the motion stating that York may have to take a close look " apartments and possibly readjust them. He critiéised the report for omitting 200 Price - Waterhouse study not usable York may cut down apartment numbers Recalculate apt. report A.. . TRIMBEE "fy o",, Flprrrsr Council agreed to send the text of Mr. McCauley's address to Price Waterhouse along with the reports of the borough department heads and ask the firm for the cost of recalculating the report based on the findings. "We can't use the report as it stands," he declared, “The Ontario Municipal Board would never accept any plans based on the report. And the public should know what the true figures are." "The report assumes three acres of parkland on the Levy site will have to be bought," he said, "when 41a acres of land will be dedicated to the municipality as parkland. That puts their estimate of $180,000 for park costs down to $90,000." Mr. McCauley criticised the report for not including benefits of road widening, road closing and sewer imposl funds in the study. foot shopping complex at the Levy site, he said that the consultants should not have argued that the commercial area would be built anyway when, without partment development, nobody could support the complex. Mr. McCauley stated the parkland calculations by the consultants were in error by l00 per cent. "Now, we dont like the report because it's not enough," he said, "We've been sucked into a situation where we will have to spend more money. And it will be a lot more money." Alderman Michael Waclawski charged that council, by setting a $25,000 price tag on the report, had put Price Waterhouse "in a straight jacket". acres of parkland in its calculation of greenspace that must be purchased to meet the Borough's ratio of 2.5 acres per 1,000 population. The study did not include commercial assessment in four of the sites where the combined commercial area Mr. Allen estimates would yield another $1,500,000 in assessment to the borough. "By letting the study sit, you are not giving planning board any guidance. Are you going to use just little pieces of it?" he asked, "Either you use it as a guideline or reject it. Otherwise everyone can interpret the report in different ways." Cost benefits of sewer' impost fund and road widening were also not considered in the report, he charged. Mr. Allen urged council Monday night to make a decision on the report. "Can council go out to the public and say apartment developments are not a burden? Right now with this report you cannot," he stated. "if new apartments are a burden to the taxpayer, then old ones would be crippling," he added. Mr. Allen said it was necessary for planning board to have some guidance Yom council on the conclusion of the Price Waterhouse study. The Mayor said that in the 10 years he has been on council he had never sea: taxes go down because of ttpartmettta. Controller Douglas Sands-s. m “There are close to 5,000 empty apartment suites in York right now," he added, "The dream of so many apartments is unrealistic; it is not founded." "Perhaps we could move them away Yom areas such as Jane and Weston where there is great taxpayer concern and growing traffic problems," he suggested. seconded the Mayor's motion, told council they should be jut " concernd about reassessment as they are about the conclusions of the Price Valerian: "Mr. Allen agrees reuse“: might effect the balance of doll-n to the home owner." he slid SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS WORLDWIDE DELIVERY SERVICE 241-6951 or 241-5261