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York council has delayed passing a bylaw that would change the zoning of a small section of land at Bloor and Jane from R 1, residential to C2, commercial. _ The rezoning .bylaw will permit development of a four storey commercial building with 79,000 square feet of rentable retail area on the ground floor and apâ€" proximately 29,000 square feet of medical office space on the upper storeys. Council have delayed passing the bylaw until further discussions are held with the City of Toronto to ensure the development North York Mayor Mel Lastman didn‘t say anything but he voted against an environmental study of the second section of the Scarborough expressway last week at Metro executive comnittee. So did York Mayor Philip White. The two borough mayors let the city politicians carry the fight against the study but when it came time to cast the vote they supported the city members. Metro council can be expected to have another argument over the expressway which could determine whether the executive decision not to go through with the study should be overruled. : After a conference with the municipal clerks of the city and boroughs, Metro clerk George Foster has set Tuesday January 15. as the date of the first meeting of Metro Council in 1974. Metro government was established in 1953. Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey said last week North York has more than its fair share of Ontario Housing Corâ€" poration projects. The chairman is anxious to have Metro social services committee enter the scene and have a strong say in what type and where OHC housing should be located in Metro. A meeting between Metro officials and the province on this matter is scheduled. North York Mayor Mel Lastman said about 8.6 percent of all housing in son e North York districts are OHC projects. Mr. Godfrey wants Metro to control the location of OHC housing. New centre Metro executive committee has decided to contribute $500 toward an international conference on sport medicine. Metro‘s donation will go toward the cost of sponsoring a luncheon for about 200 delegates from 22 countries. Metro is studying a policy to deal with requests from homeowners for the removal of healthy trees from road allowances. The proposed policy would require the home. owner to show that at least on two occasions the tree has been responsible for blocked drains. No tree would be removed if it hid advertising signs or store windows. If it is found that the tree is damaging roofs or lawns it will Metro has approved $3,188,550 in municipal financing for Etobicoke that includes a sizeable amount for the construction of an indoor Olympic sized swimming pool and gymnastic centre in Centennial Park. Big share No study supporter Date set Rezoning bylaw held for further study Athletic Policy will not cause any traffic congestion into the borough. The site is presently occupied by a Fina Service Station next to the Odeon Humber movie theatre. Only a quarter of the land is in the Borough of York, the remaining three quarters in the City of Toronto. The borough owned land is at the rear of the proposed development backing onto Rivercrest Road and vehicularâ€" traffic could have been diverted through a lane, leading to Riverâ€" crest Road. Planning board put a no entry or exit restriction on the lane. Serving the community since 1890 Education Minister Thomas Wells formed the committee to ascertain why, at a time when Canadian governments and inâ€" stitutions are stressing bilingualism and French instructional méthods have adâ€" vanced considerably, more and more students are opting out of French courses ‘and to try and reverse declining enrollâ€" ments. * In borough schools, only 34 cent of the student population is enrolled rfi'ench this year, in contrast to centennial year when 57.3 percent were taking French. Obviously, it would not be the intention, by David S. Brown In order to meet a submission deadline, York Board of Education met in special session last Monday night to approve a brief to the Ontario Ministerial Committee on the teaching of French. _ & Prepared by York‘s coordinator of modern languages, Mrs. M. McQuaig, the brief discusses aims, objectives and program organization of French language instruction, and critically evaluates the factors involved in achieving program objectives within the borough. _ Underway Aiming toward better instruction The bylaw restricts the height of the building to four storeys, insures no vehicle or pedestrian traffic onto Rivercrest Road and asks for a five foot six inch high closed boarded fence along Borough of York lands. Peter Allen, commissioner of planning, reported that the proposed medicalâ€"retail building would be a desirable redevelopâ€" ment. He stated the additional medical and retail facilities could benefit residents in the south part of York. There are very few retail businesses in the area that would be harmed by competition, he said. Phillis Baker, the cute campaign chairman for George Harvey‘s United Way drive, is surrounded by Walter Diclemente, Tony Boni, Jim Kisil and Gid Aballe â€" all sampling her offerings at the U.W. kissing booth. The booth will be in operation throughout the campaign at the school. Also in the plans are a dance on October 12, basketball and footballs games, a grub day â€" where the students get to dress up their teachers as grubby as they can â€" a tugâ€"oâ€"war in the pool, a slave day, a trikeâ€"aâ€"thon and various other funâ€"filled activities in their drive to top last year‘s $1,729 contribution. nor the expectation, of the board to create an entirely bilingual school population between the earliest French classes grade 3 and graduation. The brief suggests, rather, that the aim should be to make as many students as possible familiar with French and, in doing so, ought to teach the language at various levels of academic achievement and intensity. Such programs might range from near total immersion situations, with any number of regular subjects taught in French (as is being done at one Toronto public school) to brief, daily conversational periods. In promoting French instruction in the schools, however, there are several restricting factors. Considerations of class size, length of period, teacher qualification, teaching materials, and the attractiveness of the program to students are in need of action and financial support on the part of the province. At the secondary schools, logistical and program difficulties are complicated by the fact that many Canadian universities no longer insist on a language, in addition to English, as an entrance requirement. The liberties of the new credit system and the momdares uit se on pemmmaimenci t o + lA W Wny Thursday, October 4, 1973 [\ #4 corner which would pass through the building and seve the shops on the ground The borough portion of the site adjoins a parking authority lot at a lower level to the west corinecting with Riverview Gardens. The applicant has proposed a walkway linking the carpark with the Bloorâ€"Jane The original zoning for the site as residential was termed as anâ€"oversight by planning boardâ€" because of its close relationship to the commercial aspect of the Bloor and Jane intersection. desire of students to pursue other languages (such as Latin and Ialian) have also depleted French classes. The brief‘s recommendations att â€"mpt to remedy many of the problems facing French. It asks firstly for "a statement of aims and objectives which take into account different goals in the learning of French . . . researching different kinds of French programs which might meet the needs of various types of communities." The brief also requests firm provincial guidelines on n(()rtimal teaching conditions and the attendant financial backing to permit good learning situations in the classroom. Education of the public to the merits of "functional bilingualism, more opportunities for cultural exchm&t: and extension of the second language teaching assistants‘ program (French teachers and students working in York schools) were also The board approved the brief unanimously. If the ministry would now act along the lines of York‘s recommendations, better and more rewarding French inâ€" struction might reassert the importance of French in school curriculua. â€" â€" WESTONâ€"Y ORK ONTARIO 10°