WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1987, PAGE 11 More study wanted on Garrard Rd.land severance A Whitby property owner's application to sever his lot will again be considered by the Town's administrative committee. On Feb. 2, committee members voted 2-1 to approve the rezoning application by Colin Campbell which would permit him to sever the property at 217 Garrard Rd. The recommen- dation was made despite concerns ex- pressed by neighboring landowners at the meeting and at a prévious public meeting. But council members last week decided to refer the matter for fur- ther study after objec- tions were made by Pat Dooley, president of the Corridor Area Ratepayers Associa- tion. Campbell wants to move a bouse on the property, when severed, to the south part of the retained lot and build a new residence on' the northerly lot. He had proposed one Graywood centre for the future FROM PAGE 3 Before the announ- cement of the 60-acre "Centre for the Future" development, Gray- wood unveiled plans for a major housing development on about - 160 acres south of Taun- ton Rd. E., between Brock St. N. and Garden St. lot having 60-foot fron- tage and the other, 50- foot frontage. The amendment is required for single family lots having frontage of less than 70 feet. "This is one of the bet- ter-planned areas of Whitby and allowing this will destroy that," Dooley told council members last week. Planning department had approved the severance as an excep- tion to the zoning. However, a revision was recommended so that the lots were both 55 feet in frontage. Planning departient had stated that the fron- tage and area of the lots when severed were compatible with the surrounding neigh- borhood. Lot frontages in the residential block range from 50 to 110 feet, while lot areas range from 10,000 to 22,000 sq. ft. Dooley called Garrard Rd. a "checkerboard area," and said the current arrangement in which some houses have less frontage than others would be "further aggravated by this ap- proval." "We moved there for the large lots," said one area homeowner,- Stan Lepine, at the Jan. 5 public meeting. "If you split them up, .perople will be living on postage stamps." However, he stated that his main concern was that Campbell would be an absentee landlord, which might mean that the pioperty would not be main- tained. "We are not prepared to sit back and let it deteriorate," said Lepine. "We have money there and we're concer- ned about it," he added, referring to the effect on the value of his home. Campbell replied that he would live in the new house after selling the old. Councillor Joe Bugelli had stated at the public meeting that the residential block had a "consistent »pattern" since there were dif- ferent lot sizes. At the Feb. 2 ad- ministrative committee meeting, another area property owner stated that he had been denied a severance some years ago. But Bugelli urged that Campbell not be the "whipping boy of an error made previously." Albert Liebregts, an area property owner, asked if other owners could make similar ap- plication - with the establishment of what he described as a "precdent." Committee chairman Marcel Brunelle, who with Bugelli supported the application, denied that a precedent was being established. Bugelli said a nearby property had already set the precedent "if there was one." "It doesn't matter what the ieighbors think," argued Doreen Carrington noting that concerns raised seemed to have no effect. She and husband Leonard had previously been denied the severance. "It doesn't matter whether we agree or disagree." At last week's council session, Dooley repeated the argument that a precedent would be established. "I was going to sup- port this but Mr. Dooley's comments warrait more in- vestigation,". said Councillor Ross Batten. "If we start splitting up lots, maybe there is no stop to it." Council wants further discussion on the impact of the severance if gran- ted. $1 BILLION SPECIAL CANADIAN GRAINS PROGRAM. Elm A Helpmngfland for Grain lhrmers T e Special Canadian Grains United States. Pedigreed seed, high moisture Program is assisting farmers The first $300 million will be in corn, high moisture barley and with $1 billion. This initiative, the hands of grain and oilseed farm fed grain are also covered announced by Prime Minister farmers this winter. Another Brian Mulroney, is the largest of $700 million will be paid out in its kind ever undertaken by any the spring. 2 being mailed directly to Canadian government on behalf The details of this historie Western farmers based on of farmers.aCanadian Wheat Board permit It is a national program that responds to a national need. It You will benefit if, in 1986, will help offset low grain andI your crops are not e% d ririces res ulting from oats, rve, mixed grains, corn, 3w hncluded in permit book Tefs$3 milowe inîa o e a ni. Included in that development, outlined the subsidy war between the soybeanscan by Wojeicki in January European Community and the seeds for crusi before Whitby's ad- ministrative commit- tee, would be 506 single family dwellings, 146 single family link dwellings, 76 street townhouse sites for three schools, and blocks for parkland and commercial. Graywood acquired the Whitby property from Markborough Properties Ltd. in the fall of 1985. other projects under development by Graywood include the Number One York Quay, two 39-storey towers comprising 808 condominium units, at the foot of York St. on Queen's Quay West on Lake Ontario; West- mount Estates, - 342 residential lots on 107 acres in the Thornhill- Vaughan community; Bayview Green, 946 condominium residen- ces in three towers on a 25-acre site in Markham; Greenwood Plaza, a shopping cen- tre near Bramalea City Centre; and other hotel, residential and shop- ping centre projects. Before the founding of Graywood in February, 1985, Watchorn was president of Cavendish Investing Ltd. Thé other senior partner, Moshe Tamari, chairman of the board at Graywood, Governmeft Gouvernement has completed several ofCanaaa du Canada developments in Canada and the United,. staes.---------------------------------------------- *. 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