PAGE 12, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1988 SPRING SPECIAL FERTILIZING AND WEEDSPRAYING $42.00 & up to 5000 sq. ft lot size also COMPLETELAWN CARE PROGRAMS Only top quality C-1-L Granular Fertilizer and Green Cross products used. All work done by licensed Pestice Applicator $ LOU'S LAWN SERVICE-728-3589 Can.adian Tire gas bar is approved FROMPAGE 1 left turns onto Bowman Ave. and upgrading of the Bowman- -Dundas St. E. intersection. During the hearing, George Horning, a traffic engineer, suggested that the intersection be widened to allow three lanes of trafic. Two lanes on Bowman would be for southbound traffic - one lane for left-hand turns, the other for a right-hand turns. The third lane would be for north- bound traffic. Canadian Tire had informed the board that it would be willing to pay up to $18,122 for the work. During his testimony, Horning told the two board members that the gas bar should have 375 cars a day stopping for gas, with 60 per cent of that number already travelling on either Dundas St. E. or Bowman Ave. In comparison, he said a family restaurant which would have been allowed under the C2S zoning which was on the property before the board's decision, would have 605 cars travelling to the site a day. A restaurant would have been permitted under the C2S (special purpose) zoning of the property, but the new bylaw will now only permit a gas bar and lubritorium. Horning said a take-out restaurant, such as a Harvey's or McDonald's, would generate trafic of 1,350 cars a day. During his testimony, Clarke, a class "A" mechanic, stated that he didn't believe a previous report which predicted 12 cars a day would go north on Bowman from the gas bar. "I say there's hundreds of cars going north," said Clarke, who said he would prefer a restaurant since "There's not as many cars going in and out - you don't have to be a scientist to figure that out." Horning said the gas bar would not have any impact on Dundas St., noting that a traffic count he conducted in March of this year showed that 20,000 cars a day travelled on Dundas St. in the area of the gas bar. In her final submission, Maclean noted the concern about traffic impact but asked the board to make its decision based on the evidence of the trafic engineer. She said that if the "Town plans by listening to ratepayers of a certain area, or if they plan by listening to people on the street, the Town has no planning at all. "If trafic was a problem, why didn't the Town do something about it?" she said, noting that the Town did - not have any witnesses despite the evidence of Horning. But the OMB chairman reminded Maclean that the board would consider evidence of area residents as a traffic concern. In his submission, Irwin noted that both the Town and Durham Region official plans state that a gas bar is permitted in a C2S zone only if it is deemed not to be a nuisance. "Council believes it will create a nuisance," said Irwin. He said the board had to decide whether the gas bar would be a nuisance·to nearby residents. "Council weighed the profes- sional evidence, but as elected representatives of the community this was a situation that should not be granted," said Irwin. In addition to residents, the OMB heard testimony on the first day of the hearing from Leon Kentridge, a planner retained by Canadian Tire, who said the gas bar was a "very reasonable use on the site." Kentridge outlined the land- scaping, lighting, screening anc access details that had beer proposed in the site plan anc testified that he was "satisfied il didn't interfere with the neigh' boring pioperty." When asked by Irwin whethei he thought it would be better t close gas bar access to Bowman Kentridge replied that "It makei no planning sense." At the request of Irwin Kentridge also pointed out the number of gas bars already in thi area. When asked by Irwin i there were already enough Kentridge replied that Canadiar Tire offered a "specific type a service" as well as "anothel choice." Lorne St. Louis, director o operations for Canadian Tire'i petroleum division which now hai 150 gas bars in Canada (there arg 406 stores), testified that th< existing Canadian Tire gas bar oi Brock St. S. was to be close< down. He also said original plan to have the gas bar beside th Canadian Tire store on Glen Hil Dr. were thwarted when the stor became larger than first propose to offer a full line of products an service to a growing market areE eventually squeezing out the ga bar plan. He said Canadian Tire chos the Bowman/Dundas location lx cause of proximity to the storf access from Dundas and size t allow "stacking" (six gas pum stations, so six cars at a timi and a good site design. Plans ar also to have the station ope seven days a week, with hours t be competitive with other go bars. Rycroft testified that Tow plaþning department knew t} corporation wanted to relocate il gas bar in Whitby. SEE PAGE 13