Page 2, Whiby Free Pross, Wednesday. Decomber 21, 1994 Decrease in Whitby building9 activity By Mike Kowalski $9.1 million were processed, cern- Despite a moderato docline in pared te the provieus Novem- Noeme, the level of building ber'e 126 residential permits et activity in Whitby continues te, $16.1 million. outporform lest year's pace.'. However, the value of commer- According te figures roloasod cial permits labt" nioîitb was by 'the Trown'se public works .$41i5,&.0oandonly $130,475 in dopartment, the 108 buildiirx% Nc>eiber -1993> -,indusfiýal was pormits processed by the munici- $534670 lest, moýnt;h and only ~alityr lest month bad a value ýof $750teyabfr. 10.1 million. 3.7Altbougbthe Novomber This. was down 3. per cent figures were down collectively from the $16.5 million in permite for, the, year -te. -date, *the total issued in Novomber 1993. <.alue fbildi peiti sstl Lest monb9 esIiotIaIqec«- p 34 pér,cent." ter permits Iiaigavle ho 1,002 permits issued from Buy a Lennox wlispe Heat Fumnace and receive Ai* r Cleaner or Power Humidifier or Don FREEe etback Thermostat tÎl Api Here'sa ncw gas (urnace no home shoutd bc without. Thc WhispcrHcatîm gas .ImnpfrM1 Pn ',lÉ h a wr to omeowncrs who havc been putting off rplacing thciroldelunker with tic ncwesi in tcchnology. Whispcrl-cat is Lcnnox qualiLy aLitis bcst. I-igh cfficicncy. anovative engineering. Warm comcort. Fasy installation. And lilce ils name, WhisperHcat is whisper quiet. Energy Saver - up to 80% effiiemnt Noticeabte quiet performTanlce No standing pilot sale electronic ignition hange aaty on heat cachanger Must be a Lenntiox! ho rl qu Easy fitter c 20-ycar war DR1DLEWDDD Corne visit us in aur showroom. HEATING & AIR CON DITIONING WhitbylOshawa 436.-3212 Pickering/Ajax 428-0333 -i BLS January te, Novembor bad a value of $135.8 million. For the corresponding period in 1993, the 870 permits totalled $101.3 mil- lion in investment. 'i a prsa release, Mayor Tom Edwardspoints eut that tbe im- portant industrial secter bas accounted for a 28.5 per cent incroase in 1994. A man charged in connoction with five bank robberies in Whitby in 1992 and 1993 as well with robberiee in the Ottawa area wes recently sontencod te 15 years in prison. Stevon Craig Sommervillo, of ne fixed address,'wes eentencod i court in Ottawa after being cenvicted on robbery charges in both areas. Seminorville wes charged by Durhamn Regional Police in con- nection witb throe of four bank robberies at the Canada Trust "This means that in addition te building, thero will be some per- manent jobs as a rosult of t bat construction,» Edwards says. "Ail in ail, it indicatos con- tinued confidence in the Town of of Whitby as a good place for devolopment capital." Altbough tbe $2.09 million in industrial permnits is ahead of braxich on Thiekeon Road South. One of those for wbich* ho was charge occurred on Je. 27, 1993, wben two mon, aed with a doube-barrelled shotgun ece- ped on foot with abut M000 from the branch. Ho wes aise cbarged in con- ection with 1992 rebbeéries at the Rtoyal Benk's Brock Street South branch and et the National Bank on Dundas Street East. In total, there wero seven bank robberies in Whitby in 1992. or m 't Pay ' Mil1995 'M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M I For blanket coverage of ALL the homles and/or One Hour businesses in Whitby OR Moto Photo to selected areas only, oeil the Whitby Free Press - (setected homes) 668-611. * Prince Restaurant If you did not get aflyer tdhm s which is listed for full ~ ee distributionl, give us a oeil. Bank robber gets 15-year sentence' * .0 hmead * Ike e lbss ChibasSeia 2.lb IUnit 7, Whitby 666-9395 last year'e $1.6-million figure, the commercial soctor je down 55 per cent. In 1993 the 78 permits issuod through I4oember totalled $11.7 million. This yoar's 88 commer- cial pormits account for only $5.2 million ini investment. Yet, this in turn, je negated by the 548 per cent increaso in the value of ietitutional p rmits. Tho 19 pormits in ti category total $46.4 million Compared te last year's 24 perits. at $7.1 million. SThe $133-million -redovelop- ment of the former 'Whitby Psy- chiatric Hospital, 'new Witby Mental Health Centre, was ros ponsible for* the* tromendous i- crease ini this sector. The agrcultur ai sector also registeire a whopping 503.7 per cent increase. The igkt pormnits te date total $582,076. In 1993, the six permits were valuod at $96,412. .As alwaye, the rosidential sec- ter makes up the lion's share of building permite issued by a I ib*813 prits having a value of $81.5 million have beon processed this year, a slight incroaso (0.9 per cent) from 19931s fi gure of $80.7 milli-on. Although with residential con- struction cernes more people.and demanda for more services, Edwarde told The Free Prose there je littie a municipality can do te eslow growth. «Unlees tho Town bas good reason, we can't deny (develop- ment) applications," said Edwarde. "But on the othor hand, if we didn't have this volume (of new assesement), we ceuldn't bring about a reduction in taxes."» Market forces usually deter- mine tho pace of growth, Edwards noted. "At some point a slowdown bas te occur,," he said. 1Leoking abead .te, Decembor's permits report Edwards teased, Ithink youll Le surprised when yo look at what we've got in stre for the end of the yoar.» Building permit fees collocted by the Town in Novembor total- led $104,274, bringing the yea?'s figure te $1.2 million. Lung Association hopes. you'l 'aMail It' Lung Association (Durham Rogion) president Carolyn Greer hopos tliat 7,000 people acros the rogion will answor their Christmas Seal lotters thie week te bring the association dloser te its 1994 Christmas goal of $185,000. Se far, only about $70,000 bas boon raised, compared with $80,000 raised last year te this date. "Christmas Sea] income je again down this year," Greer said. 'Wo hope people will respond generously during Mail It Week, (Dec. 19-23) which commemorates the 88th annivorsary of the first issue of chistmas Soals." M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M n le 1 ri