Parking ban suggested Interest in modified on Victoria Street sehool year ý Aoua - - -- - - - - Page 31 assesseu Whitby at] off to OFSJ Page Lletes Clampdown on AA ilegal flower Page 2 1 vendors p, By Mike Kowalsd approve< The finial obstacle blocking the plan. fro, Lynde Shores housing project Corporat has been removed. 5,000 Po The Ontario Municipal Board living nei (0B)gve draft apprîoval Mon-in we day to the Rose Crporation's and Hanm proposed 54-unit subdvision A 185 onst of the Là ynde (Jreek Marsh. planned Barring the remote possibility land nori of a court challenge from the also par Save Lynde 'Marsh (SLM) citi- schome. zens' ommittee, the board's nil- "Obvloi mg effectively paves the way for W. waite devlopment as early ns noit EnscorI spring. Morrison Together with a previously break ini 8 okay.s Rose plan d 1,255-unit subdivision )m the Ontario Realty tion (ORC), an estimated Bople will oventually be it to the largest remain- Iand between Oshawa ilton. 5-acre industrial park by Durharn Region on ýth of Victoria Street is rt of the development eusly were very pleaeed. ed agood yoar, for this,» EIhc. prosidont Stephe7n told reporters during a the 0MBhearing in the Whitby council chambers. (Enscor i. the parent company of the Rose Corp.) 'TMe neit stop is to deal with the bylaw and then work from the draft plan te registration,» said Momrson. gThat requires meeting ail con- ditions of approval. When that's accomplished, the plan can b. registered and lots sold,» ho eIverithing falîsite place, "WB' not unreasonable te expect te sSo homes on the site by next spring or summer,» ho added.. Despite long-standing opposi- tion te the project from SIM and others, the ruling from 0MB chair D.S. Colbourne was not unexpocted. Shortîr after the hearin began, awyes or the Rs Corp. and throe Wlutby residents who appealed Town council's approval of the'subdivision plan, announced that thefr' clients had reached a settlement. In return for Rose meeting certain conditions, speciflcall in- stallation of a six-foot high chain link fonce betwoen the- marsh and a future pedestrian walk- way, the opponents agreed te withdraw their objections. Johanna ite a former. mem- ber of SLM, anc1 Frank and Suse Egert, aae i three sub- division pIas atyoar. But earlier this month, Tito and the Eggerts 'dropped their opposition te the ORO and Dur- ham proposaIs, also in return for certain concessions. The most significant of those concerions was that Durham and the ORC not build on any land within 120 metres of the, marsh until, an environmontal impact SEE PAGE 35 councillorsý defe,-ýnd need s or semia r at ~ Nttwaag Candidates go on attack BybMe Kowalekl With on. week remaining until election day, the. outcome i Dur- ham Centre riding appears to b. very much in doubt. Iflast Thursday's ail-candi- dates' forum in tho Whitby coun- cil chamberis wae any indication, the local race has become a cabon copy of the overall provin- cial campaign. SAfectng the. virtual deadlock between theéir parties in the pub- lic opinion nol, ià beral -candi- date A urong adPors sive Conservative hopeful Jim Faherty spent much of tho oven- ing attaclcing each other's plat- forme. Flaherty relpeatedly stressed tii. 143 poisscontainedi tii. IbMeralparty's 'red book' and tried te painit leader I4yn McLeod am being inconsistent on major issues. Meanwhule Furlong dismissed the. tex cuts espouod i the 'Common Sens. Revolution' of Tory leader Miko Harris and warned that it will add another $30 billion te Ontario's debt.* Although the. New Democratie Party government came in for its share of criticism. incumbent ýSERPAOE27 ByMie Kowall Although not invited- local tax- payers will apparentfy b. the bneficiar*es of next month's Durham Région somninar at the Nottawasaga Inn. A two-day 'brainstorming'ses- sion for re9gional councillors and senor admfinistrative staff w ill b. held at the popular resort in Allisten, northwost of Toronte, June 14-15. Touted ns an opportunity for =olitici asand uraucrats te, ica long-range planning and financiai mattors in an informai, setig: the seminar will cost Layor Tom Edwarde and W atb' threo rogional council- lors plan te, attend the session. But while aIl four support the value of such gathoringi, there i. disagrooment about the location. Coîuncillors Jo. Drumm and Gerry Emm cannot jutify hold- ing the evont outside Durham Regon. Edwards and councillor Marcel Brunelle dlaim that for it te, be successfiil, the seminar must be held aw.ay from home. Previous meetings hold locally wer. plaguod by low attendance and disruptions throughout the day, they recalled. Edwars for one had no diffi- culty defendinj tie.seminar's '7hle two day. we spotet in Belleville paid off several ies,» ho said in reference te, Town coundil'. much-criticized excur- siona fow montha after the 1991 municipal electon. Deciioèna r.ahed t. th' 4at-- meeting -helped council freeze taxes for three straight years, for example, said Edwards. Wlufle the jury is stili out on the sucesa of Town council'a one-day seminar In Whitbyr ear- lier tin year, Edwardesazwd the mood wn flot the samo. «hlJnortunately, phono cal]. were commgnmand people were leavingaldy long," hosaid. Although imsistin% that the Nottawasaga "doesn t personalli hold any attraction for me, Edwardls said h. is obligated te attend and ropresent Whitys intere"t. Ho had no knowledge of whether a local venue wns con- sidered. «I know ini the pnst wo had Creat difficulty in finding a loca- tin for the meeting," said Edwards. "Weve got about 60 -people involvod ad I don't know wa the roquirements are, I haven't looked. "Whoover is callnth shots on this at the Regionm con- fident they found te bot place at the best cost.» Durham Riegion chiof adminis- trative officer Gariy Cubitt could not b. reached te comment on spiflc details of the seminar. «I think it s3hould have beon held in the region,» said council- lor Jo. Dum, "but it's too late te change it now.7 Howover, the rationale for hod h e esio cnb.justi-, Counillos reeivebriefings SEE PAGE 3 IK