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Report incredible @accusation: Mayor Since anything more than a minor variance would fall beyond the Committee of Adjustment‘s jurisdiction. the Reâ€" gional Planning Department lodged an appeal of the comâ€" mittee‘s decision before the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). Mr. Dorfman said "the City of Waterloo should implement its Official Plan and its District Plan by passing a Zoning bylaw amendment and not rely on the Committee of Adjustment to treat this kind of implementation as a minor variance." By Geoff Hoile * When is a zone change more than a minor variance? Apâ€" parently when it involves a parking lot in residential downâ€" town Waterloo. Regional planners have strongly criticized the City of Waâ€" terloo over a recent Committee of Adjustment decision to permit a George St. house to be torn down in favour of a commercial parking lot. In a report tabled yesterday at a meeting of the Regional Planning and Development Committee,. the Region‘s direcâ€" tor of development. Mark Dorfman said "the proposed use is not similar to anything in the General Residence zoning bylaw provisions and therefore cannot be considered to be a minor variance." Waterloo Mayor Marjorie Carroll called Mr. Dorfman‘s remark "an incredible accusation."" She explained that the owners of the Allen Square office complex now under comâ€" struction on King St. did not come to city council or city planners for permission to change the abutting George St. residential property into a parking area. They went directly before the Committee of Adjustment. "Anyone can do that said the mayor. ‘‘*when someore pays his money and says he ants to be heard, there is nothing we can do except go to ‘e OMB. Had they come to us for a zone change, we could ave gone that route. They were in full knowledge of what they were doing.~ It was far from a relaxing trustees as they spent all weekend for . Waterloo day Saturday trying to.grapâ€" County Board of Education ple with a proposed $109.9 Figure hits 4109.9 million Wednesday, March 7, 1979 comment Sports The King of More has a height problem in the Cedarbrae P.S. operetta, It Takes a Wizard. His adâ€" ventures trying to overcome his shortcoming inâ€" volve a liberated Sleeping Beauty, Robbing _ Hood and his merry men, and a relucâ€" tant dragon. community calendar 2 Waterioo at a glance 3 The Wizard § yJefPae Trustees grapple with budget â€"Inside on‘ )2R (Continued on page 3) 14â€"20 124th Year No. 10 Erb St between Caroline and Westmount is in termible shape. according to Waâ€" terloo Ald. Richard Biggs. and it could take five yvears for the region‘s engineering department to do anything about it million budget. If trustees agreed on nothing else all day they agreed that someâ€" We should approach the The reluctant dragon (Martha Anne Kidnie) sings, ‘"Nobody comes to see me ... and that‘s the way 1| like it." Roads present problems 10 Cents how, somewhere this as tounding figure had to be pared down. The ‘78 budget totalled close to 995 million. Before trustees sat down to the gruelling taSk of deciâ€" phering facts and figures, Ross Cruickshank, director of education, said that the days when the Ministry of Education dangled. carrots in the form of funds and enâ€" couraged the establishment of programs and hiring of teachers were long gone. As opposed to giving the board a base amount of money, the Ministry now gives the board a base amount up to a certain ceiling. C region for reconstruction of that portion of the road. he said. it is one of the most heavily travelled roads _. and it is also important to the downtown area of Waâ€" terloo to have to drive down it 7 We‘re in a different posiâ€" tion now,‘‘ said the director. **We‘re faced with a treâ€" memdous rise in the cost of materials, heating, fuel as The City‘s Commissioner of Works, Jim Willis. pointâ€" ed out to council Monday that resurfacing the road is in the region‘s fiveâ€"year forecast Ald Walter McLean replied. tell the region it‘s too long to wait. ‘‘This budget is our major statement of philosophy. It puts our money, our constiâ€" tuent‘s money and emâ€" ployee‘s money where our mouths are. We are responâ€" sible to the educational theory, parental desires and the community." well as keeping pace with salaries. It isn‘t a great big punchy budget you can knock a lot of money out of and _ make everybody Lynn Woolstencroft, _ _ chairman of the board, said the budget was a shock to all trustees but she commended the staff who had risen to the challenge of preparing it _ > . Mrs. Woolstencroft comâ€" mented on the fact that so few persons cutside the eduâ€" Dlu Ald. Biggs complained that Waterloo has been on the short end of the stick as far as roads go We were in good shape when we came into regional government.~ His motion to ask the region to move up its priority of maintenance on Erb St passed unanimously at the meeting to see the trustees in action. # Included in the ‘79 budget was a request from the finâ€" ance administrators for the addition of $2 million to a reserve fund, the purpose of which is to offset the cost of shartâ€"term loans. This amount was tentatively set aside on a ‘‘cut list‘‘ and could be one of the first things to go. It was be some time beâ€" fore other major cuts are made. Trustees met in a closed session Monday evenâ€" ing to discuss salaries and benefits. This section makes up 80 per cent of the total budget. cational realm, with the exâ€" ception of two Wilmot