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‘"‘My correspondence runs 99 per cent opposed to Sunday openâ€" ings," said Epp. "It‘s the most overwhelming response I‘ve had on any one issue at any one time." Asked if he thought passing the decisionâ€"making to the municiâ€" palities would result in a snowâ€" balling of Sunday openings across give regional government the right to decide the issue. Workers will have the right to refuse to work on Sundays, but will be subject to "referees" reviewing their case. lan Kirkby Chronicle Staff Waterloo North MPP Herb Epp does not see his stand on Sunday shopping as contradictory. While declaring himself personâ€" ally opposed to any expansion of Sunday retail openings, Epp says he will support the bill introduced last Thursday in the Ontario legislature. ‘"‘There‘s nothing inconsistent about it. It‘s a matter of passing responsiblity to municipalities." Epp said when the bill passes, "I would urge council to vote against it." The legislation will Epp denies any inconsistencies in Sunday stand Marketing day at WLU That is about 2,250 units a year for the past four years â€" too many in an area which needs affordable housing for some of its citizens. Rowlandson told council there were several reasons for the loss. One is underâ€"development. ‘"Developments have been allowed in suburban areas at much lower densities than planned," a report submitted to council by Rowlandson notes. "Average density has dropped from 14 units per gross acre in the 1970s to nine in the 1980s. Proposed developments for apartments are built as townhouses; proposals for townhouses turn out to be semiâ€"detached or single family instead. Waterloo has lost nearly 500 units since 1981 in this way". Another cause is reâ€"zoning. "Councils have redesigâ€" nated residential land to other purposes. For example, higher density sites have been redesignated strip retail. Wateriloo has lost close to 300 units through various redesignations since 1981". Waterioo Region has lost 9,000 homes since 1983, Waterloo city council was told Monday by Rebecca Rowlandson of the Waterioo Regional Housing Coaliâ€" tion. A third cause is downâ€"zoning in which councile Herb Epp Approximately 500 high school students will have the opportuniâ€" ty to listen to guest speakers explain their marketing pracâ€" tices. Marketing day will be held Wednesday, April 27 from 9 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. at Wilfrid Laurier University. A media release from the Onâ€" tario Progressive Conservative Caucus quotes Tory leader Andy Brandt saying, "Mr. Epp‘s constiâ€" tuents can still help fight wideâ€" open Sunday shopping by remindâ€" ing him who voted him into Queen‘s Park and who can vote him out." ‘"What could I do in the House? The Minister introduced it. If there had been a vote, I would have been in the House." Epp added he spent Saturday and Sunday doing constituency Epp said he got the ballgame tickets two weeks prior. "It had absolutely nothing to do with that bill being introduced. It‘s hard to get tickets. the province, Epp replied, "I would hope not. "In fact, where the push was for Sunday openings is right here in Toronto. I even think Toronto is Tuesday and _ Wednesday. 1 stepped out for a couple of hours. I was back by 3:30 (pm). Is there my son to a ballgame?" _ Epp was not at the legislature Thursday when an unsuccessful attempt was made to introduce the bill. While New Democrat and Progressive Conservative MPPs blocked the introduction by reading piles of petitions from constituents, Epp was at the ‘"I had tickets and I hadn‘t been there for a while, so I went," he said. "I was in the house Monday, people are more opposed to Sunâ€" day shopping than they were a year ago. They are standing up and I applaud them for it. I‘m opposed to Sunday shopping and if it comes to a referendum, I would vote against it." Epp said he expects all 883 Ontario municipalities to "immeâ€" diately pass a motion saying they are opposed to Sunday openings". Allowing more than one use with a zoning can also result in land designated multiâ€"residential being used for other purposes. For instance, in Waterloo, an "apartment only"‘ zoning also allows churches to built on the site. Rowlandson told council it should establish miniâ€" mum as well as maximum densities for all areas of the city. It should also require new subdivision plans to have a range of housing types and sizes, a proportion of vhichmldmiflotlnnnfiulfloflhble housing, she said. Council was also urged to not consider reâ€"zoning to district plans. Often, the reasons behind the actions are logical on the surface. A neighborhood group may object veheâ€" mently to a multiple residential proposal, citing the "quality of life" in their neighborhood. This NIMBY (not in my back yard) syndrome is very common in the Waterloo area, causing great frustration among city hall staff, and often causing municipal politicians to sweat, especially as elections approach. change official plans and reduce density objectives in densities in builtâ€"up areas or where zgoning is Liz Latta, could be the profile of such a woman. After being a member of the labor force, Latta decided not to return to work after having her son, Jimmy. She opted to give up her job and become a fullâ€"time mom in the family‘s Lakeshore area home. Latta is winding up her term as chairman of the Lakeshore Neighborhood Yâ€"Group this spring and is helping her successors prepare for the upcoming year. The 15â€"yearâ€"old group had fallen on some shakey times trying to sustain a membership. But with seven regulars, Latta is determined to do what she can to maintain the Lakeshore group because it is something in which she believes. "I think it‘s very lonely to be a housewife these days," she surmised. The Neighbourhood Y has given her an opportunity to meet other women in the community. And, she added, she has found support from other women after expressing her concerns as a firstâ€"time mother. The Lakeshore group, like the other four in the Twin Cities sponsored by the Frederick Street YWCA, meets for twoâ€"hours every week at a community centre or church. Here the women hand Overaeg:eofloe, Linda Toner, left, liaison of the YWCA‘s Neighbourhood Y Group and the mnofwmdoo’stwogtotmmlewminfomfion.lnthemiddlels Lincoin Heights chairman Marylynne Feeney and Lakeshore chairman Liz Latta. Isobel Lawson Chronicle Staff It is lonely business being a mom in a neighborâ€" hood where the streets and homes become vacant at 8 a.m. as couples hop in their cars and drive away for a day at the office. Husband has gone to work, children are playing and mom has no one to talk to; no one with whom she can share interests and concerns. In some areas there are not enough women left at home to form morning coffee klatches.Sometimes, a woman can spend the entire day without conversing with anyone but her preschool children. Neighborhood Y programs offer welcome diversions WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 20, 1988 â€" PAGE 3 address the shortage of affordable housing, Rowlander concluded, ‘"We urge council to take action immediateâ€" ly. Zoning and densities are only components of the overall affordable housing issue of course, but they are precisely the components over which municipal counâ€" cils have significant leverage and, consequently, ibility ." !;m suggestions were referred to the city planning department. It will be interesting to see the responses. already in place. ‘"Keep in mind how difficult it is to zone in the other direction to higher densities," she told the honorable members. Another suggestion was to "seize opportunities in secondary plans to reâ€"zone unneeded industrial anc commercial sites to multiple residential". "By adopting these principles councils would, at the very least, preserve the densities to which they have already committed themselves and go some way toward endorsing and encouraging production of housing for a segment of the market which is currently far and away the worst served â€" the young, low income workers, people on pensions and seniors‘"‘. Emphasizing the role council can take in helping to The Lincoln Heights group is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Because of its growth the group, with 35 members and up to 28 children, has had to move to larger facilities. Feeney acknowâ€" ledged the group is not for everyone. But there is flexibility as women can chose the meetings they want to attend based upon the groupâ€"planned schedule. ‘"We‘re there if you want us. If you don‘t that‘s fine," said the mother of three. Neighborhood Y s began in 1957 as a takeâ€"aâ€"break group for women in the downtown core, explained Toner. Over the years it has experienced changes as women moved out of the homes and into the work force. Presently there are five groups in the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo area, with total membership of about 100. Two of these groups are in Waterloo. The Neighborhood Y program is not only for young mothers, explained Linda Toner, program liaison and a YWCA board memeber. The age ranges from a greatâ€"grandmother of 83 years, women with grown children and young mothers. For people new to the community, added Toner, Neighbourhood Y groups provide a chance to meet neighbors and find out about the city. It‘s also a time to talk about current events, says Marylynne Feeney, chairman of the Lincoln Heights group. "Let‘s face it if you have three preschoolers running around you don‘t read the newspaper from front to over their children to a babysitter, walk down the hallway and participate in an organized activity. Depending upon the group‘s wishes, there might be a guest speaker, craft display, or perhaps a tour of a local company or facility. Each group charges a weekly fee for babysitting and coffee.