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5 1/2"D X 64‘H TOâ€"10 FT. $74.95 all SMALLER units AVAILABLE . JN. ONE BOX ‘CLOSET 4 F7 to o Ft IWER! ige 4 CD Changer 69.95 95 EPVICE 49.95 200M x 0W x 210 Reg. 79.95 SELL: Available in White, Oak or Black Reg. 50.95 \ 95 05 sCâ€"S1450 Contaminant found [ in Seagram soil not | seen as dangerous Traces of two chemical contaminants found in soil on the site of the forâ€" mer Seagram distillery, while not cause for alarm, have prompted provincial officials to call for additional testing on the site. Con Patenhuyzen, a senior environment engineer with the Ministry of Environment and Energy, said the amount of the chemicals, trichloroethâ€" ylene (TCE), and vinyl chloride that was detected was "A little bit over the drinking water guidelines", and not enough to be a public health conâ€" cern. * < He said TCE was used extensively in the 50s and 60s as a metal w.hham:mmwhfll'mhwnw“m aquatic life", while vinyl chloride is often found as a byproduct of the degradation of TCE. Joseph E. Seagram and Sons is in the process of having most buildings on the site demolished to make way for redevelopment. As part of the redevelopment process, the company had to have environmental testing done on the site‘s soil last summer. ‘The TCE was discovered in soil from a borehole at that time, which led to the ministry asking for further testing in January. The results of those tests showed one borehole to be contaminated with vinyl chloride. Patenâ€" huyzen said his ministry has asked Seagram to do more tests to deterâ€" gflnmdhflMMh“flmb "The rest of the site is quite clean," he said, adding that Seagram will probably be given the green light to develop the land within a few "We‘re not interested in stopping the development, we‘re interested in Patenhuyzen said the source of the contamination appears to be in the area of the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery and Waterloo Memorial Arena â€"â€" once the site of a garbage dump. "It‘s a nonâ€"issue for the development," Michel Dell‘ Aniello, the Seaâ€" gram viceâ€"president responsible for the development, said of the TCE produce an unblemished environmental report. He said Seagram will be submitting a report to the Ministry of Enviâ€" ronment and Energy in two or three weeks. Dell‘ Aniello said he is confident that there is no serious environmental contamination on the site, but he wants to see sufficient testing done to demand that highâ€"density developments be halfâ€"residential, halfâ€"parkland. Possible, but not likely, said Don Roth, the City‘s senior planner. Roth has proposed that council approve the inclusion into the City‘s Official Plan of a Municipal Act provision allowing the City to require one hectare of parkland to be dediâ€" cated to the City for every 300 units a develâ€" oper builds. In Waterloo now, developers must dediâ€" cate five per cent of their land to the city for park purposes or make a cashâ€"inâ€"lieu payâ€" ment using a formula based on market More parkland per unit concerns Labatt planner ~The proposed change to the City‘s parkâ€" land dedication policy concerns Bernie Hermsen of MacNaughton Hermsen Britton ‘pon passage of a proposed amendâ€" ment to Waterloo‘s Official Plan, it would be possible for council to Hermsen Labatt Breweries of Canada nndmmwom- Hauserman property owner), both of which :nwflmhwwuwu Asked if the proposed formula would hurt the chances of a quick redevelopment of the Labatt property, Hermsen said, "I guess that‘s one possibility." Basically, the concern right now is the level of uncertainty. When we started the process on Labatt‘s, we knew what the city standard was. Now we‘re going through a process where it might change." "Roth said the cities of Kitchener, Guelph, London and Mississauga already have the perâ€"unit option in their official plans, In a development having fewer than six units per acre, as in much of Beechwood, the City gets more parkland now, with the fiveâ€" perâ€"cent rule in place. However, anything more dense than that would see the proposed formula yield more ! February sales of new and Jenna Gibeon (front) and Amy Tiffin head down the toboggan hill at mwmwm.ummm her turn. winter wonderland, which also features a snow castle and an igloo, was buiit on Ambleside Crescent by resident John WIb;fiMMMIMbm" multiple offers and shorter market times. ‘The threat of increased interest rates in the United States may pull our rates up and push buyers off the fence. The activity we have had at our open houses and the numâ€" ber of showings we are getting from other brokers sure indiâ€" cates that there are alot of buyers getting ready to make the The new Federal Budget will put an end to Capital Gains it _ "***** * seems which brings to light the old theory of Dr. Morton By the way Shulman. The theory was that we should buy the most all price rai expensive home with the largest mortgage we could afford. of sales in F ‘The idee was that the home as principle residence would tax . For inform shelter increased equity through inflation of the house price _ 747â€"2040 SWOOSH!! lowâ€"density developments well, but the amount of parkland per person declines draâ€" core areas deficient in parkland. While the City is attempting to use the perâ€"unit parkland dedication option to increase the amount of parkland per housâ€" ing unit in the Uptown and Westmount areas, "We want to be flexible," Roth said. "We just want to have the option to use it." If the City were to opt for an inflexible perâ€" unit parkland dedication requirement on wm&qmum unprofitable, he said, so he is hoping for flexâ€" "If the City applied the standard to the extreme, it would take something like 60 per tent of the property. I don‘t think that would ever happen, because if you take 60 per cent of the property, how are you going to have enough land left over to achieve that numâ€" ber of units? And if you can‘t achieve that number of units, the City can‘t get that park Hermsen said the result of inflexibility Dekorah Crandall phote ed by the same inflation. With fewer and fewer tax shelters this ides is beginning to have some merit. It‘s Heart and Stroke Month, so everyone should make thei best effort to help this very important area of research and education. If I recall correctly more people die from heart and stroke problems than all other diseases combined. By the way the staff at Scharf Realty is looking for houses in â€" all price ranges as our supply is down with the recent Burry % of sales in February. would be no more highâ€"density developâ€" ments. The concept of intensification â€" where core lands are redeveloped at high densities to get people back into the core while city fringes are left undeveloped â€" is a general goal of the City, but Hermsen said the parkâ€" land dedication change would lead to less Hermsen said changing the parkland dedâ€" developers to change a proposed uptown resâ€" idential development into a commercial development, which would only require & twoâ€"perâ€"cent parkland dedication. "The City of Waterloo is going to have to balance its objective of bringing people back into the core through redevelopment projects with the impact that policies such as parkâ€" land dedication would have on developâ€" mendations back to council sometime this Hoddle wants Westvaie taxi/bus route ‘The successful taxi/bus scheme on Kitchener Transit‘s Route 13 last summer should be employed on Route 4, says Coun. Craig Hodâ€" After seeing a recent report on the performance of the new Route 4 bus connecting Westvale with downtown Kitchener, Hoddle said ridership was too low to warrant a bus. Instead, he intends to talk to City staff about taxi service for the Westvale bus route. The service works like this: 4 phone the taxi company and tell them what bus stop you would like to be picked up at 4 tell them when you want to be picked up (they require 10 minâ€" utes notice) tell them which bus stop you need to get out at 4 pay the driver the normal Kitchener Transit fare 4 ask for a special transfer if you are transferring to a bus which crosses the route 4 sign the driver‘s conformation sheet to show he drove you and you paid bus fare Since it was extended into Westâ€" vale in September, revenues on Route 4 were 25.3 per cent of costs, and an average of 21.6 peoâ€" ple boarded the bus every hour Both values are just above the Khella Godkin said the bus "is not doing that badly". She said it will take one year before the bus‘ perâ€" formance can be fairly judged call Ted Scharf, Broker