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The owner of Waterloo‘s current 51,000â€"squareâ€"foot Canadian Tire store at 270 Weber Sweet North, Phil McDonald. said Canadian Tire would spend approximately 510 million on the new store while he would contribute another $2 million for fixtures and assets and an additiona $4 million in inventory McDonald would be the owner of the new store and his current 110 fullâ€" and partâ€"time employees would move with him. "I would anticipate that the city the official plan mfluuflmmmb next three months and that the OMB will not even become an issue," Stockic said. "Because it‘s unlikely they would strike a hearing date that quickly." Although Dietrich said Friday he couldn‘t say for sure whether Canadian Tire would still be willing to build a new store faced with the lengthier official plan amendment and zone change process, Canadian Tire‘s director of public rels uons, Jennifer Garland, said the company would. "We‘re quite hopeful that the city can process the applica uon quickly enough so we can be under consuruction this tfall." Gartand said. "So that‘s really our position on it." Manulife and Canadian Tire had originally chosen the communee of adjustment route to allow for construction of the new store because Canadian Tire wamed to open the new store in the spring of 1997. They felt going through the normal zoning change process would mean they wouldn‘t be able 1 open the new store until the fall of 1997. Garland said in a recent interview the proposed new store would be approximately 84.000 square feet in total size which would include 53,000 square feet of retail space. Included in the new store would be a 13.674â€"squareâ€"foot sion to the OMB on April 1. cial plan amendment and zone change application conâ€" cerning the land. ¢ A planning consultant for Manulife Financial, Paul Dietâ€" nich of Wrightâ€"Dietrich Planners, Engineers and Land Development Consultants of Cambridge, confinmed last Friâ€" day that Manulife applied for the official plan amendment and zone change March 25. Manulife and Canadian Tire originally successfully asked Waterioo‘s committee of adjustment to to a mmwhafiufl*":bfi' the proposed new store to go shead this past March 21. However Waterioo Couns. Mike Connolly and Morty Tayâ€" lor formaily appealed the commitiee of adjustment‘s deciâ€" at the southeast corner of Weber Street North and Old Lexington Road, has applied to the city for a regular offéâ€" Tim Gardner & Peter Cudhea CH:u-sh-n: byfl“fl Chronicle â€"â€" Chronicle *Our number one fees are f se yaf umdndflcal:am proposed Ontaric Municipal Board hearing conâ€" In the face of provincial government scope of services, we‘re now out soliciting cerning a possible new Canadian Tire store in OHIP cutbacks, Paul Weber had to come _ contracts with area businesses, wyin Waterico may not have to take place. up with an inventive method of m ininppmmmang» Waterioo chief administrative officer, Tom Stockie, said attracting more business to Waterâ€" â€" in an interview in midâ€"April Manalife Financial, the comâ€" loos Kinetex Innovative Assessment pany that owns the tand Canadian Tire wants to build on & Rehab Centre. j / wounts Aumost unreuens i | (" WWEAL FOn HOWE, OFFICE, Cortage, a.v. 1 maa es / | repair cenire with 17 bays T B11 spokesman Paul Kilbertus, the govern ment had to control the expenses. "If we were to allow physicians to receive OHIP payments without governâ€" ment intervention, it‘s projected that the 96 payments would have been $500 milâ€" lion more than budgeted." Realizing that something had to be done, Weber doffed his clinic director hat for a marketing agent‘s hat and is now going doorâ€"toâ€"door selling the various package‘ benefits of the Kinetex Rehab of government beit tightening. With OHIP billing doubling from $2.5 billion in 1985 to $5 billion in 1992, the Harris PC government, through its social contract, put a cap of $3.8 billion to be paid out to physicians this year. multiâ€"doctor billing, which has become more difficult in these times Weber recognized that in the past, the OHIP health plan had been a big part of the payment of services offered in the rchab business. Because the clinic offers clients multiâ€"services, it must also process & Rehab Centre. The centre offers its clients treatâ€" ment from a wide range of practiâ€" tioners in areas such as orthopedics, general medicine, psychology, kinesiâ€" ology and athletic therapy According to Health Ministry . in foins . id cutbacks see Kinetex to get more involved," said Weber. And going outside OHIP for more income is "okay", says Kilbertus, "just as long as it doesn‘t create double billing." Awimxkit\\&ubfi business to take over a government service, he noted that not all businesses have the same related onâ€"theâ€"job injuries and the clinic packages can be geared to suit the company‘s needs. Some compaâ€" nies may only require orthopedics and athietic thérapy, while others require the use of kinesiology and psychology. As the single most expensive health care problem, back injury costs have now come under the scrutiny of government So, Kinetex invested in the services of a take the load off OHIP and get businesses careers as first choice options for 10,000 visizors to the at small employers in the The pilo: project was ia (May 6â€"7) and 1998 (May 5â€"6) provincial Skills Canada "WE AT STEVE$ . of fow back pain decreased.> . , fnpeiasemaptease es tocol Ofi& the overall cost found that companies that do that are payâ€" nmmw-& remain on det years," said mfly»‘:&wmug them to get up in the morning and go back to work." . ~ Weber noted that not all back injurics k T. i tmf !&-';TI ' ’a'c""' E ent i â€" decisions ies $ se m Board, insurance :-: put on lightâ€"detail duty We W ; . palsoptie o inao on fhis es * for the