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| PiGK 3 On June 22, the Waterloo regional police charged Merkley and Fraser with one count each of arson â€" disregard for human life. Both men were eventually charged with 35 other charges includâ€" ing arson, arson causing bodily harm, arson causing damage, theft under $5,000, possession of stolen goods under $5,000, mischief and false fire alarms. In all, 13 cars and five structures were damaged by the arson On June 21, Waterloo residents between Sunview Street in the north and Norman Street in the south were awakened by a rash of vehicle fires and structural fires that began at 430 a.m. and ended approximately two hours later. When police and firefightâ€" ers had finished cleaning up the mess, approximately $400,000 in property damage had occurred and one man, Rich Paterson, a tenant in a William Street West residence, had cut his hand while climbing out a window of a burning building. "Derrick Merkley and Blake Fraser will appear in Ontario court, general division in Kitchener at 4 p.m. to plead guilty to approxâ€" imately 22 arsonâ€"related charges, said assistant Crown Attorney John Robb Monday. Both men were 19 at the time of the incident. Although the two men will plead guilty to several charges, they will not be sentenced until Jan. 16, 1998. Twb Kitchener men allegedly involved in a massive arson spree this past June 21 in central Waterloo will plead guilty to a numâ€" ber of charges Nov. 25 in Ontario court, general division in Kitchâ€" ener. After the visit, the commission willÂ¥ake two to three months to come up with its preliminary recommendations which will be made public. Another 30 days are given for public input on the recommendations and then possibly another two or three months are taken to come up with its final recommendations which are passed on the the province. Once made, there is no further conâ€" sultation process. Once the Nov. 24 deadline has passed, the HRSC will review all of the local inputs. Likely, in cither December or January, the comâ€" mission will schedule a oneâ€"day visit to the area and will visit local The site visits and meetings are by invitation only not a public hearing. The district council said it will be schedâ€" The Waterloo Region District Health Council (WRDHC) has already submitted its recommendations to the commission. If Toronto was any example, the commission recommendations closely follow what the district recommends, said Gavin Grimâ€" son, executive director of WRDHC. ested people and organizations until Nov. 24. Those interested The Health Services Restructuring Commission (HSRC) announced last week that it will expand its review of health serâ€" vices to include Waterloo Region. For area residents, that means the wait to hear about the future of health care delivery is one step closer t being resolved. ighy s Future of health !~~ one step closer . ©%>>> Accommodating As roughly three people are currently estimated to live in one housing unit in Waterloo, that would mean the eventual populaâ€" tion of the subdivision would be between 2,550 and 3,150. The actual minimum number of housing units proposed for the subâ€" division is 687 while the maximum is 1,133, said planner Carol Wicbe of MacNaughton Hermsen Britton Clarkson Planning Limâ€" "It depends on how we develop the subdivision," he said. "We think if we develop the whole 88 hectares, it would be between 850â€"1,050 units." The 491â€"hectare westâ€"side lands are bounded by Erb Street West in the south, Wideman Road in the north, The Wilmot Line in the west and Erbsville Road in the east. The entire Villages of Clair Hills subdivision will be approximately 88 hectares in size Hans Kahien representing Kahien Holdings Incorporated, the second shareholder in Clair Hills Development Inc., said last Thursday although it was tough to predict market conditions, he believed the entire subdivision might be completed in eight to 12 years. He also offered an educated guess as to how many people might eventually live in The Villages of Clair Hills. "If you were to go and extend it (Columbia Street West), which is exactly what we will do next year, we will extend directly into the Clair Hills lands," Kruse said, during an open house promotâ€" ing the new subdivision held at the Waterloo Inn. "From there, left, in a southerly direction, is the extent of Clair Hills." Peter Kruse, a lawyer representing one of two sharcholders in Thursday he hoped construction in The Villages of Clair Hills would begin next June depending on the availability of building permits. The new subdivision will be located south of the west side‘s first residential development, Columbia Forest, west of Erbâ€" sville Road. Home construction in the second subdivision to be built in Waterloo‘s vast westâ€"side lands should begin in June, 1998. Clair Hills construction set for June +599 Appealing transitional styling with the welcome of Mlltp reclining +399 +1299 x % An abundance of deep f cushioning create a comfort * with reclining ends for fullâ€"body relaxation _ "Agr# The proposed separate school site will actually be located in the exireme southern part of the subdivision, Wiebe said The idea behind ‘neoâ€"traditional archnecture is to try and recre e the fnendly, interactive neighborhoods that exisied in Cansâ€" dian towns and cities prior to the Second World War. And although Kruse said Clair Hills Development Inc. was 2 developer and not an actual builder, the current zoning in the proposed subâ€" division will allow home offices. Fifteen 1o 16 parkenes will be set up within the subdmisic« nself while 2 fiveâ€" to sixâ€"acre park equipped with ball dramond and soccer helds will be located between two proposed clemen tary schools, one public and one separate, immediately south 0 the proposed subdivision Homes will be built closer 10 the street and to each other and garages will be cither flush with the froms of homes or will be built behind the fronts of homes. Again like Columbia Forest, most of the homes that will be bus! in the subdivision will incorporate ideas from the neoâ€"tradmons school of architecture. However unlike Columbis Forest, no apartment buildings ar currently planned. "We don‘t envision any," Kruse said. "We‘re not thinking of » Which is not 10 say that it‘s totally impossible." That means singleâ€"detached and semiâ€"detached homes, as w as rownhouses, will all be allowed 1o be mixed rogether to a c# tain extent on new city streets. Wiebe said planners have alrex made some general assumptons about the proposed housing im: with 55 per cent of the homes being singleâ€"detached residence 20 per cent being semiâ€"detached residences and 25 per cent besr As for the type of housing planned for The Villages of Cizr Hills, Kruse said it would be similar to the housing anx planned for Columbia Forest. Like Columbia Fores:, 2 new type of zoning Mexible residential, has been approved for the subdmision b; Waterioo council. ited of Kitchener, who helped prepare The Viklages of Clasr i draft plan of subdivision * g Nflg GST