WITVBY FRIEI PRI SS, WEDNI SDAY, APRIL I ii, PAG 1 Thickson road development sent back Strong opposition has for- ced Whitby Town Council to take another look at Con- solidated Building Cor- poration's proposed sub- division development on Thickson Road. East Ward Councillor Joe Drumm led the attack saying that "this subdivision is the pits. " At its meeting last week, council sent the matter back to the administrative com- mittee for more negotiations with the developer. Opposition. to the plan is centred on the fact that CBC's proposal is to build 185 single family units on 35 foot frontages when the town's bylaw and official plan calls for such dwellings to be on 50 foot frontages. The land is located across from the Whitby Mall and is presently zoned to accom- modate medium to high den- sity development. Because of this zoning, CBC is within its rights to build townhouses, or block or row housing. However, Somer Rumm, her wit to Durham Laura Sabia, one of the mothers of the Canadian women's rights movement, will be guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Durham Region Family YMCA April 10. And organizers of the din- ner at Durham College are expecting the outspoken Toronto Sun columnist to have no shortage of subject matter for her Oshawa speaking engagement. At the height of the recent Advisory Council on the Status of Women feud with federal cabinet minister Lloyd Axworthy, Sabia said Canadian women's groups must stop "toadying" to the federal government for fun- ding and assistance. "What we get in the con- stitution is what women in this country want, not what Pierre Trudeau wants," she fumed. "He who pays the piper calls the tune, and the government, at every level, has been calling the tune. I think it's time we say we don't need them." A former separate school trustee and city council member in St. Catharines, the 65-year-old Sabia first gained national attention in 1965 when she was named chairman of the Committee for the Equality of Women, the body responsible for the creation of the Royal Com- mission on the Status of Women. She was subsequently ap- pointed by the federal government as director of the Federal Status of Women Council, and by the provincial government as Chairman of the Ontario Status of Women Council. An unsuccessful Progressive Conservative federal candidate in 1968, the Pembroke native has never concealed her opinions of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In recent weeks, she has written of his "crucial con- stitutional treachery", "his relentless drive to totalitarianism", and called him "a tyrannical brat." A week ago, when Trudeau said he could not find a "qualified" woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada, Sabia converted her Sun column into an open letter to the PM: CBC vice-president, said recently that the company cannot afford to build on 50 foot frontages and that they don't want to build townhouses. The plans before council call for the construction of a smali industrial mail to the west of the subdivision and a 196 unit apartment complex, the latter of which Rumm said he was against. "I feel this development does not add to the general welfare of the community," Region "Just in case you think all women are 'flower children', let me set the record straight. Women have brains galore. They are well-educated, sensible, sensitive, with great gobs of gumption and perspicacity. "They are sick ad nauseun of hearing the word 'qualified' over and over again. It's a damn rot- ten excuse, mon vieux." "Have you always sent 'qualified' men to the Senate or to the Supreme Court?" "Next thing you know, mon cher, you will tell us CONT'D ON IG. 23 was the comment of a spokesman for Corridor Area Ratepayers Association. "The people in this area are in favor of low density housing," Dennis Fox told council. "This would not satisfy our needs, it would satisfy the developer's needs." Fox also accused council of amending bylaws in order to allow the development to begin. He made the com- ment in reference to the ad- ministrative committee report. "One minute they're doing this and the. next minute they're amending that," he said. Council was "dumping all the high density homes into the east ward and putting a, fence around it," Drumm said. Mayor Bob Attersley ruled Drumm out of order when he began to compare this proposal with another that has 70 foot frontages that council approved last year. Attersley asked for a vote of council after Drumm challenged him. Drumm's colleagues voted him out of order. Regional Councillor Tom Edwards said that he was against building on lots with less than a 50 foot frontage and that the town should develop with care any main thoroughfare connecting to Highway 401. The present plan calls for the construction of 170 homes on 35 foot frontages, 20 with 50 foot frontages and two with 55 foot and 60 foot frontages. CBC had agreed to eliminate all dwellings with 30 foot frontages and to place the homes with larger frontages on Thickson Road. Leading member of women's rights movement to bring r-ttirt> [)esk Sel Reg LIi$69 95 Onily $49 95 MORE nHAN 50 MODELS •eACCESSORIES 0 FULL WARRANTIES TELEPHONES UNLIMITCD Whitby Mail, Whitby, 571-2010 A Sign of Spring The Weed Man 10% off ALL FULL PROGRAMS We Guarantee Results THE WeC CALL THE DANDI-LINE 683-9589 Ajax, 666-3187 Whitby. - let#- 1