WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1986 PAGE 3 Sehool teacher has hard Urne delivering message on trapping A Scarborough high school teacher main- tains that she was refused an opportunity to make an anti-trap-« ping presentation to members of a lunch- hour outdoors club at Whitby Senior Public School after the club had invited a trapper in to speak to the students. According to Edie Gomille, upon hearing that students in the club had seen a presentation which she assumes had a pro-trapping bias, she asked club co-leader Ewald Bengel if she could address the students to present the "humane" argument against trapping and was refused. "Why was he invited and why wasn't someone representing the oppossing view there? There should not be hunting and trapping propaganda in the schools ... 1 don't think the kids should be short- changed and taught that its ok to be trapping animais," said Ms. Gomille. However, according to Mr. Bengel, a science teacher at Whitby Senior, Ms. Gomille was not refused an oppor- tunity to speak to the club. "I told her she would have to get permission from the area superin- Home owners gang-up on Apt. A * developer's proposai to build a four- storey apartment com- plex at the corner of Dundas St. W. and An- nes St. has met with wdespread protest from - neighboring homeowners. At a public meeting with Whitby council's administrative commit- tee, more than 30 residents urged the town not to approve ap- plicant Frank DePalma's rezoning request. III don't want to look out of my back window and see that ugiy thing," said homeownier Don Cox, waving his finger at the architect's drawings. "How'd you feel if you had to look at that out your back win- dow and know you'd be Iosing $20,000 on your home as a result? " Jack Barr, spokesman for the residents read a prepared statement outlining the reasons for their opposition. "Vie believe that such high density develop- ment is, not in keeping with the mature single family neighborhood we are living in..." Barr said that he and the* other homeowners Ilhad pride in their family homes, and pride comes with ownership. " "We don't want our neighborhood turned in- to a low rentai neigh- borhood." In adldition to the residents fear that the 47-unit apartment building wiil drive property values down, they also expressed concern about loss of privacy. "We wouldn't be able to have a beer or sit in our backyards without being peered at from the apartment complex," Barr complained. Planning Director Bob Short pointed out, however, that the 47- unit building proposai was in keeping with the officiai plan's medium density designation for that parcel of land. (Medium density zoning allows for a multiple housing unit with up to 50 persons per acre. The proposed building sits on two acres of land and will accommodate ap- proximately 100 people in one, two and three bedroom apartments.) "The applicant has got the strength of the officiai plan behind him," said Short, ad- ding that if the town were to deny the rezon- ing request, the decisions would likely be overturned in the event of an Ontario Municipal Board hearing., Regional councillor Tom Edwards coun- selled the residents "to be reasonable. That piece of property is not going to remain vacant forever - the next ap- plication could be even less to your satisfac- tion, " he suggested. According to Edwards there was a plan some years ago to put a com- mercial mail on the property. Opposition from residents at that time, however, scuttled the project. Now, residents are saying a strip mail would be "quite accep- table" as it would be less of an eyesore than a four-storey building and less of an infringement on their prlvacy. "I think we've gone from bad to worse," rued Barr. The ad- ministrative committee which called the public meeting, has requested that the town planning director study the ap- plication and the con- cerns listed by the residents further and report back to commit- tee. tendent and then it her she can or can't ad- would be fine. I don't dress the students. If have the authoritv to tell she had the proper per- mission then it would be fine ... but she didn't follow through," said Scarborough teacher Edie Gomille says she was not after she heard that a trapper had been in to speat. allowed to address an outdoors club at Whitby to the group. Senior Public School. Ms. Gomille wanted to show Free Press Staff Photo the students a film with an anti-trapping messagi PIONEER AINTERIORS Makîng the legacy of our past part of your future- WHITBY 507 Brock St. N. (Hwy. 12) 2"/1blocks north of No 2 668-4231 (Ajax 686-112' Open: Mon Wed, 10-6, Thurs & Fri 109. 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