Meeting may decide statu S ofCoscanwaterfrt poje By MikeKowalaki An upcommng meeting of "Town and ,r,2ncial officiais may deciderthe statue of a major development planned for Whitby's)wat;erfont. The meeting could determine whether an -Ontario Mumicipai Board (0MB) hearing into Gos- can Developnxent Corp.'s $150 million project goes ahead. .However agovernment spok- esman isfioping a consultant's report outlini'ng the provinces objections to the development wili negate the need for a hear- 'Inarlier this year the Ministry of Municipal Affaire notified Whitby of its intention te chal- leng a blaw approving Coscan's Harr lie development unles its objections are reïoived. 1Specifically, the- ministry is concorned that Harbour Ile,'as now prposed, conflicta with "pninciples» contained in a report on' waterfront development in the greater Toronto area. Prepared by former federal cabinet., ]it.David GCrombie, the ýréport nià kos nuperous recommendations which'Queen s Park intenda te implement. Karen Smith, senior planner with the munistry, said a consul- tant's1 report. detailinýg the government's objections is near completion. Smith said the report will be discusfsed at a meeting, yet to, be scheduled, of municipal and minis try officiais. Crombie, himself, is expected te attend te meeting, said Smith. "We hope te sit down soon with the mayor (Wbitby Mayor Bob Attersiley) and Mr. <rornbie and discuss our findinrs,» saïd Smith. She did not incficate 'what the, report* might suggest, but feels Harbour Ile can -e accommoda- ted Within the framework ý of Crombie's guidelines. «As. far as we're concerned'it looks.like there's room for the proposai te mesh with Crombie's report,» said Smith. As now proposed, Harbour Isle will spread acrosa the foot of Brock St., covering- 16 acres of land- on the west side and six acres on the east. It will include three 15-storey apartmont builings, 4 town-' ho-ue..,a r'ratoncntre ýand conmmerc-ia lunits. The ministry's concerns, in- clude: longer fvoured for' Port Whitby area, *lack of full public accees to Lake*Ontario (approximately 300 metres of waternt wili béecut off te the public under the cur- rent proposal)Y * the devefopment's relation- ship to the government's planned waiking traii along the lakes shorelinie from Burlington te Newcastle; S* the overail size and density of the project. SE> PAGE 4 EXER MXrder Mlarty Schlueter soars high into te air during demonstrations of theGT Femestyle Trick Team at the Broolin Spring Fair. Due to great weather, it is estimated that fair attendanoe wa8 Up over Iast year. 1ai 3v ht B:y Mike Kowaisld Traditional waterfront indus- tries could no longer b. welcome in Whitby. Town council's planning and development committee recom- mended Monday that a bylaw redesignating much of the Port, VWitby industrial area b. appro- -- - -- - - -- - -- - - -- - -.. . .. . . .. . . .. . .. . . .. . . .. . .. . . .. . . By Mke Kowaiski wAgt rp of anr north Whitby residents Or more precisely, thepy want their section of Coronation Rd& covered with a bard surface again, 'instead of the gravol the Town's works departmentwas lay down this Mping. Eut roidonts- wili have te live wth this temoray sluton for at least a year. Nmnewaavabein the 1991 budget tu do the estirnated $600,000 worth of repaire the. road warrante. The homeowners staged a niild protest iast week te mako their feeling known te, Town council. A truck and bulldozer wero parkod on the road in such way as teslow down, but not completely stop the road crow. Résident Drs Lane said the. demonstration waa staged te, proteet not only the deiay in ropairing the road but the. matorial chosen for, the job. Lane said residents bad te contend with *notbing but pothoies" for sevoral weeks and now have a gravel roadL She ad.the 14 fanillies living on Coronation botween Hwy.,7 and Conc. 7 do not want the. "flying stones" and dust probloms a gravol road croates. "W. profor it the old way, we want our surface roadba=Z' said Lane. "This is a ta ight stretch of road, stenes are flying fro to ar.e neighbour's est was bit and the vot's billeswoe $500.", <Lane said rosidonts complained te Town officiais but "you get no sympathy. 'We were teld te put together a petition for noit year. Coronation Rd. had aiways been an asphalt-covered road which was tarrod on a regular basis by tho mnuniciali But this past winter plaed havoc winth the organic base boiow the. road's surface, causing it te hoavie in soverai spots. The road's condition bocme so dangerous that warning signa iiad'to, b. posted. According te public works diroctor Dick Kuwaararepaira wore noodod as soon as possible but the problom arose teo lato to bo includod in the budget. It was a new program out of the. blue," explained Kuwabara. 'Tlhe alternatives wero te break up the surface troatment and, la gravel daown."igi up and p ut a hard asphat surfacebako. But the second chice would have. been SEE PAGE 31 ved. Instead of the port being desig- nated for heavy industries such as manufacturing plants, as much of it is now, the committee favours "prestige"industry in the harbour area. Prestige industrial uses could include offices, ight manufactur- ing and commercial services. A draft bylaw outlining the proposed changes was generally wel received by coxnmittee memn- bers when umveiled during a public meeting in the council chamabers. Town planner Steve Edwards explained that a study of existing zoning In the iport was undertaken by staff earlier this year. Edwards said the study exa- mines the*relationship between industrial uses now permaitted in the area-with existing and pro- posed residential and open space uses. The study fccused on lands roughly bordered by the- Cana- dan National railway tracha on the north; -Pringle Creek to the west; Lake Ontirio on the south and the east side of South Blair St. Referrn to, a staff rpoton the issue, Ed~ aid a numn-j ber of factors prompted the study. Iereport notes: * htyharbojir was reclassi- fied iast year from an industrial port te a email crafts harbour, negating the need for much of its original industrial zoning; SEE PAGE-4ý