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The study will look into existing use of the land and probable future development so present and future coun- cils can make decisions in response to applications in light of the policies which will be developed as a re- sult of this study, Planning Director Hesse Rimon ex- plained. He reported that the Reg- ion of York, the Province of Ontario and the neighboring municipalities of Markham and Vaughan had been noti- ied of the study and to date no comments had been re- ceived from any of them. He also reported that Mun- icipal Planning Consultants, Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, had been selected from eight firms. Seek Early Public Participation During Yonge Street-Richvale Corridor Study “u”; 2’ ----- r"- "if: , the South Yonge Street corridor -â€" an area de- fined as 600 feet east and west of Yonge Street from Markham-Vaughan Roads to Highway 7 â€"â€" was sought by Richmond Hill Planning Com- mittee at a public meeting held November 15. About three dozen people from the area con- cerned were present to hear the purpose of the study and to express their opinions on it. 1:1-_A_1 A n“... CATALOGUE DATA Project Director Edith Ganong reported that Mun- icipal Planning Consultants are still in the stage of cat- aloguing information and outlining how they think the study should proceed. “The outcome of our study is not just a report to be placed on a shelf but will eventually lead to an official plan am- endment. An official plan is a legal document, which specifies how a piece of land is to be developed." she ex- plained. "11“ -v -.-r_. -____ _, ““J 7 . The meeting was chaired by Ward 4 Coun- cillor David Stephenson, chairman of the plan- ning committee, who stressed the importance of such a study in controlling future growth and development in the area. MANY PROBLEMS “There are many problems to be solved," continued the planning consultant. “We can't put more people into the area until we know what and when services will be available. Yonge Street is a provincial highway. Hill- crest Mall is going to make a‘ great difference in this area and there are proposals for development in the Civic Centre at the corner of Yonge and Vaughan Road. We are studying existing buildings â€" are they in good condition, are they serving their purpose? Also to be studied are existing design. transportation, roads, the re- lationship of this area to the rest of Richmond Hill and to its neighbors and economics. We will be studying the fac- ilities available, what are lacking. etc. Then we will sit down and think, analyze the data we have compiled. determine what are the prob- lems, then develop a land use plan and a physical de- sign plan â€" what it is going to be. and how it will look.” END OF JANUARY Later she told the meet- ing that she expected a pre- liminary report would be presented to council by the end of January. “Then there will be a gap while council considers that re- port and a final report will be prepared. taking about a month." Frank Boden, 5 Oak Av- enue, asked for a clearer definition of the study area and was told by Mrs. Gan- ong that what will be in- volved is a study of how Yonge Street will function as an arterial road, how the uses on either side will re- late to the overall picture of the town, what strikes you as you drive up Yonge Street. Charles Clark. also of Municipal Planning. added. "What is the future of this area. will it retain its ident- ity. It’s a residential, shop- ping area at present, it‘s the people's main street. We are still in the research stage and what we want to know is what is your feeling â€" do you feel crowded in, do you find it easy to shop? etc." OFFERS HELP Bus Vermuelen appearing for the town's Civic Im- provement Committee re- port that that committee had worked on the improve- ments of Yonge Street from Markham Road to Elgin Mills along with the town and provincial staff. The committee had also ap- proached owners of proper- ties with suggestions on im- provements in appearance and almost all the poorer ones had been improved. he said. The committee also helped in the design of side- walks, parking. overhead lighting, 5 t r e e t furniture. etc., and he offered the same co-operation in this study. “ft has been said that we have been in the habit of WORKS IN A 6 DRAWER PETER SMITH York Home T.V. 306 Bayview Ave. (Plaza) 889-1646 - 884-4165 Early public Participatiqn‘ in the study on ._A_ AA Color TV from GET YOUR making up our minds before approaching the public," commented Councillor Steph- enson. “In this case we are looking for your input at the very beginning and at two further meetings. Noth- ing is cut and dried." A May Avenue resident described the experience as being like a child who has the doors of toyland thrown open and is told to take his pick. “At this point it is difficult to make suggestions as to what can be done, un- less we have a framework. To get a real input it should be laid out with alternative suggestions as to what the future is going to be.” SEWER PROPOSALS "We are not at a stage to give this at the present," stated Mrs. Ganong. She went on to outline the pres- ent sewage disposal systems (Richmond Hill and BAIF) and the proposals for servic- ing this area. She reported there is a proposal to bring a trunk sewer from the Les- lie Street area to connect with the Metro system. En- gineering for this sewer has been completed and she had been told that it would be possible to “almost meet the deadline”. But the agree- ment for this servicing has yet to be signed by the Reg- ion of York, she noted, and the Region is responsible for provision of the trunk sewer. Another proposal is for an east-west trunk ewer into a proposed Pickering dis- posal plant to also serve the proposed Pickering Interna- tional Airport and the satel- lite City of Cedarwood, but the engineering has not been done on this one, she said. "How much of that capacity (Leslie trunk) will be avail- able for Richmond Hill, no- body knows." We don’t know but we know Rich- mond Hill will be services. Within the Toronto-Centred Region plan provision is made for Richmond Hill to grow and in order for it to grow, services have to be made available." INTERIM PERIOD “The consultants will have to assume full services will be available in the future. There will be an interim Suede & Leather Cleaning Servich RICHMOND HILL THORNHILL O AURORA NEWMARKET TRY “DESIGNED FOR GIVING ” ALLENCOURT HARDWARE LIMITED ALLENCOURT PLAZA 433 Markham Rd. at Bayview 884-533] Richmond Hill, Ontario CLEANING CENTRES We would be pleased to have you come in and see our selection of Christmas Gifts and receive your copy of our New Catalogue period of two to five years before they are available and so an interim policy on how to handle applications as they come in will have to be included in the official plan. It's not all that complicated. Basically we are looking at the long range land use pol- icy. The purpose of this meeting is not to make de- cisions since we are not in a position to make them yet. We are asking you if you think we have missed any- thing or if we are going in the wrong way,” explained Mr. Rimon. Mrs. Mary Watts of Spruce] Avenue, representing the BAIF Task Force. expressed the deep concern if citizens about the difficulty of cross- ing Yonge Street on foot or‘ in a car, which has increas- ed as traffic has increased because of new developâ€" ments in the area and else- where. “It will increase more as BAIF fills up. Now. there is talk of Yonge Street being widened again, and if this is done it will lead only into a bottleneck at Mark- ham Road, because of park- ing on both sides. The only traffic lights are at Carrville Road. A recent survey in this area showed that most shopping traffic is going south because of the diffi- culty of getting into the nrrthbound lane and of pro- ceeding through Richmond Hill. Are we going to have more lights?" “This is a provincial high- way and these questions are a matter for discussion be- tween the municipality and the Ministry of Transporta- tion and Communications," Mrs. Ganong replied. VIEW OF HILL Mrs. Watts also reported intense concern that the view of the Hill will be drastically changed through high rise apartments and commercial buildings being permitted on Yonge Street. “Such buildâ€" ings tend to close one in, a very distressing feeling," she said. Mrs. Ganong stated that this could be controlled by requiring deep setbacksa ‘RI dovn’t {risualize single family residences on Yonge WITH FRONT FACING HEARING DOES AWAY WITH A LOT OF BACKGROUND NOISE AND LETS YOU HEAR BETTER. NEW HEARING AIDS Name. . . Address . City FOR FREE INFORMATION SEND COUPON BELOW TO: UNIVERSAL HEARING AIDS 2 COLLEGE ST., TORONTO 101 SUITE 106 LONG BATTERY LIFE Street." continued Mrs. Watts. commercial “Is the land zoned commer- land. Over; cial?” 1terns will “Some of it is agricultur- nl," replied Mrs. ganong. “The absence of long range policies in the two townships in which the area lay before} the coming of regional gov-i crnment has created a mix-‘ ture of development along Yonge Street.“ Mr. Rimon pointed out. “And We have inherited that mixture. We are conducting this study to determine in what ways we should control development in the future to give a pleas- ing appearance and provide the type of development which will be best for the area and for the whole mun- icipality." DESIGN CRITERIA “We will be suggesting cer- tain design criteria," stated Mrs. Gancng. “which will look at the scale of buildings from the street." Mr. Rimon then pointed out that for the past two and_ a half years “all kinds of applications have been re- ceived by the town from this area. The town hasn‘t per- mitted any development in this area in the last two years and has deferred all applica- tions until this study is com- pleted. The consultants’ re- port can only make recom- mendations for the future. We can‘t make anything that exists ncw fade away. it will remain as a legal non-con- forming use." Charles Foster, represent- ing a piece of land in the Observatory Lane area, of- fered coâ€"operation of his principals with the municipal staff and consultants. “We know that our land gives a good view of the observatory, a landmark, and we are deeply concerned that that remain." TERMS OF REFERENCE Mr. Rimon. on request, then gave the terms of refer. ence for the study which is to produce the basis for guidelines for future devel- opment in the area. To be studied are services and util- ities, transportation, comâ€" munity facilities, develop- ment patterns, recreation, commercial and industrial land. Overall land use pat- terns will be proposed and Generalized policy statements concerning visual aspects of development will be develâ€" oped along with specific recommendations about the physical aspects of develop- ment and relationship of buildings one to another and the transportation function of the highway. Concern was also expres- sed that Yonge Street not be allowed to become a string of "gas stations and hot dog stands". Dcryck Evelyn of the North Richvale Ratepayers‘ Associ- ation felt that no plans for development should be enter. tained until the plans for sewage disposal are complet- ed and capacity known. HOW LONG? “How long is this study going to take? And what are the plans for the corner of Markham Road and Yonge Street?" Mrs. Jessie Grainger of 130 Yonge Street South, Richmond Hill. wanted to know. Mrs. Ganong then stated that the final report would be ready about a month after council approves or amends the preliminary report. In response to a question she replied that the study would include pedestrian movement and would be making recommendations on sidewalks. Another representative of the BAIF Task Force report- ed two areas of major con- cern â€" the view of the Hill and traffic. Former Councillor David Schiller wanted to know how this study fits into the Reg-i ion‘s official plan. pointing out that no one wants to travel on Yonge Street at any time. because of traffic den- sity. that the area is not community oriented and that the speed limit is excessively high, there are no sidewalks and pedestrians have to con- tend with snow and slush. He also noted that the speed of development has yet to be indicated and should be slowed down considerably. “It is council's decision to develop its own plan." stated Mr. Rimon. “We would pre- fer to tell the Region what we want and not have them tell us what they want." add- ed Mr. Stephenson. UNDERPASSES Mike Burnie of Carrville Road suggested a solution for pedestrian crossovers could well be underpasses â€" some- thing imaginative. Mrs. Watts again brought up the problem of pedestrian crossing reporting that Fal- conbridge Laboratory. locat- ed on Yonge Street at Roose- velt Drive, has had one em- ployee killed and two injured as they attempted to cross Yonge. “They have applied to the province three times for traffic lights at that intersec- tion and have been turned down three times." 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Richmond Hill Regional Councillor Gordon Rowe, who, along with Mayor William Lazenby, recently returned from Germany where they took in the international convention in Munich, plus a bit of the local scenery, said the jackets brought them immediate recognition from the floor of the convention: “In that huge gathering, it was easy to distinguish the two Canadian representatives, Mr. Rowe said. Although not elaborating- on the Munich convention, in which they were inundated with papers and meetings, Mr. Rowe said a subse- quent trip to Nuremberg proved especially ben- éficial He said the city had an automated gar- bage system â€"- only 18 people were necessary to run it â€"- which burned 900 tons of garbage an hour. There were no odours, and so far as‘smoke emission was concerned, 1t was 99.3 percent pure,r . e .‘ . ~ y. a 11‘ York Region ’3 Yellow Jackets Were Big Attraction In Munich THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, Nov. 22, 1973 9 buildings for heating purposes. “Here’s a great chance to get energy from a byproduct: garbage,” said Mr. Rowe. He said that when Richmond Hill had talked about a domed stadium complex ai flgfiéswtafthrhey were asked how the); would heat it. “Here’s the answer,” said Mr. Rowe. The Richmond Hill Councillor said also that, even though he had taken his wife with him to the convention and paid her way, he was able to return $50 to the regional treas- urer on his own transportation advance by going at an earlier time. Mayor Lazenby, who brought back a quantity of brochures from his trip for the councillors to peruse, said they might also be interested to know that the oberb'urgomeister in Germany â€" comparable to the regional chairman â€" was elected for 12 years, while the burgomeister â€" comparable to a munic- ipal head â€" was elected for four years. “Oberburgomeister” G a r f i e l (1 Wright acknowleged the information with a smile. velt Drive, has had one em- ployee killed and two injured as they attempted to cross Yonge. “They have applied to the province three times for traffic lights at that intersec- tion and have been turned down three times."