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COURTICE AND AREA CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
PRESENTATION
TO
TOWN OF NEWCASTLE COUNCIL
APRIL 4/77
T. E. BOBIER
PRESIDENT CACA
CACA STATEMENT April 3, 1977
This is an unhappy occasion for residents and property owners
in Courtice. Many, perhaps most, of the sum 547.effected home owners
in Courtice are very distrubed by both the recent Coutrice rezoning
resolution passed by this body and the manner by which the resolution
was approved.
We do not intend to waste our time, nor yours, belabouring
the hasty, seemingly secretive manner these by-laws were passed. by this
body. But we must observe that the proposed rezoning represents a
complete reversal of long-standing plans for this area. And we are at
a loss to understand the logic of your attempts to turn a rural, self-
sufficient community into a high density urban area.
Where is the logic in parachuting high density row housing
into an unserviced area while within a mile or so of Courtice in Oshawa's
east end fully -serviced developments are underoccupied?
We are disturbed because the proposed rezoning could create
a financial burden for the present home -owners, many of whom are or will
be on fixed incomes, people who were attracted to Courtice precisely
because of those virtues which the rezoning could destroy.
We cannot stand by silently while plans are thrust forward
which promise to plunge a proud and self-reliant community into one
of tomorrow's slums. We are not opposed to development of the area.
We are strenuously opposed, however, to development which is unnecessary
and can only result in severe financial and sociological dislocation.
There is a terrible irony in the fact that the financial
burden for the type of development envisaged by this discriminatory rezoning falls
entirely on those property owners who have struggled most and have been
consistently forced to meet existing planning by-laws.
We must repeat that we. are not opposed to any and all develop-
ment in Courtice. But we are opposed to the type of development which
is contrary to the public interest of all of Newcastle.
We oppose -- and will oppose -- the inexplicable rush to
impose this costly, wasteful and unnecessary type of rezoning on the
hard-working, responsible Courtice property owners.
For these reasons we intend to challenge this Council's
action by every appropriate means in every appropriate forum...