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Tousaw says setbacks to stay as is
Continued from page 12
farms his land. `According to the
new setbacks, I will lose productive
farmland out of my operation to
create a buffer. That buffer could
take four -and -a -half acres out of
production... will the Natural
Heritage Plan pay me for that loss?"
He felt the data and wording in the
plan was vague and therefore,
confusing to landowners.
A report by the Huron County
Property and Land Use Committee
reiterated that concern. `Although it
is stated the Natural Heritage Plan
does not intend to limit agricultural
uses, there is a significant level of
ambiguity in the proposal that will
lead to diverse interpretations, which
will only add cost and restrictions to
agriculture.
Howick Reeve Art Versteeg said
fears over setbacks and buffers have
been exaggerated. "There is no
wording in the Natural Heritage Plan
that will take farmland out of
production. The setbacks pertain to
new developments. The impact on
farms really would be minimal."
Tousaw agrees. He said the draft
plan originally stated there should be
120 -metre setbacks around natural
features, up from the current
standard of 50 metres around natural
features and 120 metres around
"provincially significant" natural
features.
"County council made a decision
to stay with the 50 -metre standard,"
said Tousaw.
As to land usage, Tousaw said
land use assessments would only be
conducted for "major
developments" and how the
development would affect adjacent
natural features.
"We see three to five of these a
year in Huron County and they are
almost all major developments like a
Councillors
Continued from page 1
economic development material
being produced in Huron East ahead
of the International Plowing Match
this fall. He said that the
municipality is working to highlight
its five wards and market their
differences to the ward, just as
Central Huron is looking to destroy
its ward system.
Most councillors spoke against
dissolving the ward system, saying
that in the weeks since the issue was
first raised, they had received only
comments against abolishing the
ward system.
In her report to council, Clerk
Brenda Maclsaac also stated that
public input had been leaning
heavily to keeping the ward system,
saying that on the municipality's
website poll, votes to keep the ward
system nearly tripled votes to
subdivision or condominium," said
Tousaw.
He said if a farmer is building an
implementation shed close to a
natural feature, it is highly unlikely
they would be required to do an
Environmental Impact Study (EIS).
If, however, someone applied to
build a livestock facility adjacent to
a natural feature like a significant
wetland, then yes, an EIS would we
wise. However, this is not a new
requirement.
Bluewater Mayor Tyler Hessel
said his biggest concern about the
plan is that while it's a good plan for
the Greater Toronto Area, it does not
work for a rural area. "It was not
written with the rural lens in mind,"
said Hessel at the forum. Bluewater
is currently in the process of revising
its official plan and has decided it
will not adopt the Huron Natural
Heritage Plan as is.
Huron -Bruce MP, Ben Lobb,
suggested there are larger
environmental issues to be
addressed besides the Natural
Heritage Plan.
"When thousands of litres of raw
sewage are being dumped into fresh
water lakes, I would say there's a lot
of work to be done before we look at
Natural Heritage Plan designations,"
said Lobb.
The plan is available online. In the
executive summary, it's stated that
"at the property scale, many people
that find that natural areas such as
woodlots, river, ponds and meadows
are the most attractive features of
their property. In this working
landscape, these are features are also
collectively valued by the
community and broader society. It is
important to have a co-ordinated
approach for protecting and
enhancing natural heritage features
that is supported by agencies,
stakeholders and landowners across
the County."
So far, some landowners are being
very vocal that they don't support it
how the county proposes to do it
with the existing Natural Heritage
Plan.
Ladies Night coming
Continued from page 1 and other event organizers are
overcoming challenges. hoping that Ladies Night Out will
Also that night there will be door soon become an annual event that
prizes, a silent auction and a number local residents will look for every
of vendors on hand. The board will spring.
be serving coffee, tea, punch and Not only is it a great event for the
finger foods, while a beverage ticket community and those who attend,
will come with every ticket bought. she said, but if it can raise thousands
Just In Time sent a speaker to the of dollars for upgrades to the
first Ladies Night Out last year and community centre every year, it will
Noble said she was a big hit. pay off in the community as well.
Everyone has all kinds of "stuff", Tickets for the second annual
she said, so decluttering and Ladies Night Out are available by
organizing is a subject on which calling Noble at 519-531-0484, the
everyone can take tips. community centre at 519-887-6621,
With last year's event being such a or by getting in touch with any other
large success, Noble said that she board member.
speak in favour of wards
dissolve it.
Mayor Jim Ginn said he didn't
feel strongly about the issue one way
or another, but after the 2014
election, when it was discovered that
municipal candidates could run in
wards other than their home wards,
he felt the ward system had become
irrelevant due to provincial
regulations.
He did say that if elections were
held with an at -large voting system,
residents would be able to vote for
all eight members of council, rather
than just five under the current
system.
Councillors Alison Lobb and
Marg Anderson both spoke in favour
of the ward system. Both long-time
councillors for their respective
wards, they both said that residents
feel comfortable approaching
representatives from their own ward,
whereas they may not have that
comfort level if they don't
personally know their
representative.
Several councillors spoke in
favour of a referendum as proposed
by Barnim, saying that if the issue
was so important to residents,
perhaps they should decide for
themselves.
Council then voted to maintain the
status quo and retain the ward
system. By way of a recorded vote,
Mayor Jim Ginn, Deputy -Mayor
Dave Jewitt and Councillors
Lobb, Anderson, Burkhard
Metzger and Adam Robinson all
voted against dissolving the
ward system.
Councillor Dan Colquhoun voted
to abolish the ward system and
Councillor Alex Westerhout was
absent.
Conquer anger to succeed: Dowe
Continued from page 13
and to control our tempers.
In the 1975 Masters tennis
tournament in Stockholm, Sweden,
tennis star Arthur Ashe was winning
a feverish battle with Romanian -
born Ilie Nastase, sometimes dubbed
"Nasty" Nastase for his flamboyant
on -court antics. Nastase was at
his worst this day — stalling,
cursing, taunting and acting
like a madman.
Finally Arthur Ashe put down his
racket and walked off the court,
saying, "I've had enough. I'm at the
point where I'm afraid I'll lose
control."
The umpire pointed out, "But
Arthur, you'll default the match!"
Ashe replied, "I don't care. I'd
rather lose that than my self-
respect."
The next day, the tournament
committee came to a surprising
solution: refusing to condone
Nastase's bullying tactics,
they insisted that Nastase default the
match for his unsportsmanlike
conduct.
Arthur Ashe won both in the game
of tennis — and in the game of life.
Conquering anger conveyed honour
and peace
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