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"10d us'O"the VDIRXiito4y see�s being "strangled", He, was 4. 1119to defa -0,4
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Owned to a
proseo tlQi) Of Dr. Ted Ha referring in the firstplacp to the
t6,control, \ Atn4inv 'to
- According tp. $tPY-PP JA4eA, feeling of some urban centre
APOInSp after interviewing a centres colinpil 0 new the n,
A# 0 1 . year,
•sampling of -Huron , CO, Vtont The following axe tb�a
Count study director for they are being Ylvd"
fa citizens 10 Yarious walks of life there has already been siOme from further 14`cause of conclusio p fo 'by T., a W
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and the initial draft of a, re
port indication from Toronto that the desire to save prime in his study into. tbc! attitudes r
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•am!!=. compiled by James F. WcLaren broad land use policies ire agriculture eland for food Huron resident; er Ing land
Limited, environmental consul- comity g from the provinical 10gl. production while in' the second use pla
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tants entitled Countryside Pilot .project place rural dwellers feel
With the UDRIA study in "strangled" because, urban. WJtho4,t- ', tepating the .4'arm"
The special meeting, held in Huron being the pilot project In development is encroaching On detailed analysis contained in the
farmland preceding sections, it seems
Mr. Janes has prime q
the basement of the new assess- the province,
ment building, was called to hear expressed his hope that the FrIndPAreas a
appropriate at this point 'to sum
and discuss some of the material "perspective methodology" But while the Countryside up some of the mojor findings of for
Pla, , "' brought before
in the UDIRA study which is developed by the study here will nPIPB report the study.
costing over $100,000 '(with 80 be adopted across the entire the meeting "blearly, showeo, that Thprp g
.,was gpn�ral_.#,greem
Ap ]Ueck the halls with bougtts� 13,t,
"a areas around the five amongst . all the types of othol'
P cent of the expenses picked province to achieve new the fringe
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P by the province) and thds-fiii *49- rij, planning." towns would have.,some farmland respondents interviewed that fill your homes witIl lc&i I cheer,
has been underway for a year and He has asked, county officials slated for urban development in agriculture must remain the
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May this se4son b i h a jollyzi,_
a half. and other interested persons *to the future; fear was soon principal use of rural land in
by some
Although time for questioning examine the methodology in the expressed Huron County because of the for 6ur friends and, atroni dear..
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was limited because Of* the study and to forward all objet- representatives at the meeting availability of good productive
NN s to the area. - The tremendous volume of material to tions and suggestion study that farmland within.. that farmland in the
-fringe area would
designated, -REMOVAL
HURON DEAD $TOCK
be persue initial reaction of team by February 28, 197S.
decision to protect agricultural
d, i
some county councillors showed This report deals with such immediately' become more land was thought by most to be
CLINTON'
things as potential planning per- valuable than the same type of -municipal or possibly
disappointment that the stud one which
y
farmland outside that fringe county government should make,
had more emphasis on urban spective in Huron County; the
development than on the agricul- agricultural perspective; urban area. though present county land use
tural base of the county. perspectives as they relate to the What are the attitudes of
regulations, and government,
While MacLaren associates and fringe areas; recreation p6rspec- Huron County residents towards policies in general, were already;
46 Dr. Hadwen argued otherwise, tive and the evaluation of existing the major issues underlyihg the perceived to be helpful.
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Agri- 9 'Farmers, whether located. in
Don Pullen, Huron County Ag i- policies affecting urban develop- proposed methodology of land
cultural Repres6ntative for' ment-in epral areas. use planning? primarily agricultural areas, in
Our blueprint for a Merry --Ontario Ministry of Agriculture By Mr. Janes' own admission, Dr. Hadwen's study team areas where - towns and
Christmas specifies lots 'of happiness and Food, summed it up by the document is lengthy and talked to 400 persons all across agriculture are adjacent, or in.
saying that planning for agricul- complicated. It will involve some the county - 80 citizens in urban areas where agriculture and
to all. For your patronage, grafitude. ture consists of "that which is left lengthy, intensive study by areas, 80 cottagers, 80 farmers in cottages are adjacent, are very
over" in ' the study as presented. county councillors and others., a recreation -type area, 80 farmers receptive to the general notion of •
"And apparently that's what The report itself sets out one , adjacent to. urban areas, and 80 restrictions on the sale of •
Huron Pines Realty Ltd.
society wants," he stated. main objective: "To resolve farmers in strictly rural areas. farmland which limit it to •
the Bud Kuelh and Staff Gerry Ginn, incoming reeve of conflicts between competing land . According to Dr. Hadwen agriculture, or agriculture related
Goderich Township, told the uses in a rural area requires the findings showed that in general use. They seem open to the Building Construction & Electrical Wiring meeting of the. need to preserve setting of land use priorities just the public is informed abou t the possibility that housing for non- CLEYMN ONTARIO
prime agricultural land. like priorities are set for an urban %. Santa's dashing through
need for land use planning in farmers, retired farmers, and :6.
"They're just not making it any area. Portions of the urban rural areas and is "pretty willing even hired men might be tied to the snow to bring each
more," he told gouncil. environment for example are to think about it". existing towns, villages and
Mr,Ginn-complained about thp.. designated as residential areas. "The average Huron County hamlets. and every one of you
study's r,ecommeridation, , that Within these areas the residence citizen is not mired in .the past," "They oppose unrestricted
lots of good cheer for •
more land surrounding the five has top priority and only suppor- said Dr. Hadwen. "People here development along highways and •
major growth areas in the coutity - tive or complementary uses , are are not resistant to change but are unsympathetic to the hydro's the holiday . . . and
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Exeter, Seaforth, Clinton, permitted. Other areas are want it to be consistent with the need for rural property, but
our glad thanks!
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• Goderich and Win Liam - be designated industrial with a best of the past." support the need for conservation•
"On the whole people
slated for urban development in different set of use restrictions. of Huron of water and forestry resources.
the years ahead. Cases of conflict are resolved in County have pretty , common "Farmers differ markedly •
Our planning is still urban favor of the priority land use and agreement about major issues," from townspeople and cottagers
oriented," Reeve Ginn insited. long range goals." Dr. Hadwen told the meeting. in the degree of their: opposition odry "I had hoped the VDIRA study Whether or not Huron County "On most issues where planning
to the sale of farmland to •
would be 'more rural.". farmers are ready for this type of is concerned, you are not going to non -farmers, though they are 7
It was ex0laine'd to Reeve Ginn land use planning -in rural areas find really gross differences prepared to see pockets of poor
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that despite what was, common has yet to be determined. There amongst and between the people land, such as ravines, sold to such %9
opinion, it was not the growth of was some argument at Thurs- of the county."' individuals.
urban - centres which would day's meeting which would Dr. Hadwen also alluded to a "A latent problem in rural land
to.All eventually take the most agricul- indicate that while farmers say study he has , been doing use planning was revealed by the
tura] land out of production. The they want to protect and preserve concerning attitudes of Huron conflicting value positions taken
problem, according to the experts agricultural land, they wish to County citizens toward municipal by many respondents in this
could, 'be traced to scattered retain the right to make their own &overnment here, survey, There is general support
this "T
!10t-, . —tandorn utbanlike'dovelopments decisions about their own hey ,...lLaye (apMo
•fpr . so%e fol rpR_9f_ protectign for
farmland,
way. to the happiest "and for the notion that
once such land is sold little can be
-holidays ever! We done to Control its use or resale;
but on the other 4�nd many.
'�oof -
do appreciate ,
people still balk at the thought
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kind"sUpport.
that landowners might be faced
by regulations telling them what
they could and colul¬ do with
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"bis conflict appeared, not so BRUCEFIELD BRANCH
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issues, but when general attitude
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questions were asked, -which
and happy thoughts in HENSALL DISTRICT CO-OP
sqggesIs that planners should be
of a contradictory .
anticipation of this 2,11111..... ` .", aware
an
V:; worm h0li1dv. Thanks.
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