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A controversial severance applica-
tion has been deferred until further
discussion can take place between
the applicant and Huron County staff
regarding the potential consequences
of an almost-certain appeal.
Head of the Huron County
Planning Department Scott Tousaw
warned Huron County Council
against the “pitfalls” of allowing
such a severance. He said that no
such severance had been allowed in
the county for 40 years and that if an
exception was allowed, that there
could be severe implications
throughout the county and in the
wallets of its ratepayers.
Planners stated that the proposed
application in the Hullett ward of
Central Huron violates several
policies including minimum distance
separation from a nearby dairy farm.
Councillor Bernie MacLellan said
that often in the case of such
applications, he can find at least one
reason that the “home” municipality
would approve the severance, but in
this case, he couldn’t find any such
reasons. He added that he tends to
side with the home municipality in
cases like this, citing that they know
the terrain best, but that in this case,
he wasn’t comfortable doing so.
The application proposed to sever
a lot for a home and Tousaw said that
the county would be in a
“defenseless position” at an Ontario
Municipal Board (OMB) hearing in
terms of costs and that it would be
the county’s ratepayers who would
have to bear the costs.
Tousaw said that in the case of an
appeal, which he said would almost
certainly happen, a planner would
have to speak up on behalf of the
county’s position and that may be
difficult to find. He said that it would
be hard to believe that a planner
would speak up and support such an
application that is “so contrary” to
the county’s official plan as well as
the regulations of the province.
In addition, he said, if a lower tier
is persistent in going against
provincial regulations in cases such
as this, the province has been known
to strip that governing body of its
regulatory power. Tousaw made sure
to say that he was providing the
information in a non-threatening
way, but that the members of council
needed to understand the full
implications of approving such an
application.
Tousaw recommended that council
not approve the application outright,
or that they deny it and leave it to the
applicants to appeal it at the provincial
level. If it was done this way,Tousaw
said, it would be the applicant who
would bear the costs of an appeal,
which he said could be costly, not
the ratepayers of Huron County.
He said that if this application
were to be approved, council would
likely see “hundreds” of similar
applications rolling in from people
who have been wanting to do this for
decades, but haven’t even tried
because of how contrary to lower
tier, county and provincial plans it is.
Councillors from Central Huron
cited several organizations that
didn’t have a problem with the
application, such as the Maitland
Valley Conservation Authority.
Councillor Tim Collyer also said
that years ago, there used to be a
house on the parcel that the applicant
was hoping to sever.
He mentioned that none of the
surrounding landowners had any
problems with the application either.
Councillor John Bezaire said that
judgment had to be exercised,
because if rules were going to be
applied to situations in a “black and
white” manner, then there would be
no need for a council and staff would
be able to look at a situation and
apply the appropriate ruling.
The applicant, Robert Vodden,
said that in his mind, the application
would assist the surrounding
communities, bringing another home
to the area.
Councillor Joe Seili disagreed
with Tousaw’s earlier argument that
if a lower tier goes against the
provincial policy too often that they
should be stripped of their decision-
making power. Seili said this is the
only tool a place like Huron County
has to alert the province to a problem
at the lower tiers.
“This is the message you have to
send to the province,” he said. “Right
now, the province doesn’t know
there’s a problem.”
A motion made by MacLellan and
seconded by Bezaire stated that
further discussion between the
applicant and Huron County staff
should take place before the
application appears at council again.
This way, MacLellan said, the option
of the applicant filing the appeal
could be discussed, which would
take the potential financial burden of
an OMB appeal off of the shoulders
of the Huron County ratepayers.
Morris-Turnberry councillors
deferred action on most of the
proposals brought to them by their
community fire safety officer at the
Sept. 7 meeting.
Jared Cayley delivered a proposal
for a smoke detector education
program including a voluntary
inspection of homes to see that there
were smoke detectors installed on
each floor. He proposed to purchase
a supply of smoke detectors to install
free if a home needed them. He
admitted that after speaking with
other departments about the number
of smoke detectors they had given
out in similar campaigns, he might
have budgeted too little for that part
of the campaign.
Deputy-Mayor Jim Nelemans
questioned the need to give away the
smoke detectors at all.
Farmers have to buy slow moving
vehicle signs and nobody gives them
to them, he said.
“My whole goal in this is to get
smoke alarms into homes,” Cayley
said.
Council asked him to go back and
look at how much had been set aside
in the budget for education so
council could reconsider the
program later.
Council also sent back the latest
proposal for a bylaw to prohibit open
burning for further revisions.
Although Cayley felt his proposal is
less restrictive than the bylaws in
other municipalities, council wanted
more changes.
“We don’t want to regulate our
people so much they can’t move,”
said Mayor Dorothy Kelly.
Councillors showed no interest in
Cayley’s proposal for a bylaw to
regulate the sale and use of
fireworks. The bylaw would have
restricted the sale of fireworks to 10
days prior to the Victoria Day and
Canada holidays or in special
circumstances with the approval of
fire officials. It would also require a
permit if a firework display was to be
seen by 20 or more people.
Huron County Council received
several reports on the state of the
county’s economy at the Sept. 8
meeting of council and results were
mixed.
The three reports received by
council were from Huron Economic
Development Matters, the Gateway
Rural Health Research Institute as
well as the annual State of the Huron
County Economy report, which is
prepared by Paul Nichol of the
Huron Business Development
Corporation.
Huron County Economic Develop-
ment Officer Mike Pullen says that
there have been some ups and
downs, but that Huron County isn’t
“out of the woods yet”.
“We’re seeing some growth even
through the recession,” Pullen said.
“But we’re seeing some really bright
lights throughout the county.”
Pullen says there are a number of
investment files open that could
really help boost the Huron County
economy, including a new research
plant opening soon in Morris-
Turnberry.
Pullen says the unemployment rate
in the county is still higher than he
hoped it would be, saying it’s
consistently floating around nine per
cent. He says one of the more
difficult aspects of his job recently
has been opening up opportunities
for workers who were laid off from
jobs at Volvo and other similar
businesses.
Tricky application
deferred by council
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
A review of repairs needed over
the next five years for Morris-
Turnberry bridges shows some
major dollars to be spent, but given
the number of bridges the
municipality owns, councillors feel
the numbers are reasonable.
Gary Pipe, director of public
works, reviewed the list with council
at its Sept. 7 meeting. “I really see
Morris-Turnberry’s bridges in great
shape compared to other
municipalities,” he said. “It’s just we
have so many more bridges.”
The estimated cost of all the 13
bridges on the list is $560,000. Pipe
felt the repairs required on most of
the bridges could be undertaken by
his own staff.
Nine Morris Ward bridges are on
the list for repairs but just three will
require work that must be contracted
out, Pipe feels.
The Jamestown Road bridge needs
the most repairs, totalling $182,000.
The Browntown Road bridge has
the second biggest pricetag at
$170,000.
The bridge on Elevator Line
requires a new railing which he
estimates will cost $40,000.
In Turnberry Ward, the C-Line
Road bridge requires $102,000 in
repairs while the B-Line bridge will
cost $60,000. The Hennings bridge,
Orange Hill Road, will cost $4,000
to repair.
By Keith Roulston
The Citizen
M-T bridges reviewed
Fire report
deferred
County
receives
economic
reports
By Keith Roulston
The Citizen
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen