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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1986-02-05, Page 1Brussels zoning by-law up for study again The next few months will see Brussels Village council take a- nother crack at getting a zoning by-law in place. WayneCaldwellofthe Huron County Planning department was present at Monday night’s council meeting along with Barbara Noble, a student working with the office, toreviewthe situation surrounding the zoning by-law and secondary plan. Followingthe presentation of the secondary plan in October 1974 and its ev-entual adoption in September 1976, a zoning by-law had been prepared and had been given first and second readings by village council but never passed. Mr Caldwell said the planning office has prepared a draft zoning by-law and will present it to all members of council with a copy in the near future for their study. From that point there will be a series of meetings with council to discuss the draft before a final draft is agreed on. At that point the by-law will be printed up and circulated to all residents of Brussels. A public meeting will be held after a 30-day notice is given, in order for everyone to be able to comment on the plan. After the public meeting the council and planning department will again review the plan and incorporate appropriate changes brought out by the public meeting. The revised by-law will then be printed and circulated again fol­ lowed by a 35-day period for objections. A further review will be carried out to try to alleviate as many objections as possible. If there are still objections, the Ontario Municipal Board will have to hold a hearing to hear both sides and decide which is right. Hesaidzoningis important to prevent future conflicts between landowners over conflicting uses of Hullett seeks ON IP grant Hullett township council will apply for a grant under the Ontario Neighbourhood Improvement Pro­ gram, it was decided at the February meeting of Hullett coun­ cil held on January 28 to allow the councillors to attend the Rural Ontario Municipal Association convention this week. The council authorized Clerk Harry Lear to apply for $275,000 in ONIP funding. In other business, council set the salary for the clerk for the coming year at $25,000 plus payment of OHIP benefits. The council accepted the tender of Jim Hayter Motors for the delivery of a 1986 4-wheel drive half-ton truckfor $12,631. The road superintendent was also authoriz­ ed to buy up to $500 worth of new or used tools at his discretion. The clerk and reeve were authorized to sign an agreement from the county to purchase 4.942 metres off the front part of west half Lot 23, concession 10. A tolerance of encroachment was granted regarding a cement pad and part of the building of Mitchell’s Family Market on the road allowance for Elizabeth street in Londesborough. The permission will be revoked if the two offending portions are ever demolished. A petition from Ralph Buffinga and Murray Adamsfor extention of the Farquhar Drain was accepted and W. J. Dietrich of W. E. Kelley and Associations was appointed engineer. Claus Breed from the Huron County Pioneer Museum was present to discuss planning and financing of the new museum project. property. For instance a by-law would allow people to carry out some businesses in their houses such as hairdressing shops or real estate offices, but would not allow uses that would be obnoxious to neighbours. In one instance in Goderich, he said, someone had tried to carry on a fish processing business in a residential neigh­ bourhood. All businesses operating at the time the by-law is adopted will not Serving Brussels, Biyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships VOL. 2 - NO. 6 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1986.40 CENTS Huron-Bruce M.P. Murray Cardiff last week presented a cheque to the Biyth Festival from the Secretary of State for assistance in the purchase of the Festival’s computer [installed last year]. Receiving the cheque from Mr. Cardiff [left] were [left to right] Marian Doucette, president of the board and board members Don McCaffery and Carol Irwin. Few notice our earth quake While most local people hardly noticed, southern Ontario felt the shocks of an earthquake Friday morning. The quake, which measured 5.5 on the Richter scale was centred beneath the American shore of Lake Erie about 50 kilometers northeast of Cleveland but minor vibrations reached this area about 11:46 Friday morning. For most people it went unnotic­ ed, the faint vibration put down to a Brussels to get Industrial Commission The new agressive attitude of Brussels village council toward development may see an area industrial commission set up in the next few months. The subject came up for discus­ sion at the Monday night meeting of council when Reeve Hank Ten be affected, he said. Mr. Caldwell also said that there shouldbeareviewofthe secondary plan since there have been changes in recent years (for instance the construction of the arena) and the Planning Act of 1983 calls for a five-year review of such plans. He also presented councillors with a draft of the Morris township secondary plan and pointed out that an area within 2000 feet of the village limits had been designated passing truck or some such regular happening. Elaine Scrimgeour was working in her anitque shop, Remember When, on Dinsley Street in Biyth when she heard the crystal and china tinkling. She didn’t know what it was at the time and didn’t have a radio on so didn’t realize until she heard people talking later that she had been through an earthquake. Myrtle Vodden of Biyth also noticed the quake and said it felt like someone had bumped into the Pas said that informal discussions with representatives of Grey and Morris township councils seemed to show those councils in agree­ ment with the idea of appointing a commission with one or two members from each municipality Continued on page 2 for “restricted agriculture’’ use. This would mean existing farming operations can continue to operate but new intensive livestock opera­ tions would be subject to restric­ tions to prevent them from causing problems for neighbouring resi­ dential neighbourhoods. There was considerable discus­ sions about zoning for the old fairground property since part of it is in the village and part in the township and how this could effect chair she was sitting in. A quake reading 5.0 can cause damage in the area directly around the centre of the quake. The earthquake that killed 8,000 people Biyth area loses Saturday mail delivery Post office customers in Biyth, Auburn, Walton and Londes­ borough have not been receiving Saturday postal delivery for the pastseveralweeksundera new policy by Canada Post. KeithAhrens, PostMasterat the Clinton Post office, supervising the other post offices, explained that a change in working hours at the London processing plant means that virtually no mail is arriving from London on the Friday night mail truck leaving no mail to be delivered on Saturday to the other post offices. There is still, however, outgoing mail in all the local post offices as future development. Currently a real estate company is trying to sell the property. Mr. Caldwell suggested that the council might want to discuss the situation with Morris council be­ fore the two planning processes proceed much further. Council later voted to have some members attend the public meeting on the Morris plan on March 4 at 8 p.m. at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre. No more burning at Grey dump There will be no more burning of household garbage at the Grey Township Waste Disposal Site, township council decided at its meeting Thursday. Council met with waste site attendant Tom Williamson to discuss the practice of routinely burning all domestic refuse. The Ministry of the Environ­ ment had informed Grey Township Council in a strongly worded letter that, if the practice continues, the Ministry will consider issuance of a summons for violation of Section 26 of the Environmental Protection Act. After much deliberation and discussion. Council instructed Mr. Williamson to discontinue burning at the Waste Disposal Site. In other business, Council' ap­ proved general accounts totalling $25,873.37 and road accounts totalling $25,276.56. Council also passed By-law 6-1986 setting remunerations for 1986. Nextregularmeetingis schedul­ ed for February 17, at 9:30 a.m. in Mexico in September measured 8.1. Each increase of one number on the scale represents a quake 10 times as strong as the number previous. usual except that the pick up is at a different time. Mail taken at the local offices Saturday morning will still be sorted until the post office closes that morning but won’t be picked up by the delivery truck until Sunday. There is no change in the service to post offices in Brussels, Bel­ grave, Bluevale and Ethel served from the Kitchenersortation plant. Not yet anyway. There is specula­ tion that this move may be the first one in a move to standardizing post office closing hours. At present, some post offices such as Goderich are not open on Saturday morning while the majority of local offices are.