HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1981-07-08, Page 1Will talk mapping
BY DEBBIE RANNEY
A public meeting is to, be held to discuss
proposed floodplan management policies for
Brussels and to permit final approval for the
McDonald-Bryans-Krauter subdivision,
The meeting will be held Tuesday, July 21
at 8 p.m. in the B.M,G. Community Centre.
Needed for final approval of the subdivision
is the redesignation of Part of Lot 2,
Concession 10 (annexed from the Township
of Grey in 1977) from "Natural Environ-
ment" and "Recreation" to "Open Space"
and "Residential." These are some of the
final steps toward getting approval for the
village's secondary plan.
Plans were made for the public meeting as
a result of a special meeting last Monday
night held by Brussels council with Roman
Dzus of the Huron County Planning Depart-
ment and Bryan. Howard and Phil Beard of
the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority.
Brussels council confirmed its agreement
with the two zone approach (Hurricane
Hazel and one in 100 year floodplain
mapping) for floodplain management.
The agreement is conditional upon the
Conservation Authority and the Province of
Ontario working out a more acceptable level
of floodproofing in the flood fringe area with
the Authority to report back to council on
this matter as soon as possible. The
Authority is trying to get some less stringent
floodproofing requirements in some areas of
the Hurricane Hazel floodline.
Bryan Howard, general manager of the
Conservation Authority stated how the
province had originally wanted Hurricane
Hazel as the guide for floodlines and there
was some validity for those lines in some
areas, but it didn't have a practical
aplication in all areas. In order to make the
policy more effective, they came up with the
once in 100 year flood line mapping.
The two zone flood way-flood fringe
concept is to be used for floodplain planning
and management purposes. A floodway,
which is defined as the area of the floodplain
required to pass the deep, fash flowing
floodwater, will be based in the 1 in 100 year
flood. The flood fringe defined as the
peripheral area where less severe flooding
may occur will be based on the land between
the one in one hundred year flood and the
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A HOME AT LAST — Huron Town and Country Homemakers have
signed arrangements recently to purchase their headquarters building in
Wingham. A county-wide campaign raised funds for a down payment and
efforts are continuing to pay off the mortgage. From left are
Homemakers' president Bev Brown of Bluevale, the agency's director
Jean Young and executive board member Rev. Terry Trites of Bluevale.
(Expositor Photo)
Brussels to fix
russels Post
109 Year — Issue No. 27
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1981
BRUSSELS •
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Nick Hill, an architect from the firm of Hill
and Borgal in Goderich is to check into the
costs of doing a heritage study for the village
of Brussels.
Mr. Hill was asked by Brussels council
members when they held their regular
meeting Monday night after he made a
presentation to council on the type of things,
that had been accomplished in other villages
and cities.
Mr. Hill said they have had quite a lot of
experience because the firm had renovated a
lot of buildings in the country and done a lot
of work with the municipal councils in
Want to be part of the
Morris birthday issue?
Help. The postal strike has brought a slow.
down to the plans for a special edition
commemorating the 125th birthday of
Morris township.
Letters have been mailed ..to businesses
inviting them to participate in the edition.
Responses have to be in by July 17 and may
be left at the Brussels Post or the Blyth
Standard.
Anyone who has pictures or stories about
the township is also invited to take a hand
in the edition.
The readers of the Brussels Post and the
Blyth Standard will receive their copy of the
edition in the papers the week of July 29 in
time for the festivities planned.
Brussels
horse wins
A horse owned by a Brussels man; Glenn
Smith, was a winner in the recent 530,000
Labatt Invitation Race at Western Fair
Raceway.
Camp Queen, a nine year old Camp er
who is trained and driven by Don Corbett for
Glenn Smith broke her own track mark for
aged trotting mares by one-fifth of a second
when she captured the sixth in 2:03 3/5.
In an interview in the London Free Press
Mr. Corbett sayt, "She's
won nearly $100,000 since she started
racing,'' and the biggest purse she ever won
Was $2600 from a $5,200 purse at Windsor
°tie night. She really earned her Money the
hard way. She's a tough mare and always
gives her best. I wish I had a few more like
her.''
Hensall, Bayfield and Blyth. They also
worked for Business Improvement. Associa-
tions and with local Architectual Conserva-
tion Advisory committees.
He told Brussels council that the first
thing they should do is study what they
have, secondly decide what they should do
with what they have.
"I think doing nothing is really an
indication that you're going to let it go."
He urged council to look at the whole issue
and see where the areas were that some-
thing could be done with. He broke down
the areas into the river area, the core area,
the residential area, and the institutional
buildings. He said the core area is kind of a
problem in the village, and that although a
lot of the stores are empty in Brussels he
though there was something of real value
and urged council to look at the situation
critically and see if some rejuvenation can be
done.
Councillor Hank Ten Pas asked Mr. Hill
where they should start.
"I think the question on this street
(Turnberry) is we've just got to look at the
trend of what is happening. In some ways it
has a pretty run-down appearnace. The
main street portrays the appearance of a
village. The main street is in a pretty critical
position. Where do we go? I'm not sure but
I think we've got to confront what's
happening," he said.
When he named some areas that had
Tennis courts ok
Brussels council gave its approval to the
Leo Club using the old arena surface for a
tennis court at a special meeting last
Monday night.
Since the surface is not big enough for two
courts, the west end will be fenced off and
used for shuffleboard. The village is to clean
up the walls surrounding the surface.
So far, the Leo Club has- raised $9,000
toward the cost of a tennis court.
fireworks??
Some people in Brussels may have
thought- they were getting treated to a
fireworks display_ on Thursday night, but it
was only Edith Pipe backing into -unguarded
guy wires that. caused the sparks.
When the accident happened- the hydro
poles were pulled so that the wires flipped
together which in turn. blew a fuse. Hydro
went off around 10 or 10:30 p.m. and was off
for a good half hour.
picked up because of a provincial highway,
Reeve Cal Krauter told him there were two
areas in Ontario not on a provincial highway,
Brussels and Paisley.
Mr. Hill said he thought a good start
would be to have a study done identifying
what there is, identifying some of the
heritage buildings and looking at the
building fabric and seeing how well it's
being used.
It was fii,ally decided to let Mr. Hill get in
touch with the Ontario Heritage Foundation.
explaining how critical the situation in
Brussels is and asking what financial
assistance would be available.
In othe council business, and after a
lengthy discussion it was decided to pay the
fireman $6 per hour for practice and $7 for
fighting fires as long as the department kept
the hours
Organizations for running
food booths were arranged at
a meeting of the Morris
125th committee last Mon-
day night.
to. Running the booths will be
the Walton Recreation Com-
mittee--the food booth at the
fairgrounds, Brussels Recre-
ation- the booth at the
]Midway; Bluevale Recre-
ation- the booth at the ball
park, Belgrave Recreation-
Morris sets up booths for 125th
The deadline for the Home.
and Country beautification
improvement program has
been extended until July 20.
The Morris Township Histor-
ical Book is to be published
in about two weeks.
A clean-up committee has
the booth inside the Com-
munity Centre. The group is
still needed to run a booth on
the main street.
been set up. Clarence
McCutcheon will be contact-
ing one person from each
township line to form a
committee by getting four or
five other people from each
line.
In charge of the lines
are: first line- Jim Johnston;
second line- Keith Elston;
third line- Tom Warwick;
fourth line- John Nixon; fifth
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A NICE WAY TO COOL OFF — Lanette Todd found splashing around in
the wading pool int Brussels was a nice way to cool off on Friday.
(Photo by manney)