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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-07-22, Page 1A Knlough man died in a -car accident, Friday evening. Christopher Turcotte 28, was returning home when„ his car went .out of control : on j highway 9, west, of Riverdale, turning' over. and hitting a: hydro pole. Turcotte was taken to Bruce County eneral Hospital, Walkerton where he was dead on arrival, Walkerton Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police investigated. • i ee tree ntir o carr Lucknow Village Council. agreed to share the cost of a tree planting program with the Lucknow Horticultural :Society when society representatives met with council. July 14. Eunice Cunningham and Jean Whitby of e Horticuiturat Society and Greg Alton of uron Landscaping attended the meeting to iscuss the proposal with council. Councillor Ab Murray said :he would like to see a tree planting program to, replace the trees which have been removed the last several years. Reeve George. Joynt said he thinks the trees should be planted as long as they don't grow too big and become costly to maintain: Alton suggested umbra catalpa, : linden and globe maples would be suitable. They. Turn to page S• It was a.duel of the sexes over a; dish of ice,cream. Patty Barger, left and Gayle . MacKenzie, centre, challenged Mike .Whitcroft saying they could eat a super duper special faster than he could. The duel took place the afternoon of. July 14 at the Superscoop Icecream Parlour. This tune the male representative won, finishing his.syrupy sweet first, but only seconds before his female challengers. (Sentinel staff photo) objects to plan's Representatives of Lucknow Village Coun- cil and the Bruce County South Planning Board were "on hand July 15 at a public meeting to review and discuss the secondary plan for the village of Lucknow: Don Scott and Janet McGuiness of the Bruce County South Planning Department and Lucknow's Village Council attended the meeting` as, well as the village's solicitor, George Brophy and the assistant clerk, Bertha Whitcroft. Two members- of the interested public showed to express interest in the proposed secondary plan. Scott outlined the purpose of the meeting, saying the planning department had :been requested to prepare a long range official plan for the village and a zoning by-law for approval.` The Meeting, he said, gave the public and opportunity 'to raise objections and concetns about the proposed,plan before it was approved by the' village council and sent to the Ministry of Housing for final approval: Grou • - Stott saidere isprovision s th viso n in the lan for Multiple family dwellings and for residential. rowth, but' he' expects .there`wi 1 be little gp 1 1 e change in Lucknow's growth patterns., Scott . said the county isencouraging retiring farmers to locate existing residential areas such as Lucknow rather than •severing property from their farms to build retirement' homes. . • Bruce County's new secondary plan ap- proved in June prevents farm severances unless the zoning is changed to residential. This permits surrounding farmers to have a say in whether the severance is granted. This type of policy may have an effect on Lucknow's growth, said Scott, as it will Make farm severances more difficult to attain. The county is trying to discourage non-farm scattered development, Scott noted. He also pointed out that the major stumbling block . to Lucknow council's approval of the Lucknow plan is the restrictions placed on development in the ooct plain esination ffoisd plain :areas ,as designated by the.. Maitland Valley' Conservation Authority. Their flood plain mapping prevents develop- ment along Stauffer Street north ofamp- bell and . along Inglis Street: north of Campbell along the Lucknow River. Councillor Ab. Murray pointed out that with the restrictions as imposed by the Authority, there could be no future develop- ment at the site of the former Ford • implement dealership on Inglis Street. Murray also stated that if his property, C. & M Transport, was burned down, he would have difficulty rebuilding, yet he's never seen water in the yard for the 14 years he's been involved in the business. Murray said he objects to this area being designated hazardous 'because it is prime land for commercial .development. • Scott suggested council adopt a legal nen-conforming policy which would permit existing buildings to be rebuilt if burned ' down. He said there is also provision in the plan for ..redov 10 tineiit of the business section along the °Main. street as long as the owners do' the necessary flood proofing. Scott pointed out that any • ;residential buildings in the area zoned commercial would not be allowed to return to residential use if their use • was ,ever changed to commercial. Rev. George Garratt, one of two interested citizens attending the meeting, suggested the area north of Johnstone's shed on Inglis Street would be an ideal location for a. senior citizen's apartment building_ but . it . is forbidden by the flood plain designation. He added that many who have lived in the village all their lives have never seen water on this land. ' Reeve George Joynt commented he .has found with "these white collar fellows .... that every onee in a while you have to go to •. Toronto and read, the riot act." Turn topage 2• withdraws from hydra's summer meetings Central Working Group, formed to partic- ipate in. the .selection of an Ontario Hydro route plan for getting power from the Bruce Nuclear Power Development (BNPD) into seri�thwestern Ontario, has withdrawn from a es of public meetings scheduled by Hydro throughout the summer. At a meeting here July 9, the group decided ito postpone the second meeting of the Central Working Group until November 7. Four more meetings had been planned, - the second one on July IS and others on August 20, September 10 and October 1. The decision means the group will have no input into Hydro's. report recommending, one of six proposed site plans which is tbe ready by October 31. Instead the Central Working Group will concentrate its . efforts for participating at the public hearings of the planning. stage. Those hearings are sched- uled to begin in Janaury. Formal plan approval is expected in June 1902. The . motion to postpone the second meeting until November was tabled by Tony McQuail of R. It. 1, Lucknow, representing the Huron County Federation of Apiculture and Joe flaunt of R.J. 1, Listowel; representing the Ontario Cattlemen's Assoc- iation. The vote resulted in a split decision with 10 voting in favb►ur of the motion, five in opposition and four indicating they were `abstaining. Those opposing the motion included .r..epreseentatives. of the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Regional Muni- cipality of Waterloo. Voting in favour were representatives of such farm organizations as the Huron County Federation of Agri— culture, the National Farmers Union, the Concerned Farriers of the United Town. ships, the Ontario Cattlemen's Association and the Agricultural Power Line Working Committee. Dr. E. G. Plewa of the Huron Erie Land Use Studies (HEWS) Group which chaired the meeting said the decision "will have many repercussions'. Ilr. Pleva, 'a retired georgrapher, formerly headed the geogra- phy department at the University of Western Ontario. .iso re resenting;the HELUS group at the meeting was Dr. John Sullivan, a member of the faculty engineering ineeri'ng at UWO. g The Central Working Group is one of five such groups organized by Ontario Hydro- to assist in the selection of a second transmission line out of the BNPD. Other working groups include the Northern group; cnetred in Flesherton, the Southeast group centred in Ancaster, the Southern group centred in London and the Southwest group, centred: in Chatham. , , The , decision of the Central group to postpone meetings during the summer followed a decision taken by the Christian Farmers' Federation two weeks ago to boycott the meetings and prepare for the hearings in-anuary. Like the Central group, the Christian Farmers' Federation which has a member- ship of approximately 600, stated it was impossible for its members to provide the necessary input during harvestoeason. In tabling his motion here last week, Mr. McQuail said he had been instructed by the executive of the Huron Coady Federation of Agriculture to resign if the meetings could not be postponed. "Our executive felt it would be more advantageous to gear up for the Environ- mental Assessment hearings than to try to participate this summer," he said. Expressed Concern Mr. McQQuail said his organization had expressed concern to Ontario Hydro several months ago regarding the delay in announ- cing .the proposed site plans. "We wrote to Ontario. Hydro in November 1980 expressingour concern that if meetings were not going to be held from January to March 1981 as planned, then farmers would be into their busiest seasons. We expressed the concern that we had not received the been promised." Mr. McQuail said that in reply the Huron Federation had received the usual "pleasant - responses". He added that it was his understanding that the Ministry of the Environnient also found the present, sched- ule for public input "a little telescoped and pushed". Mr. IVMcQuail saidhis organization felt that instead of any meaningful participation, due to harvest and holidays in the summer, the results would be "a hodgepodge of alternat- es sorting lternat-es•sorting through a large pile of literature". "Our iterature ."O'ur intention is not to scuttle this: exercise, but to make a realistic contribution and our concerns inthis regard have been raised repeatedly," Mr. McQuail said. "I must agree with Tony (McOuail)" Mr. Daunt said in seconding the Motion. - Mr. Daunt noted that a number of Turn to page' 2*: n