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Lucan Biddulph looking for growth
By Scott Nixon
TIMES-ADVOCATE STAFF
LUCAN BIDDULPH — Middlesex
County’s economic development officer
gave Lucan Biddulph council some advice
on how to kickstart residential develop-
ment.
Jay Brown appeared at council’s Oct. 1
meeting at Lucan Biddulph’s request and
seemed optimistic about the future of res-
idential growth. After talking to residen-
tial developers about Lucan Biddulph’s
marketability, Brown said they didn’t
think the municipality was too far from
London for residential expansion. He
added the municipal land with sewer and
water service designated for residential
growth is working in Lucan Biddulph’s
favour.
“And those are the keys people want,”
Brown said.
Lucan Biddulph’s situation was similar
to Mt. Brydges’, which has seen residen-
tial growth.
Brown advised Lucan Biddulph to get
its new official plan finished (it’s now in
the hands of county council and may be
back in council’s hands in November),
further assess the municipality’s mar-
ketability and talk to developers to find
out what they want.
Brown said Lucan Biddulph can’t
expect enormous growth and the munici-
pality has to decide what kind of growth
it wants. For example, he said there is a
growing market for farmers selling their
properties and moving into town in either
townhouses or apartment complexes.
Administrator Ron Reymer said he thinks
there is probably enough demand for
another seniors apartment complex
building in Lucan.
Coun. Leroy Maguire added the munici-
pality has to “work with developers, not
against them.”
Other notes from the meeting:
Insurance concern
John and Carol Stillson appeared
before council worried they can’t find an
insurance company to insure their home,
which adjoins a derelict building the
municipality “inherited” when property
taxes weren’t paid. The municipality has
tried to sell the building but “has not
even had a sniff” according to Reymer
and in the meantime the municipality is
losing out on collecting property taxes.
The Stillsons said no insurance compa-
ny will insure their home, which they say
they’ve improved with renovations, as
long as it’s attached to the other building.
Carol said because no one lives in the
township-owned building, it is considered
condemned.
John said the couple needs a fire mar-
shall certificate to get their home certi-
fied for insurance. Reymer said fire
inspector Robert Barker will look at the
property.
He said Barker has told him if the
municipality covered all the openings and
boarded up the abandoned property’s
windows, he doesn’t see why the
Stillsons’ home can’t be insured.
By Pat Bolen
TIMES ADVOCATE STAFF
VARNA – It will come
down to the Oct.15 meet-
ing. That is when
Bluewater council will
decide on the Shoreline
ward proposal and one
representative.
Bluewater held a public
meeting Oct 7 at Stanley
Complex. With about 60
people in evidence, mostly
residents west of highway
21, debate was lively if
mostly one sided, except
for one farmer.
The proposal in front of
council was to change the
five ward system to six
with one councillor from
each ward – Bayfield, Hay,
Hensall, Shoreline,Stanely,
Zurich.
Three at large positions
will remain the same.
The general feeling of
people at the meeting was
residents west of Hwy. 21
aren’t being given the
respect and representa-
tion due them as ratepay-
ers and they dislike the
term non-residents given
that some spend upwards
of 75 percent of their time
there and some feel the
term should not be used
in discussing these issues.
Administrator Janisse
Zimmerman said that the
term non-resident comes
from the assessment
office, as do the statistics.
Even with the proposed
plan to make a new
Shoreline ward with a
councillor, many residents
of the area say that the
represention will not be
enough and two or even
three would be more
appropriate to the area’s
tax base and population.
Bluewater Shoreline res-
idents association lawyer
John Judson pointed out
to council 34.6 percent of
Bluewater residents live in
the Shoreline area com-
pared to 17 percent in
Stanley and 2.5 percent in
Zurich.
With a growing number
of sub-divisions in the
area, the per centage of
people living west of Hwy.
21 will continue to grow.
The feeling was without
proper representation on
council, there will be a
lack of long range plan-
ning resulting in missed
opportunities and possibly
damage to the area.
Mayor Bill Dowson stat-
ed he felt there would be a
financial saving to
Bluewater of $15,000 to
$20,000 if the nine coun-
cillers could run the area,
as he feels they can. One
resident suggested if the
10th counciller was kept
on, Shoreline would be
able to have a second
councillor.
Farmer Marilyn
Broadfoot wanted to know
who was representing
farmers in the area on
most issues, and won-
dered if tourists were sen-
sitive to the needs of area
farmers on road rights for
machinery, severances
and drainage.
Council will discuss the
issue at the next meeting,
Oct 15. Judson also stated
the Ontario Municipal
board will hold a hearing
Nov. 18.
Bluewater holds public meeting on Shoreline wardClosure consultation
process revised
By Stew Slater
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES-ADVOCATE
SEAFORTH — The Avon Maitland District School
Board has revised the public consultation process it
must follow before either closing a school or changing a
school's grade structure.
Trustees voted 8-1 in favour of the revisions at a regu-
lar board meeting Sept. 10.
According to education superintendent Bill Gerth, the
changes were made in response to concerns expressed
after last year’s "tumultuous" process leading to the clo-
sure of Seaforth District High School (SDHS) and
planned closure of two Stratford elementary schools, as
well as a reprieve from closure for some Goderich-area
elementary schools.
"I had several school council members come and
speak to me after that was over, and, in fact, I sought
out several other people to ask them their opinion,"
Gerth explained.
He said much of that feedback indicated the public
consultation process "went overboard in some ways,"
by providing numerous opportunities for the public to
speak yet never requiring anything more than what had
already been presented.
"People were being asked to present the same infor-
mation over and over at different points in the process,"
Gerth said, adding they were afraid not to come for-
ward and make the same statements during each stage,
for fear their absence would lead to the impression they
no longer cared if their school closed.
In addition, Gerth said, there was disappointment with
the role of the so-called "Community Accommodation
Study Committees" (CASCs), which were established
early in the process and featured representation from
every Avon Maitland school and every municipality .
"Stakeholders indicated that the CASCs could be made
more meaningful if these committees were mandated
to respond to specific, rather than general or theoreti-
cal, accommodation issues," states Gerth’s report.
Consideration was also given to words of various
judges who presided over separate steps in an eventual-
ly-unsuccessful judicial review of the SDHS closure,
brought forward by four Seaforth-area residents and
the municipality of Huron East.
"The judges indicated that the opportunity for commu-
nity input for alternative solutions, while available dur-
ing the early stages of the process, might better have
occurred somewhat later in the process," Gerth’s
report states.
The major change would see board staff suggesting
schools for possible change or closure as a first step in
the process. Last year, the CASCs were struck before
any schools were actually identified for possible change,
and then based much of their work on a consultant’s
report that analyzed widespread closures the board
never seriously considered.
CASCs will also only be struck for the school commu-
nities facing potential change, instead of for every
school community in the district.
The make-up of the CASCs will change slightly, with
the municipalities served by the school community
combining to cast one vote. Last year, each municipality
within the CASC’s designated area received one vote,
which caused confusion in municipalities which strad-
dled CASC boundaries.
"On the whole, I want to emphasize I don’t think the
process is being changed substantially," Gerth said.
Trustee Charles Smith, who fought hard to save SDHS,
offered no substantial criticism of the changes.
However, he cast the only dissenting vote after suggest-
ing school councils should be allowed to comment on
the revisions before trustees approved them.