Lakeshore Advance, 2013-06-19, Page 3Wednesday, June, 19, 2013 • Lakeshore Advance 3
Red tape holding back progress: landowners group
Rally outside Huron tape around the courthouse buildin much red
I g. tape,it takes too long fight- Official Plans are frustrating to the average citizen trying
County Courthouse Moyer told the Signal Star landown- ing everyone and everything to do your to move a project forward, Mahon said. "I know someone
ers are fed up facing a "horrendous" work, to make work, to earn money." who was trying to start a business that would have offered
mountain of red tape from lower and Mahon blames Official Plans, a blue- jobs but it was denied because, in his case, it wasn't in the
upper tiers of government. print that describes how land in a Com- Official Plan."
Paul Cluff "It ties the hands of our entrepre- 'nullity should be used. They also Others run into costs they didn't expect. Mahon has
QM Agency neurs," she said after the rally. "The ensure coordinated growth and show a talked to municipal planners, who understand the frustra-
costs and delays are having a negative council's commitment towards future tion but say their hands are tied.
The leader of a group of frustrated impact on our communities. It trans- growth. "This is what is lacking in communities. Government
landowners believes government slates to lost jobs and prosperity." spend all their time trying to figure out how to get grant
needs an intervention similar to a Moyer used the example of a farther money."
12 -step addiction recovery process. in North Huron who has tried to get AA
"The system is set up for consultants. Bureaucracy has
Cindy Moyer, president of t he permission to build greenhouses and
been put in place for growth. This is a wake up call. Enough
I Iuron-Perth Landowners Association, grow citrus fruit; According to his husi- is enough, we have to correct this."
told supporters outside the Huron ness plan, up to 260 employees could This is what is lacking in Mahon said landowners groups were radical when they
County Courthouse that government is be hired. g started up but have since turned to educating their repre-
not listening to landowners and mak- Moyer said he couldn't get the go- communities. Government sentatives and working together.
iv arbitrary decisions based on little ahead from his municipality. Added Moyer: "We see the empty storefronts in commit -
rut. HPLA member Karen Mahon said spend all their time trying nities. You can't just blame the economy. The lower and
'they are getting information from people are frustrated at not being able upper tier governments need to take some responsibility."
one source," Moyer told about 30 neo- to move forward with commerce in to figure out how to get
Y I �� Central Huron councilor Brian Barnim is one of the pan-
tile gathered at Courthouse Park before their municipalities. grant money. elists at a Townhall meeting June 19 in Holmesville that will
the June 12 County Council Meeting. "I was talking to someone in the address the landowners group's concerns. Barnim speaks
"'They are not listening to us." construction business and he is getting — HPLA member Karen Mahon out frequently about the hurdles of development. Moyer
After the rally, supporters placed red out of it," Mahon said. "There is too hopes anyone with concerns about government process will
attend.
"We are hoping everyone comes out and we can come up
with some ideas, proactively, that will help start the
conversation:'
Janette Balllle Port Franks camera club
And decked out
Decked out for the annual Grand Bend Optimist Drive and Jive Is Laura Lessard, Patti Merner, Brenda and Bob Jones set the
stage for a great Jive and Drive Saturday.
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