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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-05-21, Page 2Times -Advocate Ma 21 1981 ROMEO AND JULIET — Paul Cooper, as Tony, and Ilona Schaufler, as Mario, pose on one of the sets from the South Huron District High School production of West Side Story. The only siding with the steel -plus -vinyl difference! Take steel: add layers of zinc. chemicals and a thick polyvinyl chloride (PVC) coating. You've got Stelco Ultragard Siding Siding supreme' There's never been a siding like new Stelco Ultragard Siding It's the perfect protection to put between your home and the weather' NEW STELCO ULTRAGARD SIDING A product of Stelco Inc For a tree no-obilat on estimate contact JIM 8 CKER 237-3526 CONSTRUCTION Sign ruling turned over to committee Exeter council failed in attempts Tuesday night to reach a decision regarding a sign being requested by AVCO Finance for their new location in Len Veri's Centre Mall. The matter was finally turned over to the executive committee and they were asked to make a decision this week and pass it on to building inspector Brian Johnston for im- plementation. Veri appeared before council to explain that while AVCO did not have a Main St. location in their new office (located in the former Chainway store portion of the mall) he had signed a lease with them to permit a sign above the display window in the portion of the building leased to Coolman Real Estate. According to Johnston, county planner Gary Davidson contended the sign would contravene the local sign bylaw, although Johnston said that if the Main St. entrance that can be used to reach AVCO is considered as frontage, then a sign could at least be in- stalled over the doorway. Veri argued that he was not in agreement with Davidson and suggested the bylaw did not stipulate that frontage was required. He also suggested that the sign bylaw needed some revamping. "Common sense should dictate that the sign should go up," Veri said, adding that if it wasn't approved he would object to other signs in the community which he suggested contravened the bylaw as well. Later in the meeting, he cited the group sign at the Devon Building and one at the former Maple Leaf Mills property on John St. as being two that con- travened the bylaw. "We want business and yet we scare it away," Veri said after council turned the matter over to the com- mittee for a decision. "It's a lot of garbage. Can't we make judgement that's not going to hurt in any way?" he asked in suggesting the matter was one council could rule on without turning it over to a committee. Noting he had two tenants who could leave and sue him for not adhering to his lease agreement, the local developer said there was- "too as"too much of this in this town." Mayor Bruce Shaw said that turning the matter over to a committee would give members an opportunity to consider the matter in a cooler atmosphere. Veri replied that if all governments had to act like businessmen, then govern- ments would be in a better position than they are now. Johnston told council that one of the problems was that if the AVCO sign is allowed, all the tenants in the mall could in turn ask for a sign on the front of the building. At the present, they are limited to a spot on the group sign and then one over each location within the mall it- self. Clerk Liz Bell said that the sign bylaw was taken word- for-word from the zoning bylaw, and any change in the sign bylaw would require an amendment to the zoning bylaw and the delays created by that move. Councillors Bill Mickle and Morley Hall presented a motion that the sign regulations be taken out of the zoning bylaw and the matter be reviewed and drafted as a sign bylaw only, but this was defeated by the balance of council. Councillor Jay Campbell said there were benefits to leaving the regulations in the zoning bylaw, although he admitted that neither the ministry of housing nor the county planning department wanted it included in the zoning bylaw. Mickle said he couldn't see council's reasoning for not adhering to the advice of the ministry and planning department in the matter. After the hour-long debate, Veri advised council he would be back in about three weeks to get approval to move the rotating group sign at the mall closer to the Main St. sidewalk. Also discussed briefly at Tuesday's session was the topic of the canopies over the new windows being installed in The Times -Advocate The local planning board has recommended to council that a policy be adopted whereby only temporary retractable awnings over- hanging on town property be acceptable. The use of permanent or non -canvas awnings would be disallowed. Council approved the recommendation. In explaining the recommendation from the planning board Campbell said that it was a matter of safety as snow and ice can collect on permanent awnings and then dislodge to fall on passersby. He also noted It would be quite easy to have per- manent awnings that could quickly become signs in contravention of the bylaw which forbids signs to hang out over Main St. Best Interest 4, 17% We represent many Trust Companies. We are often able to arrange for the highest interest be- ing offered on Guaranteed investment Cdr- tificates. - subject to change Gaiser-Kneale Insurance Agency Inc. 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Commenting on the new Exeter police facility, Bell said it was a great thing to have an efficient police force. but it is also necessary to give them the tools or they can't be ex- pected to finish the job. He recognized the visiting police chiefs and several other dignitaries in the crowd at the opening. Also speaking was Huron Warden Fred Haberer who said the bui:ding was a credit to the entire com- munity and county and was an example of the tremen- dous sense of civic pride evi- dent in the area. Police Chief Ted Day, who cut the ribbon along with Mayor Shaw, paid tribute to the work of the 1979-80 coun- cil in erecting the facility and noted it was a pleasure to have so many of his police friends attending the ceremonies. all municipal, civic and government employees. However, Exeter council did not endorse the section denouncing the secrecy, just Objection withdrawn Hawleaf Developments Limited have withdrawn their objection to the rezon- ing of land on Highway 83 East for the proposed new location of Laidlaw Transport. The owners of the northend shopping mall were among three objectors to the zoning change which has stalled the move of the local transport firm until the Ontario Municipal Board rules on the matter. Tuesday night, council gave final reading to a bylaw approving increased uses for the Hawleaf Developments shopping centre. Final reading had een delayed in light of the objec- tion, which Councillor Jay Campbell said indicated the firm was not in agreement with council and the plan- ning board over the develop- ment of the area. It was noted at the time that the delay in passing the bylaw was not a "tit for tat" situation with the objection and Tuesday night members of council suggested it was only a coincident that the bylaw was approved at the same meeting in which they were informed that the ob- jection to the rezoning had been withdrawn. the size of the settlement. It was said to violate all attempts at bargaining in good faith at the local level as the settlements were far above local urban centre's ability to pay and it "destroys confidence on the part of both management and unions in real power of local government to self - determine effectively." Aylmer also contended the situation persuades local of- ficials that the process of ar- bitration can best make decisions for them, leaving the provincially appointed arbitrators totally in con- trol. 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