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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1993-05-12, Page 16The general feeling about "the country' by city people is that there is all kinds of room so dump everything that the city does not want into "the country". A big controversy is going on in Kitchener about the location of a federal prison for women. Vacant land close to, but not in, a subdivi- sion has been purchased by the government. People in the subdivi- sion ars angry that a prison is go- ing to be located at their back door. They are fighting tooth and nail to keep it out although the federal government says it is a fait accom- pli. The statement in the entire argu- ment that makes it obvious about how unaware city people are about "the country" is a remark printed which was made by one of the people against locating the prison in the city. "Why not put it in the country somewhere and it won't bother anyone?" Callous? You bet. Unthinking? Yes. Stupid? Yes. That same sort of unawareness is more than apparent in so many other instances. When cities need someplace to dump their garbage, they look in the country. When they- want landfill sites, they talk about all kinds of crazy schemes such as the one several years ago whereby big ole Hogtown, Tranna, was about to buy an old rail line Corporation of the COUNTY OF HURON PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT • . PUBLIC MEETING AFFECTING THE TOWNSHIP OF.STANLEY TO DETERMINE THE NEED FOR REVISIONS TO TIE-STANLEY1OWNSHIP SECONDARY PLAN AND'TO CONSIDER A PROPOSED OFFICIAL 'PIAN AMENDMENT 10 "THE TOWNSHIP OF STANLEY SECONDARY PLAN TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corporation oftthle County of Huron and the Council of the Corporation.of the Township of Stanley will hold a public meeting onlideietleyjune 14, 1,93 at 7:30.p.m. in the Council Chambers at the Stanley -Township Comniunity Centre Complex (on "County Road 3, approx. 1 .kitomatre west of Varna) to consider the fotlowing: I. To allow the public to comment on the need for revisions of the, Secondary'Plan for the Township of Stanley under section 26 of the • Planning Act: The Planning Atrt requires that municipalities provide the public with the opportunity through a special meeting of Council to comment on the need for revisions to the Secondary Plan. This meeting is an opportunity for persons with comments or suggested changesto make their thoughts known to Council. • 2. To consider a proposed official plan amendment under section 17 of the Planning Act. The proposed plan amendment would update the existing Secondary Mao and includes the following: (a) Agriculture policies dealing with temporary dwellings; . (b) Adjustments to the Natural Environment policies; (c) Urban policies.dealin"g with lots -Sizes and housing; (d) Adjustnietitsto the Extractive 1te brifterptflicies; (e) Recreation: policies pertaining to protection of the lake bank, den- sity and lot size; (t) Rural residential policies dealing with lot size and parkland; (g) Adjustments to ,the Mobile Home Park policies for agreements and side plan control; (h) Policies for.Flood Plains; (i) Municipal Services policies for edueetion,.sewade!disposal, roads a1M storm water; (j) Adjustments to the Land Division policies for surplus dwellings and infilling in recreational areas; (k) Housekeeping changes such as updated references to sections of the Planning Act; (I) Redesignations on Schedule is (Land Use Plan) related to Natural Environment areas and -the designation of the hamlet of Blake to Urban (see attached map); ANY PERSON may attend the public meeting and/or make written or verbal representation either in support of or in opposition to (he pro- posed official plan amendment. At8DI'IXONAL INFORMATION relating to the proposed official plan amendment is available for inspection between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Huron County Department of Planning and Development (52+1-2188) or at the Township of Stanley Municipal Office (233-7907). DATED AT THE COUNTY OF HURON AND THE TOWNSHIP OF S'T'ANLEY THIS 3RI) DAY OF MAY,1993. Lynn Murray Clerk -Administrator County of :Huron Court House GUDERICH, Ontario N7A I M2 Ansberth Willer, Clerk -Treasurer Township of Stanley R. R. #l, VARNA, Ontario NOM 2R0 STANLEY TOWNSHIP OPA 207 SECONDARY PLAN „ SCHEDULE 'e• LAND USE PLAN +r 444 _s► %;7"4..--.701111.10 �• sante.— _ :,-.......it aamtwm�ai ,11414 so PAL16...--.1•■•••NBL'A. AV mar V.a/•awaaw�+ ��■,�r ill 44.4, w mama .rttt�' ;" _ kraww.r.-..r.veseeemer...Ma�amrwnad `taoaasrttt�atwtamt wutnttwNM.-o. e'.- -. _ LOOM smelt uttttrr am teles �ww•�!�► `D.lwom�!wJtiti�ttw4MIN►��_•. �•bIwWail L -tial11,- 1A,o /ma visie alemi,ilrean,nmetesesime MO I Mil MEW um on um mmi me en. �� sa z title! MI sem NIEL MO MO 111111111111i1 EMI WII izor`,'`., Iwo— UM _ titter , MINIM bow- IIVNIr 1 1040ttat.i r- IN Destination change horn 'A{ricrMWe to "Nowa Ea jr M Designation chap Irvin-Remake.>to "Natural Eavk000wr- De:i/rwion asap hum "Raatricied ASriovtture" to "Urban" (Mae) • DWia i IiQa catanp-AStionWreto "Restricted Agrinde nt" (SuaouaSiag BYka) and ship all es garbaSe out to Ta- vistock or Palmerston or some- where. City people seem to think they can ship their messes 21e coun- try" and no one will, no one will be bothered. 1 suggest to you that a prison in "the country" would be worse than in a built up area. If, as those city people say, someone should es- cape from that prison, it would be much more sinister if a lone farm family was used by desperate con - tits that a house with lots of pro- tection and many neighbors in the city. I also suggest to you that the in- mates of those prisons would far more likely be urban dwellers than farm folk. It is the streetwise city kid who grows up to run afoul of the law far more often than a coun- try kid. The prisons, I suggest, for both male and female prisoners, have urbanites as inmates. So, why should "the country" take the prisons? Why should "the country" take the landfill sites? Let Pesticides own -use import program 'proposed OTTAWA - Agriculture Canada has developed a proposal for pub- lic consideration which would al- low farmers to import designated pesticides for their own use. The proposed 'Pesticide Own - Use Import Program" ,ewhich would require an amendment to the Pest Control Products Regula-, tions -- is in response to a key rec- ommendation of the Pesticide Reg- istration Review. It suggested Canadian agricultural producers be given access to competitively priced pesticides without compro- mising public safety. The review was conducted by representatives from farm, forestry and chemical industries, as well as environmen- tal, health, research and consumer groups. Under the program -- proposed May 1, 1993 in the Canada Ga- zette -- only products equivalent to those registered in Canada could be imported. The proposal would require that Canadian health, safe- ty and environmental standards be met. As well, provincial and feder- al legislation governing the sale, use and storage of pesticides would be strictly adhered to. Interested parties are encouraged to offer their input on the proposal. Comments are being accepted for a 60 day period during June 29, 1993. P `•ducts to be imported must fust meet the following require- ments: • The active ingredient in the product must be registered by Ag- riculture Canada and the country from which it is being imported (e.g. the United States). • There must not be any known health or environmental concerns with the active ingredient that would cause it to be under official re-evaluation or special review in either Canada or the country of or- igin. • The product must not contain any formulant (inert ingredient) known to be of toxicological con- cern as established by the U.S. En- vironmental Protection Agency. • The importer must have a per- mit in order to bring the product into the country. The product is to be imported only for the importer's own use. • The product must meet all the requi ements of the Pest Control Products Act and Regulations, the federal legislation that governs the ditlMbutien. sale and use of pesti- cides in Canada. To be imported, the product must be equivalent to the registered Cs- nadian product. A laboratory analy- sis of the imported product may be required to confirm that the two products are chemically equivalent. A Canadian label, to be devel- oped by the importer with assis- tance and approval from Agricul- tural Canada, must be affixed to the foreign product before it can be im- poe't.:. the cities, the people who are gen- erating the problem solve the prob- lem. I can hear dozens of city dwellers saying: But if we don't find a plump in the country, what will we do with our garbage? Find other ways to get rid of it, I say. Cities in the Hew Hess of Hay are doing it with incinerators and garberators an all kinds of innova- tive ideas. I talked to a science fiction writer a few weeks ago and we got around to the future. He saw garbage as one of the biggest problems of this society even with recycling. "I think what we'll have to do in the future is build the right kind of spaceships, huge freight -carries, that we can shoot into space and to a garbage galaxy somewhere a few trillion light years away," he joked. "Then, we can send our wastes out there somewhere in space." It was a joke but there might just be enough meat to provoke some thoughts at NASA. Get those egg- heads working on it and when they come up with the technology, they can turn it over to the bottom-line boys with sharp pencils who can charge the rest of the world by the tonne. Sounds stupid? No more stupid than suggesting that all prisons and landfill sites should be in the coun- try. No monthly payments and 0% interest 'til September.* Nothing is simpler. 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