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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-01-17, Page 11n n�-R rk:� s•�I°>'Y�,v r.k • Jh, 41r1"'{z'P.:r'.r,1Fll Goderich area builders.. and developers voiced objections on Monday night "to a new by-law regulating, among other things, 4 sideyard `Mwidth and placement of garages at dew house sites. At a special: meeting the builder's met . with town. building inspector Roy, Breckenridge at the inspector's office. The purpose of themeeting was. <to acquaint the public with changes in the by-law, .passed on De eu ber . 6, governing build;+ g' permit -grants. The by- law was changed last in 1958. • .Builders 'expressed concern about the by-law, which states that there , must be sidpyards for every house built, a _.... minirrium of l0 -feet on one side and sit feet on - the other. This is to prevent cramming „,„,houses together as is the case in olttisr':areas of some large On- tario cities. Citing by-laws from other municipalities, Bert Alexander said that, "In, my experience--_. township statement on with other towns in Ontario .I noticed that they only hail' W- allow for a four foot . sideyard on' both sides 'ef the: house: . "I would suggest that ` the building lots now 70, feet wide be extended to 75 "Tee and all, the garagei be built tight together leaving the extra space on the .opposite sideof the house,'; he added. Eric Krohmer heartily agreed with Mr. Alexander. "All the lots should be ' uniform for all types oahousing and they should' all Have ,the same r.equirementss for sideyards to avoid -confusion to the planners," he reasoned. Inspector Breckenridge noted the by-law states that ail. garages built on -property lines and detached from houses must service both lots, • He said that objections to the - regulation should be stated/in a - letter, and 'sent to the planning board. . , ° ... To remind bu; ers -of an im - Con jnued on page 12 In.the. wake of confusion over past months regarding the con- struction of shopping malls in - Goderich or adjoining Goderich: Township the Township coun- ci issued a press release -on • Tuesday in- an effort to make the general public `r''"d' John . White, `Minister ',Of Treasury, 'Economics and ulntergovern- •mental Affairs "aware of the • facts. leading up to the decision to issue a building" permit, to, . 'Rockledge Properties for a Shopping mall in the Township. The release followed close on the heels of a letter from Mr, ' • White refusing to meet with the Township and . discuss the •situation. That letter 'noted, ."I have considered the . request embodied in 'your. Township's • resolution; butmust,decline the invitation to appear before your council to discuss the..matter:". ,Speaking, WWI- o£ -,"toe tow ah', . councillor G."G. Ginn, who grepared the' release, .noted,' "This+ decision (to issue the .building permit) was not reached without• due con:- sideration.'' on-sideration," .. "The Goderich ,. Township' • Council deems the site to be ideal: It has - access froin the town of Goderich by 'a well lighted four lane highway -and" it has, access from- the balance.; of the trading area by a recur: , faced°Highway number eight." "This property is adjacent to the easterly limits of the town of Goderich and we feel that a shopping plaza would be come �pata't,1 - inercial -and light industrial uses of the area. r+ a es malls and LG.B.O. • outlets," Mr. Ginn noted in the release. "The Goderich , Township Council would never consider issuingit building permit for: an Intensive agricultural complex -for-t-iiis-area.. and the -provincial government. has already' rejec- ted 'a registered •plan- of sub- . ''division on this property as late -as 1969. because this property - had been designatedby the Department oft- Municipal Af- fairs as 'i -`basically'" of an in- dustrial . n-dustrial. character," Mr. •Ginn. said. - -.• continued .on page 12 Whalen announces $2,2994 school ' C travel grant "Further proof tht this: area is` an ieal'location is "the .site chosen for the Brewers 'Retail A, grant „of $2,294 has. been awarded" St. Mary's ,School in' Goderich, under the travel and exchange` program •, of _the • Federal Government, the ,Hon. Eugene Whalen announced -on Tuesday. The grant is to helpfinance a -proposed ikxcursion by St. Mary's students and teachers to...Abbotsford, British Colum- bia: .• As the excursion ,has not, yet received approval from the Perth -Huron Separate School Board, Larry Cook, principal of -' St. Mary'$,, could not . provide • new details.:• 'e 'dell- the Signal -Star that, "We're- very pleased thatthefederal gris avaiiab%.' If the board does approve thetrip, Mr. Qook said plans will Ise finalizd next month.a�anfo►m•- Qner Work' is wall underway on construction of a new:3034Qot wall *long the northast: shore of Goderich Harbor; Bermingham-Cnstruction Lfd:'of Hamilton Is carrying out the work after being granted a.•contract vaed at $159,111 byTheF�ideral Department cf Publlc Works• for construction of a sheet piled °gall for the Federal' Transport Department. Work Is expected to be conmlete by the end of March ouncil asked' toan arsons' name A phantom phoner who called,London's CFP,L-Radio's • Open Line'show on( Saturday to disagree with broadcaster. Gor- °' �. don Sinclair, used a Goderich business 'e(cecutive's name to - emphasize .his -arguments. ; Identifying himself as Mr. Parsons at the Goderich' grain elevator, ,a man contested Mr`. SInclair's••' editorial ,which praises . A'mericans for . their generosity 'to other countries only to receive abuse in return. parsons, president and chief executive of Goderich Elevator and Transit 'Co., said he wee hot the caller: He said in an interview on Monday that, he he was morb amuBed; than embarrassed 'by , ° the pheny4 Mr. Parsons. ' Applauding the caller's com- ments, some people have telephoned the real Mr. Par- sons.to say he did a terrific jots. :However, Mr, Parsons said that he didn't understand the per -Sorel motives for using$is name. News of the call was a ` "real' surprise," He was -bothered by bad Citing' Canada as a country , language the radio station said that gives more.help per capita --- it had to edit• out 'of the open- for dollars of taxes than any, line program. " '4h -eft ountry in the world,' the,"`. Although he-•.dtesai't knower"•eller said the „0,5. is not the •-• 4' only.nation that aids people. le. how the - radio station could�doA°lie ,would° rather p his Mr,. Pa'rsons. said more con- . keep trots. -should be used to prevent thoughts, to},�laimself, Mr,- Par - such � incidents from occurring, sores declined to comment on ' . The phantom phoner on Mr'• •Sinclair's now,, famous the air, that the United States editorial. -• equij 1 • Town Foreman Stan Meriatn told:-,'Goderich Town" Council` durig committee meeting last Thursday that the community should begin looking at the• possibility of purchasing an ad- ditional. snow plowini unit. `=There are more and more. roads to plow all the. time," Mr•Mer-i-arn•-told the meeting, "with recent construction at the " Indu'striaL Park and in sub a , divisions and there are still more planned for the near sold all their wheat to Russia who in turn sold its supply -to' Italy. ,Now Canada was sup - Plying the p Y'1 g x ' He claimed that 500,000 bushels' of wheat. were cleared AA the border on Friday for shipment to the U,S, • Anything the ; caller-. said about grain had no relevance to. the Goderich'elevator,.•Mr, .•Par sons : Said. future." • , "It takes more. -time to plow the. streets each year," he lid- d'ed. " . Mr. Meriam also pointed -out that it takes about, three hours to plow the runways ---at Sky ,M Harbor and officials there want it done'sooner 'than in previous years: "They used to .wait'until af- ternoon -for us to get out there and. plow . i't, the, Town Foreman • explained, ."but now they • are more .demanding." . --- Mayor Harry Worsen •poi„= ted out• that the town would have to come first for. th'e mean- Another ea n - fto "We are 'also cutting'trees,". 'Mr. Meriam told council. "TwentY, have been cut and the Public Utilities are helping Us, especially where there are hydro wires." - In his 'report to Goderich Town Connell last Thursday evening Gerry Fisher, Pollution Supervisor at tie -local Pollution Control Plant,. told the. 'town fathersthat long range . plans for this area provide that bL,1975 .Goderich must provide phosphorous removal in addition tb. present 'sewage; treat'inent. • Operation of that program will -Coat the town about $1.30 Per. , capita in addition to -Ate capital cost of iostalling the necessary equipment, he said, ate er costs Mr: Fisher did not estimate -the cost of equipment but suggested - that council. should begincon- sideririg the added expenditure. In ' r'eplyin to a question .„ from 'coin chlor Stan Profit Mr. Fisher:noted that the Depart'- , epart=• merit of the Environment regulations't regardi'ng phosphorimS4emovalleave the. municipality' no alternative but' to install and ----operate. the necessary equipment. , • During the last month Mr. Fisher told the meeting 35 tons " of: sludge ' was removed •at the plant. Work continued on a •---project to paint"the.pump house walls and the heaters and pipes, as' well. a' . Mr. Fis er; also noted that Continued on. page 12 � Stephen Lewis tours time since -the municipality.as yet .does not even own the air- port. In other matters Mr. Meriam • noted that during December his men did ;mostly routine work, snow plowing roads • and srdewaljls,•,;;, +,hen necessary, salting roads when slippery and sanding sidewalks. y "On December 25 a sleet - Corm hit the Town covering treete with Police • called at 3:0 a.m.and I had a. salt truck going right away." ' •"Ittook 11 hours to salt all roads in town and we started sanding sidewalks at 6;00 a,m, finishing about „ooh." • Between' snowplowing, salting and sanding, the Town crew* is painting and repairing the benches from the Court House Park. ' - Ioc-�f area today Discussion of1 possible HuronCounty central fire brigade dispatching office dominated. the county council meeting on Wed. While some council. members objected to certain aspect's of the ystem,' , •„lost were in agreement that a feasibility study be requested through the Ontario Fire Marshal's office. _.The study would 'cost the county nothing. , The Development Commit- tee; chaired by Allan Campbell; made the recommendation in its report to council. Although no date has been set for. the study, •the recom- mendation along with the rest of the committee's i sport was'. accepted during"the meeting. In• presenting his committee's resort suggesting 'the " dispat- ching system, Mr. .Campbell said ' he hoped_ for discussion, and!• questions ' about it. His hopes were fulfilled. The issue, raised ,,,by some councillors was that -it would take two calls to get a fire truck to a fire: one •tn.the dispatcher ..and another from the dispat- �hit� the fire brigade :closest; to the scene. • One council member termed Stich a system as "cumbersome, .r.idictilous.'' Another member felt that the recotnmeridatibn put "the cart ahead of the horse." "We're •tallting- about dispat- ching _ Hitt we're dispatching what?" he explained. " All. areas of the county;do not have gt a-1 f-iremmfighting�equ ;„tent. Until fire• areas • are' properly defined and get equal egiiipment' and protection the eicpe=nse wasn't justified;.he said. - The, fact .. that few fire brigades in the county have trucks,, equipped with two-way radios . was-- another .,.objection , put forth, ' 'Mr. Campbell explained that by, :having one central dispat- ' 'cher. �naunicrpa lities in the county could save, money. The service would not ,be duplicated: Three dispatchers could be hired to man a centrale telephone 24 hours `a day. The, telephone would have a ,zenith .number so that rio 1"oi distance_._calls would .be necessary anywhere iii the county. Another benefit of. the system would be that -in -ease a fire' Was ° too much for „one brigade to handle, iteould call back to the .disptytcher•Nrwho °would wend Other lrigades-ter-help: T Citing the case- of a massive disaster such as the gas ex- plosions in'London, one council member said that it made sense 'to "tare County' ;fife brigades together with 'a central dispat- cher as a similar disaster mignt occur in Huron County. , -,Mr. Campbell said that most fire trucks in the county would be ,equipped-. with lwo-way radios "before too" long, within, the next three or four years." Trucks' equipped like this would be able, to respond' to .r Arch an' emergency. at what could be done and how municipalities,'. investigates , much it would' cost. ;' complaints about ° weeds and In further debate about the acts on them -as he -sees fit. Development Cominittee's=However, all ~municipalities report, council members asked who want to use the inspector's about wages' set for'the county, ._ services must pass an annual. weed° inspector at $3.75 an hour ,by-law snaking . his activities plus 15 cents per mile and tree legal. , ` _, commissioners receiving $3.25 Tree.,.Cgmmiaa� oners approve an hour, plus 15 cents per mile activitiessuch as t ik bulldozing effective 'Jan: 1, 197,4. • irbushes: Mr-Xampbell explained" the Responding to a q :tion jobs of these county employees. about why .the weed inspe He said .thea- weed inspector, would receive a, larger wag who is available to all county • than tree commissioners; ':Mr, - .Campbell said „that the •inspec Dearborn y .tor had . more resp°o $ibilities: He told council that .the in- rec al l spector had to handle A workers " poisonoimsprays rid.needed a ,_ license to do hi job. When council accepted the • P Development;• Committee'st° in, near jutute report it supported a resolution • from Perth ,County that stated Despite ` the lay, off of sit more conservation officers be workmen last_ week, Dearborn put on 0.44 to enforce .hunting. • Steel Tubing General `Manager `laws in" tjhe 32 townships, in the Gus Chisholm told the Signal Wingham area. • Star' - on' Monday that he:ways At- ,present, there are`only optimistic about the future of four/ They..•resolution' will be Dearborn and estimated that passed on to .Lep Bernier, On within the next month the men topic • Minister of Natural be `recalled' 'to ;their jobs. Regotfrces.` He noted` that following con /Council accepted, the. report, ferences•with customers in both 'from the Executive, Committee Canada and the United States /', after little discussion: ,last . week . Dearborn, officials ` ' There were some questions had been very "concerned "'bum- on changes to the Standing said the feeling now was that .. Rules and +(egxilations, . Part T the next week would liely • II=-Duxties of -'Committees. bring a break in ,`market Some 'po ipcillors asked if the • problems. ,( Executtve Committee should be The company anticipates no empowered .to'appoint'special 'serious ' problems - the- committees'.Without: council ap- Oan'a'dian` repiraceme n -market prO a -- - r s r but has been experi ein .,d=if•- The Executive-- Gorntrattee Acuity.,with' buyers in the would 'be able -to appoint mets„- • United. States who'' use : the bens to StandingComtnittees or -Dearborn tailpipe assemblies in ' Special Committees in the the manufaefu a of new cars. event of a member resigning or "Some customers have' curs.' in the case . of a .member's tailed , or shut dawn death. operations,.. Mr. Chisholm ex- Cecil iDesjardirie, Executive • plained, "but we do anticipate Committee chairman, said that �. relief in .(he near future." his group did not want .to take "Most'�lines are to be rolling - . that responsibility. again /Within a month and full Special, 'committee . members" production- will, be achieved receive extra pay: Matters con- agaj}h within two months," he . cerning money should come • added before the council as a whole:. ''"We anticipate, an' increase in . The Executive Committee anadian domestic' sales but, also recommended to council as a .result of problerns in the ' ' that a -Special Coriimittee'-be automotive- industry - of the' . formed °annually to review and United State , a decrease in ex- consider salaries -of department' oras.:' heads. The warden would be Mr. Chisholm went " on 'to chairman of this committee. note however that after the in- In making salary recommen dustry Was Over this temporary dations, the committee would • setbackthe . -future for : 1974 present its reports to the cou n- 'looked 'bright. cel as a whole. ` "The past 10 days' shipments The •'report also: called.,, on have been above "normal and Huron County- to support a eve; -will be looking -for an in--- r-esoln ion -front the County of crease over last year's figures. Continued on page 12 on't discuss �s a o t ifs re Nobody is verywilling to talk kzuow' .what police had done to about. it but Huron County Warden W. J. Elston has ad- • mated that he received threatening letters while run- ,ning . for the "Warden.'s seat All county fire brigades, even volunteer departments §uppor- ' been ted -by county giants, would be Provincial Ieader',of the New At 4.30 ar meeting h as eligible to participate, • Mr. Democratic Fatty Stephen set with Secondary School Campbell said in"response to a Lewis is paying a vi•ait to Huron teachers to discuss the con question. ° b'll 74 h • ,, troversial 1 - 2 which County today, ' The advantage of this would a sparked teacher demon-- This morning Mr. Lewis met be to eliminate the possibility . month. a departments an - Company at Huron Park. in arr swering a call from different A dinner is planned for 6:00 people, turning in alarms for with officials -Of the Hall° Lamp strations at Queen's Park last of two fir pr-oblerns re ently besetting p.m. in Goderich" at which time. the same fire, Mr. Campbell that ops atio . r n Mr,' Lewis will t'neet with ,� s8 DP idx . At noon the NOntario representatives .of the local conA . Another council member Leaden will meet the press 'at`' servation group which has been 'suggested that a professional 4 Seaforth Secondary School and " . expressing ccincern over the dispatcher would know better then at 12:20 p.m. to speak to proposed expansion of the • how to handle a. panicking per an assembly of students at the . Bruce Nuclear Generating son who was calling in an school ,who study World Station. •. alarm. Politics. • The dispatcher would get in- , From Seaforth Mr. Lewis In `°Teeswater at 8:30 pari. formation concerningthe travels to Clinton where he will Mr, Lewis will discuss another location arid seriousness of a again meet • World Politics questi'on about the growing blaze correct. Fire brigades stAdents in an assembly at the generating 'station when he .'would ,be , `"dent to the right ' Central Huron Secondary meets farmers at the Teeswater ,,,,,places. School there. Follo'wing, that Town Hall to discuss problems Warden Elston summed ups assembly, which has been ° they are facing in connection the discussion saying that a scheduled for 2:00 p.ny., a press with power line right -Gi ways study into the feasibility'cf Mlle",. conference has been called at :from tele nuclear station to central dispatching system ••• the s h I f 4:06 ' Seaforth. Id of be 1 rte a took' con or p• m. wou ' n . aw, o y hirden . Elston 4'TMwas-1nost reluctant to talk about the let- tets and • noted that ,rumours about -the incidents were "more than they hhoilld be." He refused to comment on uncon- firnSed reports thitt police•--haci been guarding him and his family noting that he did .not "clear it up." Offieia1s with the Ontario • Provincial Police were just as, - candid 'about the reported -threats refusing-tp discuss the extent of their involvement in the matter: No charges, at nection with the threats -and no-one is willing to outline just what those threats' were, Mr.. Elston, the Ree"v*, of. Morris Township, wonhis' seat on the. fourth ba llot .defeating Charles Thdrnas.-ofGrey Town- ship by a vote, of 30 to 22, He led the other candidates on the a first bl'l+ frreceiving 18 votes '''••while the other can . ategn Hugh Flynn of Hullett T w - ship gained 15, Charles . mas received 11 and Ed , s ddleifson of Bayfield was ' 'eliminated with eight. -`7 •• In the second round of voting Mr. Elston led again with 24 votes while Mr. Flynn and Mr. „Thomas tied with supporters giving them 14 votes apiece. Third round balloting war., between those two with • Mr. Thomas winning 33 to 19 only ° .-to be defeats Mr. Elston on defeated the next vote. ... r least as yet, have been laid in con- lY •