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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-01-17, Page 18• WO ;•90i-kag...ltkati 4-neW.14484#114 terint;•Goderieh. recently teeekiting the eoendatIon ora committee given the task -naaPting applications .• and interviewing eandislatedOr 01001). Jim McQuire will take up duties as " chief • Wilding inspeptor in GoderichFebruary 1 at a starting salary of $1.6,000. McQuire will remain at that, wage until December 31, 1980 when his Perfarnialfee will: be reviewed. Council may increase the salary to $17,000 if it sees fit at that •• •time. McQuire will also , receive a monthly • allowance of $109 for using his own car on town 'business. The 41 year old was the chief building in- spector for Sarnia township for three years and spent two years working as a housing inspector for. Central Mortgage and Housing Cerporaticin. aria-a-Periffealiii to applying for the Goderich pe,sition. Councillor Jim Magee suggested council May be ''jninping the gun" hiring a building in- spector now. Magee conceded that the con- dition of some buildings going up in Goderich and the poor quality of some work made -it appropriate to hire an inspector: But he felt that interest rates and problems in the building trades would keep the number of building starts in Goderich down this year. He said.1VIcQuire's salary may end up a cost factor to the town -not offset by revenue from buildingpermits. ricen Hunter, commissioner of works, told council that severalrprojects proposed for 1980 would pay •for McQiiire's salary. He said a rumoured -renovation of the Bedford Hotel', plans for some expansion at Domtar and -the senior citizens units on West Street would pay his wage. ' Hunter told council McQuire was one of rew people with any experience that were still in- terestectinlite-Gotterich job when the Wage was Inade known. He said some municipalities are people "wouldn't take the interview" when they learned what the job paid. Won't grant zone change Goderich town council upheld' a decision by its planning board recently refusing to grant Wedlosk'and Dunlop Ltd., a change in zoning of • its Britannia Roadproprty. Council was asked by, the Goderich • con- tractor ' to review recommendation by, planning board.to turn down the zoning change. The property„on Britannia Road at the north end of Bayfield Road, is now zoned residential and the 'firm wanted that changed to allow offices to locate at the site. Planning board reviewed 'the firm's ap- plication in November of 1979 and in a public meting ' in December .turned it down. Later that Month the firm took the matter to council to have the planning board decision reversed • and after a one month delay lost the second bid. Reeve Eileen Palmer, who felt the ap- plication from Wedlock and Dunlop should be approved, told council she didn't feel the zoning change was a "threat to The Square". • Planning board ruled that by permitting- spot zoning of properties surrounding the core area it was conceivable that the downtown area could have its importance eroded. Palmer said Wedlock and Dunlop had taken a derelict property no one was interested in and using spme vision'had turned it into something the town could he proud of. Palmer gave the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee a shot,saying it possiblitould have .come to bat for the firm. She said the- building,dated back -to the 1800s but added "1 guess the.y're ,(LACAC) not in- terested in derelict buildings they likethem in a stately state'. Palmer said there were ''so -many pluses and .so few minuses she had to encourage council to support the project". Councillor Elsa Haydon agreed with Palmer that the firm had "done a Rod job" restoring e -house but aclded-ilthat's not the point". She said the firm had assured the neighborhood the property was goifig to be used for residential ust and now when it'? 85 percent complete it asks for a zoning change. She said if someone wanted to use the location of the property to an advantage to a small business operated from a home there was no need for a zoning change. ;She said that was different than a group of offices operating from the site. "The applicants chose the route to go. Instead of applying for the change then building they chose to build and then apply. I have to uphold the decision of the planning board and vote against the change," said Haydon. Councillor John Doherty said he was a firm believer in i'circumstances altering every case". He said he felt Circumstances made the Wedlock application different and council" should treat it as such. He pointed out that when the application for the change was first made in November •the project was 85 percent Om- • pleted and work -had progressed since then and it is still not 85 percent complete. He suggested the firm had not gone as far into the project as was suggested before applying for the - zoning change. Palmer noted that -planning board had by no means unanimously voted against the project. She said the board ended up in a tie vote With chairman Torn Jasper casting the deciding ballot with a no vote. She added that she felt that the Majority of planning board members voting against the change "did so for political reasons not factual ones". Bill Wedlock, a partner. in the firm, applogized to council When learning orthe decision. 'I'd like to thank Council for taking the time itdid on our application and I'm sorry we did it the wrong way„." said Wedlock. 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