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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-04-05, Page 6PAGE 6 —GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 5 ,,1979 75 YEARS AGO Bicycling for 1904 commenced on Monday last, the first wheelman being C.C. Lee. • The Harmony Club had an excellent Easter dance in Oddfellow's Hall on Tuesday with a large attendance. J.A. Ellis, brother of Ellis Brothers of town, has been promoted to head passenger and ticket agent at a railway in Des Moines, Iowa. Workers are now finishing putting on the roof at the Public Library and the interior is ready for plastering. The Goderich Planing Mill Company has commenced moving into its new factory on Nelson Street. While working on a new boat in the ship yards yesterday forenoon, LOOKING BACK Robert Isbister was struck on the head with a heavy piece of oak receiving a wound which rquired several stitches to close. Lighthouse Street has a very large amount of traffic every season and the gravelling of it will prove a decided im- provement. 25 YEARS AGO All roads will lead .to, the Goderich Memorial Arena 'during Easter Week with the biggest Young Canada Week Pee Wee Hockey Tournament on record slated to be staged. Last year 32 teams participated. This year there Will be 47. Assurance that town council will not- sell land across from the Sunset Hotel without giving the hotel owners a chance to EEurchase it, was given at a Friday's council eeting. Mayor J.E. Huckins gave the assurance to Ernest M. Lee, president of Sunset Resorts Limited. In a change of plans, town council now hopes to see the street sign erection project in Goderich completed this year. The basements for the new elevators being built at the harbor are presently being com- pleted by about 60 con- struction workers. Ken Pennington, a past president of the Kinsmen' Club of G derich, was chosen District Deputy Governor -elect of District One by acclamation- on Sunday. 5 YEARS AGO Captain Roy Mundy brought the first freighter, The Goderich, into the harbor Sunday night. Mayor Harry Worsell presented the captain with the traditional top hat and the chain of office upon the occassion. After 28 years of ser- vice. as a nurse at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital, Lyla Youngblutt has retired. The Goderich Kinsmen Club is planning to build a two storey addition to their "playground" on South Street to provide a workshop for the men- tally retarded adults who now use the site. A proposal for luxury accommodation row housing on Bennett Street just off Bayfield Road by Conklin Lumber was presented to Goderich Planning Board on Tuesday night by G. Stansbury, a private developer from Toronto. Judith Gooderham Pool will open on schedule, June 1, despite problems with the change rooms and washrooms. A •new building containing change rooms and washrooms will be constructed this fall after the pool closes for the year. Work crews will be busy cleaning up before this year's June 1 opening. It will cost Huron County taxpayers more in 1974. That was the news at last Friday's session of Huron County Council at which Warden Bill Elston announced the county budget was "up just a shade over $400,000" ' and would represent what amounts to an increase of about 51/z mils. Look for planning advice . okays Goderich area planning board approved an ap- plication by M&W Motors Tuesday night to build a new car lot at the in- tersection of Huron Road and Mill Road. The board hinged its approval on a developer's agreement to be worked out between the firm and the town to clear up storm sewage deficincies the project has. The board was told the 'ap- plication by M&W met with all requirements in the town's official plan but that storm sewers in the area could not handle runoff the project would create. Nick Hill, a planner with Hill and Borgal, told the board the town engineer and com- missioner of works were concerned about the storm sewer deficiency but felt it could be rec- tified. Hill said the problem of storm sewers was not insurmountable and could be handled in a developer's agreement. Planning board wants time BY JEFFSEDDON Goderich area planning board is going shopping for planning advice because some members of the board are not convinced Goderich is getting its money's worth from the Huron County planning department. Planning board has several high priority projects, it wants handled professionally during 1979 but was hesitant to ask county planners to do the work. The members were not critical . of the quality of work done by the county planners but were concerned with the amount of time the county department felt it needed to do the work. One of the major jobs the town board wants done is an updating of Goderich's official plan and zoning,bylaw. Reeve Eileen Palmer told board members the updating of - the official plan was top, priority pointing out that on several occasions recently the board has encountered problems administering the official plan because it is out- dated. The reeve Said it had become obvious in the past few months that zoning regulations in the town plan were uneconomic and restrictive for developers and needed changing. She said the outdated -plan had caused ,lengthy delays for some developers which cost dearly. Deputy -reeve Bob Allen echoed some of Palmer's feelings pointing out to the -board that one obvious change needed"in .the plan was -parking regulations. He said -a committee had looked at Goderich's parking requirements on funcoo new commercial projects in the downtown and had discovered that the town was excessive in its demands. He said Goderich required more parking space per square ' foot of building than cities like London, O-weh Sound - and Stratford. Allen said he felt this was an ideal time 'to update the plan adding the board should not let the updating drag' on. " Reeve Palmer told the board the updating of the official plan may ex- perience lengthy delays because of the workload and work priorities established by th'e county planning department. Palmer was critical of the county department claiming the town of Goderich' pays $22,000 annually for advice and work from county planners and doesn't always get $22,000 worth of planning: ' The reeve was critical of the planning depart- ment claiming it billed the town of Goderich for time spent on work not commissioned by the town. She said planning board is told by the county that work cannot be done for Goderich because • the workload created by. the town and the 22 other municipalities in Huron is too great for the staff available. Palmer said the county planners quite often handle work concerning projects in Goderich but not' all of • that work is asked'for by the board. She pointed out that if a developer went _into the county planners for advice on a project in Goderich the time spent on that request would be billed to Goderich. She claimed that practice was unfair to the town' planning board. County planner Roman Dzus told the board that the day to day work handling the type of thing the reeve was talking about was phenomenal. He said very few people realize the amount of time and manpower taken up by requests from developers and individuals with projects on the books for Goderich. Dzus said Goderich was by far the most active communtiy in the county and that time spent on the town projects took up about 24 percent of the planning department's time. , Board chairman Tom Jasper defended the county planners pointing out that their efforts giving advice to developers ` quite often does a lot to streamline planning procedures in the town. He said the county planners provide developers with sound, complete and correct advice and that shows up when presentations are made to the board. Jasper said he has witnessed' planning board taking five months to make planning decisions where members "hum and haw because they didn't have proper in- formation". Palmer said she had no objections with the county planners providing that type of service to developers or individuals but she did object to the town of Goderich getting billed for the time. She said the time may be well spent but while it streamlines board business it delays important projects -like the updating of the of- ficial plan. Come See the Fashion Show Friday April 6th 7:00 p,m, - 9:00 p.m. Suncoast Mall Hwy. 21 South Goderich "Who should the time he billed\ to?" asked Dzus. That's your problem," quipped the reeve. Ken McGee -suggested that the board ask county planners how much time ,would take them to handle the work for the town and how much that would cost. He said that information could be compared to what it would cost for the board to get the work done through a private firm and the board could pick one. McGee said it appeared as though it didn't matter whether the county ,diid the work or a private firm what mattered was. how much time it would take. Palmer said that might not he fair to the county since a , private firm would 'be prepared to devote all its energy to the work. She said the county has work from other municipalities to handle where a .private firm could concentrate on the Goderich work. "At prohibitive costs," said McGee. Bob Allen suggested that the board send a letter to county planners outlining the work needed and the priorities the town would like set. He said planners would be able to tell the board how it' 'could handle the workload and what kind of time the work was expected to take. The deputy reeve said he would prefer county planners to do the town's .work because the staff was familiar with the town and it was cheaper. But he added that the town has no control over the workload of the county staff and would have to accept what was offered by the county or go elsewhere. "If we knew the block of time required for each project then we could better advise council' on how the work should he done," said Allen.. Dear Editor.. • from page 5 WISER then, will know how you first have to "bake the cake" - create wealth, before you can eat it. VOTE WISELY! Jack Macdonald Goderich Good lection „Dear Editor, Bravo!, Thanks so much for the very in- teresting and informative newsletter on smoking and cancer in last week's Signal -Star, I quit the filthy habit one year ago and am proud of it. I decided that I and my whole family had suffered enough.from my half -a -pack-a-day habit. I was tired of robbing the kids' piggy bank for money to buy cigarettes and worrying about having enough smokes to last at a party. My clothes smelled like stale ciga ette butt's and • en my children smelled like walking ashtrays. No longer do I have the fear of my toddler finding my lighter and setting fire to herself or eating a filter and poisoning herself. How proud I am of how my house smells: of bacon frying or spaghetti sauce cooking instead of my cigarette slowly burning in the ashtray on the counter. Actually, I quit mainly for my children. They inhaled just as much smoke as I did and it seemed like I was holding my cigarette more than my children. Now instead of reaching for another "puff" I reach for my • beautiful kids and give them hugs because I know that I have a 100 percent better chance of being around to see them grow up and hopefully•be non-smokers. I ,could go on and on Turn to page 9 • Come and Preview the New at Our Spring Fashion Show This Friday, Apr. 6 7-9 p.m. Pants, Skirts, Dresses, etc.. Come in and see our newest addition Teen Fashions SIZES 10, 12, 14, 141/4 We shall remain open after the show till 10 p.m. and Yarn Centre luNon, rot; SUNCOAST MALL cnnIt(iF X MOM VISA In other business the board set up a public meeting in May to allow objections to a proposal by Whelan Holdings` to convert the Bethel Pentecostal Tabernacle on Waterloo Street into offices. The board was told by Wayne Lyons, spokesman for the in- surance agency, that the firm wanted to purchase the church and use it for offices. Lyons said the firm included five in- surance agents and may be expanded in the near future to include two more.. He .fold the hoard the Waterloo Street site would be used for offices and storage. He said the basement of the church would be used for storage of files, a lunch room and a conference area. He added that the upstairs would house office space for insurance salesmen and secretaries. -i- If you think fishermen are the biggest liars, ask a jogger how far he runs every morning. projects Planning ' board chairman Torn Jasper told Lyons the firm should apply for a zoning change for the church to permit the new use. He said the cl urch is now zoned residential and docs not permit com- mercial use. He said the --re-zoning would require a publiq meeting to determine if anyone in the neighborhood of the building objected to the proposed use. • CU-LBERT'S WEEKEND SPECIAL APPLE STREUSEL PIE °1.39 THURS.-FRI.-SAT. 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