The Rural Voice, 1979-05, Page 31Rural news in brief
Keep Huron rural, seminar decides
Huron country residents told officials of
the Ontario Ministry of Industry and
Tourism (M.I.T.), that they were happy
with the rural character of the county.
At a seminar led by Ken Mesure of
M.I.T., a broad cross section of the
population, consisting of town and town-
ship councillors, development commis-
sioners and representatives of the major
organizations, listened to Alex Crate, an
Industrial Consultant and J. Moore, Indus-
trial Commissioner for Windsor -Essex,
about the advantages of industry to an
area. Mr. Mesure said that more cash-flow
than that created by agriculture is neces-
sary. Also that young people are leaving
the communities where they often wish to
remain or to return to.
Just as Mr. Mesure, Mr. Crate also
began his presentation with the need to
find a consensus of objectives, and to list
priorities. Taking it for granted that the
county wanted to attract much more
industry, he outlined what he found lacking
in his driving from town to town in Huron.
He deplored the absence of signs to attract
and direct potential industrialists to
sources of information.
As an example he said that a 100 acre
parcel of land, set aside for industry,
needed ten acres for roads and access. Of
the remaining ninety acres, most will be
taken up by lawns and space around the
buildings, leaving some 25 acres for actual
buildings. This would create a cash-flow of
12.5 million dollars. It also would support
an additional 945 people with a cash-flow of
an additional 8.5 million dollars.
Under questioning by Huron Federation
of Agriculture president, Merle Gunbv,
Mr. Crate said that this didn't require an
additional village, but that these people
would be drawn from the existing popu-
lation.
Mr. Moore told the Huronites how
Windsor -Essex went about developing
industry. He said that an area must not be
overly dependent on one single industry.
Supporting light industry and service
industries such as hotels and restaurants
must be encouraged.
He said that special incentives for an
industry to locate in an area where it would
not locate without them, wouldn't work,
because as soon as the incentive was no
longer there, the industry would leave
again.
More co-operation and better co-
ordination was urged between the different
municipalities, instead of competition
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