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2009
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ACW Twp. passes controversial bylaw
BY DENNY
SCOTT
Signal -Star Staff
After months of
deliberation, legal
counsel, and
council meetings,
A s h f j e l d-
Colborne-
Wawanosh
Township council
passed their con-
troversial
Property
Standards Bylaw
on June 16, which
will replace bylaw
Number 21-2007,
the Tidy Yard
ByLaw.
.The new bylaw,
put into effect
immediately,
affects only urban
areas, and charge
,residents of ACW
with a general
duty of `maintain-
ing their property
in accordance
with the standards
set out in [the]
bylaw.'
Reeve Ben Van
Diepenbeek
explained that the
previous bylaw
was ineffective.
"We've been
taken to court. and
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embarrassed
because this
bylaw doesn't
have what it needs
to give us the
power to change
things," he s4id.
"Now we can
make people
resistant to clean-
ing up their yards
do so."
"Council
answered those
who thought the
bylaw was exces-
sive by saying
that, in all rulings,
cothmon sense
will always take
precedence..
Along with : the
new guidelines for
keeping yards
clean, the bylaw
also offers new
powers to those
enforcing the
spondence from
property owners
and neighbours
urging them to
include agricul-
ture in the bylaw,
but decided that a
new bylaw would
address the unique
concerns and situ-
ations in .agricul-
ture.
Councilor
Marilyn
Miltenburg, who
has been against
the idea of remov-
ing agriculture
from the bylaw
since it first came
to council a month
ago, '. emphasized
the importance of
taking care of
griculture , lands,
nd ..the impor-
ante of having a
ylaw to govern
here as well.:
"We have to
protect agricul-
ture, and we have
t protect
purism," she said.
This council, it
otisii't, matter, if * 7=:
's the current
ouncil: or anoth-
er] :has that :man
ate: We :'have no
in
sectors,
we have no urban
rowth areas, we
ave to protect
ur agriculture
nd tourism sec-
rs."
Rules can be
gue, like the
ortifications
clion .of the
law; �� �
t
No prop-
ty shall be
cessively foirti
d .or have
cessive : p�rotec .
e elements,
ich includes •
rveillance
uipment, in
ation to the use
the property."
Or can be spe-
c, as shown in
a
a
t
b
rules and new t
peualttes to those
root in compliance.
bylaw officers
may enter proper-
ty at any reason- t
able time without "
a warrant to d
inspect the prop-, it
erty to make sure. c
that that yard_con-
forms with the d
bylaw, may order
tests to insure safe
and heathy condi-g
tions at the cost of h
the owner, and o
may, bring experts a
with them to help to
aid in any evalua-
tion of the proper- va
ty. "B
If the officer se
finds that work by
does need to be er
done to bring the ,ex
property up to fie
code, they will ex
provide an order tiv
to the landowner, wh
and set an amount s u
of time in which eq
the owner must rel
finish the needed of
changes. If a
landowner doesn't cifi
Cothplete the the
order, • the town-. alio
ship can have the "
property . repaired free
or demolished, and
and place a lien on nox
the land for the suc
amount of the poi
repairs, demoli- oak
tions, or cleaning gra
cost. tati
Council 20
received several es)
n:
[Yards shall be
from] heavy
ergrowth and
ious plants,
h as ragweed,
son ivy, poison
, and weeds,
ss and/orvege-
on more than
cm (eight inch -
in height."
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