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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-05-09, Page 1" To 'he. Residents of Ningbo* , On behalf of the. Town. Council, I am pleased to present to you this draft of axonfrig bioaw for our town. The draft Plan -was Prepared after namerous meetings of the Wingham ()leaning •Board and .sets out the directions we should • ,. - take to 0,0idii.tite growth Ind developmitit of thli town In the years • The Town of Winghem hes experienced a 'lot of changes 'ovsr'the last few years and it, is expected that pressure for deveVopment; will , increase. This is 'why I as Mayor and my Council believe it is necessary and important to plan- for the future. y Me have much to be proud of in our—town and we must strive to ensure • that the quality of our environment is preserved and enhanced in the future: to discuss the draft by-law and you are' cordially invited to attend; ' Yours Sincerely Pl-tPt )714 -a -G4/ DeWitt Miller Mayor 4, TABLE OF CONTENTS, ADMINISTRATION 2 DEFINITIONS GENERAL PROVISIONS 4 •RESIDENTIAL ZONES, COMMERCIAL ZONES • INDUSTRIAL ZONES - GREENBELT ZONES SPECIAL ZONES ENACTMENT 10 11 - • SCHEDULE A: DEVELOPMENT STANP4P5 , ;7' -•*i • • LEGEND • \ • • • • • • \ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PREPARED FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION BY THE COUNCIL OF :THE TOWN OF WINGHAM The winner the 010,0.radja draw at the Youth Bowling Council's annual banquet and awards night was none other than Norman McInnis. YBC bowler and zone champion, Joan Cerson, did the honors by pulling Mr. Mc- Innis' name from the drum. 0-0-0 CIRCUS IS COMING— Don't forget to contact your local Kinsmen to get information about the Royal Bros. Circus. There are only 19 more days uniii the circus'comes to town. So get ready Wingham. 'CI03.AND SCOUT BAKE SALE— Those eager beavers are aC it again. The Wingham Cubs and Scouts will take over the Wingham Town Hall on Saturday to hold a bake and crafts sale. All the proceeds will go towards Cub and Scout activities in Wingham. LOST KEYS— Wingham Town Police have re- ported that a town resident has found a set of car keys and turned them iri to the police. The keys were dittcovered on Diagonal Rd. near the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. So if you have lost a set you may be in luck. 41"101/19‘71,48;" Oge S!4:40. WOO whin at present own a home, will be permitted to put up to $1,000 a year (to a maximum of $10,000 total) into registered savings plans which will,later be used for down payments on homes. Higher exemption levels will be permitted before income tax be- comes payable, thus removing many thousands from the tax Cash bonuses will be paid to the owners of Canada Savings Bonds In ah amounthAich would bring interest earnings up to 9 percent for the life of the bonds to ma - Wed 40 yours GORRIE — Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Mann of Gorrie were honored Friday evening by their family, on the occasion of their 40th wedding anniversary at a party at Palmerston Legion Hall. Music for dancing, was provid- ed by the family and was enjoyed by a number of relatives, friends, and neighbors. Lunch was serv- ed. The couple received many good wisheS, cards and gifts whieh were much appreciated. • • t 11•4: I • SUPPLEMENT TO THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES, THURSDA:1 APRIL.25, 1974 • • • t • •cre". 0:44. vious data has to Iv prone to th ease Per- •, could not be However, Mr. it his land has ;hehs lived o flooding. To rejoined that r Conservation veil( detailed Id plains in the show that Mr. Ot in the flood MUM revert to ' density resi- 'antler com- a the clues- . 1, placed in a (I; because the official plan, which was hosed on less detailediaformation than the MCVA mapping, had &notated • it no zoo, Mr. Bakker then wished' to know why he .hed been told he could get Ile Misname on his land if he could not .rebuild on the =Me location. Mr. Davidson turned that tiOeistiOn over to Bill Keil, Wingham insurance agent, for a response. Mr. Keil replied that the intalriMee Par. Bakker was asking ,about was known as replacement cost insurance and that, indeed, would notbe open to Mr. Bakkerilawever be could get insurance that would realize for him a cash settlement for the value of his home.. Mr. Kea then had a his own. Ile wished to knew 'non .-confOrming buildings could be rebuilt. Mr; Davidson an- swered that the idea of mai% • something as non -conforming so that it * gradual", Passed out of existence. But in some gam the properbr owitercoOld apply to ,the town cOunclifer POMO** rebuild. Jim Ward ask*, that point was 4'tIUen Hc bylaw. Mr. David**_tikt that it MI5 not in the bYlaw but was in the cOtIntY'S Dr. Leigh Clarke to the Beer and informed the planning board Please turn to Page 2 Zoning bylaw under study The public meeting in the town hall which was called to hear comment on the proNnd zoning bylaw for the Thwn of Wingham turned out to betfe of the best exercises in parti- cipant democracy this community has seen in 20 years. Three hours of questions and answers disclosed several encouraging facets of small town life. Firstly, Huron County's official planner, Gary Davidson, who fielded the questions, is knowledgeable, considerate and open to any sound 'suggestions for improvements in the six-year-old town plan, the present basis for the zoning bylaw. Secondly, the vast majority of persons who are affected by the provi- sions of the proposed bylaw are reasonable folks who recog- nize the need for a legal and sensible plan of development for the community. Many objections were raised, but most of them were valid arguments on points which are still open to alteration before the bylaw is finally passed. Fully three-quarters of the objections came from pro- perty owners in two specific areas of the town and the rea- sons for objection were the same in both cases. The present form of the bylaw designates the West side of Centre Street and the east side of Edward Street as a commercial zone. Similarly, both sides of Josephine Street from the Hanna Bridge north are designated for highway commercial pur- poses. Since both of these areas are presently occupied by fine residences and it was quite foreseeable that the owners would object, not only to the possibility of commercial enterprises being Opened in their rieighborhoods, but more particularly to the limitations which would be placed upon their right to make alterations to the present buildings. • Lawyer Bob Campbell presented a set orsuggestions can almost 1,Se in capital .15,000 in 1973 •In the ears 1976 the 'Tore- Oismal news iresenta tives these pro- ised on pre - rove that the "Or in need of These increases should, in Mr. Silk's view, raise the PUC's in- come by 5.8 per cent a year. The rates, if approved hy Hydro, will start with the PUC's August 1 billing. • PUC Commission Chairman Roy Bennett elnphasized that bills should be raised in small steps. If the utility held its prices at • the 'present level and then suddenly slapped customers with a huge increase it would not put • tit to propose the PUC in a very pleasant light. ch should for Mayor DeWitt Millet 4.4ihted - tit;it the, matter 91 rlhlflg:power... Ant the rate * ndeisdii The commission passed the rate Increases and will now await Hy- dro's decision on the matter. • PUC Superintendent Ken Saxton then read the commission cummunications he had received • since the last regular meeting. The first letter was from the Ontario Municipal Board ac- knbwiedging receipt of prelimin- ary approval from the Ministry of 111 remain the i that in recent " bill has seen inta year in - feels that it • nrewhat. The for residental Se the cost of - patt-hours of - 3.8 cents to 4 s to 2 cents for att-hours, .and Dr the balance esident. using- . ; of hydro that -ease in the tomers (corn- lustrial con- • climb to $2,30 the demand • nts to 4.4 cents tialblock and 8 cents for the lock, from 2.2 for the second nts to 1.75 for from .65 cents balance. The for . general he same as for ers. which the planning board arid town council would do well to study with care. Mr. Campbell went over the zone map, point by point, from the north of Josephine Street to the southerly limits of the town. The general base of his propo- sal was that the zones suggested all along the central thoroughfare be altered to a I low for a broader spectrum of uses, thus providing more areas in which retail outlets could be operated in future and so relieving the pressure in • the Edward and Centre Street sections and on Josephine Street from the bridge north. He fully aged that the town would, hopefully, need more room for retail outlets in future, but urged that there was plenty of room remaining • on Josephine Street without encroaching on the residential athreeatsown Immediately east and west of the business section of Perhaps the most valid objection of all was raised by several residents of Edward and Centre Streets when they :conceded that if their homes must be included in a commer- ,tial zone, all well and good; but since their lands would, in 'ail probability, not be needed for commercial purposes for Years to come, they could see no need to limit their right to ;alter or expand their present homes. The point is one with which this newspaper fully agrees. Perhaps the owner of a property in a commercial zone would be risking his money by adding rooms or a garage to his property—but that should certainly be his business. As lOng as he is permitted to live in such an area it should be his • right to make any of the alterations which are permissible in a nOn-commercia I area. Any other course is a distinct in- fringement on personal freedom. McKinley wins name change for his riding R. E. "Bob" McKinley, the fed- eral member of parlianient for the riding of Huron, has succeed- ed in winning approval for his private member's bill to change the name of the constituency. The ridingwill, in future, be known as Huron -Middlesex. Mr. McKinley was anxious for the change because in the last re- adjustment of constituency boun- daries the townships of Biddulph and McGillivray in Middlesex County were added to the mun- icipalities in Huron County. Thus the new name will be indicative of the two -county representation in the House of Commons. A similar change was approved for the- riding of Middlesex be- cause that constituency now in- cludes portions of the city of Lon- don, Middlesex and Lambton Counties. It will, henceforth be known as Middlesex-London- Lambtom. the Environment for new standpipe. The given the PM the .go ahe draw up plans, specifications call tenders for the projecthOwd, ever they will not let the PVC act on the matter until, the Ministry gives final approval. That leaves the PUG in a dif- ficult position because the company that they have planned on giving the contract ,to will not produce final plans for the pro- ject until they have the contract, they wP0:".10Yethe contract un .theMinj$roka!s-'-- the 0T "—iftkYietr the final approval , Until recentJy the OMB has acted on,prelitain- ary appriwalby the Ministry but tat*. there seems to have been a policy change., The offica run. around can now only mean delays to the project and lUerer costs. Supt. Saxton commented that if approval doespot come soon the project may be delayed at least a year in beginning. The commission was informed that -the hospital has agreed to rent radio dispatch facilities from the PUC, howeier the superintendent. also told the meeting that because there will be a wide variation in frequencies. for the hospital's band and the utility's it will be necessary for the PUC to erect a seperate antenna for the hospital. , The commissioners agreed that this should be done at no extra cost to he hospital. In the superintendent's report Mr. Saxton told the commission that the PUC has received de- ivery of its new pick up truck. He Iso mentioned that the Wingham PUC has repaired a broken water main in Teeswater as well as nstalling a pole line and under- ground service in LUcknow. In Wingham, PUC workers replaced ive hydro services and made re - airs to hydro lines that had been nocked out as a result of two eparate car accidents. —Mrs. Gershom Johnston and George Grigg visited on the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnston and family of St. Pauls. On the return trip home Sunday they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Gary Black of Clinton. Assoc. for retarded needs new members , The Wingham and District As- sociation for the Mentally Retarded, as a member of the Canadian Association" for the Mentally Retarded, will be join- ing in a nationwide membership recruitment effort in May. The week of May 12 to 18 has been designated as National Week for the Mentally Retarded. During this week, in an effort to attract new members, the asso- ciation will spotlight the needs of the retarded, and the services it provides and seeks to provide in the Wingham district. Flowers of Hope marigold seeds, which have been packaged by ,youngsters in this area, will be sent to every householder in the district. In, order that those who rective these Flowers of Hope packages 4 do not overlook their importance as a means of appeal, it is necessary to substantiate the Flowers of Hop 4 letters with ad- \ vertising in newspapers, on radio and on television. The Association is now making plans for the construction of a new nursery school building to accommodate retarded pre- school children. There is a des- peratemeed of nevi iembers in the Association --to help with this project. A great deal has been done for the retarded in this area, but there is so much more that needs to be done.