The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-11-21, Page 24PAGE 8A-- GODJRICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1974
..woo years of dlecisioin—makin in Goderich
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Big issues, many.. petitions, hassles
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
"You are called upon to rule
and not to be intimidated
That's what the 1973-74
inaugural speaker, Rev,. G.L.
Royal , told in -embers of
Goderich Town Council.
"It is a particular and
peculiar task, ruling us, we, who
may not wish to be ruled," Mr.,
Royal added.
* * *
It has been a hectic two nears
for members of Goderi4 i Town
Council, seven men nd two
women,
There have been many tough
decisions to make and one of
the toughest surfaced early in
January 1973. Then began the
great, debate on • the South
Storm Sewer - whether or not it
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should be built under the
Drainage Act '(which stipulated
that the citizens who benefit
from the drain will pay for it) -
or general levy (which, of
course, spreads 'the cost of -the
drain across tFte entire com-
agreed to build the addition to plaza problem was becoming
the north or the present more acute. A second shopping
)wilding, and to preserve the mall • Rockledge Properties
walls, the town agreed to, Limited - was proposed for the
provide parking- along the fringes of Goderich on Highway
north and south . sides of 8 east and' the building permit
Glouscester Terrace. had been approved by Goderich.
'°In early May, it was announ- Township Council'.
ced rhe jail wall would stand
and that the structure would
become a National Mbnument!
Next came the task of putting
the jail, to some use. After a
long peri8d of discussion and'
decision, the jail was finally
opened to the public in the
summer of 1974. Many, many
visitors passed through its
corridors and cells every day.
The project has been termed a
success and even more exciting
plans are inrthe works for the
summer of 1975.
The addition to the
Assessment Office was officially
opened Thursday, November 14
at a gala celebration.
PAY HIKES
One of the first duties of the
munity). 4973-74 council was• to• vote
It was a long and bitter - themselves a raise in pay. The
mayor's salary went from•
$2,100 to $3,000 and the coun-
cillors' pay rose from $1,200 to
$1,500 per annum,
At the' time of the raises,
Councillor 'Leroy Harrison
stood opposed - not so much to
the increases in salary but more
to the fact that -the pay raises
were initiated by the new coun-
cil. He felt that if raises are to
be considered, they should be
initiated at•the end of a term of
1973 for constructing the sewer office rather than at the begin -
was for sometrhing like. ning. In that way, according to
$283,000. When tenders for the Harrison, voters had an oppor-
sewer' were finally opened in tunity to register °t any
early June, 1974, the bid of displeasure at the polls.
.McLean and Foster Construe-' Apparently Councillor
tion Company, St. Marys, for 'garrison's s suggestion took
• $88,789.60 was accepted. This root. ,This month, at the end of
price was for work only. The aw. 1973-74 term, the' ad -
expensive metal pipe was extra m iistrative committee of coun-
and since work on the South cil ' recommended another, pay
Storm Sewer is still continuing, , increase - the mayor an in -
no, final figures are as yet crease of $2,000 to $5,000 per
.'available. annum and the councillors an
An extension of the South increase of $1,000 to $2,500 per
s. Storm Sewer east of Highway annum, plus' a generous in-
. 21. has been agreed upon with crease in the expense 'account
the costs to be shared between for travelling elected officials.
the town, Delbar Investments The matter is still before coun-
and ' Conklin Lumber. cil at the present time..
Estimated cost of this work is SHOPPING PLAZAS
$86,500. , Suncoast Estates Limited
It was out of the South presented the Town ' of
Storm Sewer hassle (and other ,Goderich with Aa Valentine mid -
issues) that the now defunct ' February 1973. Suncoast-.an-
Goderich Ratepayers' "pounced plans for a $2,000,000
Association was formed, t In
shopping centre on Highway 21
terestingly enough;„, however, south' on the edge of Goderich.
two of that group's: executives By nfid-June 1973 the Signal -
are looking for seats ;on the Star carried a story with the
1975-76 council.,They are Rick '‘A headline "Plaza battle taking
Robertson, vice-president of shape"..but it is doubtful if
GRA and .Joan Van den anyone had any idea of the
' Broeck. kind' of fight that was in store.
struggle. At the first of
February 1973, council received
a petition signed by 352 persons
„ who wished• the South Storm
Sewer (from Highway ,21 west
to the lake) to be completed un-
der 4he general levy.
But couAcil truly believed
the best course of action was to
. build the sewer under the
drainage act and decided to
move toward -that end.
Preliminary estimates in
THE JAIL
Late in 1972, the' first rum-
blings of a county council move
to take down part of the wall at
the former Huron County Jail
were heard In early 1973, the
matter became a local issue.
It` was early March .when
Goderich Town, Council became
involved. The. Save The. Jail
Society presented a letter to
council from Professor, Douglas
S. ` Richardson, an expert on
historical architecture; who
called the jail, "a particularly
lucid, attractive and well-
preserved example' of an early
19th century type".
The county made application
to Goderich about the same
time for a permit to raze a por-
tion of the walls at the jail.
Town council balked and by
the end of March had agreed
not to give the county a permit
to demolish any portion of the
wall until after the Huron
County ,,Property Committee
met with the Save the Jail
Society "one more time".
The walls were to be takers
down to make room for an ad-
dition to the Huron -Perth
Regional Assessn ent office. By
mid-April when the county had
The businessmen announced
at that time their opposition to
the introduction of a plaza
here. They hired a lawyer,
George Plaxton of London.
The citizens of tike town then
got active. Rick Robertson for-.
• med a committee to "see the
establishment of a shopping
mall". In due course, a petition
bearing 3,500 names was sub-
mitted to council by citizens
who -agreed with Robertson and
his committee.
The battle lines were drawn,
businessmen against the com-
,rnunity with council in the mid-
dle and Suncoast• on the
sidelines. •
. The businessmen began
working together and devised a
renovation pran for The Square
which was carried out .inti .the
summer of 1974. All t
.buildings on the Square` w¢re
painted in a color co-ordinated
`.effort that won the praise of
many residents. A landscaping
scheme for The Square was
devised but has still not been
agreed upon.
In late November last year
while the businessmen and
Suncoast were locked . in
dispute, it became evident the
To the voters
of Gocierich
I have lived In Goderich for the
past 29 years.
I am now 52 years of age: I have
worked for the Post Office as a rural
mall contractor for the past 24 years;
• and have been vice-president of the
r~ Royal Canadian Legion for the past
four, years. On December 2nd I solicit
your support at the polls for the of-
fice of Reeve Of Goderich.
Vote Harvey M. Johnston
for Reeve of Goderich
I thank yov
n <,
the freeze - November 29; 1973,
The February 22 edition of
the Signal -Star carried a story
which was entitled "Town core
rezoned". The kicker line' .was
"Plaza proposal `changes
things".
The story told how
Hon. John White -was Municipal Planning Consultant
requested by Goderich Town Dave Barber was instructed• by
Council to int'er'vene in order to council to prepare an amend -
protect developers who were ment to the official plan which
, hampered, by planning would change "a large area of
procedures. He did, and on the municipality, located 'nea,
November 29, 1973, he imposed the town core, from its
a development freeze ork,n, designated zone of C4-1 to R2
Goderich and Colborne Town- in an attempt to better;.reflect
ships. Needless to say, this the character of the area which
caused a g"rowing unfrien- is almost entirely residential".
dliness between the rural areas The story went on to say,
abutting Goderich and "When the official plan was
Goderich Town Council. . first prepared in 1966, Mr. Bar-
t Rockledge served notice it , ber explained, it was deemed
would go to court to testthe advisable ' to zone the area
validity of the building permit w C4-1 so the zoning, could
officially issued on the day of • provide for commercial
development in the core area of
the community. ,,That was
before shopping malls were
planned. in view ofthe com-
mercial development now being
discussed, in • the form of such
malls on the outskirts of the
community it was agreed that
the area should remain
residential and be so zoned."
The Ontario Municipal
Board hearing on the Suncoast
Plaza question began. July 15.
One of the main points ,in the
argument of the businessmen
was 'that the zoning in the
downtown area was too restric-
tive.• The businessmen felt it
left them with too little
properly zoned land onto which,
to expand in order to compete
with the proposed shopping
mall (Suncoast). These
hearings were adjourned,
withdut Conclusions until the
fall.
Then 4his fall about, mid-
October, everythi:ng seemed to
come, to a head,
First of all, Rockledge
discovered their ,building per-
mit was valid ckespite the "
freeze.
'Secondly, the local
businessmen moved to have the
resumption of the OMB
hearings delayed unless -town
council agreed to rezone the
downtown area so as to permit
more room for retail expansion.
Those two stories appeared„
in the same issue. At that point
it appeared that the Rockledge
plaza was unobstructed and the
Suncoast plaza was still tied up
in the courts. 0
When the weekend was over,
it was clear that the town, the
businessmen and Suncoast
developers would change their"
(continued on page 9A)
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ELECTORS
POLLING for the election of a Reeve and Four Coun-
cillors for the Township of West Wawanosb will We
place on Monday, December 2, 1974 bet Oeen the hours
of 11:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. at the six polling sub-
divisions In the Township.
Poll 1-. Dungannon - Home of Mrs. Annie Bore
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Poll 2- Auburn = HuronYCounty Library Building
• Poll, 3- Township Hall
Poll.4- St. Helen ' W.I. Hall
Poll S- Home of Mr: and Mrs. Wm. MacPherson
Poll 6- St. Augustine dhurch Hill -
AN ADVANCE POLI- will be held on
Saturday, ,Ndvember' 23, 1974 between
the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.,'at
the Clerk's home, R.R. 2, Lucknow.
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