The Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-11-18, Page 3Two years of 1i,bor
produces ofiicl l plan
After two years of endless meetings, planning and
rewrites, the official plan of the town of Goderich was
presented to council Monday.
Huron county Planner Roman Dzus presented the
74 -page document to council which represents the
culmination of two years work by the planning
department and town planning board.
142:9y of a motion, council accepted the ▪ official
plan and will prepare the necessary bylaw to im-
plement the text of the document. The update is a
comprehensive revision of the waiting official plan
which became effective November 21, 1119. The in-
troduction to the official plan states that the original
planning document became outdated, lacked scope,
clarity and detail to deal effectively with the com-
plexities of contemporary community planning
issues.
The update represents a complete review of the
town's land -use and planning policy. It intends to
promote orderly development of the municipality.
While the official plan was accepted by council,
Elsa Haydon challenged the coavright on the back of
the document that stated, "prepared by the Huron
County planningdepartment all rights reserved."
Haydon insisted the copyright made the document
the exclusive right of the county planning department
and ignored the work of the local planning board. The
planning department works for the town of Goderich,
she claimed, and the document is the town's
property.
Mr. Dzus explained that the copyright was simply a
preventative measure, used to discourage
plagiarism.
The copyright will not be removed from the back
cover and councillor Glen Carey vehemently opposed
that removal -
"Everyone here knows who is responsible for the
document," he said. " I am opposed to removing the
all rights reserved since it would be subject to gross
plagiarism and would be insulting to do something."
• Planning board chairman, Dr. Torn Jasper, in-
formed council that final document was the product
of many hours of work and expressed his ap-
preciation for the participating members.
"The members involved in the update attended
well over 50 meetings," he said. "And I think council
can be very proud of its planning board."
An update for the official plan was commissioned
by council in 1979 and in that same year a com-
-&prehensive technical planning report was prepared
y the planning department.
In January, 1980, the committee reviewed the
technical background for the study and subsequently
five planning workshops were held by the end of the
year.
The first draft of the official plan was presented in
February, 1981 and following a series of meetings the
draft was revised and circulated in June, 1981.
On June 22, the planning board held a public
meeting to discuss the revised draft and 21 objections
were presented to the committee. Several sections of
the plan were written following the objections before
the final plan was prepared.
Teachers reject salary offer.
• from page 1
District 45 of OSSTF have also rejected the board's
offer of criteria for positions of responsibility, profes-
sional development funds, fringe benefits for mater-
nity leaves and night school pay. The fact finder ex-
pects, the maternity leave issue to be resolved follow-
ing salary settlements and made no recommenda-
tions.
Trustee Elliott said negotiations have been handled
in a "fair and equitable manner" and in the board's
opinion the offer is fair. He said attempts would be
• •
made to conclude negotiations this year, and all
items that could be agreed to are agreed to. He added
a successful elementary settlement had been reached
without a third party.
Salary settlements for the secondary school
teachers has not been the "most smooth process",
said Mr. Elliott. The fact finder noted "the relations
between the parties this year are not unduly strained
and both parties demonstrated some flexibility."
There are 245 secondary school teachers in Huron
County.
Water system expansion.
• from page 1
The town's first priority is expansion and then
distribution of the service, councillor Stan Profit
claimed, adding that the municipality's takeover of
the system was third on the list.
"I am baffled that so much money was received for
the pollution plant and not for the water plant," he
said. "The town has a commitment for expansion.
First we need storage tanks and must attack the
when and how and map out a plan of approach."
Dr. Peters claimed the PUC was in a bad position in
that money for expansion had to come from water
revenue.
"We're on the hook because everything must come
from the municipal water funds," he said. "No mat-
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ter how you cut it, water revenue must pay."
Property has been acquired for the storage tanks
and council passed a bylaw to designate a reserve
fund for the project but deputy -reeve Bob Allen said
council must find out of the project is too rich or if it
can be tailored to suit the needs.
Expansion of the water storage and distribution
system is a necessity, but the town must decide if it
can afford the $1 million expenditure, Reeve Don
Wheeler said.
"It's a project we'd all Lite to have but when and
how can we afford it," he asked. "We do need it but
we must decide when and how."
Singers
to stage
concerts
The Blyth Festival Singers
will present two concerts of
Christmas music on Sunday,
December 6 at 3 p.m. and 8
p.m. in Blyth Memorial Hall.
This mixed, community
choir of 80 voices came
together in September 1981
under the auspices of the
Blyth Centre for the Arts. It
represented a new direction
in the growth of the Centre
and the subsequent sell-out
concerts ' throughout the
season have attested to the
popularity of choral music in
the Huron -Perth area.
The choir is under the
professional direction of
Laurie Rowbotham of
Listowel. Mr. Rowbotham
says that he is enjoying the
opportunity to mould a choir
from the beginning and feels
that the choir is "at least a
year ahead" of where he
expected it would be at this
time in its development. The
choir is accompanied by
Arlene Darnbrough of,
Goderich.
The intermediate choir of
the Exeter Public School will
share the program with the
Blyth Festival Singers. This
excellent children's choir
under the direction of Mrs.
Joan Perrie won the hearts
of the audience at last year's
concert and the Singers are
pleasedGto have them on the
program again this year.
They will perform works by
themselves and with the
adult choir.
Bring the whole family to
enjoy an afternoon or
evening of sacred Christmas
music; join in the carol sing -
a -long during the concert,.
and meet the choir, director,
and accompanist downstairs
following the performance
while sampling the
traditional hot cider and
goodies which have been
part of the Blyth Centre for
the Arts Christmas concerts.
Tickets are $3 for adults
and $1.50 for ..children and
are available from choir
members or by phoning 523-
4331 or 482-3635. No reserved
seats.
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