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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-12-09, Page 13• ' • GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, j ECEMDE Apartment cstill. go de.s i e many were inadequate to meet the 'needs of the buildings. Huron Management was Town and Country planner Nick Hill told the Goderich planning board recently that despite his client's.' many problems developing an apartment complex on Mill Road, east of Goderich, .the project is still to go ahead as planned. "We ran into horrendous problems but there isno way' we are •going to abandon the project," said Mr. Hill ..on behalf of Huron Management, developers of the apartments. Mr. Hill said his client • wanted to a.dv' se planning board of the ' status of the project to dispel any thoughts that it was • going to be shelved. He saki -there had not been any '.great �strides made as of January 1,:1977. to bring the complex,closerto The which that they were entirely responsible for servicing the complex since town services advised by town engineer not give the complex enough Burns Ross that the town's pressure to service 110 units water supply system could and still leave adequate water. pressure for fire fighting. He also pointed out that the storm ,sewer on Huron Road was too small to allow wester runoff from the site to be dumped into it and that the developer would have to devise their own means of getting the water away from the site. Moped operatorsneed s� hel�n„a et.af after New _Y ea r Acting upon recom- mendations ' of the Select Committee on Highway Safety, Minister of ;Tran- sportation and Com- munications Jaynes Snow has announceda new regulation that makes it mandatory for all drivers of mopeds (Motor - assisted bicycles) to wear approved '. motorcycle helmets. The regulation is effective.. reality but the problems encountered were being worked on. The complex is a 5.2 acre development consisting of four buildings housing a' total of 110 apartment units. There will be room on the property for 165 parking spaces for tenants' cars, a treed buffer zone and a 1.2 acre com- munity park in the midst of the four buildings. The „problems encountered by the developer are the same as they were when they sought planning board ap- - proval in principle in June of 1976. At that time . Huron Management outlined their proposal to, planning board looking forsome type of approval before they took on the expense of working out the logistics of' the develop- ment. Mr. Hill told the board then that his client didn't want to spend the money to work out water supply, storm and sanitary sewer and ac- cess problems if the board was not at all interested in seeing this type of project . y developed on the eastern - approach to town. Planning board 'hesitated in . granting approval expressing concern they . may be en- couraging development in an area where ,development is impossible. The members advised Huron .Management • tatives of all three Ontario political parties, requested that the amendment to The Highway Traffic Act be. brought intaforce with a view towards reducing deaths and head injuries among moped drivers. According, to :the most recent MTC statistics, four moped drivers were killed and 203 'injured on Ontario roads during the first nine months of 1976. approved helmets which have beep mandatory for motorcycle drivers and their passengers since 1970. They must meet the standards of the:;. Canadian . Standards. Association, Snell Memorial Foundation, the ,British Standards Institute or : the United States of .dlkherica Federal Motor Safety Standard 218.. .• All - such helmets -.should carry the appropriate monogram or certificate identifying them clearly as A third problem recognized at the time was the Goderich Abattoir on Huron Road. The firm required a 600 foot buffer zone between it and am residential.. development according to ministry of environment standards. The zone infringed upon lands owned by •Huron. Management. Mr'Hill told planning board that the abbatoir was still a Select Committee, .The amendment will callone of the four approved problem for the developer includes represen- for moped drivers to wear motorcycle helmets.and that the 600 foot buffer zone combined with similar Hundreds of children glimpse . of . Santa lined the .Square Saturday Glans and his helpers. Here to 'get a several children wave to Santa as"'he photo) sses by on the float. (staff zones required between the railway. tracks and the apartments limited the amount of land Huron Management had to work with. He said, Central : Mor- tgage and Housing Cor- poration demanded a 90 foot strip between the tracks and the buildings and the 600 foot zone required for the abbatoir combined to reduce the parcel of land that can be used to a little over an acre. The zones rate up a little over four acres of land. The water supply problems at the site were to be over- com y the installation of bo 'ter pumps .that would problems 197& increase waterressure from ':It`s a grim picture but my a dug well to meet the needs client is still planning 021 of the units. Mr. Hill said seeing the project out,"Said however that the booster was .Mr. Hill.."The project isa not feasible and that his client good one and is needed in planned to .wait until .the town Goderich ..but perhaps Abeconstructed a second' water timing was. oust trot right. storage tower in the eastern area of Goderich.to supply development in the east of town. He - added that the developer was tryingto work around the abbatoir problem and pointed out three . ways the problem' could be solved. He said the abbatoir could close, the developer could buy it out and close it or the restrictions could be modified + to permi=t both to operate, RAKOMEN COME IN AND COMPARE YOU'LL CHOOSE THE SELECT CUT - MEATS FROM AINSLIE'S IT0PsIRI0IN :AND LOIN STEAKS .. SI.49 RUMP & ROUND STEAK OR ROASTS. 11.39 LEAN 79c 1 P•OT: ROASTS •LB. ENGLISH CROSS -CUT BONE -IN ROASTS $1.29 BLADE ROASTS L$: FOR YOUR FREEZER HINDS •cU.T F, EREAPFED $ '. AINSL•IE. 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