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Your Morning Smile or Spiling Sometimes it shard to tell whether a man is frying to be order to please his wife or to spite hts mother m law WEDNESDAY APRIL 19J8 Home Newspaper of Hills THIRTY TWO PAGES fullsix paper reaching more than homes in Mis Rally planned for NEC plan opponents By Herald writer The possibility exists of org opposition In Hills toward the Implements tion preliminary planning proposals for the Niagara Several area Landowners tended a meeting of the Ning Escarpment Central Rate payers Association Thursday to what efforts have been taken by era north of Hills through Dufferln Grey and Bruce Counties We went up there more observers and just to sec what was happening there Georgetown lawyer and resident Bill Marnier son said He said a local group may form following a rally planned by in Orangeville May Billcdasachancetostop the Niagara Escarpment Com mission I NEC the rally is expected to have busloads of residents attend from along the entire 450mile long escarp ment planning area Meanwhile The Herald has learned that the Concerned Citizens of Terra will be holding a meeting with the Niagara Escarpment at Creditview school May Interim chairman Art Rice says the meeting is open to anyone who lives in the Chel Terra Hills and areas and who believes his land has been devalued by proposed NEC plan NEC replies He also cited loss of legacy and elimination of retirement income from land as reasons why area residents may wish to attend haB been In forefront of ion toward the planning propo sals President George Shep herd of addressed more than people at an NEC meeting in Wiarton in March calling planning proposals the great Ian a term used by MPP Eddie Sargent during debate in the legislature on the NEC Act NECRA sees the plan prop osed following almost five yearsofsludy as resulting in a basic erosion of basic rights In normal and just society the NEC has exceeded limits of authority In attempting to pose undemocratic controls the association states in a prepared slat cm in in consort with a northern ratepayers in Bruce and Grey Count ics and the Properly Owner Rights Association in the peninsula is seeking to abolish the Escarp ment Commission the NFC plan and the ion which created the NECRA is also recommend a return to local municipal Hies of planning control to ensure local needs and prov recreational needs Sections of the Bruce Trail through Bruce County Hills and the Niagara pen ins The Niagara Escarpment Commission NEC has not ex its authority nor has it attempted to impose undemo cratic controls on I mdownors commission chiirm in J Ivor says The proposals of the commission arc just that preliminary they have been put out for public discus sion to help in producing a land use plan Mr says The legislation under which commission was formed was approved by a democrat elected legislature he said It includes in It unities for public Input to the planning process that exceed those which apply to even local official plans He reiterated the position of NEC that no acquisition of lands for the Bruce Trail take place without consent from landowners A spokesman within the commission explained that the Is that the trail should stabilized by any reason able way and if a handshake is satisfactory that fine He sold about 33 per cent of Ihe present trail ia now In public ownership and regard the acquisition of addition lands it Is NEC thought over the years this could become public lands He stressed that the NEC proposals only note an mum route along the escarp ment It was the appreciation in 1973 that a consistent orderly plan for the Niagara Escarp ment could not be evolved by leaving It up to he many municipalities In the planning area Mr said A number of ihcsc pa I tics si ill have no local municipal plans although con progress has been made In municipal planning In escarpment area In the last or four years Mr McMullin stressed that the NEC planning act contains a number of provisions to ensure fair play and natural justice for landowners In the preparation of the NEC plan there are a number of steps that are required by the act to ensure fair piny and the exercise of natural just Ice he said The preliminary proposals released by commission in February represent an extra step not even required by the act to seek public and ipal Input before a proposed plan Is produced A statutory period of format public response will take place after the proposed plan is formulated Mr says it would be difficult to inform all land owners within he NEC plan area The area takes in square miles of land and an by one spoK revealed a cost of to contact owners in one county section of the plan area One might reasonably exp ect that during the normal course of development of the NEC plan most if not all property owners will become aware of their positions in the planning area He takes position that preparation of the plan will not have a detrimental effect on property values in escarp ment planning area Rather it is suggested that the opposite is true Thai prop erty values will be enhanced he said True there will be some developers who will Vie disappointed however this was to be expected Mr McMullin says all plan ning results in some form of control over land use and he NEC will be no different The preliminary proposals put out by he NEC do not impose resrictions that are on the whole very much more severe than that might expect to be imposed were planning conducted by the loc municipality He said in some cases the NEC proposals are recognized as a relaxing of existing con Responding directly to Nia Escarpment Cenrnl Ratepayers Association President George Shepherd charge lhat land owners are suffering hards hips over the interim develop ment control while the plan was developed Mr McMullin said In fact 90 per cent of the application for development arc being approved and a number of those hat are not approved would unlikely have been approved by pa lit les had here been no develop ment controls Disapprovals result pnmar from other factors such as no road frontage and health unit refusal to certify the development under the devel control process a hear officer is appointed by Ihe minister of housing he provincial secretary for rccs development responsible for the NEC This is set up this way to ensure an Independent view of the situation The hearing officer Ics evidence in detail to report to the housing minister so that the minister decision is bos on all available evidence Mr says this is similar to the appeals heard by the Ontario Municipal Board OMB and he believes hear Ing officers will be members of the I le said the NEC has mended that planning controls be returned to local municipal except for a narrow area about scarp He added that Planning Act and the NEC Development Act recognize the rights of ownership consistent with the need for proper planning have been closed by owners opposed to the plan The Ontario should completely tin concept of a continuous or from Niagara to NLCItA believes They should acquire lands wherein only substantial blocks of rough ureas in assembled into parks to satisfy all types of recreation with a area no time the brief to the commission and Ontario government states should Ontario or the consider acquiring ir corridor through pnvale lands on behalf of any group Jul inn met with landowners in the Terra to help in prnlecling intircsls Opponents if the plan in protesting tin ri lit to ixpripri In thi strongest possible terms hi s ml Kill it is fun I insult lo linliwncrs geiiirn hid in I lined monism allow Ihi frail to pass ihur I mil si Hi it proper ilelbceiusc f ihur agrees Ihe view a eh ir cut st ilcment of I is needed Should be ixpropmtion ilonf the irnil landowners will with nolhingmorc hin right Ik sued and piy Gny I Bob has thrown ligislnlivc suppnrl behind opponents of Ihi pi in by introducing a numbers hill be Hard May 11 calling or the purch phnmnf are i Ik rcdu ud in size encompass only 11 1 scarp protection suit to committee would require the NEC become subject Ontario Municipal appeal and al low all present developable lots along escarpment of the protective area the to development per parkwiy bell are examples of this planning by intent He said in being made by lie parkwiy belt near Mi less than fair market and si The development right would only ixttnd those 14 unless government fair llll Mr Reed said ownership control overland has diminish not by legislation but intent Boih the NFC plan ind drift plan for Ihe h lands designated within Ihe area can be used for development He said people living outside these areas should also be concerned because may become lo Ihe same kind of approach future if the government gels wilhit Mr Shepherd says The public should Lie Informed Didnt exceed limit not undemocratic A LOOK BACK IN TIME What for dessert Pupils In grades and Park school in Georgetown ravelled into the pas hisl week to sample pioneer Their lessons day were in Ihe of old one room school which re illy isn I old and wore like the pioneers Highlight of Photo by George Acton band receives 4860 fin committee has recommended a gr ml or Citizens Bind Committee by vote recommended Monday the repeal of a A ye irold ol the former town of which provided through hall mill levy on i Tor the innuil m union ime of the itizens and Ihe Junior I Bind The repeal of if pissed by council meins the band will have to in for a to continue operating Bandmaster I Matt ted a delegation of en bond members dressed in their scarlet and blue uniforms to tell he committee that Ihe yearold band believed to the oldest continously operating citizens hand in Ontario could not cut SI from its budget as council had requested last week The cut In grant proposed or the Acton band condemns it to a slow death and In five years time Mr Elliott said The amount requested is the minimum required p the hand and in support of his contention Mr cited a number of The hand Ins its own practice hall built milntalned by the bind he said As well the hand last year raised on Its own with a m itching from Winlario purchased two new instrument He Slid the ind also mines the money it needs for around Acton lo carols losing for the residents of Centennial Manor in Milton and to enter the National bind competition Mr explained how Ihe of the band differs from he Georgetown Iris Pipe Hand and the now defunct Georgetown Citizens Band afford if it bind offers ir nil c do pir instruction the opportunity arc offered In concluding Mr Elliott free of eh all comers pointed that Ihe band plays of personal or free civic events and in position men eelehrntions Region fixing collection system after leachate reported in river sime fusion il and ice runoff lys m ii of per ind munlininci of ffnltiin region Mr is ing on reports Hut is running off the landfill site on Armstrong Avenue in George town into Credit River Then Is some Mr Mor rier Herald Bui we ire in the process of extending the ich it The extension is on the south of Ihe parallel Ihi tricks is second phase of the collection system he said there a problem with slope failure Ihe iclulc collection system had be rcdesinul a very r ueh is Hie system will be finished before June Once system will take all Ihe leachate he In fail at his paint of lime it only pumps small because of lack of is illy general below the surface and in some eases breaks out of the side and involves waler runoff Mr Morrlersnld As soon as we find il we slips to prevent It from Ming inlo river Police investigating vandals attacking Harrison school Hilton Regional police were investigate a brink in Harrison school which overnight Sunday and resulted in consider mess only minor dnrmgc to the building nihil stoic some money ransacked desk drawers pou red correcting liq on desk and public address system threw black stencil ink school office They also look fruit Juice from in the staff lounge and splashed It about the room and painted obscenities on chalk boards and floors Entry was gained by break i window which had rcudy been broken and temp orarily up In one of the police or education plant operations supervisor or north area Art says cleaning up Hit damage cost very liltli since only one per son oiled in on overtime i caretakers were used who normally be working during the day Mr finds Ijpe of damage done to he mon than the it and warns Is one schools which will be bugged this year A signalling device touches off an alarm at a central point which results in the police being sent Ihe school and the nrc usually red handed before they have time do much damage Mr says has already installed the system which notifies of burglary heat loss or fire in of lis schools and Harrison will he added to probably by September Sludcnls were kept out of the building for the early part of Monday morning until were cleaned up classes were to normal by morning recess Police arc still Investigating Besides he extension of the collection system the region is using clay sealer at poinls where the leach lie leaks he there is Icac hale going In we condoning it Mr Morner said we ore taking all steps to stop leachale He said the region and the ministry of environment have been Inking water samples for testing for past five years dumpies have been a few feet downstream of the sile and the leachate is The ministry of environment has been aware of this prob lem spokesman said has been a prob lem for a number of years Hie landfill site said Ken Hogg but you need keep in mind the magnitude Mr Hogg said the Credit River is monitored periodical and ministry officials have met with region to correct the problem The major volume of ffl site is storm runoff ly slorm waler He said the technical support section of he ministry will be taking walensumplcs from he Credit River after Ihe leo chute collodion system is to sec if there Is a reduced on river the Niagara Escarpment Plan ning and Act is a of Ontario s denial of fair play and natural justice to the landowners affected by the Act He says government whs in 1973 before the Acl was passed thai was a danger ous erosion of individual rights and liberties but the minister replied it was too late to Since there have been no remedial amendments since passage the public can that he gavernmcnl in tends deny fair play Mr Shepherd former treasurer John While who introduced Ihe legislation us Some people ask why the province will nol acquire the entire escarpment Such an acquisition would mean owning 1 3 million acres a cost of more billion Mr While also stated We hive chosen an alternative will be far less expensive le accomplishing all the objectives ownership would iccomplish What we hut designed is a planning syslem strong land use regulations plus public ownership where necessary Mr Shepherd charges tint the NEC legislation ishes same result as the governt id in the association spring newsletter thai NEC had done an excellent job on the Bruce Trail section of the his the of decision of hearing review is conducted by a cab inet minister but Mr Shep herd questions whether such decisions nude following con denial of rule of justice which stipulates a tribunal shall be without bias We all know thai the minis in Ihis case would seek ihe of those who studied and produced these programs in Ihe first place and these discussions will lake place not at an open hearing as required by natural justice in an not accessible citizens an area often refer red as i backroom This denies the hive person ing decision to hear he evidence he says J interest his become frill Mr Shep herd said has evolved from protecting people to pro land While the province may be it is loo expensive icquire land the landowner musl the cost he says Governments now pay com for lands used for roids If this new public interest is so important that il musl be protected then government should be to for it just as it pays for protection of any public recommendations in elude provision of a footpath and railway along an mum route which has been identified public access In perpetuity provision for campsites and parking areas regulation in heavily used areas and he adds Gradual acquisition of the entire railway is proposed as is legislation limiting walking skiing and snows hoeing lowing campsites only de signated campsites and except at supervised campsites ing use of portable stoves mandatory He says trail association has a three member commit lee investigating the proposals released in the preliminary NEC plan and a submission will be mode Association secretary flay Lowes of Hamilton said the has been receiving access refusals from a number of small landowners in the Niagara peninsula and near but he denied lhal ihese closings of sections of the trail route are large Mr Lowes area club dents have been asked to com men and a clearer picture should be known when all member clubs respond In the Grimsby where several closings resulted many of landowners sub mitted similar forms with drawing permission for access across private property was obvious that these pe ople had been asked some meeting to sign these because were on same form He said individual contact by Bruce Trail members with many owners showed most signed it as protest rather linn because of the trail as some sort of against Niagara Escarpment We are doing our best to with not turn off the Bruce Tr because it will be a to the thousands of Canadians that need trail sane he Mr Lowes also one of eight citizen members of the com mission and an individual in in establish menl of trail hopes owners wont be sucked in and use he rails as a wca He emphasizes that he Bruce Trail Association is not In bed with commission The Bruce Trail Association has three goals to draw attention he que feature of escarpment to develop a walking route the escarpment and to promote outdoor Canadians About The Hills School purchase Hilts will ask board town can purchase the Chapel Street school property The board had originally offered he site to the own but the was turned dawn A portion of the site was sold to SI United Church for use a parking lot Reset clocks Dovhght saving time begins this Sunday Clocks move ahead an hour at a m We won catch up on lhat missing hour of sleep until October Students donate Centennial middle student council prttented i lirqm last week to four chirlllet as a mull of Ihe toe i mi of ihr a in tebrnary Muscular Dyitrophy received The George town Canadian Cancer Society MOO and Red I The railed 100 during the event The remainder of Ihe funds will be for school uniform and student Focal hearing Nov 6 Nov has been set as the date for resumption of Ontario Municipal Board OMBI hearings Into the matter Hills and Focal Properties Lid The win last November Focal Properties Lid a subsidiary of B McLaughlin Associates presented its arguments on why It should be proceed construction of 1 homes south of Silver Creek When the hearings resume the town will present Its side of the argument at Science fah- district high school student Mark llotnnson in second at the Hamilton and District Science Fair wilh a computer project The computer which used a video monitor was used to plot the course velocity and rne of acceleration of a ball dropped from a specified height and produced a teletype printout which showed all the information on Ihe screen In the form of a graph Mark is also entered in the upcoming Ontario Science Fair in Sudbury Litter At 10 a Soturday Brownies and G tides from Ihe region wilt a Litter Gitter in Acton Georgetown Glen Williams Milton and McDonald Ilestauranls In Georgetown end Milton will be awarding hamburger and soft drink coupons the group which col lee Is the most Utter