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Halton Hills to address ugly parking problems By DONNA Herald Staff Parking problems in Halton Hills are getting ugly Mayor Miller said last week The mayor reacted to a request from Georgetown Councillor Ann Currie to reduce parking on Ewing Street on one side of the road Coun Currie said she received complaints from area residents who say vehicles are parked there illegally Mayor Miller said the problem is prevalent all over Halton Hills Mayor Rubs Miller Business For Business OFFICE SUPPLIES Georgetown Secretarial Services SI Georgetown 8772282 8771 Florists TROPICAL FOLIAGE PLANTS For Home or Office GREAT SELECTION TO CHOOSE FROM DROP BY TODAY 2t1UiwlphSL CENTRE Approve gravel pit landowner urges Halton planners An Aurora woman said last week her family s application for a wayside pit in is being discriminated against by Halton Region s planning staff filed a report recommending the Region object to a proposed wayside pit on 75 acres of property at Sideroad and Concession Five to the Niagara Escarpment Commission The property under the name of William Cohoon lies between two environmentally sensitive areas the Regional report says The Pits and Quarries Control Act of 1985 says wayside pits on the Niagara Escarpment can only be used for municipal extraction purposes Mr Cohoon his daughter Jac queline Sanderson and two other family members who own the property do not live on the site Mrs Sanderson from Aurora told Regional councillors the wayside pit across the road owned by Casey Boss was given approval under the NEC and is identical to the Cohoon property We wonder why were being discriminated against Were iden to the Boss property right across the road We ve been there longer and we have an existing wayside pit The family has owned the property 34 years The pit on the Cohoon property is no longer in use a Regional report says The Cohoon property surrounds land owned by Mary and Joe Brooks who have a house on the fite That couple told councillors they were concerned about their well going dry and being left on a sand bar Mrs Brooks showed councillors photographs of the Cohoon proper She said overgrowth in the photo showed the land had not been rehabilitated since the last wayside pit was in operation She told councillors her and her husband are very very upset with the pit proposal Our health and of our ly could be placed in jeopardy Her and her husband are con cemed with the scarring of the natural landscape Speaking as a delegation at Regional planning and public works meeting Mrs Sanderson responded to the Brooks concerns feel sorry for them but as the MOT Ministry of Transportation say it just a granular opera tion Mrs Sanderson said the Brooks were the only two objectors to the wayside pit proposal when notices were sent to residents within feet of the Cohoon property But the Regional objection to the pit could be sent to the NEC if a Nov 8 vote in Halton Regional council supports the staff decision to oppose the wayside pit Few councillors at the commented on the proposed pit but Oakville Janet Mitchell who recently joined the planning and public works committee for environmental concerns said she sees the rejection of the wayside pit as a precedent I think It s very interesting that we come to this point It not very popular to be mining in communities par the Escarpment RASPERS CLASS EVERY SUNDAY LIVE BLUES There are examples of illegal park ing that include buses trucks and cars We do have the same problems in Acton Coun Rick Bonnette said at last week s council meeting The Acton councillor was a member of a parking authority seven or eight years ago that reviewed the town s parking situa tion Perhaps it s time to re introduce a parking authority he said I think this is son we re going to have to address he said at last week s council meeting The mayor said the parking issue should be dealt with before winter when the municipality plows roads that are often littered with cars This is going to get more ugly as we go on In Georgetown in Wards and especially in Ward it s just a constant request of what are you going to do about the traffic Law enforcement was said to be at the root of some parking viola Mayor Miller said at a cost of a year for each police con stable it is difficult to patrol the suburban areas They do get into residential areas but its on a hit and miss The mayor said an option could be to hire a meter maid on a part time basis But that and any other changes to the present parking policy in town will not be approved until a report scheduled for release next month by the town engineer ing department is completed I Rfck DISTRIBUTION SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4th 24 PAGES POWER showed up in force to protest a GTA About six people showed up for the public meeting meeting at Acton Meadows Golf Club last week Herald photo GTA protest POWER bangs placards at Acton garbage meeting By BRIAN Herald Staff A vocal group of POWER members chanted no GTA and banged their placards on the win dows during a meeting designed to get public mput on long term waste management at the Acton Meadows Golf Club last week They re just treating the symp toms and they re not treating the disease POWER Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources member Barbara said outside the meeting The Greater Toronto Area Com a five Region organization formed to deal with the waste crisis in southern Ontario formed a committee called the Solid Waste Interim Steering Committee to gamer public input About six of the people who at tended the SWISC meeting were members of the public The rest were consultants and local POWER demonstrators listed a number of complaints about the GTA outside the hall Their complaints include that the GTA is just another tier of- government that isn t sanction ed by legislation that the GTA can fast track potential emergency sites thereby bypassing certain stringent regulations governing landfill sites that the emergency sites to be designated by the GTA won have to follow the stringent rules of the Environmental Assessment Act Instead the sites will follow the rules of the less demanding En vironmental Protection Act that officials are using the waste disposal crisis in southern Ontario to bypass the act Continued on Page 3 filngow finds Brest Footfall cage Really of Distinction Realtor MEMBER BROKER 112 Main St S Georgetown Comer Church Main 8731881