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THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Friday March Page Council Briefs Fishing club offers Silver Creek help The Georgetown based Izaak Walton Fly Fisherman Club in formed Hills Council Mon day through a letter it is in terested in rehabilitating the part of Silver Creek running through CedarvalePark According to the letter the group is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of aquatic resources Local en vironmental group Protect Our Water Environmental Resources POWER and Trout Unlimited support the project the letter in dicates Although supportive of the idea especially because It wont cost the Town any money Coun cil asked staff to prepare a report on the viability of such a project Province to be approached Halton Hills Mayor Miller told council Monday be will be establishing a meeting with the province to determine if the Town can receive provincial funding to locate a new Acton ambulance station on the same site of the new Acton fire station Money for roads Town council learned Monday the province will provide the Town with million for road construction this year The Town will receive for basic road construction for road resurfacing for basic road maintenance and for traffic signal maintenance Donations requested Hills Council Monday referred to the Town Budget Committee a request by the Peel- Dufferin and Halton Regiment of the Lome Scots for a donation in recognition of the regiments up coming anniversary to be celebrated Sept 13 and 15 Council also referred a similar request by the Halton Regional Police force to Budget- Commit tee The donation would go towards the administration of a vandalism program to be taught to all Grade students in Halton Developers oppose fee increase ByBENDUMMETT The Herald If Halton Regional government thought it could easily approve an Increase to its development charges it knows now the op posite Is true The Region Administration and Finance Committee day deferred for at least a week any decision on a proposed development charge Increase after hearing five hours worth of presentations from various Halton developers who oppose an increase charges developers a fee for both residential and non residential construction to help cover the services such as roads that need to accompany any new development project The developers appearing before committee Wednesday directed their opposition towards the fee increase for commercial and industrial development since the Regional proposed increase for residential development is relatively insignificant Indeed for a single home in Acton the charge will increase from to 4396 per acre of coverage while in Georgetown the charge will actually drop from per acre to 5218 per acre These figures are based on the assumption a house will cover 25 per cent of a piece of property In comparison the Region is proposing the nonresidential development charge increase from the current flate rate of per acre to per acre after four years The new charge assumes that a development pro ject would cover per cent of a piece of property If the building covers a larger percentage of the property the per acre charge would also increase If the charges as presented are approved developers will pay 85 cents per square foot this year per square foot in 1992 85 per square foot in 1993 and 38 per square foot in Regional staff had originally proposed the final charge be 80 but decreased it in an attempt to appease the development com munity But the developers remain satisfied At Wednesdays meeting all presented arguments based on the idea the increase is unfair Unfair because it would create an imbalance between Region and other Regions and locations in the United States Staff acknowledged that an analysis it did of municipalities in New York State showed develop ment charges dont exist In stead many American municipalities provide incentives for developers who work in their area staff explained At the same time however staff pointed out these same American cities charge developers and builders an array of taxes that dontexlst in Fire Calls Electrical malfunction Hills firefighters fought a bedroom fire in a Georgetown house Thursday morning Firefighters were called to a residence on Hawks Place Street at a m and found the bedroom on fire They were able to the blaze with dry chemicals and never used water hoses Damage has been estimated at 000 and firefighters say the fire was caused by an electrical malfunction of an extension cord Several developers appearing before committee members who have already installed sewage and water services on their pro perty in preparation to develop the land said it is unfair they are required to pay the increased charge Many of them said they have taken such action if they had known ahead of time the development charge was to be increased by such a large amount The Region Is required to im the increased fees under the newly introduced New Democratic Party provincial government Development Charges Act The legislations intent is to have developers pay for the ser vices created by their project If the proposed increase is adopted a Regional report in dicates per cent of cost of ser vices created by new or expanded development will be covered The remaining per cent cost will be covered through municipal taxes according to the report The developers however said the Regional staffs calculation fails to account for the jobs and other benefits development br ings to Halton if these facts are taken into account developers said the Region will realize they are already paying their fare share towards the cost of new vices Following the lengthy presen tations committee voted to hold a special meeting this Wednes day to discuss the points put forth As well they directed staff to write a report on the comments raised by developers That report will be presented during the special meeting Say I saw it in The Herald FINAL TOUCH ESTHETICS ist immsm REOPENING SPECIALS 360GuelphStUnit36A Beside ReMax in the Knolcrest 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