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Sixth Line residents determined to fight subdivision By CYNTHIA GAMBLE Staff Writer Sixth Line residents are continuing their longstanding battle with a local developer to prevent a 20-lot rural estate subdivision, fearing it would cause a safety issue that could put their kids at risk. The 117-acre property on Sixth Line, north of 17 Sideroad, has been in the planning stage since the mid-1970s, but it was only in the last few years, that the developer (Esquesing Developments Ltd. Al Pilutti) begin to take earnest action. At a 2007 public meeting, more than 40 residents turned out to oppose the development with concerns ranging from the safety hazard potential of the access road entrance, increased traffic on a rural road, future use of an adjacent vacant property, destruction of trees along Sixth Line, and impact on well water. Their concerns have not changed four years later. Sixth Line residents Kevin and Laurel Lake have organized a coalition of Sixth Line residents to oppose the development and council's May 24 approval of the project. That approval requires ratification at the June 13 council meeting. The coalition is holding a "Town Hall" meeting, 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7 at Limehouse Memorial Hall, and then plan to meet formally with the Town of Halton Hills council and staff on June 9. They will make a formal delegation to the whole of Town Director of Infrastructure Sercouncil at its June 13 council meeting. Kevin Lake told The Independent & vices Chris Mills said, "we did send out Free Press the neighbours plan to take both survey crew and our traffic co-ordithis all the way to the Ontario Municipal nator to review the location (of the access road). Both of them came with indications Board if necessary. that the locaDespite that tion does meet rural estate subTAC (Transpordivisions are no tation Associalonger allowed tion of Canada) in Halton, the standards for first application road locations for this developas related to ment was filed sightlines." in 1975 before Steve Grace, the new OffiManager of cial Plan. That Development means that it is the 1985 Hal- Looking south on Sixth Line, two stakes mark the Engineering, entrance of the proposed development. said prelimiton Hills OffiPhoto by Ted Brown nary work on cial Plan, which the intersecis in force over this development. That Plan does allow tion has been completed. He said despite the 60 km/h speed limit, the Town derural estate developments. Gary Moorcroft, a Sixth Line resident signed it on based on safe stopping diswho abuts the property, presented his tances for vehicles travelling at 80 km/h. Intersection improvements, he said, case at the May 24 council again- he also spoke in 2007. The location of the en- would require removal of brush, probably trance road, he said, is still causing con- on both sides of the road, but mostly on cern. The road would be cut into a hill, the subdivision. The intersection will also causing a sightline issue on a narrow hilly be widened with large turning radius. According to Bert Arnold, solicitor rural road. "That's a safety issue that I'm worried for Esquesing Developments Ltd., "We about," he said. "I have no qualms about have, through the environmental impact the homes being built, it's the access and report, indicated the tree growth is to be the safety of the road that I'm concerned preserved (including) the significant tree growth around the perimeter of this subabout." division." Credit Valley Conservation signed off on the environmental impact report. However, Ward 2 Councillor Bryan Lewis wants buffer, sightlines, street lighting and noise issues to be addressed through landscaping at the site plan stage. With regard to water concerns, after reviewing the developer's hydrogeological information, Halton Regional staff have concluded there is adequate groundwater supplies available to meet minimal domestic water requirements. However, the Region advised a warning clause should be added to site plan conditions that it "should not be expected that the groundwater supplies are sufficient to accommodate any users beyond domestic water requirements." The Region noted this is an area with a history of well water complaints. Sixth Line resident David Monroe, in a letter of protest to the Town, stated residents were not consulted nor kept informed of the development's process. 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