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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1998 THE NEW TANNER Stagnant development in Acton By FRANCES NIBLOCK storm water management," main thrust for the Acton to the first engineering sub- panies department had 'disappointing' is approximately half of those units The New Tanner Elliott explained on Monday. _ councillors during this term missions and I don't really _ heard that the former Rinarin ' "*Frustrating and a litle "The Region was looking of office. have any idea of the timing Developments-now Monmar The 'Town has not heard disappointing." That's the 2¢ Ways to mitigate some of Wellings said that there'd but he (developer Jerry Homes-is interested in pro- anything lately from general consensus among the cost of storm water man- M some interest recently Montemarano) said they ceeding with the first phase Brookfield Homes -formerly Acton politicians and Town agement, but obviously not from Bayfield Homes, for- would be interested in going of its proposed development Coscan- that has draft enough to any devel- merly Acto- 2, which plans _ forward this year," Wellings on land north of the new proval to build 200 housing a = ---- opment, and we've got that to build 60 homes as anex- said. Repeated calls to arena, backing onto Church- --_ units and a commercial plaza There's been silence now ™ajor problem," Elliott said, tension to Lasby Lane. Bayfield Homes went unan- __ ill Road and south of the high _with a food store, south of for several years from three 24ding that encouraging "They (Bayfield) arecon- _ swered. school. Monmar has 150 lots Highway 7 and east of of the developers who were 8f0wthin Acton wouldbethe tinuing to work on revisions Wellings said that the draftapprovedand phaseone Churchill Road. party to an Ontario Munici- pal Board hearing that paved the way for Acton to grow to 10,000, and the only housing that's been built is in the Dawkins subdivision off Commerce Crescent and Wallace Street. Phase one of that development calls for 60 units, 50 of them single-fam- ily and 10 semi-detached. There are also plans to build a second phase of that subdi- vision consisting of 31-sin- gle-family units. "The lack of development is disappointing," said Town Manager of Development Review Glenn Wellings in a recent interview, "There was such a push to get on with things at the OMB, and once the approv- als were received everything went stagnant," he said. Acton Councillor Norm Elliott said the Town met 8 Town for determining all the two:in-door pools that the 5 ne seta municipal rates and fees al- Halton Board of education Ss > erece wha Could be ane though the Town's acting _ had been paying, £ Presents = spur development and sug- Director of Recreation and "That 50 per cent cost was 8 = Sed pee sia cntiaiee Parks, Joy Thompson, said $112,000 and that affects a : 5 erould betidld S there wo! dalwaysberecrea- _ lot of kids' swimming les- = "The developers are stil) tion ae and services sons, so you have to balance, @ concerned about the cost of SUPported by the tax base. I don't know of any munici- * improvements to the Acton water treatment plant and AGH OVORCVOHROVOHRGA 1998 REGISTRATION , * ©<@2S 4880 One <@ Recreation and Parks rates and fees to increase: Significant, but necessary. That's the bottom line of a report on rates and fee in- creases for recreation and parks programs approved Town Council Se nionia User fees and charges for recreation and parks pro- grams and services are used to help staff operate within Council's revenue recovery guidelines for subsidies and profits. Staff call this year's in- creases "significant," but also necessary as a first step to substantial changes in rey- enue recovery, part of a com- prehensive rate review study which will be ready late this year. That review will lead to some consistency across the "It's important, for in- stance, that children learn ' REGISTRATION 1 see cesccesccensccconessanevecesssssesosccsssseeeee DOD.00 2 PLAVORS..0.6200esccscnnsnnsssele nies uid i 3 or more (in same family, inc. adults) water safety. Given our com- munity it's a life skill and our opinion it's essential," Thompson said recently, "We believe that opportu- nities for recreation should not be a middle -- upper class service and we feel that eve- ryone should have access and the rates and fees we charge and the subsidies allows us to do that." Increases for aquatics pro- grams - between 4 and 15 per cent - get special note in Staff's report. Last year the Town was teaponailte for 50 per cent of the pools' operating costs -- this year that jumps to 75 per cent and next year 100 per cent of the costs to operate pality in Ontario where the aquatics user fees offset the +$110.00 $150.00 ~{88@<@Roze .com/achilles www.haltonhills.com/achilles www.haltonhills. cost to run the facility," Thompson said, noting the 15 per cent increase in the swimming lesson works out to 50 cents more for 10 les- sons -- or $5.26. Without an increased target for pools subsidies this year, pool us- ers faced an average 67 per cent increase in costs. Thompson said that the Town recovers operating overhead through user fees for some programs, but ad- ditional revenue is also gen- erated from rink board adver- tising and concession sales. "We look for other crea- tive ways to cover the cost. We look for sponsorships and partnerships and we have advertising programs and all that helps to keep the cost as low as possible to the user groups." Thompson said. Last year the Town recov- ered 97 per cent of arena op- erating costs and this year's target is to generate 100 per cent of the costs. "What the Town actually subsidies is not really a bear- www-haltonhills.com/achilles www.haltonhills.com/achilles ACHILLES Mazpa ing on the rates, in most cases, but a bearing on the attendance of any particular program and it's popularity." "Sometimes when you get a waiting list for a program you want to add another class and what determines whether you add a class is if you can recover those costs, because they wouldn't be budgeted for," Thompson explained. The approved increases in rates and fees will put an ad- ditional $67,387 into the Town's coffers this year. Brand New B2500 Series "WINNER OF AJAC" AWARD 1998 BEST NEW PICKUP Starting at $1 4,930 SX 2's Model FOR BOYS, GIRLS, iS AND MEN e ] -@ | e Sere ea. Big Deal. Little Time. Thursday, Feb. 26th ......... 6: 4 5m. 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