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wall m ill ends season Community News Home Newspaper of Hills page 16 page 15 11 SECTION Glen Williams Secondary Plan unveiled A new chapter in hamlet 9 history Glen Williams today as seen from the cemetery hill Mayor Pomeroy wary of new proposal for 61 home serviced subdivision Citing 1150 in lot levies and year in property taxes as incentive Chateau Developments Lid is seeking the town permission to build new homes on a Glen Williams site for which the firm would finance an extension of the municipal water supply Although the proposal as presented to the tow planning board last week by Bert Arnold acting on the behalf referred for a rep ort comments made by Mayor Pete indicated the town may be concerned that the subdivision is a prelude to further northerly expansion Mayor Pomeroy pointed out last Tuesday thai the new Glen Secondary Plan is aimed ma i mining the Glen ham lcl nature and thus Imposes restrictive rural designations upon much of the land ding the Glen including Chat Bclnir proposed site The mayor expressed that the site further expansion to the north is in the back of your developers A colorful past Mr Arnold replied that has no interest in the land a butting its site own mi- hits Mr Arnold acknowledged that the town recently rejected the concept of partially servic housing as a general planning objective but noted thai at the same time such proposals arc being welcomed for consideration on their vidua merits Chateau Bclnir plan would see lots averaging square feet in area developed on tanks and municipal water the provision of which would be financed by the dcvLloper A minimum purchase price on the homes would be Mr Arnold said gene rating some million In market value assessment At St per home in annual property taxes lit added the town would glean another in revenue from the dcvel The Board of Educat ion has predicted that the proposed subdivision would provide homes for school aged children Mr Arnold slid who could not only be accommodated by the Glui Williams public school but would probably enable the school to justify the construe lion of a long awaited general purpose room The additional enrollment could also be a factor In keepiung the small school open he pointed out Mr Arnold estimated that the new subdivision would have significant impact on Georgetown Moore Park plaza whercsome stores stand vacant and on downtown Georgetown PICK UP There would be no capital cost to municipality no need for municipal garbage pick up and little visual impact thanks to extensive buffering and upon the surrounding Mr Arnold said As well as the other suggest benefits lit added subdivisions residents would be contributing to a regional water fund whnli will ally help extension of municipal service to the Glen itself Commenting on the that development may add to the torn m unity s tin wanted status as a dormitory town Mr Arnold told the board that eight of the 13 lots developed nearby last year by Chile iu Eclair have already been sold six of them to buyers who already lived in Hills There a terrific demand here lot of it from people who want to upgrade their homes Mr Arnold said This t creating a bedroom community requesting the board to redesign tlic proposed site from its new Open Space category in the Glen pi in to allow for residential develop ment Mr Arnold suggested thai the town treasurer should be directed to prepare a report A hazard land designation would moke planning sense he sold Chateau planner Glen Harrington described the site as j entry rolling pasture land with beautiful wooded ravine facing the Credit valley Overall it very pictur property he said The re site once part of the Davidson property would be developed around a j j acre central wooded area onto which many of the lots would front All lots on the outside of the subdivision would front onto the vast open spaces surrounding the site Chateau proposal relies heavily upon maintain nig the site s natural drainage features to the point ing internal curbs and side walks in order to facilitate surface runoff are not satisfied r Glen small lurnout list week public meeling on the new Glen Williams St PI in led planning bo in chairman Mike r lo pi in hill Glen rcsid but two lenjthy followed which could ibout extensive Res pi ininni dividing existing land uses categories for residential industrial an I open spue uses illusion for lands pel ii re pre id li on the proposal financial implications at the same time the planning department is the concent the for iTeorporolini thin of the residents into the revised pi in while making new changes which benefit Ch ilenu Bel I The development firm h has already built on some of it i exlensn I holdings iround Ihe den surprised the pctitio nirs following up with a new sub board referred pi in to part serviced homes on j0 acres of pasture hud to the limine department for i re HUM Crucial to the inn il is to redesignate site from Open ice as it appt in Hit new Plan to I or del ids on tie set Ihls hi- director told Ihe Glui itlcndince inelud firmer Hills mijor Hill lint Hit for Mr public o i final ig w is remaining ions about the plan Town staff will make final revisions kec ping in mind last sub missions before bringing pi in to the board for il as pin of the new ill in Hills official plan the Glen Plan is highlighted by a commitment by town council lo extend Georgetown public water system into the Glen is now served wells Ihc siall public when Mr lined tin ruril lands wen included in Die Glen arei while the pi in was being bill ire not pari of III- WHOM What you ve pointed out right there Is not what council decideel Hoy Booth completely out if lonttxl mill what we id I efort ind you re wrong to Ihe run t of Ihe Second Plan Sm m for i group of concerned residents who circulated pctitu n questioned the pi inning department s ability foreeast the unlet population when the il areas have not been included Without prejudice il is our opinion that the major ell lb it have been made since November 1J78 we all favo red It Mr Venditti contention it this plan is a of community inpul the resid ent petition charged We feel there arc stilt my problem areas to be stud discussed and in this pi in before Ms passage count illor however urged planning bo pass the plan len minutes after it was first distributed to hem despite the fael that the plan fir his own Wini J his been understudy for three years Good pi inning takes time requires a process Tonight is only the second public meeting council Ins died We in the Glut are since onlv three of the requesls of our January 197J submission hive turn incorporated into Ibis plan In 1 wtck submission residents challenged Ihe plan s population forecast of I by DBS suggesting thai Founder paid 300 for Williamsburg Several fires a fact accident which killed three men and a number of startling innovations and con but ions to industry have highlighted the 153 year history of the community called urgh later Glen Williams an 11 year resident of the Glen and pastor of the hamlet Anglican par was commissioned two years ago by the Glen Williams Cemetery Board lo compile a history of the community Published las year Down In the Glen Is brief but highly entertaining collection of facts anecdotes and period photographs and etchings which The Herald has excerpt Founded about the community was originally led Williamsburg after Its founding family according to Rev a history but when subpost office opened In the village years later the name was changed to GlenwilUams later Glen Wil llama in deference to another Williamsburg located else where In the township PURE WATER An early description of the Glen which appeared in the Canada Christian Advocate published in IMS accurately foretold the village a future Squire Williams is situated on the banks of ihe Credit between the everlasting hills on a beautiful flat The water is pure and perhaps one of the most valuable streams for machinery in the Province Down In the Glen tells the story of John Butler a Niagara barrister who in his will acres of land in Township he had been granted by the Crown In 1824 The land ended up In the ownership of one Williams the son of a Welsh immigrant to the US who had accompanied his Loyalist friends to Upper Canada Of Interest to modemday Glen residents who pay mod em day property taxes Is the fact that the year old settler who gave their village his name paid all of 100 pounds for the land Records indicate that Bona Williams his wife and 15 children established the first real clearing in an area of dense woods afler moving to the Glen from Niagara and Stamford Until the the elder Williams sold portions of his land to Ins sons for settle ment one of whom Charles directed the establishment of a sawmill which produced for many buildings subse quently erected Charles Williams seemed at the centre of most of the endeavors of the fledgling community and was given the respectful title of Squire Williams Rev hist relates By the mid 60s he was proprietor of the flour saw mills as well as being justice of the The flour mill ran day and night and even produced flour for export to foreign markets But it was fairly small barrels of flour a day compared to the 200 barrels a day ground in Norval As other crops took over from wheat it would be the larger mills that survived Joseph Williams who ran the flour mill after Charles seemed to be the patriarch of the third generation for he also took over the adjoining sawmill This was purchased by of Gcorget own who had a number of lumbering interests in the area The water powered a dynamo to generate and when silt accumulated around the dam the plant was converted to work from s steam boiler This pronded the electricity for the George town Light and Power Company which was used at the turn of the century In the neighboring town The lights were on only until mideven but if were having a gathering at the house the power could be extended for a small fee BAD FORTUNE After the fire of which destroyed his original woolen mill Charles Williams proce eded lo erect anew He was plagued by bad Continued on page I A Glen scene from the last century 1 be I more re n Similarly tiny criticized a projected growth rate of per noting lb it Glen has grown it a rate of about one per cent peryeir ever since The then w is doubled since then lo its current 1 residents the suggestions mi by Iht reildenls last Jinnry is a request for a traffic impact sludy to a Ihe it le of the I The residents noted the dele I mi or one of the draft plan st lied oils which would sec the Glen develop residenlially its centre tow ml George town Thee us not appear in the rev jnl plan Commenting that the rural Iv designated land in the Glen will be developer dream if the plan Mr and his neighbors Iht plan justifies In for forecasting a ion of 1 GOO by Hie year The introduction as development constrain is community ability lo accommodate further growth ind jiressures for develop ment in adopting the mi projection Nobody who lives here Is pressing for resident Jihn Minns pointed in wilh The Herald We don need I jteoplc in Glen Williams not at ill COSTS tit her concerns expressed by residents who signed the petit ion involved Ihe delineation of for which Ihcy some alterations in keeping with tradition the payment by would be develop ers of waler supply costs the deletion of Glen Place a home for retarded children from inslilulinnil designations and Ihe description of the in property as residen lid than rural as Is currently the case The of the word from the official pi in in describing housing typ es v is interpreted by the residents a a provision which mitht allow or row housing rather lhan single family homes that are Mr asked the bo to consider holding public meeting at which Mr Venditti responses their concerns could be heard Thtrewereno answers offered al last week s meeting Mayor Pett Pomeroy resp onded toward a sub mission by lawyer J Haines concerning a 3 acre property owned by his parmts and Joan Haines opposite Ar no Volkswagen Service Mr contention that the Glen plan designation of the property as part of an Open Space area discriminates against its owners who have obtained Land Division Com approval for a severan ce of the property aimed at possibly furthering its residen tial development SPACE Noting that the Open Space designation is designed to pre serve land for possible use as parkland Mr Ilqincs pointed out that his parent property is a relatively small Rat past ure which offers no promise for development as a park The board can rest assured that any development tlons for the property must be approved by the Credit Valley Conservation Authority since He added that any development there would lake place no closer than to feet from the river banks This will be changed as far as we re concerned Mayor told air m you can keep between yourself and tbe Con servation Authority