Halton Hills Newspapers

Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 10 Apr 2014, p. 16

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•T he IF P• H al to n H ills • Th ur sd ay , A p ril 1 0, 2 01 4 16 COME SHAPE THIS NEW COMMUNITY! Planning is currently underway for a new community, which will be an extension to Georgetown. This new community is bound by 15 Sideroad to the North, 8th Line to the East, 10 Sideroad to the South and Trafalgar Road to the West. The area covers 1,000 acres and will be home to approximately 19,000 people and 1,700 jobs by 2031. With the input of participants to date, an initial Vision has been developed as follows: To be the New Community of Choice. The Vision Georgetown community is an inspiring new urban community; distinctive in the way it looks and functions, fostering healthy lifestyles, neighbourliness, economic prosperity, and local pride. It is a resilient, sustainable, complete, and compact community, with a thriving natural heritage system. It feels like a small Town and is physically connected to the broader community of Georgetown and the Town of Halton Hills. It honours the rich heritage of the Town, emphasizes people, and provides choices for day-to-day living. Overall, the Vision Georgetown community is an exceptional, forward thinking, and innovative model for new community development. We are now moving into the next step of the planning process, which includes developing land use concepts using the Vision and Guiding Principles as the framework for decision making. A land use concept is a map that identifies where different types of residential and commercial uses may be located, the pattern of the major roads, the environmental features to be protected, and the location of parks and schools. Please join us to help shape this new community. The Town of Halton Hills encourages you to participate in this Land Use Concepts Workshop. Come out to the session and provide input into the creation of a preferred land use concept. Details of the meeting are as follows: Date: Tuesday April 15, 2014 Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Christ the King Secondary School Cafeteria 161 Guelph Street, Georgetown Please RSVP: The main focus of this meeting is to hear from you. It will involve an informative presentation, followed by an interactive workshop. In order to assist with planning this event, please register in advance with Town staff at visiongeorgetown@haltonhills.ca or 905-873-2601 ext. 2214. Please encourage interested friends or colleagues to attend, and RSVP! For More Information Background information including staff reports, summaries of the input we heard from the two public events held to date and the Vision and Guiding Principles can be found on the project website: www.visiongeorgetown.ca. You can also sign up for the project email list on the website to be notified of updates and public events. Other Ways to Get Involved If you are unable to attend the Land Use Concepts Workshop, Consultation Kits are available that allow you to participate in a way that recognizes individual schedules and time constraints. Please visit the Planning, Development and Sustainability Department, Town of Halton Hills, 1 Halton Hills Drive, Halton Hills, Ontario L7G 5G2, or email us at visiongeorgetown@haltonhills.ca, or contact: Tara Buonpensiero Senior Planner - Policy 905-873-2601 ext. 2214 Email: tarab@haltonhills.ca Steve Burke Manager of Planning Policy 905-873-2601 ext. 2254 Email: stevebu@haltonhills.ca WARM-UP and SAVE-UP to $1,000! This limited-time offer applies to ADP and private sales of select models of hearing aids and is subject to change without notice. Please allow up to 45 days for the reward miles to appear in your collector account. This offer is non-transferable and cannot be combined with other promotions or discounts for hearing aids. 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Her latest book focuses on the environmental message that Severn Su- suki delivered to the Earth Summit a number of years ago. Wilson's focus on Sunday will be about intergen- erational justice, glimpses into what our children will in- herit from us and what several inspiring youth are doing about their future. Martin Stringer, CBC researcher and reporter who was scheduled for this date cannot attend but will be back in the fall. Tickets are $25 and include a dessert reception. They can be ordered by call- ing the Acton Town Hall at 519-853-5302 or via email info@actontownhall.com. Change of speaker at the Absolutely Acton Speaker Series on Sunday JANET WILSON

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