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ELIGIBLE OWNERS RECEIVE $1,500 IN WINTER CASH. ELIGIBLE O $1,500 905877-6944 33 Mountainview Rd. North, Georgetown WITH YOUR FIRST MONTH'S PAYMENT ON US. FULLY LOADED LEASE EVENT See dealer for details hairlounge.com www.georgetownrealty.ca edimou@georgetownrealty.ca EFFIE DIMOU Sales Representative Thinking of buying or selling? Call Effie Dimou for all your real estate needs. 905-877-5211 Dir: 416-991-4247 Real Estate Centre Inc., Brokerage Thursday, February 5, 2015 Halton Hills' award-winning newspaper serving Acton & Georgetown 56 Pages 50 Cents (+HST) Acton, Georgetown merger, pg. 37Visit us at www.theifp.ca facebook.com/Independent&FreePress Twitter: @IFP_11 Local heroes Halton Hills Fire Department handed out special awards to firefighters who saved lives last year. See page 14 Symposium star Halton Hills Cultural Round- table held its annual Cultural Symposium in Acton with special guest speakers and performers. See page 12 HATS FOR THE HOME- LESS: Grade 5 George Kennedy Public School student Amanda Sul- livan has been hand- knitting toques for sale at $10 each and can't keep up with the growing demand, with all proceeds going to Halton Women's Place. Read about her effort on pg. 18. Photo by Eamonn Maher Town allocates water for 499 new homes Three subdivisions and surplus Town lands are on track to receive water ca- pacity from the Town after Halton Hills Council approved a 2015 Water Alloca- tion report last week. Last September, Halton Region al- lotted the Town an additional 900 Sin- gle Detached Equivalent (SDE) of water system capacity. At the Jan. 26 council meeting, the Town's Manager of De- velopment Review Adam Farr outlined staff recommendations for distributing that water to development projects. Farr said staff is recommending that 444 SDE be allotted to the Resi- dential Greenfield Pool (Georgetown South), 402 SDE to the Residential In- fill Pool (which is development within the Georgetown built boundary) and 54 SDE to the Non-Resi- dential Pool for industrial, com- mercial and institutional uses. Specifically, it's recommended Fernbrook's Mountainview Phase 3b (Eighth Line, north of 10 Sideroad) receive 42 SDE, Halton Hills Village Homes 16 (east of Mountainview Rd. and north of 10 Sideroad) is to get 402 SDE-- both of those allocations are from the Greenfield Pool. Menkes De- velopment (north of Hwy. 7 east of the Sands Condominium) is to receive 55 SDE from the Infill Pool. The allocations are all conditional based on the devel- opments satisfying performance conditions. With these allocations, those three communities would be built-out. Water is also assigned to two Town- owned surplus properties-- the Me- morial Arena site (proposed 118 units) and the Civic Centre lands (proposed 114 units). After those allocations are made, the Town would have no SDE left in the Residential Greenfield Pool, 203 in the Residential Infill Pool and 100 in the Non-Residential Pool. Halton Hills is currently serviced from a groundwater-based system. Water for the Vision Georgetown lands (between Trafalgar Rd. and Eighth Line and 10 and 15 Sideroads), which are to start developing in 2021, will be piped from Lake Ontario. Between now and 2021 Farr said Town staff will work with the Region to release additional groundwater capac- ity for development in town. By Lisa Tallyn ltallyn@theifp.ca Water is also assigned to two Town-owned lands to be sold for housing