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By Dianne Cornish Developers, lawyers and consul- tants represented the bulk of the audience attending Wednesday night’s public meeting to discuss the Urban Area Land Use Study for Georgetown and Acton and the Residential Implementation Study for the Acton Urban Area. There was standing room only at the meeting held at the Civic Centre, in Georgetown. A small number of interested town residents also attended. It became clear during the dele- gation stage, when 16 speakers addressed town council, that devel- opers and their legal representatives were there to protect their respec- tive development proposals. The Urban Area Study, which offers a blueprint of residential and commercial planning for Georgetown and Acton for the next 20 years, drew most of the com- ments from delegations. The Area Residential Implementation Study, which will serve as a guideline for consideration of draft plans of sub- division within servicing capacities identified by Halton Region, didn’t raise as many questions or com- ments. According to a report prepared last November by the town’s plan- ning director Ian Keith, “The prior- ity for council should be the overall Land Use Study which sets the gen- eral policy framework to be fol- lowed by the Acton Residential Implementation Study.” The Urban Area Study recom- mends the establishment of a sub- regional shopping centre on the Dominion Seed property. The cen- tre will include a department store and food store as anchor tenants and is designed to serve the popula- tion of Georgetown, which is expected to grow to 40,000 by 2011. It also recommends the Coscan Development proposal for a commercial shopping mall, with a food store, in Acton East. Acton’s projected population over the next 20 years is 10,000. Dominion Gardens representa- tives, Stanley Stein and planner Phil Weinstein, were generally in agreement with the Urban Area Study for development of the Guelph Street property, but asked for more room for its residential component. The plan for the overall development proposes mixed use, including a department store, food store and high and medium density residential. “The plan says only 25 acres to work with in residential; we need 35,” Weinstein said. Georgetown lawyer Bert Arnold, representing Halton Hills Village Homes, made a pitch for a shop- ping centre in Georgetown South. Saying it was “premature” to look at the Dominion Garden pro- posal “now or in the next review of Halton Hills Official Plan (OP),” Arnold said the OP, as it now stands, states that there be “no LOCATIONS 363 Main St. East (Milton) 80 Mill Street (Georgetown) Standing room only at planning meeting redesignation of the Dominion Seed property without comprehen- sive planning, engineering and traf- fic studies.” These haven’t been done, he said. Georgetown South would be a logical location for a future shop- ping centre because “that’s where all the new demand (for retail development) is being generated from” and a facility in that part of town “will lessen Mountainview Road traffic,” Arnold contended. ive of Halton Hills This Week, Saturday, January 9, 1993 — Page 7 Paul Britton, a Freure Management, objected to the report’s recommendation that major commercial space be allotted to the Coscan proposal in Acton East. 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