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8- The Oakville Beaver, Friday June 8, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com BVRA opts for advisory committee New chair for GTA Healthcare Alliance The GTA/905 Healthcare Alliance is now under new leadership. The group has named Ann McGuire -- a nineyear trustee with Lakeridge Health in Durham -- as its chair, replacing Kirk Corkery, who finished his term at the end of May. McGuire is currently a professor in the collaborative BSCN program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College. She's also chair of the Research Institute at Lakeridge Health and heads up the governance committee for the Lakeridge Health board of governors. The GTA/905 Healthcare Alliance is the collective voice of acute care and mental health hospitals across the GTA/905 regions and Dufferin County. Continued from page 5 height from five to eight storeys, could be erected on the east side of the property. It also ordered the developer to give the west half of the property to the town for a public park. Although the OMB offered the town the option of purchasing the entire property for parkland, town councillors decided the cost was prohibitive. In its report last month, the town's legal department basically said the town lost the OMB battle because the board opted to find the vision of town planners more credible than that of town residents or town politicians. Almost a year before the OMB hearing, a town planning report had suggested the compromise position of allowing 300units on half the property, with the other half donated to the town for parkland. BVRA members voted in favour of the creation of the mayor's advisory committee, but a number spoke passionately about their concern with rapid-paced development occurring in Bronte. "Bronte is just getting run over by these developers," said one resident. "It would be nice to see somebody get strung up on some of this stuff, because I think it's ridiculous that we've lost the waterfront." As head of the advisory group, BVRA president Brian Miller said he hopes the group can develop guidelines to help staff and politicians when negotiating with developers. "There were some significant mistakes made in how this deal was done," he said. A controversial 300-unit parkland credit attached to the Shell House lands as a result of negotiations during the development of the Lakeshore Woods subdivision has been blamed by some residents for resulting in the development that was eventually approved for the property.