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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Kazdan, Solomon & D'Angelo www.dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 www.brantflorist.com/ob Chip & Dale & The Beaver Page 12 THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2009 905.639.7001 A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 52 No. 65 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" 24 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Seven storeys School work turned down for Navy St. By Kim Arnott SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER New Sheridan campus By Kim Arnott SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The Town of Oakville has officially given the thumbs down to a three-year-old application to build a sevenstorey apartment building on the site of the old Red Cross building on Navy Street. Councillors unanimously rejected the plan, which proposed a building that violated the fourstorey downtown height limit and was well within the 15 metre setback required from the top bank of the Sixteen Mile Creek. Mary Chapin Longtime downtown resident David Johnston told council he believes the four-storey building height limit has been the key policy in the preservation of downtown, and he warned council that allowing the height variance would "virtually guarantee" future variance requests by other developers. On behalf of his client Greywalls Development Company Inc., lawyer Blair Taylor requested a deferral of council's decision until September, to allow Town staff and the developer to seek an agreement. "This is a site that's prime for redevelopment," said Taylor, noting that the vacant building on the site has been vandalized several times. He also suggested that he would have "no other option" but to advise his client to appeal the application to the Ontario Municipal Board if councillors rejected it on Monday night. Despite that, councillors decided not to defer the decision, with Ward 3 Councillor Mary Chapin noting, "We're at 39 months now since this was brought forward. September would be 43 months, and I don't see any reason it would be different then." A new Sheridan campus in Mississauga, with a focus on business programs and workplace training for new Canadians, is expected to be completed two years from now. Following a funding announcement on Monday, the school said it has received a combined $31.23 million in infrastructure fund- Dr. Robert Turner ing from the federal and provincial governments toward the $46-million project. Sheridan President Dr. Robert Turner said the new campus will allow the school to accommodate the population growth in the Halton and Peel communities, and provide better service for the 34 per cent of its student body who come from Mississauga. "We're literally taking Sheridan to our students in Mississauga," he said. The addition of the third campus will also allow Sheridan to slowly rationalize its program offerings to create centres of specialty. Over time, business programs that are currently split between the Oakville LIESA KORTMANN / OAKVILLE BEAVER and Brampton campuses will be consoliFOR TEAM GREEN: Sophia Arroyo plants a marigold in front of St. Marguerite d'Youville dated in Mississauga. That will allow the Oakville campus to School as the school's Green Team planted trees and shrubs on the school property this week in an expand and intensify its strong focus on effort to make the school a more "green," environment-friendly entity. All the trees and shrubs are native species to the area. Oakvillegreen members were on hand for the event to offer support. See Sheridan page 7 FAN SALE RETAIL & WHOLESALE LIGHTING Oakville's Finest LIGHTING STORE in the Oakville Home Improvement District Kerr 243 Speers Road · Between Kerr & Dorval · Oakville, ON · 905.849.LITE (5483) · www.conceptlighting.ca OPEN SUNDAYS