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REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF HALTON PROPOSED REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY AREA MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES Milton The happy gang The people of Milton should be very happy to be retaining their identity as a lower level municipality Mayor Brian Best concluded at the end of Tuesday proposal presentation This is going to be the best form of government to serve the people of Best Bald some of the on regions llzatlon that went to the province from municipalities were given without rationalization or logic but Milton frequent briefs were well thought out and well documented I am glad the pro vincial government has sat down and rationalized the whole thing he said and ended up with four borough units in Three things in the province proposals delighted the mayor first that remains as a unit secondly that Burlington stays in the county and thirdly that Milton and surrounding lands will remain as a unit of their own I very happy Milton got frl Ninety Eighth Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JANUARY Second Section Hill will challenge unit proposal Reeve Tom Hill said he will protest both at the county council and provincial govern levels against the proposal to maintain Milton as a single Central unit in a four borough Halton region How any government can go against the majority of opinion which was a three borough proposal then slice Oakvllle up take away assessment from and and add it to Milton which hasnt got enough people to fill the houses it a building now Is beyond me the outspoken township head told this paper Hill made it clear he was speaking only for himself and not necessarily for his Council but he insisted the boundaries laid out In the original county council brief were satisfactory Bright On the bright side he said that he was happy to sec the makeup local boards be left open for discussion and that he was everything it asked for and then some Deputy Reeve Bob Mc- Cualg of Milton reports It was certainly more beneficial to Milton than I expected McCuaig said he Mid felt all along the province would recommend a four unit but felt the town a brief urging four units Instead or three was probably a strong Influence on the Queen s Park decision Milton and Acton councillors planning boards and staff had hired a bus to transport them to the meeting in Hamilton GEORGETOWNS smiling cigar smoking Mayor Bill Smith was generally pleased with the Halton region proposal Georgetown will be the largest of four present municipalities contained in the new North Halton borough Gibbons photo satisfied with the proposed repre sentation on the regional council Deputyreeve ln pointed out the bulk of his townships commercial and industrial lies in the southern end which will become part of the Central borough It s certainly not helping us he suggested offered the government a suggestion of his own 1 think one Idea might be to send East In with Milton and leave Enqueuing the way they arc Councillor Wilfrid Leslie said he feels Milton should have been Included in the North borough He also suggested the government might have been Just as tar ahead to extend the parallel boundary divisions proposed for Peel County westward so that they divide up In three parts as well Malt by concerned Newly Councillor Georgetown mayor is optimistic Mayor Bill Smith or George town took an optimistic view of the government proposals for but suggested that If the new areas were based on population his first glance seemed to show that the Milton area was not proportionate Councillor Hyde of Georgetown said the North area proposed may not be the best economically but as far us the environmental aspects of ana it seems to me we arc getting the best deal in the North he said Both Georgetown repre sentatives thought the proposed North area would be workable with a community of interest They declined further com until they had a chance to study the proposals further George Maltby said he was a little concerned about the southern end of the township being lost to the Central Halton borough However feci there still room for discussion on this yet before It becomes final he added He said he was at first surprised the Inclusion of Hast in region but saw merit in it once the reasons were explained He said the suggested regional council representation figures looked fair to him but emphasized he Is most concerned about the formation of local boards It just suits me dandy beamed lquesing Township school trustee Hill 1awson a Milton area farmer I m t tickled to death noted the proposal for a region was similar to a Hoard of TOM HILL registers disgust as he recommendation in p County presented Tuesday nuht In Hamilton Gibbons is severed Nnssuguweyii Towniliip Deputy Jim headed a large delegation from to the unveiling of Ittgionul proposals in Hamilton Tuesday I in not surprised at the outcome he said after the were redd We realized many of the lanes in were going to have to be scrapped people of Nassagaweya would likely be to set the township severed at 10 but we to this out at the lota level Watson said Itesidents livinc north of Htfji way 101 will be disappointed at losing Hie race track large His own home and that of ore both in the arc proposed to bo Joined with Milton in the central unit Personally there will be no effect on mi we go to church In Milton and my boys ploy hockey in Milton he sold But Watson he would be contacting his neighbors and asking their opinions before council takes any Mrs was ill and to attend the presentation of regional government proposals deputy reeve Jim Watson looks glum as he listens to proposals for regional government in Halton County Jim Snow Its great I think it just great lust MPP and Minister of Government Services Jim Snow beamed it an excellent plan A great deal of work has Lone A great deal of work has cone Downs into this proposal at all levels of government There will be some who object no matter what It said province Is willing to listen to opinions on the proposals Snow stressed There will be room for discussion Meen unveils four unit Halton Text of the comments of Parliamentary Assistant to the Treasurer of Ontario In outlining the proposed Regional Government for County as delivered in Hamilton Tuesday evening To many of you our proposal for Halton will sound familiar since a lot of the ideas In it came from you Among these we acknowledge particularly the suggestions in the briefs we received from many of the municipalities of Halton County and from the County itself We are in complete agreement with the fundamental point made in the Halton County brief we too believe that the best form of government in would be a twotiered municipality embracing all of County except the small part of eastern Oakville as mentioned in our Peel proposal However we propose two departures The is the addition of the village of Waterdown and the township of East which are now in Wentworth County The second has to do with the number of municipalities within the region The community of interest shared by and the urban part of East with the Town of Burlington has been recognized for some time Even If we had found it desirable to Include Burlington with Hamilton and as the Steele Report recommended we would still have proposed Joining and East to Burlington In our opinion this amalgamation Is essential if only because is currently receiving water from the sector of Burlington and this service needs to be extended Torecapbneflytheo The regional municipality of would cover virtually all of Halton County plus the Village of and the Township of East except for a very small part of Oakville How many area municipalities would be appropriate for Halton This brings us to our second departure from the brief like their counterparts in Peel representatives of County took the commendable step of recommending a reduction in the number of municipalities They warned their Regional Government unit to consist of Just three area municipalities Milton however took the view that it a fourth municipality Having considered both sides of the question very carefully we are to see merit in Milton point of view We agree that there is a separate Identifiable community of interest centred upon Milton and stretching across the middle of County We see It as having a character and prospects for development similar to those of the proposed area municipality of central PeeL Across this wide midsection of there is in our view a community whose residents do not look to the northern part of the county for their community services but to Milton For this reason we subscribe to the idea of having four area municipalities in Halton Municipalities we refer to for discussion purpsoes as Burlington Oakville Central Halton and North Halton However our proposal differs somewhat in detail from what was proposed locally Rather than following the boundary suggested by Milton we would rather see a boundary line farther south so as to include the growth centres of North Oakville and North Burlington both of which are part of the development plans for the Toronto Centred region There is in our view a sound rationale for this suggestion Within the next few months the Government of Ontario will be announcing the routes of the parkway corridors intended to separate those growth centres from their southern counterparts When that announcement Is made the final location of the southern boundary of central Halton can be adjusted to coincide with the parkway corridor For purposes of this proposal we have drawn a line on the map to represent this boundary But I caution you very strongly against trying to infer from this line what lands will actually be involved in the parkway This line to be announced some months from now could vary one way or the other according to the decision on the parkway belt Now for a moment let us look at the four proposed area municipalities one by one This would be the Burlington area municipality It would consist of the major parted the present town of Burlington the township of East Flamborough and the Village of Waterdown From the present town of Burlington we would remove an J shaped strip running across the northern part of Burlington north of Kilbride and down the east side to a point near Zimmerman This stnp would become part of Central Halton The area municipality of Oakville would have an eastern boundary with Mississauga as I described earlier The western boundary with Burlington would remain unchanged The northern boundary of Oakville would be moved considerably southward as I mentioned The object would be to make sure that all of the proposed North community referred to in the TorontoCentred Region concept Plan would be included in Centra Halton as you will see in a moment Otherwise North would be split in two a situation which I think you will agree would be most unsatisfactory The southern boundary of Central will be evident to you by now from the descriptions I have given of Burlington and Oakville For the northern boundary of Central Halton we propose to draw a Line starting In the western boundary of Nassagaweya Township and proceeding eastward on the line between lots 10 and to point east of Highway From here the boundary would jog southward then eastward to the boundary of Chinguacousy Township We that this of Milton Is well justified by the patterns of community interest I mentioned a few moments ago I should emphasize too that the government intends to confine major urban growth in the future tozonel of the Toronto Centred Region which covers only the southern section and part of the central area The rest of the central area and all of the northern area are in zone The fourth municipality North Halton would be made up of Acton Georgetown and the northern two thirds of Nassagaweya and Esqucsing Townships For we propose a regional council of twenty three representatives including the chairman Burlington would seat nine members on the regional conned Oakville would have six Central would have three and North Halton would have four This arrangement would achieve a balance in the voting around the council table with no one municipality dominating the rest At the same time it would assign voting power in close proportion to the population since Burlington would have the largest population of the four and Central the smallest As I am sure you have noticed by now our proposals for Peel and are fundamentally the same In both cases we are recommending establishment of twotier governments Each region would embrace only a few area municipalities- three in one case and four m the other Each of these area municipalities would be constituted according to present communities of Interest and to the best projections available of future growth Because of these basic similarities between the two proposed regions it seems reasonable a this point to raise certain questions and deal with recomme ldations applying to both Peel and Halton As you know the indirect method of election involves having the voters choose a council for each area municipality by one means or another some members of these area councils arc chosen to serve as well on tho regional council This arrangement is vital because much of the success of a regional government depends on achieving the right relationship between the regional concil and the councils of the area municipalities Admittedly the people who serve on both councils have a heavy work load no question about it But there is no better way of achieving the cooperation and the unity of purpose you need between the two levels of councils When they are setting their priorities for local area councillors are obliged to keep the needs of the whole region in mind since some of their colleagues are regional councdlors too and are right there around the table with them It an arrangement that helps councillors at both levels remember too that even though they have different responsibilities they are both serving the same taxpayers and therefore must share the revenue from a common source As for the makeup of the area councils themselves we are not putting forward any specific recommendations at thin time Instead we are putting the question to you How big should these councils be and how should they be elected at large or by wards We hope you will tell us what arrangements you think are best And if you prefer to sec a ward system rather than a system of elections at larire we will and advice Continued on PROPOSED J Ml IICIPAL MUNICIPALITY POPULVTIOH 1 COUNCIL AT I OH PER TED EQUALIZED ASSESSMENT SQUARE Burlington 93 47 1 10 6 I 720 16 6 Central Halton 14 3 155 North Chair 7 716 TOTALS 198 POPULATION STATISTICS 1971 EQUALIZED ASSESSMENT FIGURES