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Page THE HERALD Wednesday November 1989 New housing minister limit may give life to mayors housing proposal By DONNA KELL Herald Staff People who cant afford to buy a house in Georgetown or Acton could buy imral Halton Hills if a plan presented to the provincial government by town mayor Miller gets approval Mayor Miller sent a 30page pro posal to the provincial ministry oi housing several years ago The mayor compiled the report with local realtor Phil Carney The pro posal outlined a plan to build singlefamily houses outside Halton Hills urban area on half- acre fullyserviced lots The houses were to sell for about But a review of that housing pro ject was delayed over the past months the mayor said Monday Former provincial housing minister Chaviva whom Mr Miller spoke with recently was replaced last summer by hous ing and municipal affairs minister John Sweeney David assistant ex ecutive assistant to Walt Elliot for Halton North said yester day there were two meetings with senior ministry housing officials and Mr Elliot A meeting schedul ed for last Friday was cancelled but will be rescheduled he said When asked if the prices would stay within the provincial guidelines which say Halton must provide 25 per cent of new houses at a sale price of less than Mayor Miller said I think we could put something together that would fit into that pricerange Mr Blaney said the mayors pro posal for affordable housing com plies with changes in the ministry of housing and municipal affairs There is a shift in the ministry Mr said The minister has said on several occa sions that he is interested in single family houses It fits in with what he has been saying he wants to do The houses are an option to the conventional apartments usually seen as housing for low and middleincome families Municipalities in Ontario have come to the ministry of housing and municipal affairs with plann ing ideas that include trailer parks as a form of affordable housing Russ Miller Mr said But what the mayor is talking about are real houses with real basements What were trying to do in the ministry of housing is to look at new and innovative solutions The project that the mayor and Walt Elliot are looking at is that type of idea A meeting with senior officials from the ministry of housing and Mr Elliot was cancelled last week but is expected to be rescheduled The executive assistant said the mayors proposal could be considered by the ministry of hous ing and municipal affairs but it would depend on Mr Sweeney Full slate at culturar centre There is a great slate of per formances coming up this fall at the John Elliott TheatreCultural Centre for your enjoyment A musical presentation The Blue Guitar by Trevor Burt will be in the Art Gallery at the Cultural Centre on Nov at 730 pm The next major production in the theatre will be Fiddler on the Roof presented by Georgetown Globe Productions on Nov to 23 to 26 and 29 to Dec 2 at pm with Sunday matinees at 2 pm Tickets are available from 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said the ministry of housing is asking for smaller lots and more modest housing Onequarter of new buildings built in the Region must rent for under a month The provincial policy statement is in effect now We could request that any new subdivision coming in is affordable housing he said But the Region will first put a work program in place as directed by the provincial housing policy statement passed in July of this year An outline of the Regions intentions is due today Nov There will be a public meeting to change the Regions of ficial plan to accommodate the af fordable housing guidelines by August of next year There are going to be some real catastrophic results from this directive Burlington Coun Rob Forbes said Wednesday The developers are going to pass it on to the other three- quarters of developments The ministry of housing assessed an affordable house for the average salary of 52700 in each Halton household But Regional Chairman Peter said buyers dont get much of a house for 148000 The old Canadian dream of having a house on a lot of 40 or foot size those days are gone Burlington Coun Pat McLaughlin said what bothers him most about the present hous ing situation is the 25percent Were not talking about people in dire straits people who are traditionally considered poor Oakville Liz Behrens said The people who are going to be living in these houses are the pro fessionals down payment Who the hell has for a down payment he said referring to the estimated down payment on an affordable house in Halton Under the new provincial legisla tion the Region will be forced to provide serviced land for a pro jected year population growth vacant land for a 10 year popula tion growth and three years ad vanced planning for draft ap provals for housing projects Mr Wong said The biggest problem is the 20- year servicing Were not doing that All our servicing is basically up to Highway Five in Oakville and Burlington Halton will appeal the designa tion that puts Burlington outside the assessment area for affordable housing in the rest of Halton Final approval of this plan will be made at a Nov 8 Regional council meeting Burlington is presently assessed with giving that municipality an af fordable housing requirement of 25 per cent of new houses built to sell for under 132000 Under Burlingtons present assessment the average salary is and the rent for 25 per cent of properties built must be under a month ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE LIQUIDATION SALE UP TO 70 OFF UNBELIEVABLE PRICES Over 1000 trees to choose from 75 COLORADO SPRUCE CASH CHEQUE NOW NOW NOW 4999 NOW NOW 599 WITH THE PURCHASE OF ANY TREE I OVER YOU ALSO RECEIVE A COUPON FROM OUR CHRISTMAS HOUSE COMPLETE WITH ROOMS FILLED WITH I DECORATIONS GIFTS AND I I SPECIAL TREASURES I SALE CONDUCTED BY CCP LIQUIDATORS OWNEOS OPERATED BY COUNTRY LANE 10lh LINE a DIVER Across from Geo Qoll Club 8772254 PHONE FOR OUT OF TOWN DIRECTIONS I I I