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14 - The Oakville Beaver, Friday June 27, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com Councillors view draft of North Oakville West Secondary Plan By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Those who wanted to weigh in on the Town's Draft North Oakville West Secondary Plan had their voices heard during a Monday night Planning and Development Council meeting. The plan essentially spells out the development of the North Oakville area, bordered by Dundas Street to the south, Highway 407 to the North, Tremaine Road to the West and Sixteen Mile Creek to the East. When all is finished, the plan asserts that between 700-1,000 people will call this area home, while around 10,000 people will find employment on the 250 net hectares that will be marked as employment land. Another 40 hectares will be transformed into community parkland with another 20 hectares being held for the new hospital, which will be built at the corner of Dundas Street and Third Line. A GO Transit terminal will be located at the southeast corner of Bronte Road and Hwy 407. Town staff noted that a public information meeting concerning the plan was held in October 2007 at which about 45 people attended and numerous concerns were raised, which ranged how growth in the area would be managed to how certain portions of land will be used. Mike Leonard, of the Hamilton Diocese voiced concerns that the North Oakville plan hampers efforts by the Diocese to build a Catholic cemetery at the northeast corner of the Dundas Street/Tremaine Road intersection, which the plan designates as employment land. "We're not recent participants in these discussions. Our initial approach to the Town goes back more than a decade," said Leonard. "Our problem is that we're no closer to getting a cemetery implemented, designed, built than we were more than a dozen years ago. We realize that the Town has become embroiled in the employment lands situation, however, we predate that by many years." In the end, council voted to receive all these concerns from the public thus moving the project forward. The next stage of this process will involve staff completing a recommendation report in which the concerns of the public are addressed. This report will also contain a final Official Plan Amendment/Secondary Plan for council's review and approval.