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i ------------ i tH AR Peet 2 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, November 3, 1992 ZAGAT dbl COREE Sal EE SRE Ta eat "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice " By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star A meeting to promote co- operation among the various re- Rone in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) accomplished noth- ing, says Mayor Howard Hall. The day-long meeting at Thunderbird Golf Course last Thursday was intended to in- clude municipal and regional politicians and administrators in the GTA office's Strategic Ac- tion Plan process. This study will offer recommendations on how the GTA will handle the growth of the area in the next 30 years. "Municipalities have a lead- ership role in both creating and implementing a sound and ef- fective plan," GTA Minister Ruth Grier told the partici- pants. 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Mayor Hall says many con- structive suggestions were made at a GTA meeting in the spring, but says they were not incorporated into the new study which they were given last week. He feels the meeting was a waste of time as it is obvious the governmentis not listening. Mayor Hall was not the onl one who felt the municipal poli- ticians were being left out. Ajax councillor Roger Anderson chastised the minister durin the question and answer perio for the way her government is ignoring their comments and concerns. He told the minister that the Grier happy with progress (From page 1) both concrete terms and suc- ceedingin attitude." Mrs. Grier" been under constant fire since she formed the Interim Waste Authority in 1991 to establish three long- term landfill sites in the GTA. One is slotted for Durham Re- gion. A long list of sites released June 4, identified five sites in the Township of Scugog. A short list will be released at the end of November. Mrs. Grier told reporters af- ter the meeting she was pleased with the way the process has been goin to date, despite the delay in releasing the short list. She said despite the criticism, when all is said and done, the public will be satisfied. "I hope and I believe that when the short list of sites is identified people will recognize the fact that the Interim Waste Authority is doing this in a very open way and by identifying all the possible candidate sites it has made it a much better pro- cess than the old way of politi- cians deciding behind closed doors where a landfill site should be located." Despite her pleasure over the success of the process, she says she has been disappointed by the public's participation. And criticized the public forits disin- terest in the process until it was too late. She says ample opportunity was given to participate but the residents didn't respond until they realized the landfill site could affect them. "I don't know how we could've done it any better. I thought we had done it as well as we possi- bly could," she said. "But I think that's one of my disappoint- ments that people didn't partici- pate at the earliest opportuni- ties." She blamed the public for the delay in releasing the short list of sites. Originally the list was due to be released in Septem- ber, but was pushed back until the end of November. 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