Notice of adoption and notice of zoning by-law passing Adoption of official plan amendment and zoning by-law amendment 271, 301, 321, 351 and 361 Cornwall Road and 485 Trafalgar Road FC (Olde Oakville) Corporation and FCHT (Ontario) Holdings Corp. File: Z.1612.11 Take notice that the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Oakville passed By-law 2010-113 which adopted Official Plan Amendment 307, under Section 22, of The Planning Act, and passed Zoning Amendment By-law 2010-114, under Section 34, of The Planning Act, as amended on the 13th day of September, 2010. The purpose and effect of By-law 2010-113 to adopt Official Plan Amendment 307 and Zoning Amendment By-law 2010-114 is to permit the addition of 1,395 square metres (15,000 sq. ft.) of gross floor area, as well as permit commercial and retail uses at 485 Trafalgar Road on a permanent basis. The effect would permit additional office uses beyond the existing gross floor area limit, and allow the commercial uses in the West Marine building on a permanent basis. The subject property is located at the north-east corner of the intersection of Trafalgar Road and Cornwall Road. A key map is attached to this notice for your ease of reference. At this time there are no other applications, under the Act, pertaining to the subject lands. Any appeals to the proposed official plan and/or zoning by-law amendment must be filed with Cathie Best, Town Clerk, 1225 Trafalgar Road, P.O. Box 310 Oakville, ON L6J 5A6, setting out the reasons for the appeal(s) and the specific part of the proposed official plan and/or zoning amendment to which the appeal(s) apply in support of the objection together with a certified cheque or money order in the amount of $125 payable to the Minister of Finance for each appeal. A copy of the appeal form is available from the OMB website at www.omb.gov.on.ca. The proposed official plan amendment is exempt from approval by the Regional Municipality of Halton and the decision of the Town of Oakville Council is final if a notice of appeal is not received before or on the last day for filing a notice of appeal. Only individuals, corporations and public bodies may appeal a by-law or a decision of the municipality or planning board to the Ontario Municipal Board. A notice of appeal may not be filed by an unincorporated association or group. However, a notice of appeal may be filed in the name of an individual who is a member of the association or the group on its behalf. No person or public body shall be added as a party to the hearing of the appeal unless, before the plan was adopted and/or the by-law was passed, the person or public body made oral submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to the Town of Oakville Council or, in the opinion of the Ontario Municipal Board, there are reason- able grounds to add the person or public body as a party. Copies of the complete proposed official plan amend- ment and zoning by-law amendment are available for review at the Town of Oakville, Planning Services at 1225 Trafalgar Road, during regular business hours Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Inquiries may be directed to Gabe Charles, Senior Planner, of the Planning Services department at 905-845-6601, ext. 3984 or gcharles@oakville.ca. The personal information accompanying your submission is being collected under the authority of the Planning Act and may form part of the public record which may be released to the public. Questions about this collection should be directed to the Records and Freedom of Information Officer at 905-815-6053. Last date for appeal: October 14, 2010 Oakville Votes October 2010 w w w . o a kv ill eb ea ve r.c o m O A KV IL LE B EA V ER Fr id ay , Se pt em be r 2 4, 2 01 0 8 posed for the Ford-owned lands of 1500 Royal Windsor Dr., the risk of fatality from lightning strikes is about 90 times greater than the risk posed by the Oakville Generating Station (OGS). Other statistics released in the report stat- ed that the likelihood of someone being killed on a train passing on the railway tracks adja- cent to the TransCanada site was once in 254 million years. The likelihood of a power plant-related accident claiming a life dropped as distance from the site increased with the potential for someone being killed at Ford being calculated at once in 500 million years and the chances of a commuter being killed on Royal Windsor Drive being calculated at once in a billion years. For the nearby residential communities, the closest of which is less than 400 metres from the proposed plant site, the report said there is no risk of death as the result of an accident at the power plant. The report did say there was a risk of minor property damage occurring if something like an explosion took place at the OGS, but again said the likelihood of nearby residential areas receiving this damage was small at about once in four million years. Clegg said he has a hard time swallowing these reassuring statistics given recent news events. If you look at the situations in Middletown, San Bruno and Cleburne, Im sure those people all thought there was a one in x-million chance of something happening, he said. Their one in a million went to 100 per cent. In February, an explosion at a 620- megawatt gas-fired power plant under con- struction killed five construction workers Middletown, Connecticut. Two weeks ago, a gas pipeline explosion in a San Bruno, California neighbourhood killed at least four people. In June, a man was killed in Cleburne, Texas when a utility crew hit an unmarked natural gas pipeline. The fact is accidents happen. People make mistakes. Equipment fails, said Clegg. Over time things will happen and this thing is going to be here for decades. Clegg also took issue with the report stat- ing that no one would be killed in the nearby residential communities if the plant exploded. I find it incredible for them to make that statement, said Clegg. I dont believe that. What we learned in Middletown is that windows were blown out three miles away. You cant tell me there isnt a scenario here where a window gets blown out and the shards of glass kill someone. Clegg went on to say there are businesses 80 metres away from the TransCanada plant, which if completed will have ammonia storage tanks present. He questioned whether TransCanada really expects him to believe there will be no casual- ties at those nearby businesses if one of the plants ammonia tanks explode. The report states natural gas and hydrogen are the only hazardous substances present, which could hurt someone offsite. The quantity of other hazardous materials is too low to kill someone beyond the plants boundary, the report said. All this talk of statistics and probabilities has done little to ease the fears of Dr. Howard Bernstein, the executive director of the Chisholm Educational Centre. The Centre, serves approximately 1,500 students over the course of a school year and is located approximately 300 metres from the proposed TransCanada site. Taking any chance of putting such a facil- ity in a residential area is foolish no matter what studies say, said Bernstein. To state there is no probability of anyone being hurt or killed when a plant that size blows up, as has happened in the U.S., is also foolish. Bernstein said the report does not cover air quality or fogging and black ice, which many also see as risk factors associated with the plant. Oakville MP Terence Young was also not won over by the report. He said similar reports were probably written about the Middletown power plant and the BP offshore drilling plat- form before explosions tore apart those facili- ties. I do not in any way accept the premise of your safety calculations. The true measure- ment of risk should start with the huge poten- tial for human tragedy and damage an explo- sion or derailment could cause, not using some 'calculated' mathematical formula, but against the simple wisdom of building the power plant elsewhere away from our homes and schools, wrote Young in a letter to TransCanada. In this case, the risk is obviously unac- ceptable. That's why when terrible industrial accidents happen, the well-paid people that wrote the risk reports are always long gone. Oakville Mayor Rob Burton said that at the appropriate time Town staff, with the assis- tance of the relevant experts, will report to council on TransCanadas report. Burton also expressed doubts that council would accept TransCanadas offer to pay for the Town to hire experts to assess the validity of its risk assessment. Council makes decisions about how we pay for things. I believe we best preserve our independence by paying our own way, so that's how I would vote, said Burton. Someone would have to move a motion to accept their money and I haven't heard of any member wanting to do that. Critics point to recent examples of fatal gas explosions Continued from page 6