A8 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday March 28, 2001 Route is favourite choice by Town (C ontinued from page A 1 ) ( J O A K V ILLE NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING APPLICANTS 1160659 Ontario Limited File: Z.1525.12 8 4 5 -6 6 0 1 Town staff and Tyrone Gan, of iTRANS Consulting Inc., put forward five alternatives Monday -- ranging from doing nothing to building a five-lane road. The preferred plan is for a three-lane, $2.5 million road to complete long-time plans to extend and widen Dorval Drive south of Rebecca. The new road would include a new sidewalk and a school bus layby for Aquinas. It would also require taking over the six Margaret Drive houses across the street from the school -- in order to widen the road, but, leave the school parking lot intact. While the Town has yet to make a decision on the item, Oakville Public Works director Ray Green said the Town has already acquired four of the six homes. Residents like Little were irate that roads like Ford Drive and Trafalgar Road aren't considered truck routes. Kerr Street is a truck route. Council previously agreed not to make Ford Drive a truck route. "The folks on the other side of town may have a little more money, maybe they're more articulate, maybe so, maybe I'm a bumpkin, but I don't like the way this has gone down," charged Little. Little said east Oakville residents were "well-funded, vociferous and raised holy Hell with Town Council, and an unusual ly gutless Town Council, until it gradual ly came around that Dorval Drive is now being offered the option of how many lanes do we want on our truck route." Ward 3 councillors Fred Oliver and Janice Hardacre both voiced their opposi- Photo by Barrie Erskine The Town o f Oakville already owns four of the six houses on the east side of Margaret Drive, south of Rebecca Street. tion to Dorval Drive being used as a truck Others questioned what heavy trucks route. Neither said they voted for it back need to get into downtown Oakville. in 1997 when the Town adopted its Town Residents were concerned about safe of Oakville Truck Route and Regulations ty, pollution and noise. Study (Oliver was not a member of coun Others questioned why the Halton cil then). District Catholic School Board wasn't The Town's Official Plan dubs Dorval officially represented at Monday's meet a "major arterial" road and last year ing. Oakville council reconfirmed its support Bill Lackie, who's lived on Garden for the truck route plan. Drive for 18 years, said, "If the Catholic Residents complained at the meeting school board stood up and took a position held in St. Thomas Aquinas -- the 1,200- that was in the best interests of its 1,200 student school in front of which the truck students, we wouldn't be looking at this route will pass. truck route." They scorned the Town for serving "From a planning point of view, we notice of the meeting to Aquinas students' would never be doing this, having trucks parents by means of sending a letter home in particular, going in front of a school," with the students. said Hardacre. Others said parents of students at "I don't like the way decisions have Aquinas' feeder schools weren't even aware the high school would be on a road been made. We're told Dorval Drive is going to be the truck route and the only that would serve 230 trucks daily. Residents railed against why the truck truck route and all we're talking about is how many lanes it will be," said Little. route issue was debated separately. Journalist tells students to "lighten up (C ontinued from p a g e A 1 ) Is there as much chaos as the news or front pages say? "I don't think it's true," he said, adding the globe is more peaceful with more democracies (two-thirds of 185 countries) than ever before. "Do not be depressed by the content of the media, but it is necessary to tell you," said Dyer, conceding that war gets more play than the environment, though it probably affects far fewer people. Through 8,000 years of history, the world lived in tyranny until democracy was achieved 225 years ago in the United States -- thanks to literacy and advances toward mass media, the printing press, said Dyer. In the last 15 years, democracy has spread like wildfire thanks to mass media, he said. Dyer noted the first non-violent revo lution that brought down the Philippines' dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 -- and the role of the world media. "It sparked copycat non-violent revo lutions," he said, noting successes in South Korea, Thailand, and Bangladesh; an attempted revolution in Burma and the lack of media presence there; and, the near success of the 1989 student occupa tion of China's Tiananmen Square. Noting the fall of the Berlin Wall in eastern Europe and the failure of Apartheid in the early 1990s, Dyer pre dicted democracy in China within a decade. "We have the media to thank," he said. "We have been released from the threat of a third world war," he told stu dents, noting that when they were bom in the 1980s, "You started with an even than better chance of dying in a fireball at some point in your lives." And far from leading to a future glob al government or thought control, Dyer said the media's continued existence is essential to continued democracy. Admitting that the media is fallible and susceptible to control, Dyer noted that the third wave mass media, the Internet, "is far more difficult to control than traditional media." And, at day's end, is it worrisome that the Oscars draw more viewers than the news? "I don't insist that everybody be seri ous all the time. Even I don't watch the news when I'm on holiday. Lighten up," Dyer told students. Some 220 secondary school students from numerous Halton high schools attended workshops featuring Dyer, CBC-TV foreign news editor Brian Christie, representatives from Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, the University of Toronto at Mississauga, and CBC-TV anchor Alison Smith. Please be advised that a public meeting will be held to discuss a proposed Official Plan Amendment and Zoning Amendment as submitted by the above-noted applicant The public meeting will be hosted by Town Council at which time the Staff Report and recommendation will be considered. This meeting will take place on Monday, April 23,2001 commencing at 7:30 pjn. in the Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville. Any individuals wishing to attend this meeting and speak to this matter are invited to do so. An explanation of the purpose and effect of the proposed applications, describing the land to which the proposed applications apply, and a key map showing the location of the land to which the proposed applications apply can be found below. If a person or public body that fdes a notice of appeal of a decision in respect of the proposed zoning amendment or official plan amendment to the Ontario Municipal Board does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or does not make written submissions before the proposed zoning amendment is approved or the official plan amendment is adopted, the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss all or part of the appeal. If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed official plan amendment, you must make a written request to the undersigned at the Town's Planning Services Department, Town of Oakville, P.O. Box 310,1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON. L6J 5A6. Tel: 845-6601, Ext 3034, email address: jmagee@town.oakville.on.ca. Any other questions or concerns may also be addressed to the abovementioned location. A copy of the Staff Report pertaining to this matter will be available for review in the Clerk's Department a as of Tuesday, April 17, \ 2001, between the hours of C | N O R T H S E R V IC E R O A D 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. I nrgHnn . The subject / TH E QUEEN E L IZ A B E T H W AY property is located on the north side of the North Service Rd, east of Third Line, in the Queen Elizabeth Way West Industrial District The legal description of the property is part Lot 25, Concession 11, SDS. The municipal address is 1453 North Service Rd. OfTlrial Plan - Figure Ind. B Queen Elizabeth Way West Industrial District desig nates the subject land Industrial Commercial that permits a number of uses including Limited Retail Warehousing. Ziminy - The site is zoned Medium Industrial M2 Special Provision 65 (By-law 1966-60) that permits a gasoline service station, a restaurant and offices. Proposal _ Applications to amend the Official Plan and Zoning By-law to permit a furniture store of which the retail and showroom area would comprise 60 % of the building whereas the Official Plan policies and the requested Prestige Industrial M6 zone permit light industrial manufacturing and/ or warehousing with ancillary retail sales of products manufactured or stored on the premises comprising a maximum of 40% of the gross leasable area of the establishment Please Note: This proposal may be subject to changes or modifications at the public meeting on April 23, 2001. Dated at the Town of Oakville this March 28th, 2001 -L !/ 1 S 3 John Ghent Manager, Current Planning Section, Planning Services Department 1225 TRAFALGAR ROAD · OAKVILLE, ONTARIO · L6J 5A6 HIGH FIVE QUALITY " AT PLAY Attention Community Organizations, Sports Groups and Recreation Service Providers If you offer programs for kid's ages 6-12, then these work shops an; for you! 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