Agriculture Business Community Information Meeting

HWY 7 & 8 CORRIDOR STUDY UPDATES

Agricultural Business
COMMUNITY INFORMATION MEETING

This meeting is organized by the volunteers of the Agriculture Business Communities of Perth East, Perth South and
Wilmot West.

Wednesday, SEPT 9TH, 2009
at
John & Marg Van Nes
Line 29 # 4177

DOORS OPEN: 6:30 PM
COFFEE: 6:45 PM
MEETING STARTS PROMPTLY AT 7 PM and WILL FINISH AT 9 PM

We would appreciate a small donation for expenses.
The Consultants and MTO representatives will present a brief overview of the final Corridor selection and be available to answer questions.

What are the next steps for the Ministry of Transportation and the Consultants?
What are our next steps?

There will be an opportunity to provide the Consultants with corrected property information. Please take the opportunity to do this. See the attached information sheet.

Everyone Welcome. Bring your lawn chairs. Bring your neighbours, your questions and ideas.



THIS MEETING IS FOR YOU AND YOUR RURAL COMMUNITY, PLEASE ATTEND TO KEEP INFORMED AND TO SUPPORT YOUR NEIGHBOURS.

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IMFORMATION SHEET

In reviewing material ABC has found errors that relate to agricultural properties in the proposed corridor. The Consultants and MTO WILL USE the information they have in Report F OR the corrected information from YOU to identify the FINAL ROUTE for Hwy. 7 & 8.


We urge you to verify your property status and descriptions in Report F.

See page 52 in the Report for Agriculture.

Go to http://www.7and8corridorstudy.ca/ Look under STUDY DOCUMENTATION and then Working Papers ONLY IF you have a high speed connection (file size is 17.81 MG)!

Anyone who cannot access this report via the Internet, please contact hwy7and8@gmail.com for details .

Below is a form to help quide property onwers on the information they need to provide.

Check List

The following check list has been prepared to assist individuals in their review.

1. My Fire Code #:....................

2. The information on tile drainage is (accurate) or (inaccurate)

3. The description of my farm buildings: (accurate) or (inaccurate)
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4. The proposed corridor will impact my farm transportation needs in the following ways:
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5. My farm is located along an existing roadway. I estimate that the proposed loss of land will impact my operation in the following ways:
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6. I have reviewed the evaluation criteria proposed for Agriculture, and see that the proposed corridor will adversely affect my:
planting yes........... no .........
grazing yes........... no .........
nutrient management plan yes........... no .........
movement of farm equipment yes........... no .........
access to land and equipment yes........... no .........
field tile drainage yes........... no .........
harvesting yes........... no .........
total production due to loss of land yes........... no .........
other(.............)

Please provide details of each of these implications on your operation of the proposed corridor:
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