Newsletter # 6

ABC would like all members to be aware that sometime in late June , we have been informed there will be advance presentations to all municipalities, showing the final recommended CORRIDOR!! We will be letting everyone know about these presentations as soon as we receive the dates.

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We must respond to PIC 2c by May 22, 2009 as requested. Please ensure that YOU have made your comments re the last PIC. Any concerns should documented at length and sent in by the May deadline.

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Residents need to know that the final CORRIDOR will likely be presented at other PIC's in June. ABC has complained about the PIC process and we are expecting to plan a public meeting shortly after any JUNE PIC.

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We have a concern involving the Environmental Inventory carried out on many properties in September 2008. One resident who had not received their requested copy last fall, recently called in to have it faxed to them. There was resistance from the company to sending that document out. Consequently, the resident suggested that they could charge the firm with trespassing, since the firms employees had agreed to the conditions set out by the owner last fall. Our member then received a copy of their Environmental Inventory.

We are very concerned about this apparent resistance to supplying landowners with copies of their own Environmental Inventory. Many landowners did request a copy and that was the condition set out for access to the land. ABC would like to know if you requested and have received a copy. If you have had any issues with the release of your Inventory to you, also please let us know.

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ABC has decided to add a "Community Events" feature to our website. If there are special events about the highway issue you wish to pass on to the membership, please email the details to hwy7and8@gmail.com. A contact person and a brief description need to be provided for the website. Since all members are notified when new material goes on the website, all interested parties can get in touch with the contact person.

It is important for us to know you have received/read this Newsletter. Please reply to us.

Thanks!

Please pass this information on to any residents or neighbours who may not be receiving these email notices.

Agriculture Business Community of Perth East, Perth South, Wilmot West

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Beacon Herald Article April 23, 2009

Take the road less travelled
Posted By DONAL O'CONNOR, Staff Reporter

Area farmers who could be impacted by "improvements" to the main transportation route between Stratford and New Hamburg rallied through Stratford yesterday on tractors under the slogan "Improve Existing Roads, Preserve our Farmland, Protect our Earth." For more Click here.

The Consultants Response to ABC

The response to our Feb 6th, 2009 brief and accompanying recommendations came in to-day at 12:14 AM. It has not been possible to read, research and digest the contents of this reply, thoroughly. The net effect is that our community has not received an appropriate reply soon enough, to be of assistance to members at the PIC 2c to-day.

ABC and its members will have to sit down and discuss the most appropriate response. More information will follow when it is available.


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Lorne Avenue being considered

The article below is from the April 21, 2009 edition of the Beacon Herald.

Lorne Avenue being considered as new corridor alternative
By DONAL O'CONNOR

A new corridor alternative that would run along Lorne Avenue has been identified by the Highway 7/8 study aimed at improving transportation between Stratford and New Hamburg. See complete article

Letter to the Editor April 18, 2009

From the Beacon Herald's "Opinion' section:

Perth County farms are for farming, not for cars

On April 22 the Ministry of Transportation will be holding a public information meeting at the Festival Inn in Stratford from 4-8 p.m. and they are going to be there with its sales pitch that Stratford needs a new bypass around Stratford that would take local land producing local food for the local economy out of production and altering future viability of many dairy and livestock producers.

The Ministry of Transportation also has another alternative for bypassing Stratford that it will be displaying and, for the most part, uses existing roads for the bypass. This option still has many issues affecting farmers. One of the main issues is that this bypass uses existing roads on the west side of Stratford but on the east side of Stratford puts this bypass through the middle of many highly productive agricultural farms. This proposal has some merit but still needs a lot of change.

This is where we need the people of Stratford, our valuable consumers of local food, to come out to this meeting and tell the Ministry of Transportation and their consulting team that the Ministry of Transportation should work on a bypass of Stratford that concentrates on using existing roads. We need safe roads not more roads.

Coincidence or not, April 22 is also Earth Day so come make your contribution to Earth Day by keeping more local land for local consumption and by making the statement to keep our farms green.


John Van Dyk
RR 2 Tavistock

NEW Public Information Centre (PIC) #2c

The Consultants and the MTO have brought forward another PIC:

Wednesday April 22, 2009
Festival Inn - Shakespeare Room
1144 Ontario St. Stratford
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

All details have been in the paper and some of us have received a mailing. For anyone else see below.

Hwy7_8PIC2CNotice

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