Study Team Weighting

In response to the Study Team's requests for "weighting" of criteria, ABC submitted the following letter and Annex.


Weighting Letter Pic3b

March 8, 2010 Shakespeare Workshop

Below is the Agriculture Business Community press release for this event.

March 8 Press Release

The Consultants respond to Vol. 4

The Consultant's team for the Highway 7 & 8 corridor study have provided the Agriculture Business Community with detailed responses to the recommendations made in ABC's Volume 4 submission . You can read them below.

Hwy 7 and 8 Response to ABC Recommendations_Feb26-10

MTO presents to Perth East

On Feb. 2, 2010 the Consultants for the Highway 7 & 8 study presented details of the revisit study phase to Perth East council. We are providing it here as part of the public record.
Council Pres Perth East Feb2-10

ABC delivers PIC3 Brief

Friday, October 30th, ABC delivered it's 4th Volume of material to the MTO. With the brief was the cover letter below. Many of the items and issues identified by our community and members make up this brief. We expect these issues will receive appropriate review and add to the body of compelling information and data necessary for an accurate Environmental Assessment.


Cover Letter Revised Oct09

Below is Volume 4, from the Agriculture Business Community. This is the ABC response to PIC 3 and its Reports.

Volume4Final_Edit3.1

ABC brings concerns to MPP

In April of 2009, ABC visited with John Wilkinson, MPP for Perth-Wellington. During our visit we provided MPP Wilkinson with some issues of concern to our members. We were invited to provide his office with a summary and our issues were passed on to the Minister as we had requested.

Much thanks to Mr. Wilkinson for moving these agricultural issues forward to the Minister.

Below are our letters to Mr. Wilkinson and his resulting letter to Minister Bradly.

MPP Wilkinson MTO Considerations


Appendix A



Suggested Changes to MTO Boiler Plate for Class EAs


Letter to Minister

Report F Checklist

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


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 the implications on your operation from the proposed corridor:

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