PRESS RELEASE
February 12, 2009
Highway 7 and 8 Corridor Study
On February 6, 2009 the Agricultural Business Communities (ABC) of Perth East, Perth South and Wilmot West submitted a second Brief to the MTO. The Brief makes 15 recommendations from immediate to long terms directions, including our disapproval of the selection criteria used for the development of the Short List of Corridor Alternatives presented at three Public Information Centers in November and December 2008. The ABC recommends immediate collaboration on the development of the traffic volume numbers that are driving this process as well as the need for paid professional help to municipalities and affected landowners when it comes to the drainage implications of the chosen route. We also recommend a new form of public presentation for future planned events.
The ABC wants the plan to recognize agriculture as a business, protect prime agricultural land (Canada Land Inventory Class 1, 2 3) for the business of agriculture, minimize the impact on agricultural business enterprises, acknowledge and protect our rural heritage and for the MTO to assume financial responsibility for all drainage costs of highway development before and after construction.
The ABC believes the present corridors are based on subjective and questionable data and a weighting system with flagrant biases against the agricultural sector. Information on heritage buildings and landscapes is also biased in favour of the urban environment.
Furthermore, municipal and agricultural drainage and associated costs are missing in the consultant’s list of criteria. The taxpayers will be paying for the road development. Individual taxpayers along the chosen route should not also be asked to carry the financial liability resulting from highway development.
The ABC group formed in the summer of 2008 and works on behalf of over 300 property owners to ensure adequate input into the planning of the Highway 7 and 8 corridor. For More Information please contact:
Linda Dietrich 519-655- 2613 or http://www.hwy7and8.blogspot.com/
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Perth South responds Feb 2009
As noted above this is the response regarding the drainage issues raised by ABC at each municipality. Our research provided us with several recommendations and a special ANNEX on drainage.
What is not well understood is that the Municipality must ask for these drainage items. Individual landowners cannot. We needed our Municipalities to speak for us and they have.
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What is not well understood is that the Municipality must ask for these drainage items. Individual landowners cannot. We needed our Municipalities to speak for us and they have.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Perth County Council
Perth County Council has added their voice to the growing list of responses. Their well done response is in the Scribd frame below.
Perth County Response
Perth County Response
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Citizens Respond to MTO
The following letter was submitted to ABC as well. Mr. Knechtel has submitted the letter to the press. Other community offerings are welcome.-ABC
In Response to the Proposed Highway 7[1]
In Response to the Proposed Highway 7[1]
Shakespeare Business Improvement Association
The letter below was forwarded to us with an attached document from the Shakespeare Business Improvement Association. Their submission to date is below their letter.-ABC
Charles Organ & Project Team:
Attached is an updated version of the draft sent last Friday, Feb 6.
Further details, supporting documentation, references and Shakespeare Business Association survey documents and collected Shakespeare Business Assn. HWY 7 & 8 customer survey instruments will follow.
We firmly believe, firstly-that our Ontario Heritage Business Community, our residents, and the surrounding rich and life-giving agricultural community fully deserve the very best technically feasible solution using currently dedicated transport corridorland-based resources, and secondly, that our needs - those of Shakespeare and of our integrated agricultural business community-are equally as important and deserve the same level and sophistication in technology, as is a Grand River Bridge, or a key pristine wetlands for some endangered species, or city historic district,where similar solutions to those provided herein are now commonplace in Canada and elsewhere in the developed and developing world. We trust you will concur.
These solutions are consistent with those we advanced/ discussed for your consideration and further development at the Summer 2008 HWY 7 & 8 PIC at Shakespeare, withprovision now in text and graphic detail in the current version.
Thanks for your kind attention to the needs of the Hamlet of Shakespeare,in concert with our important agricultural community, in developing workablesolutions as you progress forward on this HWY 7&8 corridor study.
Dr Byers President - Shakespeare Business Improvement Association
Shakespeare Requirements-Hwy 7&8
Charles Organ & Project Team:
Attached is an updated version of the draft sent last Friday, Feb 6.
Further details, supporting documentation, references and Shakespeare Business Association survey documents and collected Shakespeare Business Assn. HWY 7 & 8 customer survey instruments will follow.
We firmly believe, firstly-that our Ontario Heritage Business Community, our residents, and the surrounding rich and life-giving agricultural community fully deserve the very best technically feasible solution using currently dedicated transport corridorland-based resources, and secondly, that our needs - those of Shakespeare and of our integrated agricultural business community-are equally as important and deserve the same level and sophistication in technology, as is a Grand River Bridge, or a key pristine wetlands for some endangered species, or city historic district,where similar solutions to those provided herein are now commonplace in Canada and elsewhere in the developed and developing world. We trust you will concur.
These solutions are consistent with those we advanced/ discussed for your consideration and further development at the Summer 2008 HWY 7 & 8 PIC at Shakespeare, withprovision now in text and graphic detail in the current version.
Thanks for your kind attention to the needs of the Hamlet of Shakespeare,in concert with our important agricultural community, in developing workablesolutions as you progress forward on this HWY 7&8 corridor study.
Dr Byers President - Shakespeare Business Improvement Association
Shakespeare Requirements-Hwy 7&8
Monday, February 9, 2009
Perth East Council
Friday was a busy day! Perth East Council also submitted their response to issues we raised and to the MTO and consultants. -ABC
Perth East Position on HWY 7 Corridor Update Feb 6 2009[1]
Perth East Position on HWY 7 Corridor Update Feb 6 2009[1]
Publish at Scribd or explore others:
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Perth County Federation Of Agriculture
The Perth County Federation of Agriculture has also responded to the MTO and the Consultants through this process. Their Feb. 6th response is below.
Hwy 7&8 Transportation And Corridor Planning & Class EA Study[1]
Hwy 7&8 Transportation And Corridor Planning & Class EA Study[1]
National Farmers Union Responds
The Agriculture Business Community (ABC) is publishing the NFU material with thanks.
Submission of The National Farmers UnionTo[2]
Submission of The National Farmers UnionTo[2]
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Feb. 6th, 2009 Second Community Brief
Greetings to all.
There are a lot of people who would like to read and or print off the second brief submitted on Feb. 6th, 2009 by ABC to the Ministry of Transportation, Ontario and AECOM (formerly TSH).
It is embedded here on this site in its complete format. You can print it off from here. Just click on the ipapers symbol at the top of the Scribd reading frame for the document.
Cover Letter 0209
Volume3 Final4.22
There are a lot of people who would like to read and or print off the second brief submitted on Feb. 6th, 2009 by ABC to the Ministry of Transportation, Ontario and AECOM (formerly TSH).
It is embedded here on this site in its complete format. You can print it off from here. Just click on the ipapers symbol at the top of the Scribd reading frame for the document.
Cover Letter 0209
Volume3 Final4.22
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