At CARA’s AGM this Saturday, July 15 at Station on the Green at 3 p.m. we are pleased to have Ed Starr a consultant of SHS Consulting and specialist on seniors’ housing as our guest speaker. If you have questions on affordable seniors housing, pleaseattend. All are welcome.
On June 28 at the Special Council meeting, CARA raised several issues regarding Tribute’s proposed redevelopment of the former Alliance subdivision. Recall that Alliance originally received approval for 498 homes. Alliance has kept the 25 units along Mary Street. Tribute wants to build up to 536 additional units on the undeveloped lands. Tribute has rejected the previously Council-approved Architectural Control Guidelines including construction materials for this site. The current Tribute proposal allows for high densities including the possibility of row housing along County Road 9. Tribute is not proposing the careful construction phasing reflected in the OMB’s approval of the Official Plan Amendment for the Alliance development, but it has been requested by CARA. CARA would also like to see Tribute give a commitment to plant trees to replicate the current tree density in Creemore as was the case with Alliance. For all our comments and requests, go to the CARA website at creemoreresidents.ca.
In good news, as a result of concerns about the lack of seniors’ housing CARA initially raised, Tribute said at the June 28 meeting that there is a seniors’ housing component in its most recent proposal, as presented at the public meeting. It will be essential that council requires Tribute to identify the seniors housing units in the new Official Plan Amendment and Conditions for Approval of a Draft Plan of Subdivision.
On the ATV front, we are disappointed that Council has gone ahead with Option 2 which opens up Creemore and Dunedin’s roads to ATVs, contrary to the results of CARA’s survey of local residents. In their enthusiasm, it would appear that ATVers are jump-starting the final approval by Council, as I have recently seen ATVs on Mill Street and at the LCBO in Creemore since the meeting. Council justified the change in part by saying local residents should have direct access to the trails from their homes. Is shopping at the LCBO what is meant by gaining “access to the trails”?
Please send your videos and photos of any ongoing abuses to info@creemoreresidents.ca or to Clearview Bylaw enforcement at jpaddock@clearview.ca.