Ward system should be preserved for best representation
As readers may have seen in the full-page ads in The Echo, Clearview Township is seeking residents’ input into the size and basis of electing council. The choices are a council of seven or nine (including the mayor and deputy mayor, who sit on county council) and a ward system, at-large elections, or a hybrid. […]
Clearview should follow neighbours’ lead on ATVs
On Oct. 26, a draft bylaw to allow access to all roads and road allowances in Clearview (except part of Fairgrounds Road, part of the Sixth Line, Mill Street and a portion of County Road 91) will be back before council for discussion. In this article, we address three specific deficiencies in the current proposed […]
CARA survey says, keep current ATV bylaw
On August 10, Clearview council voted against a public survey to determine voters’ preferences on increased access for ATVs and SxSs to Clearview’s roads and trails. As a result, Creemore Area Residents’ Association (CARA) decided to develop a short, objective survey of its membership and some former members to learn their views on the proposed […]
CARA Corner: ATVs on Clearview roads, trails
Clearview needs a bylaw that expressly prohibits recreational off-road vehicle (ORV) use on roads in the various settlement areas, on high traffic volume roads like our north-south lines and on Clearview’s trails and unopened road allowances. When the provincial government announced that it would eventually be removing the general prohibition against all ORVs on municipal […]
CARA Corner: Off-road vehicles on Creemore roads?
Mayor Doug Measures and five councillors don’t want to know what the residents in Clearview Township really think about increasing ATV access to our roads, and adding access to our roads, unopened road allowances and trails for the much larger side-by-sides. CARA wants to know, and intends to let council know. So do two other […]
Developer’s changes seen as reasonable by CARA
As readers may have read last week, the Alliance Homes Subdivision Plan has changed. The key change is that the phasing of construction has been modified. Specifically, the plan now allows Alliance to build 25 units in phase 1a along Mary Street and 77 units in new phase 1b along County Road 9 before investing […]