The Ontario Ministry of Transportation has requested a bylaw exemption for construction work to install traffic lights at the intersection of Highway 7 and Dunbar/MacLennan Streets in the south end of Rockwood.
“It just gives them the ability to work outside of the normal restricted hours of noise, which are 11pm to 7am,” said township clerk Meaghen Reid at the Feb. 5 council meeting.
Mayor Chris White said, “It means they’re moving ahead, that’s a good sign.”
The exception is for sporadic work that might occur between June 1 and Aug. 31.
New fire route
Guthrie Lane, in the south end of Rockwood, has been designated a fire route by Guelph-Eramosa council.
“With regard to this lane, it is a private road to service the interior of the development and it is narrower than the standard width of public roads,” Reid said.
“It has been our practice to designate these condominium private roads as fire routes to prevent parking along either side of the road to ensure emergency vehicles are provided access to the development.”
Consent application
Guelph-Eramosa council, excluding councillor Louise Marshall, who declared a conflict of interest due to proximity to her own property, supported a consent application for a severance at 49 Ash Street in Eden Mills.
The applicant requested a 0.65 hectare parcel with 46 metres of frontage on Ash Street be severed. The parcel holds a house and two drive sheds. The retained lands would be 7.85ha with 12m of frontage on Ash Street and 41m of frontage on Wilson street. The applicants plan to build a new house on the retained lands and the driveway will be accessed off of Ash Street, township planning consultant Rachel Martin explained a report.
This application was deferred at the Jan. 15 meeting because the severed parcel wasn’t large enough to ensure no negative impacts from the sewage system. In the revised version the severed portion was enlarged to satisfy that concern.
The application also identified one drive shed would be removed and the other would be moved to meet zoning requirements.
Council supported the application (Wellington County makes severance decisions).
Ariss consent application
Council also supported a lot line adjustment application for 5794 Wellington Road 89 in Ariss, which is designated hamlet residential and prime agricultural.
No new lot would be created. The proposed severed portion is 0.44ha of residential land with no frontage. The proposal includes merging severed lands with abutting residential property at 5802 Wellington Road 86, Martin wrote in her report.
The retained land would be 1.86ha with 72m of frontage on Wellington Road 86 and is an existing commercial property with an existing metal clad structure, Martin wrote.
“Both the severed and retained parcels are currently used for highway commercial uses (manufacturing and warehousing),” Martin wrote.
“The proposed severance changes the lot fabric and ownership but is not proposing to remove any lands from agricultural production.”
Council recommended approval.
Third Line application
Council supported a consent application for a property at 5777 Third Line, on the northeast side of the township. The owner is proposing to sever 0.24ha of vacant agricultural lands with no frontage.
The proposal is to merge those lands with an abutting residential parcel known as Birge Mill, Martin stated in a report to council.
The retained parcel would be 0.54ha with 41m of frontage on the Third Line. It’s an existing rural residential lot with a house and garage.
Council sent Wellington County its recommendation for approval.
