April 22, 2021 · 0 Comments
By Sam Odrowski
An Orangeville resident brought his vehicle noise concerns forward to Council on April 12.
Michael Cornish moved here two years ago for the small-town feel, walkability, live music, and other amenities, and while he’s enjoyed his time in town, the issue of loud vehicles continues to impact his quality of life.
“There’s a lot of noise coming from single vehicles, whether it’s loud motorbikes racing along Highway 10 or going through the city on residential streets and accelerating from stop signs,” said Cornish. “I’m sure everybody’s experienced some of this, if you’re trying to dine out down on Broadway at supper hour, especially Rustic with that busy intersection, it’s not enjoyable, it’s very disruptive.”
April 22, 2021 · 0 Comments
By Sam Odrowski
The Town of Orangeville approved nearly $50,000 in grant funding for community organizations in need at last Monday night’s Council meeting (April 12) and still has $33,500 to hand out.
Recipients of this year’s grants include Orangeville and District Senior Citizens Centre ($10,000), Optimist Club of Orangeville ($10,000), Orangeville Tennis Club ($16,500), Rotary Club of Orangeville ($4,000), and the Kin Club of Orangeville ($6,000).
“I’m very familiar with all these organizations, and I would just like to simply take the staff advice and make the motion that we approve this [grant finding] as written, and thank all of those organizations for the wonderful work that they do on behalf of Orangeville,” said Coun. Todd Taylor during the April 12 Council meeting.
Back in November, the town received a notice of 7-Eleven’s bid to retail sealed liquor products.
However, in January, town staff learned 7-Eleven wanted to allow limited on-site alcohol consumption and operate in a bar or restaurant-type fashion.
The town objected to the licence application due to insufficient information received, such as no outline for seating areas, serving areas, and occupancy load.
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Council President Roy Avellaneda proposed that the City look at a list of vacant parcels and investigate the ability of taking those properties in order to build more affordable home-ownership opportunities.
On Monday night, Avellaneda said he knows the Council and the City have done as much as they can, but he feels like they should take the next step in looking at Eminent Domain takings.
“I think we’ve done everything possibly allowed to the City Council,” he said. “I would argue that we can never do enough and one way is we could do like the City did years ago and use Eminent Domain and friendly takings. They did that with One North and Chelsea Clock to create economic development. Maybe we should look at other parts of the City…I don’t want to sit here and be reactionary to what’s going on with private development and don’t want my advocacy to be limited to testifying before the Zoning Board and then letting the market do what it does.”