[All] some good news!

[Ginny Quinn]

Yvonne..that is wonderful news that should be highly published  to inform
people (especially neighbours living nearby, or any witnesses ) that these
destructive .non law abiding and greedy bullies can and should be brought to
task and remediation  orders and $$$$environmental fines.!!!   We have to
start lobbying the Province to regulate and changer OLD zoning  that permits
dangerous things on sensitive lands.   Ginny 

 

From: all-bounces at gren.ca [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Yvonne
Fernandes
Sent: August-01-11 12:42 AM
To: GREN2
Subject: Re: [All] some good news!

 

Hi Everyone,
Not sure if this will help anyone working on development issues but I was
pleased to received this information this weekend.  I am hoping that this
will be information that we can use to stop the Strasburg Rd expansion as
well as challenge the developers who have filled in wetlands.
Take care.
Yvonne

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Grand River Conservation Authority


Friday, July 29, 2011


Release ON RECEIPT


News Release


Woolwich Township landowner
ordered to remove fill, restore property


The owner of a Woolwich Township property has been ordered to restore land
where he illegally dumped fill in the spring of 2010.

Silviu Buta of Holborne Drive, Kitchener was ordered to remove the fill,
regrade and revegetate property he owns at 2721 Shantz Station Rd., west of
the village of Maryhill.

Buta pleaded guilty in provincial offences court to one count of undertaking
development on the property without obtaining a development permit from the
Grand River Conservation Authority.

In addition to restoring the property, Buta must also pay a fine of $1,000.

The fill was placed in a wetland on the Shantz Station Road property. Under
the Conservation Authorities Act, the GRCA has the authority to regulate
development activity within and up to 120 metres from a wetland. The purpose
of the regulation is to protect the flow of water into, from and near the
wetland.

The GRCA received complaints in May and June 2010 that fill was being placed
on the property. GRCA staff met the owner, provided information about the
regulation and asked him several times to stop.

The rehabilitation order issued by Justice of the Peace Zeljana Radulovic
requires Buta to remove up to 20 full dump truck loads of fill and then
restore the property within 10 days of the fill removal.

The GRCA and other conservation authorities in Ontario administer
regulations that control development near wetlands, along watercourses and
their flood plains, steep slopes and the Lake Erie shoreline. Regulated
areas make up about one-third of the Grand River watershed.

In recent years, the GRCA has hired two enforcement officers to investigate
complaints. Most cases are resolved through negotiation between the GRCA and
landowners without court action.

Landowners planning to undertake a project near a wetland, stream, river or
other regulated area should contact a resource planner at the GRCA. E-mail
addresses and phone numbers are available in the Planning and Regulations
section of the GRCA website at www.grandriver.ca 

They can also use "Map My Property" - an interactive mapping tool on the
GRCA- to see if any parts of their property are regulated.

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Further information: Dave Schultz, GRCA Manager of Communications
Phone: (519) 621-2763, Ext. 2273; Cell: (519) 658-3896
E-mail:  <mailto:dschultz at grandriver.ca> dschultz at grandriver.ca Website:
<http://www.grandriver.ca/> www.grandriver.ca

 

  

             Yvonne Fernandes
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the world, indeed it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

 

 

 

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