Brant County Meetings July 2011

Monday July 4 - 2:00 PM - Community Services

Tuesday July 5 - 6:00 PM - Paris Pool Committee - 7:00 PM - Council Meeting
                       
Monday July 11 - 5:00 PM - Strategic Planning Session - 7:00 PM - Corporate Development
                        
Tuesday July 12 - 9:00 AM - Public Works - 7:00 PM - Library Board
                       
Wednesday July 13 - 6:00 PM - Brant County Power

Tuesday July 19 - 7:00 PM - Council Meeting

Wednesday July 20 - 9:00 AM - Police Services - 9:30 AM - Board of Health - 7 PM - Planning Advisory

Thursday July 21 - 2:00 PM - Economic Development Advisory - 5:30 PM - Brant County Power Services

Thursday July 28 - 7:00 PM - Committee of Adjustment

                               

Brant/Brantford "Greenbelt": Development Pressures

The Brant/Brantford Greenbelt

“If people indentify with their local greenbelt, they will protect it. “  (Key message from the Global Greenbelt Conference, March, 2011)

In 1980, the Ontario government created the first “greenbelt” in Ontario – a swath of land in Brant County, surrounding Brantford. Under provincial Bill 120, the province set aside an area for “permanent agricultural and rural related uses”. See the attached map. Brant/Brantford “Greenbelt”

This “greenbelt”, created after negotiation between the City, the County and the Province, was intended to set an example for other communities with development squabbles on farmland on the edge of cities.

The Brant/Brantford “greenbelt” lies only a few miles away from the western edge of the Ontario Greenbelt. At its northeastern edge, the Brant/Brantford greenbelt is only one mile from the provincial greenbelt!

Developers argue that the Brant/Brantford greenbelt has expired, and they have been busy buying up farmland and presenting development plans and maps to Brant County council. One developer’s map would pave over all of the farmland between Brantford and the western edge of the Ontario Greenbelt. Map

Many wonder why the Province excluded its very first “greenbelt” from the Ontario Greenbelt? Below is one proposed expansion of the Ontario Greenbelt, but it does not go far enough.  There is tremendous development pressure just south of Branford, to the west of the proposed expansion of the Greenbelt. Map

Over 2,500 people have signed a petition to expand the Ontario Greenbelt in Brant County. Link. Please sign our petition and help us to protect Ontario’s first greenbelt.

Council/Committees dates for May 2011

Monday May 16th - 2pm - community services

Tuesday May 17th - 5pm - special council meeting: Garden ave drain
- 7pm - council

Wednesday May 18th - 9am - police services
- 7pm - planning advisory

Thursday May 19th - 2pm - economic development advisory
- 5:30pm - Brant County power services

Tuesday May 24th - 7pm - Paris parks and recreation advisory

Wednesday May 25th - 9:30am -Board of Health
- 7pm - Brant West parks and recreation advisory

Thursday May 26th - 7pm - committee of adjustment

Saturday May 28th - 8:30am - Brant County power breakfast

Tuesday May 31st - 7pm - Source Protection Plan

Brant County Meetings for April and May 2011 *all meetings held at 66 River St. North (enter chamber through parking lot in back)*

Tuesday April 5th - 7PM - County Counil - Paris

Monday April 11th - 7PM - Corporate Development - Paris

Tuesday April 19th - 7PM - County Council - Paris

Thursday April 21st - 2PM - Economic Development Advisory - Paris

Thursday April 28th - 7PM - Committee of Adjustment - Paris

Tuesday May 3rd - 7PM - County Council - Paris

Monday May 9th - 7PM- Corporate Development - Paris

Tuesday May 17th - 7PM - County Council - Paris

Thursday May 19th - 2PM - Economic Development Advisory - Paris

Thursday May 26th - 7PM - Committee of Adjustment - Paris

Brant County Meetings January and February 2011

Thursday January 27th - 7PM - Committee of Adjustment - Paris

Tuesday February 4th - 7PM - County Council - Paris

Monday February 7th - 7PM - Corporate Development - Paris

Tuesday February 8th - 9AM - Public Works - Burford

Thursday February 10th - 7PM - Budget - Paris

Tuesday February 15th - 7PM - County Council - Paris

Wednesday February 16th - 7PM - Planning Advisory Committee - Paris

Thursday February 18th - 2PM - Economic Development Advisory - Paris

Thursday February 24th - 10AM - OMB Hearing: Hopewell Lands - Paris

Thursday February 24th - 7PM - Committee of Adjustment - Paris

Friday February 25th - 10AM - OMB Hearing: Hopewell Lands con't - Paris

For a complete list of meetings and agendas please click here.