Have Your Say

Would you like the opportunity to have your say about the future of our community, whatever name it goes by? Whether it be Hutchison's Corners, or Beaver Valley or Vandeleur or Bowles Bluff, we live here in a part of Grey Highlands, in Grey County and on the Niagara Escarpment that has been identified in all three jurisdictions, as a growth area. Within five years, there could be municipal sewers and water. One thing is sure - change is coming. What can we do?  Until now, we have been reacting to development proposals already underway - first the Beaver Valley Woodlands and most recently the Beaver Valley Village. We have put up a good fight and we have had an impact, but wouldn't it be so much more rewarding to put that same energy into creating the community in which we choose to live. The Have Your Say initiative provides that opportunity. The process began over the summer of 2011, but it is not too late to be included. Ed O'Neil and Cathy Little would like to have a meeting of interested individuals  to get this ball rolling here and preferably before November 15. There's nothing to lose and so much to gain. We thought BVRA members would like to be involved, but this is not a BVRA activity; it is an ad hoc group of local interested property owners. If you are interested, contact Ed or Cathy sooner rather than later. 

Cathy Little: 519-986-4369

Ed O'Neil: 519-986-3392

WORLD TOWN PLANNING DAY Right Here in Grey Highlands

The Grey Association for Better Planning is hosting a World Town Planning Day Event on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 7 pm and YOU’RE INVITED. 

How does the planning process work in Grey County? in Grey Highlands? in Southgate, Chatsworth or any other municipality? Is the process the same for a severance as it is for a quarry or a subdivision? How does an individual find out what's going on before the process is already well under way? What voice does an individual or a group of neighbours have in the process? Where is the means for a community to articulate and guide its vision for its future?

Event speakers will have the answers to those and other questions you may have about planning. Scott Taylor, professional planner with the County of Grey, Dan Best, Chief Administrative Officer of the Municipality of Grey Highlands and Peggy Hutchison, founding member and past president of GABP are our speakers and all bring abundant knowledge and experience from their different perspectives. There will be a Q&A after the speakers present and you can ask questions yourself or submit your question(s) in writing. 

The Grey County World Town Planning Day Event is an amazing opportunity to learn more about the planning process and how it affects you, your neighbours, your community. 

Hope you can make it to the Flesherton Kinplex on Tuesday, November 8th at 7 pm.

See the Event flyer.