Category: Grey County
Grey County wants to talk affordable housing at spring meeting
Grey County will host a meeting in the spring to encourage affordable, near-market rental and attainable housing development. It owns lands in Markdale and Durham which could be used for affordable housing and county staff are looking at potential incentives to get it built, a report to council Oct. 10 says. Among those to be […]
Man calls on Grey County to act on local groundwater threat
Thorsten Arnold warned Grey County council Thursday that it must act to avoid widespread drinking water contamination due to a combination of local factors. This area’s karst geology is well known, with its shallow soil layer over permeable bedrock in places which reduces aquifer protection. The geology includes sinkholes and fissures which allow surface contaminants to […]
Grey County task force seeks to make some busy rural roads safer
A Grey County task force proposes to transfer more than 50 kilometres of its urban county roads, bridges and sewers to municipalities and assume and make safer certain increasingly busy rural municipal roads roads in exchange for other county rural roads. County council decided Thursday to receive a report which provided lists of affected roads, […]
Former Blue Mountains mayor filing complaint about Grey County meeting
Former Blue Mountains mayor Alar Soever said he will file a formal closed-meeting complaint against Grey County for conducting a joint meeting with its nine municipal councils behind closed doors. He sent a letter Sept. 19 to the county outlining his concerns about a joint planning services meeting held Aug. 8 and waited to see […]
Grey forecasted to grow faster than the county predicted
While Grey County growth plans must consider impacts on schools by Ontario legislation, there’s no provincial requirement to consider impacts on health care. That should change, West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles told Grey County council at its regular meeting Thursday, and county staff agreed. “Publicly funded health care I think may be even more fundamental […]