REGION OF WATERLOO - PUBLIC NOTICE

Now this is a strange one and I quote from today's K-W Record:
"Notice of Public Input Meeting of the Planning and Works Committee Proposed Modifications to the Implementation Guideline for Road Allowance Dedications On and Adjacent to Known and Potentially Contaminated Sites".

Date: Tuesday January 31, 2012
Time: 9:00 am.
Location: Regional Council chambers, 2nd Floor 150 Frederick St. Kitchener

There is a report on-line that with a little digging is accessible . Basically there are concerns that the Provincial infilling policies dealing with development are causing the Region to have to assume environmental liability for road allowances dedicated to them, beside contaminated sites, within municipal borders. This report requests changes that could include things like indemnities for the Region or for more rerports hopefully indicating the contamination is within acceptable levels. An optimist would hope that this infilling mandated by the province would result in more cleanups of contaminated sites within our cities. The reality is simply more stickhandling via rule changes to allow new development including residential upon contaminated lands. I have downloaded this report and will continue to study it.