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Local groceries an option again in St. Clements
http://observerxtra.com/2016/03/10/local...-clements/
St. Clements is back in business.
Specifically, the shelves will once again be stocked at the longtime supermarket location some two years after the departure of the Foodland operation left the village without a grocery store.
A consignment store, Findings, will also open in the plaza next door in two weeks.
Business partners Gary and Nitian Patel bought the former Foodland building and adjacent plaza on Mar. 1.
The grocery store is under the Sobeys chain, a variation of the Foodland banner, Gary Patel says. It’s called an Independent In-town Foodland, and it will be named St. Clements Food Town.
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http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6387...-clements/
Speaking of St. Clements, a story about how people there want the community to grow but it can't really
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The biggest challenge is that any significant infrastructure would be paid for by the local ratepayers. There was a similar proposal to upgrade the water and sewer system in St. Agatha a few years ago and the local residents fought back. The sooner that these kinds of upgrades are paid for by the whole community, rather than the just those who directly benefit from it, the better. Spreading the cost of the sewer system across the whole Region, or even just the Township means that the projects become more affordable. Pay this year for an upgrade in St. Clements, next year in Heidelberg, the year after that in Wellesley...
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But do we really want St. Clements (as an example) to grow? How does that fit with the Region's Plan, with Places to Grow, and so on?
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(03-14-2016, 01:02 PM)MidTowner Wrote: But do we really want St. Clements (as an example) to grow? How does that fit with the Region's Plan, with Places to Grow, and so on?
That would be my question as well. I certainly can't see any rationale for shifting development costs to the Regional level.
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In St. Clement's case, I'd say no, but I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to have growth spread amongst outlying communities. The opportunity for walkable and community-focused development is greater there than yet another layer on the outskirts of Waterloo and Kitchener.
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(03-14-2016, 02:09 PM)jamincan Wrote: In St. Clement's case, I'd say no, but I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to have growth spread amongst outlying communities. The opportunity for walkable and community-focused development is greater there than yet another layer on the outskirts of Waterloo and Kitchener.
Or we could just build the walkable main street like places inside the city, where people have a chance at biking or taking transit to work. For example, Kitchener's mixed-use corridor zones are excellent places to do that.
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(03-14-2016, 12:35 PM)nms Wrote: The biggest challenge is that any significant infrastructure would be paid for by the local ratepayers. There was a similar proposal to upgrade the water and sewer system in St. Agatha a few years ago and the local residents fought back. The sooner that these kinds of upgrades are paid for by the whole community, rather than the just those who directly benefit from it, the better. Spreading the cost of the sewer system across the whole Region, or even just the Township means that the projects become more affordable. Pay this year for an upgrade in St. Clements, next year in Heidelberg, the year after that in Wellesley...
The village of Wellesley is actually already on full municipal services and has a small wastewater treatment plant operated by the Region.
It is one of 6 villages in the Region on full services, the others being New Hamburg, Baden, Elmira, St. Jacobs and Ayr.
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(03-14-2016, 01:02 PM)MidTowner Wrote: But do we really want St. Clements (as an example) to grow? How does that fit with the Region's Plan, with Places to Grow, and so on?
The article doesn't talk about necessarily growing St. Clements but rather allowing the building patterns to shift. For instance, there is no seniors residence or facility that would cater to a downsizing senior who wants to stay in St. Clements. At the moment, there is only one small low-rise multi-unit residential building. The suggestion in the article was that as a result, seniors were staying put in their homes which meant that other families couldn't move in.
It used to be, in some families, grandparents would live with their children and grandchildren and cycle through a house. (The new term for this is "aging-in-place") This doesn't generally happen as much anymore which leaves seniors who wish to stay in their community with few options.
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(03-15-2016, 01:15 AM)The85 Wrote: The village of Wellesley is actually already on full municipal services and has a small wastewater treatment plant operated by the Region.
It is one of 6 villages in the Region on full services, the others being New Hamburg, Baden, Elmira, St. Jacobs and Ayr.
Part of Heidelberg (the newish subdivision NE of the traffic light) also has full services; the developer built a wastewater treatment plant there in the 1990s, and subsequently assigned ownership to it to the township.
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Two decades after chemical waste dump, Varnicolor site may have new purpose
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/two-d...-1.2910445
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There is an industrial/commercial building under going construction on Cedar Creek Rd in Ayr near Big Steel Box anyone know what this is going to be?
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A new commercial building is planned in Woolwich across from the St. Jacobs market.
http://m.waterloochronicle.ca/news-story...evelopment
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One of the new commercial /industrial buildings going up in Ayr on Cedar Creek Rd near the 401 is for Hyndman Transport.
Details http://www.fryettarchitect.com/commissio...transport/.
"The newest addition to Hyndman Transport is coming to Ayr, Ontario in the form of a brand new trucking facility just off the 401 at Cedar Creek Road. In consultation with Gateman Milloy, James Fryett Architect Inc. is working on the design of this 2 storey, 31, 600 square foot facility. The building is to house dispatch and logistics offices, a training facility, overnight bunking for the drivers and a series of trucking bays for servicing, repairing and maintaining the tractors and transports.
Hyndman Transport’s new trucking facility is scheduled to open summer of 2016."
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