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Mary Street sanitary drain reserved for future projects
by Brad Holden
Doug MacIntosh will not be allowed to service his condominiums using the existing sanitary sewer drain that runs underneath Mary Street, despite the developer's belief that the OMB granted him permission to do so when his project was approved last year.
Clearview Council voted 5-2 in favour of the above position at Monday's Council meeting, after MacIntosh's second visit to Council this year. He and his consultants also met privately last month with Township staff and Council planning liaisons Shawn Davidson and Thom Paterson, in an effort to reach a compromise on the servicing issue and several questions surrounding phasing.
The sewer drain that runs down Mary Street was designed to service all of Creemore west of the street, as well as a one-lot depth on the east side. The MacIntosh development, which would include 72 condominiums in three buildings, is to be built on the east side of the street. While ....read more
by Brad Holden
Not long after Nancy Johnston first arrived in town five years ago, she took her daughters to the Picnic for an afternoon treat. They had cinnamon buns, and she had a revelation.
"I remember thinking, 'this is exactly what I want,'" she said this week. "A small Ontario town, a great cafe, a sense of being part of the history of the village."
Johnston eventually got a job at Picnic, doing everything from mopping floors to planning weddings to baking the cafe's legendary cinnamon buns.
When the opportunity arose to buy both the business and the building earlier this year, she jumped at it. And on Saturday, May 17, her five-year-old vision will become reality.
Johnston will open the doors that day on the Bank Cafe, so named because the building it's housed in is the original home of Creemore's branch of the Toronto Dominion Bank. It was also, of course, home to Picnic, but Johnston has slightly different plans for the place.
"I want people to be comfortable here," she said....read more
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