From Karl Gonnsen:
You will recall in my last post that I advised our membership about the update to the Official Plan and the public meeting scheduled for Tuesday at the municipal office. At that time I did not finish my review of the proposed changes to the OP.
I have now finished. Of concern to me is a proposal to make the Kennaway Road area where the biochar plant is proposed an industrial area. This is of concern as this is a rural area and in my opinion processing and manufacturing plants do not belong here. In effect what the Township is doing is making sure that if the Haliburton Forest Biochar lose the OMB hearing the Township will bail them out and allow their plant anyways. This is a plant that will operate 24/7. It will not process sawdust as they said at the public meetings but virgin trees cut down for the express purpose of being used in the making of Biochar. This plant belongs in a urban industrial subdivision not in a rural area.