Stoney Creek Update

[mishap]

Originally Posted by matt602

Box and No Frills are basically the same format store, so I'm sure the No Frills will just be replacing the former. The Box was just a really scaled down version, I'd almost imagine that it was a temporary thing intended to test the waters for a full No Frills store.

A lot closer than same format... both are Loblaws. Box is No Frills with fewer, uh, frills. But Negative Frills probably wouldn't work as a name.

[thistleclub]

Hamilton preserves former Augustus Jones house
(Stoney Creek News, Kevin Werner, Jan 25 2016)

It may have happened in reverse order, but Hamilton councillors and the Heritage Committee both accelerated designating 1 Jones Street as a heritage building of value.

Stoney Creek councillor Maria Pearson, who is a member of the Heritage Committee, urged her council colleagues to accept the designation at council’s Jan. 20 meeting, a day before the heritage committee was set to vote on the same recommendation.

She said the property owner recently sold the house, commonly referred to by heritage advocates as the “Jones House,” and they wanted to keep it safe when it sold.

“The owners are supportive of designation,” said Pearson. “They want the heritage attributes to be maintained. I’m just thrilled, absolutely thrilled with the outcome.”

She said the new owner will be responsible for protecting the two-storey, wood-framed and stucco building. There are a few no trespassing and no parking signs dotting the property.

Pearson said she has already talked to the buyer of the home, Jas Sohal, who will help to preserve the building.

“He knows the property has to be protected,” said Pearson. “There is no issue.”

The property is already in the register of property of cultural heritage value or interest. It means the owners have to provide the city 60 days’ notice before demolishing or removing any structure on the property.

The former City of Stoney Creek had identified the property had historical merit to be designated. Hamilton heritage members had placed the property on a list of buildings of concerned.

Pearson said she has been in contact with a person willing to purchase the property, located at the corner of Jones Street and Mountain Avenue North in downtown Stoney Creek, and accepts the heritage designation.

The property may have been the home of Augustus Jones, a United Empire Loyalist who came north from the United States in the 1780s.

The house is believed constructed by Jones’ nephew Stephen Jones , and was lived in by Ebenezer and Joseph Jones, brothers to Augustus. When the brothers were killed in an accident, Augustus inherited the house. The Jones family owned the property from 1791 to 1911.


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[king10]

well i mean what else do you expect? of course as more neighbourhoods are built on the mountain they will need to use the linc and red hill

[Beedok]

I'm sure some will work in the wharehouses and whatnot nearby.

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[thistleclub]

Taro dump owner does about-face on expansion
(Stoney Creek News, Richard Leitner, June 16 2016)

After years of fighting the Taro dump, Brad Clark will help the upper Stoney Creek site’s new owner try to pile more waste there – enough to require a full-blown environmental assessment.

Clark, who was the area’s councillor before his 2014 unsuccessful mayoral run, says he’s been hired as a consultant by Terrapure Environmental to assist its bid to dump waste where previous owner Newalta Corp. promised to put clean fill.

Newalta made the commitment three years ago when it got approval to raise the industrial dump’s height by nearly a third in return for eliminating a 15-hectare disposal area by Green Mountain Road.

At the time, Clark denounced the change, warning neighbours would be staring at “a mountain of crap.”

On Monday, he said he will help Terrapure, which bought the dump in February of last year, find the best way to reinstate the former 57-hectare footprint but keep the higher 18.5-metre elevation – raised by 4.5 metres in 2013.

The plan will be presented at a public open house on June 21 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Salvation Army Winterberry Heights Church.

Clark said his new role brings him “full circle” from when he led Stoney Creek Residents Against Pollution, which unsuccessfully fought the dump, approved by the Mike Harris government in 1996 without public hearings.

“I think I have an awful lot to offer to ensure that this facility reconfiguration that is proposed is environmentally sound, viable and minimizes the impact to the residents,” he said.

“I can either do that on the outside or do that on the inside as a consultant who can raise the concerns in an appropriate manner.”


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[RaginRonic]

I just got off the phone with someone who works at the Upper Gage and Fennell Canadian Tire, and she told me that the store will be closing permanently in October, for a move to the Walmart Supercentre Plaza at Upper Centennial at Rymal East.

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[thistleclub]

Ministry quietly lifted Taro dump tonnage cap
(Stoney Creek News, Richard Leitner, Dec 15 2016)

The Ministry of the Environment removed a tonnage limit for the Taro industrial dump without any public notice, effectively extending the site’s life by five years and allowing it to take more than two million tonnes of additional waste.

The amendment to the site’s licence, buried in Appendix F of a 2005 annual report for the site, is detailed in a Nov. 28, 2005 letter to then-owner PSC Industrial Services Canada Inc. from ministry director Greg Washuta.

It came just five days after PSC applied for the change.

The letter notifies PSC that the ministry is revoking the existing licence Condition 21 allowing up to 10 million tonnes of waste and 6.32 million cubic metres, and replacing it with a new one specifying just the cubic-metre limit.

At the time, PSC estimated each cubic metre of disposed waste weighed 1.94 tonnes, meaning the new condition increased the site’s tonnage to 12.26 million tonnes.

New owner Terrapure Environmental Inc. is now seeking to further raise the upper Stoney Creek dump’s capacity to 10 million cubic metres, or double the original maximum tonnage, based on a revised formula of two tonnes per cubic metre.

Throughout the process leading up to the dump’s controversial approval by the Harris government without public hearings in July 1996, citizens and politicians were repeatedly told the site would receive up to 10 million tonnes of waste over 20 years.

In his 2005 letter, Washuta states his decision to remove the tonnage limit is “all in accordance with the application for approval dated November 23, 2005, and supporting information and documentation prepared by PSC Industrial Services Canada Inc.”

“The maximum approved volumetric capacity of the landfill is not consistent with the maximum tonnage approved for the site due to inaccurate estimates of the density of the waste made during the study of the landfill,” the letter states.

The impact of the change on the dump’s original 20-year lifespan was immediate.

While the 2004 Taro annual report estimated the site had 12 years of capacity left – putting it on pace to be full this year – the 2005 report increased that estimate to 16 years even though another year had passed.

Subsequent Taro annual reports now all state that “the estimated life of the site was approximately 25 years” – rather than the 20 years in every report prior to 2005.

The Condition 21 change came at a time when the ministry had allowed PSC to walk away from a community liaison committee for the dump and set up a hand-picked Taro Neighbourhood Liaison Committee in its place.

The new committee never met in public during its six-year tenure and appeared to violate conditions of Taro’s licence requiring two members from city council.

But it did keep minutes and they show PSC mentioned the Condition 21 change at a Dec. 5, 2005 evening meeting at Boston Pizza attended by four people: Michael Jovanovic and Lorenzo Alfano for PSC, and citizen members Nancy Hackett and Kathy Wakeman.

An unattributed statement characterizes the change as “an administrative amendment.”

“There was an inconsistency in the tonnage and the volume that would have resulted in the landfill design having to be amended,” the minutes state.

“PSC applied to correct the inconsistency so the approved design can be utilized to its fullest extent. No other implications to change other than administrative clean up.”

As he was then, Alfano is the Taro’s site manager, while Jovanovic, now a Terrapure vice-president, was in a similar role for PSC in 2005.

Terrapure communications director Greg Jones pointed to the Boston Pizza meeting as evidence PSC disclosed the change publicly and said the tonnage limit was inconsistent with another licence condition detailing the dump’s final contours.

He said the number of tonnes per cubic metre of waste was always estimated to be higher than the implied math behind the 1996 approvals.

“The ministry agreed with that and it was considered, in ministry terminology, to be an administrative amendment,” Jones said.


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[thistleclub]

Stoney Creek dump expansion eyes even bigger volume
(Stoney Creek News, Richard Leitner, Apr 27 2017)

The proposed expansion of the Taro industrial dump just got potentially bigger.

A city review of six new options put forward by owner Terrapure Environmental in February concludes three of them will increase the upper Stoney Creek site’s overall capacity to 12 million cubic metres by keeping an area for clean fill as is.

That’s up from 10 million in two original options last summer that sought to put waste in the clean-fill area, created when former owner Newalta Corp. got approval in 2013 to raise the site’s height by a third in return for shrinking its waste footprint.

Taro’s existing waste limit is 6.32 million cubic metres and the other three options are consistent with the original ones, earmarking the clean-fill area’s estimated two million cubic metres of capacity for waste.

Doug Conley, the area’s councillor, said Terrapure’s proposals to both keep the clean-fill area and boost the dump’s waste capacity came as “a complete surprise,” especially since the company has repeatedly insisted there’s no market for clean fill.

He said he’s worried the company will use the same argument to place waste in the clean-fill area by Green Mountain Road if it gets approval for an overall capacity of 12 million cubic metres.


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[Chronamut]

Originally Posted by thomax

Four buildings, and a huge chunk of land in Old Downtown Stoney Creek is up for sale. The site is zoned for a 6-8 storey mixed use building....

realtor.ca - 23 KING Street East , Stoney Creek - $2,200,000 



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urgh.. I grew up in stoney creek.. I always loved this area because it never changed.. I hope they don't tear these down to build more retirement homes..

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[ScreamingViking]

It's always seemed a shame to me that the front of the original church was covered over by that earlier addition. Hopefully the older part can be incorporated somehow into the new build, and the addition gets taken down.

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[thistleclub]

Taro dump plan looks bigger, higher or both
(Stoney Creek News, Richard Leitner, Dec 13 2017)

The Taro industrial dump will get bigger, higher or possibly both, if owner Terrapure Environmental can convince the province to approve one of six expansion options for the upper Stoney Creek site.

Five options presented at a Dec. 7 open house enlarge the site’s waste footprint, with the only one not doing so creating a mound 30.5 metres — or 100 feet — above ground level, more than double the height allowed when the dump opened in 1996.

All options boost the existing waste capacity of 6.32 cubic metres, by between 20 and nearly 60 per cent.

They do so in some cases by moving the dump closer to property limits to the north, south and east, while maintaining a minimum 30-metre buffer.

Two of the three options seeking the biggest capacity increase — to a total of 10 million cubic metres — also retain an area along Green Mountain Road set aside for 2 million cubic metres of unregulated fill.

That’s led the city to question if the dump’s real new capacity will really be 12 million cubic metres.…

None of the options impressed Suzanne Bacik, one of 38 people to drop by during the four-hour open house, held at Winterberry Heights Church.

She said it’s time for Terrapure to find another spot because the dump is high enough and now surrounded by housing, unlike when it opened.

“It’s a frickin’ eyesore,” said Bacik, who also criticized the company for hiring former Stoney Creek politicians Brad Clark and Larry Di Ianni as consultants.

“You don’t hire two ex-politicians to help you in the community if you don’t want to do what’s good for yourself as opposed to the community, and to finesse who to talk to, where to go and how to present your case.”


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[bigguy1231]

[QUOTE=thomax;8099536]Centennial Neighborhoods Secondary Plan Study Summary Report (pdf.)

You do realize that not one bit of this plan is in Stoney Creek. It is all within the former boundries of Hamilton. Maybe a Centennial Pkwy thread should be added if there isn't one already.