Sewage, soiled drinking water, and traffic increases.
These were the main concerns residents brought to Georgian Bluffs council at last night’s public meeting into the proposed Georgian Shores development.
The developer, Klein-Wells Associates, is proposing to re-zone 86 lots for single family homes for the new subdivision.
President of the Balmy Beach Ratepayers Association, Don King, says most of the residents know that development in Georgian Bluffs is inevitable, but they don’t feel this type of development is appropriate for the area.
Many residents feel this development, along with the Cobble Beach area, will increase traffic significantly along Grey Road 1.
Barry Hargrave presented his findings into a study done on the rain water run-off.
He says the current system already can’t support excess water, and flooding will be an issue.
Hargrave and King would also like to see the new development run off a sewage system, rather than each lot running on a septic system.
Hargrave also says any construction will disturb the subsoil, and contaminate drinking water that a lot of residents depend on along the shoreline.
Planner Shelly Wells, with the developer, says tonight’s meeting raised a lot of good points that they have heard before from residents at an open house.
She says they’ve already reduced the number of proposed lots to accomodate some concerns.
Wells says they’ll have to take a closer look, and try to come up with some resolutions.
Mayor Alan Barfoot says the meeting was not for council to make any decisions, but to allow residents to have a voice on the issue.
