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One-way drives away business : dépanneur RICHARD MAHONEY richard.mahoney@eap.on.ca
in this matter.” The decision to prevent westbound traffic on the section was meant to im- prove safety for seniors living at the Ma- noir McGill Manor, at Régent and McGill Streets. Aktar, who has received the sup- port of neighbours, suggests alternatives to the current arrangement. “We would propose that vehicles be restricted from making a left turn from westbound Re- gent Street onto southbound McGill Street. This would prevent vehicles from having to advance into the oncoming northbound McGill Street traffic to see due to the obstructed corner. Another proposal would be the conversion of Re- gent Street along its entirety between McGill Street and Hamilton Street into an eastbound one-way street.” At press time, Mayor René Berthiaume said he had not yet received a copy of the letter. a reduction of this magnitude would hap- pen , but we may see a reduction in the fees we collect and in the tipping fees we pay. The amount of the deficit is hard to quan- tify until we try this formula.” To avoid a shortfall, council could opt for a charge of $2.70 per bag, which , if every residence used one bag a week, would cost a household $140 per year and the town- ship would collect $598,806 in revenues per year .
HAWKESBURY | While the move was made for safety reasons, the conversion of a section of Régent Street, Hawkes- bury into a one-way street is driving away business. That is the argument McGill Street Dépanneur À Tout Prix owner Nasrin Aktar is making in an effort to convince the mu- nicipality to reconfigure the intersection. The town recently turned a section of Régent between McGill and Stanley Streets into a one-way eastbound street. “This change to the traffic flow will de definitely detrimental to our business as this will prevent traffic accessing our busi- ness directly from Regent Street,” Aktar writes in a letter to the town. “There has not been any form of public consultation PLEASANT CORNER | Champlain Town- ship is considering placing limits on the quantity and nature of domestic garbage the municipality will collect. The township is pondering a proposal to amend the charge for disposal and collec- tion of refuse from a flat $144 per unit to a “bag tag” system. At the same time, the township ponders a possible edict that would direct its garbage collection con- tractor “not to pick up any garbage which has recycling or hazardous materials in it.” As chief administrator Jean Thériault writes in a report to council, “The Township has been trying to find a solution to the number of bags our residents put out at the curb, increasing the amount of recycling our residents do and getting our residents to use bio-degradable bags.” The current by-law says that each resi- dence can put up to two garbage bags at the curb each week. “The problem we en- counter is that many residents put more than two bags at the curb and we collect them. We could tell our contractor to stop collecting when there are more than two bags, but if the residence has more than
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The conversion of a section of Régent Street, Hawkesbury into a one-way street has led to complaints.
Champlain weighs merits of garbage limits
two bags to throw out every week what do they do with the excess?” One solution would be for the township to purchase clear bio-de- gradable bags with the township logo printed on it. “We could sell these bags at different loca- tions throughout the township and since we would be charging for each bag of garbage,whoeverwouldliketoputoutextra garbage bags at the curbwould have to pay for it. Additionally, if the township would like to encourage recycling and make sure that no hazardous waste is sent to the land- fill, we could advise residents that if our collector sees recycling or hazardous waste in the garbage bag he will not pick it up,” writes Thériault. The CAO observes,“If people recycled the way we ask them to recycle, most house- holds would have one bag of garbage to put at the curb each week . You will even have some households that will recycle much more because of the bag tag incen- tive and which will put only one bag per two weeks at the curb.” If the bag fee was set at $2, a household would save money if it produced one bag a week. Thériault relates: “In 2012 we col- lected $597,080 in garbage collection fees,
which represents approximately 4,265 units. If all of our units were to put out just one bag of garbage, we would collect $443,560 in bag tags, which would reduce our revenues by $153,520 per year, but we would save approximately $44,500 in tip- ping fees for a net reduction of $109,000 per year. Since there are always some dwelling units which put out more than one gar- bage bag per week, I would not think that
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Few Prescott-Russell municipalities imopse restrictions on the quantity of trash that will be collected.
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