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Kincardine delays
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Residents of McGaw Drive in Kincardine (Ward 1) may not have to go through the painful process of having their street renamed. However,
those living on Campbell Avenue, south of Russell Street, may have their
street renamed McGaw. Kincardine council discussed the whole situation in committee-of-the-whole Dec. 3. Community emergency management co-ordinator Roberta Trelford explained that initially the entire roadway was to be named Campbell Avenue - running from the dead-end street where Russell Meadows is located (north of Russell Street) and south through the new subdivision called Piper's Ridge, linking to McGaw at the south end, with McGaw becoming Campbell Avenue. But long-time residents of McGaw don't want their street name changed and objected strongly. Subsequently, Trelford recommended to council that Campbell Avenue run from Russell Street to the north, and McGaw Drive run from Russell Street to the south. She said she had notified the five homeowners on the current Campbell Avenue south of Russell, as late as the date of the council meeting (Dec. 3) about the proposed street name change. One Campbell Avenue resident, Adrian London, said his problem is that some street addresses are engraved in stone on the side of the house. "Do we get any compensation for having to change that?" 13/01/2009 04:18 PM |
Councillor Guy Anderson said nobody was compensated when they had to change their addresses about six or seven years ago with the implementation of the 911 emergency system across Bruce County. Duplicate or similar street names were not allowed and had to be changed. "Maybe the McGaw Drive people could take up a collection for the residents on Campbell Avenue," said Anderson. "I'm concerned that people were getting calls about this as late as today for tonight's meeting," said deputy mayor Laura Haight. "There's no harm waiting two weeks on this until the residents get proper notice." "If he (London) got notice at 5 p.m., that's ridiculous," agreed councillor Gordon Campbell. "Changing the engravings on the houses should have been thought of ahead of time," said London. Nick Toth, a resident of McGaw Drive, said there are 10 long-established households on that street and readdressing would cause major disruption. "Some of us are in business and our home address is listed as our office," he said. "Changing over is a heavy, expensive undertaking. It's easier to replace a few bricks than all the effort to change long-standing addresses. There are currently only five very recent houses on Campbell and one of those is for sale." Haight noted there is a Campbell Crescent in the
municipality as well as a Campbell Avenue. |
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