Date set for OMB appeal on Smiths Falls plant rezoning
Smiths Falls Record News
By Stacey Roy
An Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) appeal to hear an objection to adding a special exception to the light industrial rezoning at the former Hershey plant will be heard Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 10 a.m. This hearing is open to the public.
The appeal was filed early in January after Council approved the rezoning mid-December (Bylaw no 8761-2014). The rezoning will allow a plastics melting plant to open in Smiths Falls. The approved bylaw adds definitions for anhydrous pyrolysis operation and ancillary plastics storage as permitted uses under the new approved zoning. The approval also included a holding provision that will remain in place until the town received written confirmation that the Ministry of Environment approves the processes, and that a development agreement with the plant owners is executed.
“This isn’t done with,” added Mark Greer, the lead appellant at the OMB hearing. “The town’s still fighting and we, the people, do not want the plastic pyrolysis plant.”
A petition against this bylaw has been circulating since last weekend and will be collected by Greer prior to the hearing. The petition states:
“We, the undersigned, residents of Smiths Falls and surrounding area, oppose Bylaw No 8761-2014 dated on the 15th of December 2014 to rezone 1 Hershey Drive (former Hershey building) into an anhydrous pyrolysis operation (a plastic melting process that melts 2,4 and 5 plastics including ABS and PVC plastics) as well as an ancillary plastics storage.”
Anyone interested in in signed the petition can contact Greer at mgreer17@hotmail.com or by phone at 613-283-7603.
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