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Beyond mad in Beeton

July 17, 2014   ·   0 Comments

Dear editor:

The developer off Daniele Avenue in Beeton doesn’t seem to understand that its up to him to ensure the roads are kept clean. Not once have we seen the developer sweep the street. On two occasions in the past few months I have seen the town truck come by and he did a good job. But that’s my tax dollars doing that! How come the towns developer buddies get away with whatever they want to do or better yet, not do? I asked about access to the site four years ago at the first presentation meeting. The answer that night was that they would have to come in that way they had no choice. They would enlist the use of labour to flag the vehicles through the subdivision. This action has yet to be seen. That night I also asked why Daniele Ave. South was not being extended to Main Street to allow two viable entrance/exit roads for the 160 new homes to be built. Instead Daniele Ave South will dead end with a Trail entrance. I have to ask now four years later, Is this proper planning and engineering? The town have sacrificed the ratepayers of Daniele Ave. N for the profit of a developer. We have a dust clould every time a car or truck comes down Daniele. My car has been parked for the last two days. Its covered in dust and now I am beyond being just mad! We have had to put up with dump truck after dump truck for weeks now. How do you explain the constant running of heavy loaded dump trucks down my street at all hours. Last Monday night one came in around 10 p.m. and dumped a load and this wasn’t the first time we have noticed after hours dumping. The following morning one showed up at 6:40 a.m. Just tonight at 9 p.m. (July 10), another truck dumping. They were all from the same company that has been driving down our residential street. So the information the town supplied us with must be false. The representative of the town had stated that it must have be a rouge truck illegally dumping on the site. I may have been born at night but fortunately it wasn’t last night! Why does the town lie to us? I thought they were limited from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., but it must be different when one lives on the other side of the “tracks that lead to Nowhere” in Beeton. These trucks are for the most part older and probably in possible poor condition as one had shed a wheel last Friday July 4th while navigating Daniele Gate across the tracks. Imagine if that wheel had come off in the middle of town at speed, or out on the 8th Line at greater speed. We have only just begun to see a small amount of truck traffic. It will get worse once the tractor trailers start to roll in with site services and construction material. How will they navigate the three corners through the residential area in order to access the site? The big equipment floats have had a hard time with all these corners, so it will be the same with transports soon. How many heavy laden concrete trucks will pass my house? I don’t think I can count that high, I don’t have any little letters after my name like the town director who I believe I heard state on Rogers TV council broadcast, something like (not a direct quote but somewhat like) “Normally construction barricades are left in place until first occupancies are approved to stop the migration of construction related activity into existing residential areas”. This statement was in reference to access for students from the existing residential area to a new (under construction) school site in Alliston ( the center of the universe) which will open in the fall. Things must be different here in Beeton. We have no barricades, only poorly designated un-manned access points and poorly designed road structure. Which seems to me is based on how cheap they can build it instead of building roads that will help the flow of traffic. Just look at the development map it is so full of twists and turns and will create traffic headaches for the rest of time. There is only one way to drive out of the mess that they are creating. I predict no one from the new area will use either Dugdale or McCullough to enter or exit the area once built. There is still time to demand a bridge to be built as the development land to the south has not been planned as of yet, I believe. To add to that, at the rate of speed they have been developing this area so far its probably still feasible for us to demand a access road for construction purposes from Simcoe Road 1 on the edge of the village. This road should have been demanded by the town right from the beginning, four years ago. It seems to me that there is not much activity out there and they must be way behind. Now that they are behind we will begin to see a increase in construction traffic volume due to a catch up schedule demanding more material in a shorter time frame. That action I feel, will further impact the existing residences even more and disrupt or lives to a much greater extent then even now. Start building at the Daniele Ave side and work out following the temp road back to the main street. Shame on the town representatives. The Town raises my taxes, increases my water rates and destroyed our quality of life. The site has been under construction for about nine months and I believe the town has not collected not even a nickel in development charges because as a council they voted to give a big gift to there developer buddies. While the people that have been helping to pay the bills around here get nothing in return except treated very poorly by the developer and the town. That leads me to ask the question What did they (council) get, aside from some donations to the mayors golf tournament. I think the time has come to make a few more changes in this town. Hopefully they all get whats coming to them in October, but I doubt that they will. The good people of Beeton and New Tecumseth probably don’t see things the way I do. That is too bad for the minority of us that are fed up with the town and its over paid directors and council. We will just have to wait till October and see I suppose. Watch out Maple Ave they are coming for you next. The developer on Dayfoot to his credit seems to be going about his business in a reasonable fashion from what I seen so far. It’s too bad he can’t teach the developer off Daniele Ave how to interact with the surrounding community. **Update: On a positive note, a street sweeping service has been employed to clean up the dust dragged out of the site. This service was done to street last Friday and again on Monday evening. Hopefully this effort by the developer is kept up for the duration of the project until pavement is installed on the only road leading into this development. This action is a start in appeasing the grief that has been forced upon the residents of Daniele Ave North by the planning and engineering departments of The Town of New Tecumseth. I am also hoping that actions such as simple cleaning and choice of routes to other sites in the village which are soon to begin, will be thought out this time instead of forcing a situation upon ratepayers which was unacceptable and still is in my opinion.

Steve Olsen, Beeton

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