Wawa Municipal Council's cleared a key roadblock for Superior Aggregates.
In meetings last night, Council heard a presentation from Robert Lehman of Lehman & Associates, who noted he wrote the community's first official plan four decades ago and also served as the municipality's planner for Superior Aggregates, which was seeking the removal of a "hold" for its wharf lands with a new site plan agreement - both requests were accepted in the regular meeting, along with a road use agreement.
Lehman assured conditions set when the hold was placed have now been met, but he'd also met with regulators to clarify what efforts would be necessary, with Superior Aggregates to be required to meet conditions set by any government agency with authority over the project, including obtaining a certificate of environmental compliance, along with noise monitors already required in the Ontario Municipal Board's decision on the project - he also recommended a committee including the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry to look at the impacts.
Councillor - and incoming mayor - Melanie Pilon thanked Lehman for his work on a "very complicated matter", while outgoing Mayor Pat Tait said he was in a "similar seat" - Council made no other comments or asked any other questions before passing the by-laws.