London Clean and Green will be held on Saturday, April 20. Londoners will work together to help “clean & green” our city’s neighbourhoods and parks and the Thames River. If you are interested in participating, you can find a list of gathering places and register at:
http://www.cleangreen.london.ca/clean_green_registration_info.html
Spring plant exchange at the Sherwood library
Calling all gardeners! Bring in your extra cuttings, bulbs and plants to exchange with other gardeners.
The Sherwood branch will host a plant exchange on Saturday, 11 May 2013 from 9:30 am-11:30 am.
Please label plants and bring in leak proof containers.
Sarnia Road Environmental Assessment
City staff will be presenting their report to the Civic Works Committee on April 22 at 4:30 at City Hall in the Council Chambers. This is a public participation meeting so anyone can attend to speak. However, the City is asking for written submissions and requests for delegation status to be sent in by 9 am on April 15th to the attention of Jackie Martin, the committee secretary. Her address is jmartin@london.ca
The report will be posted on the City’s web site, likely by April 18th or 19th. See http://london.ca/d.aspx?s=/Meetings/Default/meetingpackages.htm
If approved by Committee and Council, the EA is posted on the public record for 30 days for comments to the Province. The actual construction is not scheduled to take place prior to 2022 in the City’s current capital budget.
Medway Valley trails
The Planning Committee of London City Council voted to pave the rest of the trail in the Medway Valley north of Fanshawe Road except for a boardwalk in the section around the bend in the Creek. This is shown on Option 4A of Page 40 of the Medway Valley Heritage Forest North Environmentally Significant Area Trail Master Planning Study (this is a large document) (with a boardwalk instead of asphalt around the bend). This recommendation goes to the full Council on April 16th.
This decision will likely have implications for the area of the Medway which borders Orchard Park/Sherwood Forest during the upcoming Conservation Master Plan.
The neighbourhood association on the east side of the Creek, Old Masonville, spoke in favour of the more pavement option. Sandy Levin, from the Orchard Park Sherwood Forest Ratepayers, spoke in favour of 5B (a less pavement option, page 44 of the attached). Both options included an additional bridge over the Medway just south of Sunningdale Road.
Student housing in Orchard Park/Sherwood Forest
The ratepayers are continuing to compile a list of addresses where the homes are rented out and not occupied by the owners. The list goes to the rental licensing area of city hall which will check to see if there is a license for this use. While it is currently a legal use, there are limits.
If you would like to have a location reviewed, you can either the city’s call Residential Rental Units Licensing enquiries at 519-930-3515, or you can contact Sandy Levin with the address and he will submit the information. At least 5% of the homes in the area are being used as rentals.
Orchard Park / Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association 