It’s been a hot topic for Renfrew residents living on Mayhew Drive and Gillian Drive.
A development that would build 19 single-unit homes while also connecting the two streets is the subject of a petition with over 70 signatures asking for the town to intervene, making it into a 3-home development along a cul-de-sac which would keep Mayhew Drive closed off.
Mayor Tom Sidney recently explained the concerns he has heard from those residents to Town Council.
The petition, which was delivered to Town Hall on June 20th, says the people who purchased homes on Mayhew did so because “it is a quiet, dead-end street with no through traffic, providing a safe environment for their children to play and seniors to walk” without the fear of highway traffic speeding through.
The Town Council had the chance to discuss the development at their latest meeting, but Director of Strategic Asset Management Mike Asselin says things are unlikely to change.
He says that it’s because the developer has signaled that both water and sanitary pipes have already been extended into the area where construction will happen and are ready to resume after a lengthy break.
Director of Development and Environment Eric Withers says there was already a public consultation on the draft plan featuring the expansion of Mayhew Drive when that phase of the development within the subdivision was up for approval and that the work should have been expected despite delays.
Everything with the development is still in good standing, and no contracts or agreements between the town and the developer have lapsed, meaning the project is likely to go forward without change unless it can’t stay within town by-laws.
(written by Kasey Egan)
