Dear Editor,
It is good to see that Huron County Planning Department finally got the AG4 severance policy right. As one county councillor said, “This is a big win for Huron County agriculture.”
So, it’s no longer necessary to take barns down to get an AG4 severance. But it never was, by law.
But is planning director Sandra Weber now admitting liability for making barn demolition an unlawful condition of getting an AG4 severance up until now?
The planning department’s severance rule was proven wrong.
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Will municipalities be looking at their local planner if, or when, they are sued by past severance applicants and their clients who suffered cost and harm by the old, unlawful bylaw?
Or will the liability be felt by the local council for acting on the county’s bad guidance?
Or are they all going to go after the legal counsel whose apparently wrongful direction they were acting under?
Why should the Huron taxpayers be responsible for replacement costs and loss of income for these demolished barns, especially after the planners insisted on barn demolition or decommissioning after they were aware of the problem?
Will there be resignations?
Where is the hot potato for another bad and harmful bylaw going to land?
A concerned Huron County taxpayer,
Ray Storey
