A planned expansion of a works facility is becoming a battle of County versus City. Woodstock City Council is expected to authorize staff to file an appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board Thursday night in regards to the expansion of a works facility on County Road 30 which the City says does not maintain the general intent and purpose of the Official Plan and does not represent good planning. Councilor Paul Plant says this decision could be a game changer. "There have been other instances where they have tried to put services beyond the boarders and it's just one of those things that an urban centre has to object to. If you start supplying urban services to all of the places on your boundary where does the city grow in the future?" Plant says this reinforces his request to find out what it would cost for the City to retain their own planning services instead of using the County's. "Right now the City of Woodstock does all of the County road plowing in the City of Woodstock. You don't see County trucks doing County roads here, you see City of Woodstock trucks doing County roads. Why don't we do that in all the municipalities, it would be cheaper? So to go and argue that we have to extend this works yard and put the servicing outside of it, it's not right from the stand point of future growth of the City and it doesn't make sense that we're not sharing resources." Plant says the City of Woodstock tries to be responsible with their money and he feels the County doesn't want to share. "We offered the County two situations and one is written in the report, offered them land on Tecumseh Street. I think what you've really got to look at, is do we need two roads service yards within a couple miles of each other." The City says they are willing to transfer ownership of land on Tecumseh Street to the County of Oxford at no cost as long as they retire the Road Patrol Yard on the 11 Line. City Council will debate the issue Thursday night.
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