Whitchurch-Stouffville Newspaper Index

Stouffville Sun-Tribune (Stouffville, ON), 7 Feb 2008, p. 8

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’Last agricultural building in Stouffville’ and that is thelast tie to it. “It is the last agricultural building in Stoufiville," he said. fI‘he Heritage Advisory Committee report will be used to formulate the staff report on GO Transit’s demolition permit request, which will come back to council in about a month. No one from GO "Ii’ansit spoke at the meeting. A spokesperson confinned yesterday a permit application had been submitted. Schell Lumber bought the Stoufiville Co-op on Edward Street in 2004, but didn't take over the grain elevator, which had sat unused for several years. At that time, GO took ownership of the land near the co-op, where the grain elevator is located. This isn’t the first time GO has made moves to demolish the building. The building was slated to be demol- ishedinluneofzpoclaspartofanexpan- sion plan by CO Transit to make more room for commute: paljking. ‘ In the meantime, the town’s Heri- tage Advisory Committee met with G0 to work out other options, since the grain elevator was on the town’s heritage inventory list. The building was then given a reprieve, with G0 agreeing to leave the building intact for the time being. Local politicians, however, did give their approval for GO to take down the single- storey portion of the building, which was added after the original grain eleva- tor was built, and the adjacent Quonset hut. [low do you feel about demolition plans for the Stoufl'ville elevator? e-mail letters to jmason®yrmg.com STAFF PHOTO/JANICE BANNON GO Transit wants to demolish the Stoufl’ville grain elevator over protests from local historians.

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