{"id":258,"date":"2012-01-01T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolynamyotte.ca\/?p=258"},"modified":"2019-01-23T02:58:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T02:58:39","slug":"apsley-finally-gets-mto-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Apsley Finally Gets MTO Recognition!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>First published January 2012<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve had a \u2018bee in my bonnet\u2019 over the fact that Apsley has never had Highway 28 signage like our other hamlets of Big Cedar and Woodview since before I was ever elected to Council.&nbsp; With my appointment as Chair of the North Kawartha Community Planning Committee my first initiative was to look into this and other signage issues within our township.&nbsp; What we discovered is that the Ministry of Transportation has criteria governing the use of boundary signs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For a town to qualify for Boundary Signs it must be officially recognized as a Lower Tier, Upper Tier, Single Tier or Formerly Incorporated Municipality.&nbsp; On top of this, the official town limits must cross the highway to be eligible.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MTO never realized that Apsley does meet this criteria and nobody ever thought to question it&#8230; until now!&nbsp; After several emails back and forth between the Township and the MTO, Council passed a motion approving the erection of boundary signs and a week before Christmas the new signs were installed.&nbsp; I would like to thank the committee members and staff along with the MTO for their efforts in getting Apsley the recognition it deserves! &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now on to our other projects: distance signage at the junctions of townships roads and highway 28, new municipal entrance signs, beautification and much more&#8230; stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First published January 2012 I\u2019ve had a \u2018bee in my bonnet\u2019 over the fact that Apsley has never had Highway 28 signage like our other hamlets of Big Cedar and Woodview since before I was ever elected to Council.&nbsp; With my appointment as Chair of the North Kawartha Community Planning Committee my first initiative was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/?p=258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apsley Finally Gets MTO Recognition!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolynamyotte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}