Members of the Blue Bayfield group have voiced some objections to a proposal to locate a Tim Hortons, a gas station and a convenience store at the south end of the village, between the car wash and the LCBO.
Board member Ray Letheran says one of their major concerns is the apparent lack of respect for environmental issues.
For example, he points to the use of plastic straws, non-compostable containers for take-out food and the waste that fast food restaurants tend to generate. Letheran says part of that concern is the amount of plastic from those containers that ends up in the lake.
He says a second, but very important concern, is the amount of pollutants that are put into the atmosphere by cars waiting in line at the drive-through. Letheran concedes the site in question is zoned appropriately for the proposed development, but Blue Bayfield would ask that Tim Hortons insist that its patrons turn off their vehicles and come into the shop to get their coffee and then return to their vehicles.
