It has been approved. The Municipal Board decision was not favorable to the Municipality on any count.
1. Westhill has fulfilled the Class EA requirements
2. the Official Plan Amendment as modified was appropriate
3. the zoning bylaw amendment should be granted
4. the plans of subdivision and condominium should beapproved subject to conditions; and
5. the Committee of Adjustment appeals on Bovair are allowed.
In July 1999, Westhill filed its revised application for development with the Town. Four years of negotiations ensued.
In October 2003 ,Westhill filed an appeal with the Ontario Municipal Board
A Hearing date was set for April 2008
In March 2008 the previous council refused the application stating it was premature.Mine was the single dissenting vote. I believed the town could not win.
Money for legal fees has flushed out of the town treasury into a sink hole ever since.
A full three years later, considering five failed procedures to gain a consolidated board hearing ,and six weeks of Ontario Municipal Board Hearings with all the attendant expense of time and finances, there is little satisfaction in saying: See.... I was right again.
What price experience? What price judgment? What price commitment to the best interest of the taxpayer?
Was the town well served? Not a whit.
Did we fight for a principle ? Are you kidding me.
Am I bitter? No...because I KEPT FAITH WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED ME.
When I find out,to the penny, how much it cost, I will let you know that too..
And Rod Northey lost another one...lol,lol.
ReplyDeleteYet another example of why the lot of them were thrown from office, I agree you shouldn’t be bitter but you have every right to be angry as hell just like the rest of us who watched this whole charade play out. all in the name of misguided self righteousness ,what an absolute disgust.
ReplyDeleteIf Morris or MacEachern had to reach into their own purses for as much as twenty bucks to fund the fight they would not pursued this issue. But then they never did have any regard for taxpayers in this town, just their diminishing circle of friends.
ReplyDeleteIt was always a foregone conclusion what the result would be.
Now we await the foregone conclusion of the next OMB result.
Old Morris Bull****
It was all a huge waste , but Thank, you ,Thank you ,Thank, you Councilor Buck, If it weren’t for you and this blog continually driving home the horid facts we would have been saddled with another four years of their crap ,One can only imagine with horror the kind of financial ruin we all would have witness
ReplyDeleteWhat about all the wasted staff time with the last council? Maybe we don't need all the additional staff now, and therefore we don't need refurbishment of the town hall.
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