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OMB opens way for high-rise project many people, including Simoneau, were left standing outside the Clarence Creek municipal office on both days, unable to get inside. She noted that Simoneau could have presented, instead, a written brief stating his objections to either the project or the OP change to city council then, or to the United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR) council when it considered the OP amendment, but he did not do so.
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“I really feel bad not to have been pro- vided the opportunity of presenting the (appeal) case to the OMB,” said Simoneau during an interviewAug. 4. “We can still talk to the OMB and ask it to review its decision.” Simoneau’s request for the right to appeal was made to the OMB before his election to city council last October. Now, as a council- lor, he is considering whether or not to conti- nue pursuing the matter since he is paying his own legal fees for the appeal. He said he plans to discuss the case with his lawyer before making his own final decision. “You have to know when to quit some- times,” he said.
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca A plan for improving water distribution between Clarence-Rockland and four rural communitiesmay hinge on getting provin- cial funding support. Council gave its full support to city admi- nistration’s proposal to apply to the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund (OCIF) for financial help for “water looping project”, for Clarence-Rockland’s four rural villages.The project cost is estimated at $2.2million and Chief Adminstrator Helen Collier said the city cannot afford to not try for provincial funding. “This is dependent on getting grant fun- ding,” she said. The OCIF is a three-year infrastructure aid program for municipalities. Clarence- Rockland submitted the water looping pro- ject along with rehabilitation of the Bear- brook Bridge, during last year’s application period. It got the money for the bridge but not the water project. Collier is optimistic that it could get provincial support this time, since all the budgeting and planning details are already worked out well before the Sept. 11 application deadline. “It’s a shovel-ready project,” she said. Mayor Guy Desjardins promised to lobby provincial government officials for support of the project during this month’s Associa- tion of Municipalities of Ontario meeting. “And we will keep pushing that project,” he said. A proposal for a 16-storey building on the main highway route through Rockland has gotten one obstacle cleared courtesy of the Ontario Municipal Board. Boardmember Karen Sloan turned down a request from Yvon Simoneau for status to appeal a change to the City of Clarence- Rockland’s Official Plan (OP), that will allow the high-rise project belonging to LLGDeve- lopments Inc. Sloan’s ruling is part of a report issued July 23, resulting from an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing on the case Jan. 29 in Clarence Creek. In her report, Sloan noted that the OMB ruling hinged on whether or not Simoneau was prevented from presenting his objec- tions to the OP amendment in September 2014, during either a public information session on the proposed high-rise project or the following city council session when the change to the OP was approved. Sloan stated “there were many avenues for and opportunities” for Simoneau to present his objection, either in person or through a written brief to council but he did not do so. Sloan also noted that the setup for both the public information meeting and the council session was not large enough to accommodate everyone who wanted to attend either or both gatherings, and that City seeks funds for water loop project
The OMB ruling is that since he did not take all reasonable steps to make sure his objections were part of the public record at the time, Simoneau cannot claim a right to appeal to the OMB the change to the OP.
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