A large thank you to all of you who came to the meeting. It was a good
turn out and even the Board Member adjudicating, Karen Kraft Sloan, commented
that if we expected as large a turn out at the subsequent meeting to please let
them know and she’d arrange for a larger room. The LCC has hired the firm of
ERIC K. GILLESPIE Barristers
& Solicitors to represent us at the hearing. The lawyer who is handling the
case is Ian Flett, both Ian and the firm have a
great deal of experience at the OMB arguing development cases. Their experience
in Municipal and Land Use Planning law has earned their firm a place on the
Novae Res Urbis Top Ten Planning and Development Law Firms for 2014 in
Toronto. The developer has hired David Bronskill of Goodman & Carr to
represent them. The City was represented by their lawyer and Leontine Major of City Planning was
there as well.
The Pre-hearing conference is used to establish who is requesting “Party”
status and who is asking to be a “Participant”. The City, the LCC and Rockport
(the developer) all requested Party status. The Greater Beach Neighbourhood
Association (GBNA) represented by Uwe Sehmrau requested to be a participant as
did Caroline Winship who was a member of the Stakeholder advisory committee
Queen Street East Leslieville Planning Study. Both of them were active in
helping to establish the Mid-Rise guidelines that are currently in effect
between Coxwell east through Kew Gardens(GBNA) and Leslie to Booth to the west.
It is wonderful that we have them on board to show that the Queen east
neighbourhood communities have always been active in the formulation of the
guidelines necessary for good planning and development.
The rest of the hearing was taken up with the selection of a series of
dates for mediation and, should mediation not produce a resolution, the dates
for the subsequent Pre-hearing conference and the actual hearing. There was not
been a final mediation date provided yet but a mid-July date was requested.
We will be meeting with the LCC’s counsel very soon and will keep you
posted of upcoming developments.
DON’T FORGET THE TWO
FUNDRAISERS FOR THE LCC!!!!! TO HELP OR GET INVOLVED OR DONATE
CONTACT SHERI KIMURA sherikimura@hotmail.com OR VICTORIA DINNICK vdinnick@sympatico.ca
COMMUNITY LAWN SALE NEXT SATURDAY JUNE 6
AT 1341 QUEEN ST. EAST 8 A.M. TO 3:00 P.M.
MAPLE FEST JAZZ AND SILENT AUCTION
SUNDAY JUNE 14 AT MAPLE COTTAGE 62 LAING ST 1:00 P.M. TO 5:00 P.M.
GET
INVOLVED: IT’S YOUR
NEIGHBOURHOOD
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