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Heart Lake condo hearing back on at OMB
Thursday February 19 2009
- Brampton Guardian
The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing to decide the fate of a multi-high rise apartment proposal in Heart Lake is back on.
The hearing, originally set to start last month, has now been rescheduled to start Oct. 5. Six weeks have again been set aside.
The hearing was delayed when the developer asked for more time to prepare, declaring a just discovered conflict on interest involving the company that completed its traffic study. The developer\'s lawyers had asked the OMB about the possibility of mediation in the matter, but it appears nothing came of it, according to Ken Bokor, co-chair of the Citizens for Managed Development at Loafer\'s Lake, a task force of the Northwest Brampton Community Development Association.
The task force has participant status at the OMB hearing and it is collecting surveys from residents to use as part of its presentation to the board. The deadline for filling out a survey has been extended to March 31. So far, close to 600 have been received, many with detailed letters attached.
Bokor said the surveys will allow residents to let the OMB know how they feel about the proposal.
Royalcliff Developments Inc. and Lake Path Holdings Inc. want to build a total of 1,443 residential units on the site, abutting the Loafer\'s Lake Recreation Centre at Sandalwood Parkway and Conestoga Drive. The majority of those units- 1,396- would be in six highrise towers between 18 and 32 storeys in height. It would bring an estimated 2,189 new residents and 353 visitors to the area, according to the citizen\'s task force.
Brampton councillors and staff flatly rejected the proposal in early September, but the developer had already appealed to the OMB.
The City of Brampton and the Region of Peel are parties to the appeal.
The citizen\'s survey is available at http://nwbcda.googlepages.com, or copies can be picked up, completed and then dropped off at two businesses in the Heart Lake Town Centre- Vintners Exclusive Wines and Honey Brown Tanning Salon. The Web site also has several reports, including the developer\'s response to the city\'s concerns.
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