Participant status granted to community members and procedural order issued for development appeal hearing.
The appellants appealed the Municipality of Meaford's failure to make a decision on applications for an Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment to permit a five-storey residential condominium building.
At the first Case Management Conference, the Tribunal considered requests for participant status from several individuals.
Over the appellants' objections that most requesters lived beyond 120 metres of the site, the Tribunal granted participant status to all requesters, agreeing with the municipality that the site is prominent and the development is of community-wide importance.
The Tribunal also scheduled an eight-day video hearing and approved a Procedural Order and Issues List to govern the proceedings.
Glen Rhesa McCrabb, 299077 Ontario Inc. and 1862280 Ontario Inc. v. Meaford (Municipality), 2023 CanLII 3010