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Marketing board granted party status in application challenging municipal by-law on greenhouse lighting.
The Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers (OGVG) brought a motion to be added as a party to an application by Great Lakes Greenhouses Inc. challenging a municipal by-law restricting supplemental greenhouse lighting.
The municipality opposed the motion.
The Board found that OGVG, as the regulatory body for greenhouse vegetable production in Ontario, was directly affected by the outcome and could make a useful contribution to the technical aspects of the case.
The motion was granted and OGVG was added as a party.
Board declined to limit scope of evidence regarding environmental impacts of greenhouse lighting at pre-hearing stage.
The applicant requested an order at a pre-hearing conference to limit the scope of evidence at the upcoming hearing, specifically seeking to exclude evidence regarding the impact of artificial greenhouse lighting on dark skies and bird migration.
The Board declined to limit the scope of evidence at the pre-hearing stage, finding it would be premature to preclude evidence without understanding it in the full scope of the hearing before a full panel.
Engineer's report for municipal drain referred back for revision; proposed works on appellant's property found excessive.
The appellant appealed the Engineer's Report for the Setterington Lane Municipal Drain under the Drainage Act, challenging the assessments, the design of the drainage works, and the allowances provided.
The Tribunal found that the proposed work on the appellant's property, which included a large ditch and stormwater management facility, was excessive and unnecessary.
The Tribunal referred the report back to the Municipality with directions to delete the assumption of the existing drain upstream of a certain point, incorporate the construction of a berm as previously agreed upon by the neighbours, and increase the land allowance from $15,000 to $35,000 per acre.
