{"id":40742,"date":"2017-11-28T14:21:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T19:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=40742"},"modified":"2018-03-15T19:11:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T23:11:38","slug":"omb-hearing-muskoka-landings-height-exemption-appeal-begins-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/omb-hearing-muskoka-landings-height-exemption-appeal-begins-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing into Muskoka Landing&#8217;s height exemption appeal begins November 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jarlette Health Services, owners of Muskoka Landing Long Term Care Inc., will be heading to an Ontario Municipal Board hearing on Wednesday to try and overturn a Huntsville Council decision regarding the height of their proposed addition.<\/p>\n<p>All other aspects of the planned expansion have been approved but Planning Committee, and consequently council, would not budge on a 15-metre height exemption.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Jarlette Health Services is proposing to expand its 94 long-term care bed facility by adding a retirement lodge. The lodge would include up to 120 retirement units. The new units would be housed in a two-storey addition on the south side of its existing building, while adding another four-storey to another part of the building. The proposed development would also include 14 townhouses adjacent to the Fairy Lake shoreline as well as a gazebo and a 42.5 metre-wide docking structure along the shoreline of the Rogers Cove basin that would extend up to eight metres into the bay. If approved, the height of the proposed addition would sit at about 15 metres, while the Town\u2019s existing zoning bylaw for the property calls for 12 metres. The proposal also calls for the creation of a parking lot on Helen Street.<\/p>\n<p>While Town planning staff recommended that Jarlette Health Services&#8217; application be approved, Planning Committee did not. The recommendation not to approve the height variant (or the eight metre dock)  was also endorsed by Huntsville Council, which prompted Jarlette Health Services to take its request to the Ontario Municipal Board.<\/p>\n<p>Area neighbours have been up in arms over the magnitude of the proposal and many will likely be present at the OMB hearing \u2013 expected to last two days.<\/p>\n<p>Because Council went against staff\u2019s recommendation on the proposal, if it wants to defend its decision it will have to hire its own experts. Since staff recommended that the application be approved, they can only be called to the OMB as witnesses but cannot defend council\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Professional Planners can only act as an expert witness at a Hearing and not advocate on behalf of an employer, the defence of a planning decision requires the retention of legal expertise to represent the Town\u2019s position. As Committee is aware, defence of a planning decision can be complicated and require an inordinate amount of preparation time as well as time at a Hearing. Accordingly, legal representation can be very costly,\u201d Manager of Planning Services Kirstin Maxwell told Planning Committee at its June 20, 2017 meeting. Consequently, Council will not be a party at the OMB hearing and will not try to defend its decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere could be a hearing where it\u2019s only the person who appealed the decision and nobody else there and the OMB will render a decision based on all the information,\u201d she said, adding that the OMB will get a copy of all of the municipality\u2019s files including all comments received.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should consider everything and come up with their own determination,\u201d explained Maxwell of the process. \u201cThey recognize that it\u2019s an expensive process and that municipalities don\u2019t have unlimited funds. Quite often, in that instance, they would ask a Town planner to go just to be a friend to the Board, they call it, and that would be to just give independent corroboration of facts\u2026 sometimes they ask for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An email has been circulated to area residents asking them to make their opposition to the proposed expansion known. \u201cThe site for this project is unique, in that it has both an urban and a shoreline setting. Whether viewed from Fairy Lake or from Highway #60, the 15m high Retirement Lodge will become the dominating feature of the landscape at a major, significant intersection in the town. The excessive light-spill emanating from the numerous windows, increased external building light, parking lot lighting, and street lighting will establish a night-time beacon to be seen for miles around,\u201d it states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that the applicant\u2019s position at the OMB hearing should not go unchallenged. To that end, Evan Head, a Fairy Lake property owner, will be representing all stakeholders who have expressed concern about the negative impact this massive development will have. His informal presentation at the OMB Hearing will address our original points of concern,\u201d adds the email.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing will commence Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. at the Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment in meeting room 101 at 87 Forbes Hill Drive and is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! 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