By Pepper Parr
BURLINGTON, ON March 27, 2012 The Ontario Municipal Board hearing of an appeal against a city of Burlington zoning by-law change is to take place on Wednesday April 18th at 10:00 am in Room 247 at City Hall and not on the 27th of April as we erroneously stated in a previous story.
Number of units and prices may change after the OMB hearing
Richard Szymczyk was Principal at the Glenwood School from 1968 – 71, worked with his community to stop the development that originally wanted 78 units but saw it brought down to 54 units, when it came before Council and its committees many months ago. The community failed to get the developers plans reduced to the point they felt was in keeping with the scale of the community.
Szymczyk would have walked by the planned development site every day for the three years he ran the school. He knew the community and its residents well and believed the housing project was a mistake.
He decided there was merit in appealing the city’s change in the zoning bylaw and he filed the appropriate papers. Now, more than a year later a date has been set and the community goes up against the city’s planning department and an OMB officer will make a determination.
