Endorsed Official Plan now gets sent to the Region - what do they do with it? Perhaps the city should dramatize the delivery of the document

News 100 yellowBy Pepper Parr

October 9th, 2020

BURLINGTON, ON

 

What happens now?

An 11 hour meeting to get through the Staff version of the Scoped ReExamination of the Adopted Official Plan and then debate the 9 amendments the Mayor and Ward 2 Councillor came up with – and it was then a done deal.

Well, as done as Burlington could do the document.

It has to be sent to the Regional government.

The document will fill a very very thick binder.

How do they get it to the Regional Planner?

Regional offices

Entrance to the offices of the Regional government.

By mid-October, staff will submit the Council-endorsed policy modifications for Downtown and Neighbourhood Centres, along with all supporting documentation, to Halton Region. Due to COVID, the logistics of submission are still to be confirmed.

How long will the Region need to determine if they can approve the document? Recall that they sent it back in the waning weeks of 2018 because it didn’t comply completely enough with the Regional Official Plan.

The Region will issue a draft decision on the City’s adopted Official Plan in November or December 2020.

How does it get returned to the city?

The Region’s Chief Planning Official will send the draft decision to Heather MacDonald, the City’s Executive Director of Community Planning, Regulation, and Mobility.

City Council meeting - before COVID

City Council meeting – before COVID. Perhaps they could assemble in a live meeting to receive the xx from the Regional government.

City Planning staff will then present the Region’s draft decision to City Council for review.

City Council will have a chance to review the draft decision and make comments before the Region issues a final decision.

Surely this will not take place at one of those wretched virtual meetings?

One of the issues for Burlington city council was – is the document appeal proof?

It is the Region’s decision that can be appealed, not the City’s.

After the Region issues a final decision on the City’s Official Plan, a Notice of Decision will be sent out to all parties who have participated in the Official Plan process by submitting written comments to the City or Region, or speaking at a public meeting.

The Notice will provide details about how to appeal the Region’s decision, and the deadline for filing an appeal.

Town Crier David Vollick reading the message from Gazette publisher Pepper Parr at Council in December of 2011.

Town Crier David Vollick reading a message to Council.

Anyone wanting to receive notice of the Region’s decision, should make a written request to Graham Milne, Regional Clerk, graham.milne@halton.ca, 905-825-6000, ext. 7110, Legislative & Planning Services, Region of Halton, 1151 Bronte Rd., Oakville, ON, L6M 3L1.

All very dry and dull.

Heather MacDonald might consider renting a small bus and driving to the Region where she and the staff she decides to take with her can don their face masks and troop into the Regional office bearing the flag with the city crest and the document in a leather binder carried on a dark velvet cushion.
The Town Crier could proceed this band of brave planners and announce that Burlington has arrived to deliver the Official Plan that city council has endorsed.

Somehow the Mayor will get herself on that bus – this is just too good a photo op to be missed.

 

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1 comment to Endorsed Official Plan now gets sent to the Region – what do they do with it? Perhaps the city should dramatize the delivery of the document

  • Penny Hersh

    I have only one question – all the amendments that were passed…..are they defendable at LPAT?

    If not, all the time and money spent on this New Official Plan will be for nothing.

    Only time will tell.