<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I am so happy this morning! This story was featured in today's KW Record. Here's a quick summery. <br></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">The Ontario government will apply to become a party to the region’s court case and support the region’s attempt
to reverse a decision by Ontario Municipal Board that opened up 1,056 hectares to new development. The region wanted to keep that down to 85 hectares.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal;"><br><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;"></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is rare for the municipal government to ask the courts to overturn a decision from the Ontario Municipal Board — a provincial tribunal that rules on land-use and development disputes. It is even rarer for the provincial government to side with a municipal counterpart against a decision from that provincial tribunal.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The fact that the province has made this step is important,” Milloy said.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“That’s terrific, we are very pleased,” said Rob Horne, the region’s commissioner of planning.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Horne said he has never heard of the province intervening in this way.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paul Britton, a private-sector urban planner who represents some developers at the board hearing, has called on the region to negotiate a solution. Britton, a partner at MHBC Planning, was reluctant to talk
about the province’s move to get involved.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I can’t really comment at this point,” Britton said. “It is a matter of pending litigation, so we will just have to see.”</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><a
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