Ahead of a public meeting on Greenbelt lands in Hamilton, local politicians will suggest city staff look into taking legal action against the Ford government's decision.
The public consultation is part of a city initiative outlining what role the city has when provincial land and development facilitators arrive to engage staff and explain how 795 hectares of the Greenbelt will be removed.with the facilitators after the city’s director of planning suggested “community benefits” in the form of enhanced parkland or community facilities could be secured through the negotiations.via the province’s new housing minister.
The process not only could recommend more land be added to the protected area, but it could also see more land removed. Danko said the Hamilton motion for a judicial review could be “one of the remedies ” the city would ask the court to impose, citing agreement that the process was wrong.“There’s no reason why … the protections could be put back on and then it rolled into this new process that the government’s talking about,” Danko said.
He said that under provincial rules, the city will have to file within 30 days of receiving new information. “So the clock is ticking. We would have to get a note back from legal staff as soon as possible as to what the feasibility is and also what are the possible outcomes that we could receive from the court,” Danko said.
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