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TORONTO – Two Ontario municipalities are asking the provincial government to reimburse them for more than $400,000 in costs they incurred while working on the now-reversed Greenbelt land removals in their communities.
“While we appreciate the province’s reconsideration and commitment to preserving the integrity of the Greenbelt, we cannot overlook the significant amount of resources that have already been expended by our municipality in anticipation of housing development, sometimes at the direction of the province itself,” Pickering Mayor Kevin Ashe wrote in a letter to Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Paul Calandra.
The Cherrywood site in the Greenbelt is owned by Silvio De Gasperis’ TACC Group and at 4,262 acres it is nearly two and a half times as big as the next largest of the 15 sites the government wanted to remove. Those costs were incurred in spending on legal and consulting services, as well as staff time, “as a direct result of the pressure placed upon the town by the provincial government to reach agreements with developers and make decisions related to changes in the Greenbelt Act,” the town said in its motion.
Jeff Paikin, whose company owns one of the Grimsby parcels of land, has said his company has put in a “huge amount of work,” with signed contracts, completed designs and negotiations with the municipality.
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