Please consider amending the…

Please consider amending the restriction on third party appeals. As currently drafted, it would prevent a landowner from appealing a municipally-initiated Zoning By-law (Amendment) or Official Plan (Amendment) or Secondary Plan to directly applies to a landowner's property. The landowner would have no ability to challenge that decision made on its own lands.

Alternatively, remove the prohibition on appealing Official Plans/Secondary Plans on a site-specific basis following municipal approval (e.g. the two-year prohibition). This would allow the municipal instrument to come into effect generally, but would allow an individual landowner to test its appropriateness as regards its site on a site-specific basis when it is time for a development proposal to come forward, and ensure that this can be done in a timely way.