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All some developers have to do in London Ontario is threaten to appeal to the OMB and then they seem to get their way. Just take a look at the sprawling mess that is London Ontario to see how the OMB should not work.

[Original Comment ID: 195498]

Invasive Species Program and Policy Advisor
Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Natural Resources Conservation Policy Branch
Natural Heritage Section
300 Water Street
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 8M5

October 6, 2016

Dear Mr. Downe:

I support this review and reform to the OMB. I don't understand why Ontario or any municipality bothers to hire City Planners if their recommendations and advice are overturned by the OMB at every opportunity.

I am writing to state my support for the following changes to the OMB and how it operates:

I am in full of support of:

These are my comments re the OMB review:

-The OMB should be scrapped because it serves no purpose other than appeasing the people (developers) with the deep pockets to get their way.

Ken Petersen, Manager
Ministry of Municipal Affairs
Provincial Planning Policy Branch
777 Bay Street. Floor 13
Toronto, ON MsG 2E5

By regular mail and email: ken.petersen@ontario.ca

Dear Ken

Please find attached full text of 'Solicitors White Paper',(July, 2016), adjunct to the public submission by the Regional Planning Commissioners, Ontario on Ontario Municipal Board reform..

[Original Comment ID: 204809]

Quite simply, I feel the OMB to be a redundant service. It rarely serves the public interest and too often overrides the democratic will of the citizenry.

Committee Report
To: Warden Mitch Twolan
Members of the Planning and Development Committee

From: Chris LaForest
Director of Planning

Date: November 17, 2016

Re:Review of the Ontario Municipal Board

RECOMMENDATION:

I have taken part in the OMB process as I was an appellant. I was with a group of residents who were appealing a zoning decision by my Municiaplity.

I was an appellant in an OMB hearing, It was VERY expensive. Unless you are with a group of people it is just too expensive to do an appeal on your own.

December 14, 2016

Mr. Ken Petersen, Manager
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Local Government and Planning Policy Division
Provincial Planning Policy Branch
777 Bay Street , Floor 13
Toronto ON
M5G 2E5

Dear Mr. Petersen,

REPORT TO: Planning and Development Committee

MEETING DATE:Wednesday, November 30, 2016

SUBJECT:Ontario Municipal Board Review

RECOMMENDATIONS

1.That Regional Council SUPPORT the review of the Ontario Municipal Board.

Repairs to the OMB are desperately needed to make citizen participation easier and less expensive and to ensure its decisions UPHOLD provincial land use plans.

December 19, 2016

Ken Petersen
Manager, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Local Government and Planning Policy Division
Provincial Planning Policy Branch
777 Bay Street
Floor 13
Toronto ON
M5G 2E5

Ken Petersen
Manager, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Local Government and Planning Policy Division
Provincial Planning Policy Branch
777 Bay Street
Floor 13
Toronto ON
M5G 2E5

I attend most FoNTRA meetings and often discuss concerns about the operation of the Ontario Municipal Board with others. I fully support the Brief submitted by the Federation of North Toronto Ratepayers Associations (FoNTRA), and request the same changes be made.

Mr. Ken Petersen, Manager
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Local Government and Planning Policy Division
Provincial Planning Policy Branch
777 Bay Street, Floor 13
Toronto, ON M5G 2E5

Thank you for undertaking a review of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), which we sincerely hope results in the changes outlined in the rationale for the review.

Thank you for undertaking a review of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), which we sincerely hope results in the changes outlined in the rationale for the review.