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May 16,2006

PLANNING REPORT FAVOURS PORT TOWER - OMB WILL BE COMMUNITY'S OPTION

Good Morning Volunteers and Friends of Port Dalhousie Everywhere,

Yesterday was a sad day in the history of St. Catharines. At last night's Council Meeting, Staff released their much anticipated Planning Report on the second massive tower proposal for Port Dalhousie. Despite the fact that the proposal clearly violates the City's Official Plan, Secondary Plan for Port, Zoning By-Law and Heritage Guidelines --all of which this Staff helped develop-- Staff caved in and the recommendation is largely to proceed.

In addition, just before the release of the Planning Reports, Council received a letter from the developer's lawyer. With this letter, the developers gave Council their blessing to release the hitherto secret reports on the first tower proposal. Even though they presumably did not know what was in either report, they all of a sudden decided to lift the veil of secrecy last night.

We are disappointed but definitely NOT DISCOURAGED. This is largely what we anticipated and, as you know, we have a solid plan to stop the developers' steamroller. We already have a team in place that includes one of the best Land Use lawyers and Land Use Planners. In addition, other experts will be assisting us. We are FULLY CONFIDENT that, if this proposal goes to the OMB (as expected), we have both an excellent team and an excellent case.

With the strong support of the community, we will fight and win this case and ensure appropriate development for Port that will not overwhelm the heritage or the Parking and Traffic capacity. Please plan on attending a most important General Meeting next Wednesday May 24th (St, Andrews United Church, 92 Main Street at 7:00 pm) to learn how everyone can help strengthen the community's opposition to these developers' proposal. More information and news will follow.

Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting

Together we will Save Our Seaport

David Bergen and Carlos Garcia
PROUD Port Dalhousie
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