Air Park takes a new tack; hires engineers instead of lawyers to do their bidding. Will anything be different?

airpark 100x100By Pepper Parr

July 18, 2014

BURLINGTON, ON.

The fat is about to get dropped into the fire.

The Burlington Executive Air Park Inc., has hired a locally based firm of consulting engineers to guide them as they seek site plan approval.

 

Vince Rossi, president of the Burlington Executive Air PArk and beleived to be the sole shareholder of the private company, met with north Burlington residents.  He took all the comments made "under advisement"..

Vince Rossi, president of the Burlington Executive Air Park and believed to be the sole shareholder of the private company, has hired a firm of local engineers to help him prepare an application for a site plan.

Amazing – after paying out more than $60,000 in fees to the city of Burlington for court cases that needn’t have taken place,  Vince Rossi has seen the light and decided that he will seek permission to change the lay of the land he owns between Appleby Line and Bell School Line.

The city was in the last stages of a process that will result in the imposition of a revised site plan by law which was due to go to the Development and Infrastructure Sanding Committee last week.   That report was apparently  withdrawn and it will not go to Standing Committee until the fall by which time the Air Park will have filed their site plan and come under the old bylaw rather the one that has been vetted by every agency and council within the Region.

Is the city letting an opportunity slip through their fingers?

Will it ever see a site plan application from Burlington Air Park Inc.?

Airpark aerial used by the city

There is a reported $400 million + in mortgages on the property.

More questions than answers on this file.  The elephant in the room is the 200 acres of land and the $4 + million in mortgages on the property.

What is now out on the table is Mr. Rossi’s latest gesture to the community – perhaps a let’s kiss and make up?  His Letter to the Editor, published yesterday irritated a few people but appears to be a yawn to most.

Link to the Letter

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