By 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.
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 That report was apparently withdrawn and it will not go to Standing Committee until the fall by which time the Air Park will have filed their site plan and come under the old bylaw rather the one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.?
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.