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Legal action again delayed on hotel site
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by Steve Dills
Sylvan Lake News
Another extension has been granted to the owners of the stalled construction project at the town’s main corner.
Councillors voted 4-2 to give the owners a “final” 45 day extension to provide an engineering report on the structural integrity of the parkade which was built over seven years ago. Councillors Judy Payne and Ken MacVicar voted against the motion while mayor Susan Samson and councillors Joan Barnes, Richard Backs and Lynda Sills Fiedler voted in favour.
They made the motion after spending close to an hour in a closed camera meeting Monday night.
Backs, in making the motion, referred to a letter from Bearden Engineering Consultants requesting the extension. The company was given until September 9th to submit the report and the developer to commit to proceed with a project. “Failing that commitment we will instruct our lawyers to proceed with court action,” Backs said.
Wording of the motion indicated “no further extensions on receipt of the report shall be granted” and “the town shall proceed with court proceedings should the report not be received by Sept. 9”.
The town’s director of planning and development, Tim Schmitt, issued an order to the owners to clean up the dangerous, unsightly mess in September 2008. The order required the property owner to remove the concrete foundations and underground parkade, fill in the excavation and level the property and seed it to grass, by June 30, 2009.
Then the property owner filed a legal challenge against the town’s order. The matter, before the Court of Queen’s Bench, has been adjourned several times since. |
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