September 1, 2021
Click here to read the formal notice provided by the applicant of the October 5th, 2021 OLT Case Management Conference, which includes a Cover Letter and an Explanatory Note.
August 18, 2021
You can see a copy of the notice of the October 5th, 2021 OLT Case Management Conference from the OLT here. The applicant is to send the notice at least 30 days prior to the CMC to neighbours within 120 metres and to those who have previously expressed interest.
You can submit a ‘participant statement’ to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) outlining your thoughts on the application. The participant status request form is due at least 10 days in advance of the October 5, 2021 Case Management Conference, or September 24, 2021. We expect there will be opportunity to update your statement at a later date, when the full facts of the case are made available to all, but best to make your full arguments now.
You must fill out a short form to send in a ‘participant statement’. We have a pdf version of the form with the Case number (PL210104) and Case Management Conference Date (October 5, 2021) filled out. All you need to do is complete the:
1) Request Date (date of your submission)
2) Your name and contact information, and
3) The participant statement.
or you can use the version at the OLT website (our case number is PL210104 and the Case Management Conference date is Oct. 5, 2021).
Once you have completed the form, attach it to an email to all the established parties in a single message. The parties are:
–Tribunal Case Coordinator Kimberly Livingstone at Kimberly.Livingstone@ontario.ca
–Region of Waterloo Solicitor Fiona McCrea at FMcCrea@regionofwaterloo.ca
–City Solicitor Lesley MacDonald at Lesley.MacDonald@kitchener.ca
–Solicitor For Applicant Jennifer Meader at jmeader@tmalaw.ca
–Solicitor for Friends of Olde Berlin Town Patrick Kraemer at patrick@kraemerllp.com
Please note that new participants are expected to attend the October 5th Case Management Conference to ensure their request is considered by the Tribunal.
And, of course, you can join the Friends of Olde Berlin Town party by contacting us at OBTfriends@gmail.com.
The applicant’s files in support of its initial application to the City of Kitchener for a 15 storey building with a floor space ratio of 6.2 are available at kitchener.ca/planningapplications. (Note: The applicant has indicated to the OLT they wish to revise their plan to permit a 19 storey building with a floor space ratio of 7.8)
Kitchener Planning Staff’s Pre-Submission Consultation record begins on page 59 of the “Planning Justification Report 21July2020“.
Three additional Pre-Submission Consultation comments from city staff were made public via the Ontario Land Tribunal on June 16, 2021, dated from August and September 2020 regarding Heritage, Planning and Urban Design.