Perthmore Development filed an appeal with the Ontario Land Tribunal over a lack of approvals to proceed with their latest residential project in Perth.
CEO, Maurice DeCaria says they submitted draft plans in December of 2020 and feel they’re unlikely to receive approvals for their Phase 6 in a reasonable amount of time.
He added that Perthmore has provided over 250 homes since the 1980’s and the proposed subdivision includes 93 homes.
He hopes to work constructively with the Town and County to minimize delays and costs for all involved, including taxpayers in the town.
Here is the complete response from Mr. DeCaria:
Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to comment.
Overall, we (Perthmore Enterprises Inc. (Perthmore)) were hoping to avoid the need to appeal to the Tribunal altogether. However, it became clear in recent months that it was unlikely that we would receive approvals from the Town of Perth and the County of Lanark in a reasonable timeframe.
Our applications for Draft Plan of Subdivision and a Zoning by-law Amendment for Phase 6 were initially submitted in December 2020. Town and agency comments were received in June of 2021 and we filed resubmissions in August 2022 that sought to address the comments, in part by reducing the development area in an effort to simplify approvals. Thereafter, only limited comments on the Draft Plan of Subdivision were received in February 2023 and we submitted our responses in June, 2023.
Perthmore and its team of professionals have submitted a complete and excellent package of professional reports that support the subdivision and zoning and meet all of the Town, County, other agency and Ontario Planning Act requirements.
Over the past several months, as we have been working to advance our development application with the Town of Perth and Lanark County, we have been transparent with Staff about the possibility of an appeal. As the appeal process moves forward, our hope is to work constructively with the Town and County in order to minimize unnecessary delays and costs both for Perthmore and for taxpayers, many of whom reside in past phases of Perthmore.
Given the long history of Perthmore Development having developed over 250 homes in the Town of Perth since the 1980’s, Perthmore has played an important part in meeting the Community’s housing needs. The proposed subdivision includes a mix of 93 homes, which in the context of the current housing shortage, are much needed.
We are hopeful that approvals will be in place in the near future, as we are very eager to get shovels in the ground again in the Perthmore Subdivision.
Story by Brian Turner
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It strikes me as extremely strange and financially wasteful when Perth is going all out to promote itself on and in the media as the place to go, the place to grow, the place to invest and the place to raise a family and then, on the other hand, seemingly goes out of its way to stymie backing up its boastful claims. How can one expect to invest, raise a family or expect a reasonable return on a business when Perth clearly, wants to live 150 years in the past as is evident by the time-wasting roadblocks and genuflecting toward the old has-been and geriatric crowd who still worship spatts and buggy whips? Come on Perth time to join us. It is 2024. Stop dwelling in 1874.