WHEREAS the owners (1851477 Ontario Inc.) of the lands described as Part of Lots 11, 12, 13 and 14, Concession 15, Township of East Ferris, District of Nipissing, has applied for approval of a draft plan of subdivision for the purpose of creating 12 new lots;
AND WHEREAS this application is a resubmission of phase 2 a previously approved application under file SB-2018-02, which has lapsed;
AND WHEREAS no additional lots or changes have been made to the proposed development from the approval that was given for file SB-2018-02;
AND WHEREAS since the original approval was granted on May 14th, 2019 the application has gone through an Ontario Land Tribunal hearing;
AND WHEREAS in their letter dated September 12th, 2024, Tulloch Geomatics, on behalf of 1851477 Ontario Inc., requested Council for the Municipality of East Ferris waive the $2,000 application fee as it was previously collected for this application;
AND WHEREAS the date of lapsing of the approval was set at three years, where five years is more common for developments of this size;
AND WHEREAS the global COVID-19 pandemic had great impacts on the residential construction industry, as well as other industries, throughout the pandemic;
BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that Council approves of the fee waiver request due to the three-year development period substantially falling within the same period of the COVID-19 pandemic;
AND FURTHER THAT by approving this request, Council is not setting a precedent for future fee waiver requests for planning applications and that any future fee waiver requests will be handled on a case-by-case basis.