Updates

SORE supporters are reminded of the Public Meeting Wednesday beginning at 5 pm on the proposed Marotta Rand subdivision. The meeting can be viewed at livestream.com/notl.

Residents and interested parties are reminded of the upcoming Public Meeting concerning the Marotta Rand subdivision proposal on Wednesday, July 14 at 5 pm. The Public Meeting will be live-streamed.

SORE reminds all interested parties to register if you wish to electronically attend tomorrow’s open house concerning the Marotta Rand subdivision proposal starting at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

SORE has received additional information from the Town planner handling the Tuesday Open House starting at 5 p.m. We pass it along verbatim for your information.

SORE reminds supporters and all concerned stakeholders of the Open House next Tuesday June 15‎ beginning at 5 p.m. You must register in advance to attend the electronic Open House before noon June 15.

Save Our Rand Estate (SORE) is inviting community members to share their personal historical photographs and other archival information of and for the Rand Estate, also known as Randwood, located at the corner of John and Charlotte streets in Niagara-on-the-Lake. We are particularly interested in photos of Randwood taken either on the estate or from the surrounding streets and trails, and in particular, photographs taken before the 1980s.

SORE is very pleased to note that the Town has received the prestigious Prince of Wales Prize for 2020 from the National Trust for Canada.

In a series of developments over the last few days, the Marotta group has (1) Withdrawn their appeals to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) of the Town’s “non-decision” on their hotel/convention centre application; (2) Withdrawn their appeals to the Conservation Review Board (CRB) of the previous Council’s notices of intention to designate 144 and 176 John Street East under the Ontario Heritage Act in August of 2018; and (3) Put a for sale sign on 144/176 John Street.

On Sept. 8, the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) adjourned the proceedings until April 2021, to allow the subdivision application recently filed with the Town to be appealed to LPAT and consolidated with the Marotta hotel/convention centre application.

Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) have given notice of a Case Management Conference (CMC) for TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 AT 10 AM by video, not in person.

The lawyers for both SORE and the Town recently filed their responding factums with the Court of Appeal in the Marotta group’s ongoing effort to overturn the previous Council’s decision to initiate the heritage designation process of the Rand Estate in August of 2018.