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Protected boxwood cut down on Rand Estate

Article posted on April 4, 2018

What remains of protected boxwood on Rand Estate

Stumps are all that remain of historically significant boxwood on the Rand Estate that are protected by a Town by-law. Long-time NOTL resident and Rand estate neighbour Brenda Parks was prompted to provide a photo and a report on the boxwood following discussion of the boxwood in the March 30 meeting with Solmar.

Follow up from Marotta Rand proposal livestream meeting

Article posted on April 4, 2018

Marotta Rand Proposal Live Stream Meeting Report

A summary of the live-streamed March 30 SORE meeting with Benny Marotta has been provided to the Town. A letter from SORE’s counsel to the Marotta/Solmar counsel requests the promised information/reports. SORE urges Council and staff to have the appropriate resources and processes in place to review the Marotta proposal.

SORE meets with Benny Marotta in March 2018

Article posted on March 30, 2018

Live stream SORE meets Benny Marotta

SORE requested the opportunity to meet with developer Benny Marotta when he first presented his development proposal. He agreed to the meeting which was recorded. This is the video of the livestream of SORE’s meeting at 10:30 am, Friday, March 30, 2018, with Benny Marotta about the proposed Rand Estate development. 

Marotta agrees to meeting with SORE

Article posted on March 28, 2018

Benny Marotta agrees to meet

In an exchange of letters Tuesday afternoon, a meeting has been arranged for March 30th between Benny Marotta and SORE.  Details on the live stream will follow.

Marotta/Solmar presents new conditions, causing further delay

Article posted on March 26, 2018

Letter from Little to Richardson re Randwood March 26 2018

On Monday, March 26, 2018, Solmar’s legal counsel wrote to SORE’s lawyer saying that Solmar now wants to involve Town staff in arranging a meeting between SORE and Solmar.

SORE insists on live-stream for Solmar meeting

Article posted on March 24, 2018

SORE insists on live-stream for Solmar meeting

Solmar’s lawyers responded to SORE’s meeting request on March 23 by denying our request to live-stream the meeting.  We’ve pushed back and said this process will benefit from complete transparency.  Read the Solmar letter and SORE’s response here.

SORE pushes Solmar for meeting next week

Article posted on March 22, 2018

SORE letter to Rogato_March 22, 2018

At the March 19th Council meeting Solmar’s Maurizio Rogato requested a meeting with SORE. We’re ready and we’d prefer to meet as soon as possible. Our only condition: that the meeting be live-streamed to maintain SORE’s objective of transparency. Read the letter from SORE to Solmar.

Town Council drops the ball

Article posted on March 21, 2018

On March 19, your elected NOTL Town Council dropped the ball on the process for the Marotta/Solmar hotel and sub‎division proposal on the nationally significant Rand Estate property.

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  • 2018 Hotel Proposal Media Coverage
  • 2018 Hotel Proposal Process
  • December 2019 SORE Update

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