• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

S O R E

  • About
  • Updates
  • Hotel Proposal
  • Subdivision Proposal
  • Benny Marotta Media Archive
  • How You Can Help
You are here: Home / Updates / Victory!!!

Victory!!!

Article posted on January 10, 2020

SORE is thrilled to report that the court application by the Marotta companies to overturn your elected Council’s decision to proceed with designation of the Rand Estate under the Ontario Heritage Act has been completely rejected. 

In a decision released today by the Ontario Superior Court, Madame Justice Walters found against the Marotta group on every ground and dismissed their application with costs payable to both the Town and to SORE.

This is a decisive victory for both the Town and SORE. For the last year, the now clearly spurious attempt by the Marotta group lawyer to hold the Town and SORE hostage to  this legal challenge has impaired the ability of the Town to proceed with the prosecution of the Marotta companies for alleged violations of the Heritage Act for last November’s outrageous clear-cutting at the Rand Estate.  That prosecution can now proceed and SORE will be watching that closely. 

The Conservation Review Board can now also complete its hearing on the review requested by the Marotta group of the Town’s notices of intent to designate the Rand Estate under the Heritage Act.  We look forward to that hearing and to the CRB’s recommendations to Town Council.  

This decision is a watershed moment for NOTL generally and in particular for the many hundreds of residents appalled by the Marotta Randwood proposals and the decimation of landscape features last November by the Marotta group.   It is hopefully the beginning of the end of this unfortunate saga.  

[Below is a PDF of the court decision.]

View all updates from SORE

View 2021 subdivision application documents

Footer

Latest posts by SORE

  • Marotta continues Rand litigation against Town and promises new lawsuit against Council
  • Residents Association press release
  • Ontario Land Tribunal dismisses Marotta Rand subdivision application
  • The Niagara Foundation moves forward on The Wilderness
  • Ontario Land Tribunal denies Marotta appeal of Rand subdivision decision
  • Marotta appeals Ontario Land Tribunal Rand decision
  • Town and SORE win OLT Rand case on Marotta subdivision

On SORE website

  • Updates
  • 2022 municipal election
  • How You Can Help
  • Benny Marotta the Developer- Media Archive
  • History of Randwood Estate
  • 2021 Rand Subdivision proposal documents
  • 2018 Hotel Proposal Documents
  • 2018 Hotel Proposal Media Coverage
  • 2018 Hotel Proposal Process
  • December 2019 SORE Update

Contact SORE

Email us with questions, interest and support at  [email protected]

Sign up for SORE updates

Sign up to receive email updates from SORE. *Name and email required
This field is required.

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your email signup to SORE.

The Save Our Rand Estate (SORE) website has been developed by SORE Association, a group of concerned local citizens in Niagara on the Lake, with information we believe to be accurate.

Please contact SORE Association with any questions or concerns. | We respect your privacy

Website hosting by Inspiring Media Inc.