11-06-2018, 02:58 PM
I'm not suggesting that they would bring a claim explicitly on the part of the neighbourhood as a whole, but we saw some neighbours around a gas station turned coffee shop on Ottawa near Maclennan Park try to go the OMB route to stop the development, and saw random anonymous neighbours in Waterloo pull together tens of thousands to fight the ability of Muslims to have a place to pray for a couple dozen people, not to mention many other examples of residents, groups of residents, and resident groups going to council and beyond with their wants. I've run into some of the people who live around that neighbourhood when it related to developments like Breithaupt, TBUDG, the Hub, etc, and my hopes aren't high that Kitchener Council and the Region are already backing away from sensible options for a site of such magnitude in the region, and suspect heavily that this is why the developers are balking at being able to pay for what the Region wants, let alone make a profit on all the risk involved.