Gordon Prentice at Large - Politics in Newmarket
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If it ever gets built, Slessor Square will be the highest and most intrusive development to blight our town.
Yet the Slessors refuse to carry out a so-called viewshed analysis to give people an idea of what their giant development will look like from key vantage points around town.
Why?
What have they got to hide?
Ward 4 councillor, Tom Hempen, tells me the Town’s planners have asked the developers
to provide a visual representation from public vantage points (not back yards) of what the sky-line would look like with the proposed buildings in the landscape.
The planners estimate the viewshed would cost around $30,000.
If the Slessors are so proud of their monster development, why don’t they get one done?
And take full page ads in the Era Banner showing readers what’s in store.
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The OMB website has posted preliminary details of the Slessor pre-hearing on 30 November 2012.
It will be held in the Cane Room A & B at 10.30am at the Municipal Offices on Mulock. The meeting is open to the public.
The case reference is: PL120906
An information sheet on “What you need to know about Prehearings” is on the OMB website.
It says, prehearings help to:
- Identify parties, issues and participants
- Organise complicated matters
- Determine what documents should be exchanged
- Determine procedures before and during the hearing
- Set future hearing dates.
Slessor’s high powered team of planners and lawyers will be displaying some pretty fancy footwork as they dance through all the rules, regulations, by laws, official plans and guidance which, they will claim, permit the erection of this monstrosity in the heart of Newmarket.
Seems to me this is one date with destiny we don’t want to miss.
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I email Tom Hempen following his Ward meeting on 10 October when he asks the audience if they want to pay for a "Viewshed analysis" of the monster Slessor development. (see earlier post below)
The developer isn't playing ball.
They don't want people to wake up to the fact that Slessor Square will completely dominate the town. It would be a disfiguring blot on the landscape.
Tom has now agreed to find out the cost of doing one.
He just needs to ask the Town's professional planners.
More to follow.