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Updated: September 30, 2009 1:10 PM
It’s been the requisite six months and SmartCentres plans for a shopping complex on the property adjoining the lake and the Salmon River are back in the city’s hands.
This is certainly not surprising to anyone who has driven by the property in recent weeks. Loads of fill have been trucked into the site and dumped in an area considered acceptable by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. And, let’s face it, you don’t spend more than a million dollars on the property only to abandon it — no matter what the opinions aired at public hearings.
Developers develop, that’s what they do. It may be frustrating to those who oppose this development, but there is absolutely nothing stopping SmartCentres from making a new application and rolling the dice with council’s decision.
While some may feel an outcome in favour of SmartCentres is a foregone conclusion, let us not forget many thought the same thing with the first application.
SmartCentres has made some changes to their plans and now it behooves the citizens of this community to weigh those changes, and let their opinions be known once again.
No one has had an opportunity to review the revisions to their proposal, so it is difficult to weigh in on the pros and cons at this point.
All we can hope for is that those we have elected to represent us will weigh the proposal and the arguments, both for and against, with an open mind.
A decision this critical deserves nothing less.
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