On December 12 Council agenda there is a report reviewing the recommendation as to how the various planning applications will be managed in order to meet the tightened timelines mandated by Bill 109.  The latter imposes financial penalties on a municipality if the new timelines are not met. I can only congratulate our Staff have identified a way to meet the timelines as the penalty for not doing so is too great.  From my reading of the report i can see that the Staff are leveraging the need for change to make some very valuable modifications.   Its my observation that for me, the proposed process which is being called “Collaborative Application Process” (CAP) has merit in that the term/phrase “a complete application” is now going to mean that the required studies are actually done/completetd as opposed to the proponent simply acknowledging that they study will be done.

As always you can register to make a deputation verbally or you send an email and it will be sent to Council.  To register and/or send an email please do so by noon on December 12 by contacting  clerks@king.ca.