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Council opposes proponent, planning dept.
“Will of council” to oppose Kemp Rd hemp operation By Mike Williscraft NewsNow If the Town of Grimsby is to win an Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) battle over a hemp processing operation proposed for Kemp Road East, it will have to wage conflict on two fronts.
At Monday’s council meeting, a unanimous vote directs the Town’s legal counsel to support “the will of council” - which confirms the Committee of Adjustment’s (CoA) rejection of the proposal. The rejection was met
with an OLT appeal by the proponent of the project. During council debate in December and at a special council meeting on the issue Feb. 28, a series of concerns was outlined by council regarding not just what is proposed but what
the site could evolve into once the door is open. The proponent had several inconsistent answers to questions, said councillors, which made them hesitant to consider the proposal. In voting to support
CoA, the consensus was the project was a rezoning matter, not a simple variance matter. Key to the LPAT proceeding, however, will be the Town’s planning department support of the project. See HEMP, Page 2