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Mercedes-Benz Q.E.W. & Dorval Dr. w w w .o a k v iN e b e a v e r.c o m ^ . I L L E B E A V E R NORT A Metroland Publication Vol. 40 No. . v 'S M O S T AWARDED COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER " U S IN G .,C O M M U N IC A T IO N T O B U IL D B E T T E R C O M M U N I T I E S ' WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2003 5 6 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) S h e ll H o u s e d e v e lo p e r f ile s w it h 0 M B By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The developer w ho w ants to build 1,000 apartm ents on the 10-acre lakefront land w here Shell H ouse used to stand, has taken his case to the O ntario M unicipal Board (OM B). "T here has been a referral to the O M B ," con firm ed Palm Place D evelopm ents Inc. developm ent m an ager Patrick Berne, Monday. T he referral w as m ade last w eek and Bem e said he received the legal paper w ork on it Friday. T hat was the sam e day the new O ntario Liberal governm ent said it intends to change O M B rules. T he O M B is a provincially-appointed higher court that can overturn local planning decisions. Right now, a developer can appeal to the O M B 90 days after filing a develop m ent application with a municipality. T he Liberals w ant to change that to 180 days. A developer can also appeal to the OM B w hether or not its application is considered "com plete" by the m unici pality. T he Palm Place application -- filed w ith the Town o f O akville on July 18 -- w as deem ed "incom plete" by the Town on Oct. 10 because num erous back ground studies were missing. "W e're doing this to put tim elines to things, otherw ise it could take forever," said B em e, adding Palm Place D evelopm ents will continue with the required studies to com plete the appli cation, and will continue reporting to the Town. Shell H ouse burned dow n several years ago. It sat on a nearly 10-acre par cel o f land on the bank o f Lake Ontario, south o f L akeshore R oad, east o f Burloak Drive. The land is now ow ned by a num bered com pany that operates as Palm Place D evelopm ents Inc. "T he appeal was ju st received on Nov. 18. The Town has 15 days to sub mit to the O M B and then the OM B will get back to us with a (hearing) date," said Town corporate com munications m anager Lori A nn Com eau. Palm Place D evelopm ents submitted tw o possible planning scenarios for the 1.000 units -- four, 20-storey apartment buildings or num erous lower-rise build ings. Each scenario would add up to 1.000 units. Tow n m anager Joann Chechalk told the Beaver earlier this month that "a ton (S ee 'C u rre n tly' page A5) Woman charged in collision that killed Sikh leader An E verett w om an has been charged w ith careless driving in connection with a three-vehicle collision that killed a leader o f O akville's Sikh com m unity attending a religious cerem ony at a tem ple on Bronte Road last month. Tarsem Singh Sian, 63, o f Creekside Drive, w as killed w hile making a left turn into the Halton G urudw ara on B ronte R oad ju s t south o f D undas Street around 7 p.m. Oct. 25. S ian 's T oyota w as struck from behind by a H onda and knocked into oncom ing traffic w here it was struck head-on by a northbound cube van. S ian w as ru sh ed to O akvilleTrafalgar M em orial H ospital w ith vital signs absent and succum bed to his injuries several hours later. The driver o f the H onda escaped with m inor injuries and the driver o f the cube van was uninjured, according to Halton Regional Police. Sian's wife, H arbhajan Kaur Sian, 61, w ho w as a passenger in the Toyota with her husband, suffered a broken arm and injured ankles. Sian was on his way to attend to cel ebrate the Bandi Shord Divas at the Gurudw ara. Sian w as a founding m em ber o f the O akville Sikh Cultural Association in 1979 an d help ed build the tem ple w hich opened in 1995. 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