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The Oakville Beaver, Friday March 10, 2006 -13 Bronte Quad 0MB fireworks begin July 4 By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The Ontario Municipal Board (0MB) hearing on the future of the Bronte Quadrangle will take six weeks this July. At a pre-hearing confer ence yesterday at Town Hall -- two days after Town council voted to reject a high-rise development -- the 0MB was setting dates about the hear ing, when and where it will be and who will be participating. The hearing is estimated to take six weeks and will begin at 10 a.m. on July 4. It will be held in the Trafalgar Room at Town Hall at 1225 Trafalgar Rd. That venue may change for the last week of the hearing, Aug. 8, as a nine-month OMB hearing into the future of north Oakville is set to begin. On the first hearing day,' the OMB will set a date as the night to hear from the public. It will also decide if there's to be an audio tape made of the hearing -- not for official purposes, but to let those interested, but unable to attend regularly, stay up to date. That' s a new move for the OMB, which doesn't allow audio or visual recording devices in its quasi-judicial hearings, however, such a recording has been made in the OMB hearing on the for mer Shell House property. Town council didn't for mally make a decision on Birchgrove' s high-rise plan for the quadrangle until Tuesday night. Council voted to reject the plan -- amended numer ous times since it was first "The Bronte Historical Society is concerned that history and heritage are being marginalized and disrespected." Bronte Historical Society appealed last year -- and all versions of it. That left Birchgrove filing heritage applications the day after council's vote (Wednesday) to move both the historic Post Office/Gallery and Glendella. Both would be moved elsewhere on the Birchgrove land on the quad rangle and an application was filed to alter Glendella. News of the heritage appli cations filed Wednesday was delivered by Birchgrove lawyer Lynda Townsend-Renaud, who acted on behalf of Daniels Oakville Corporation and won the right to move forward on a high-rise development on the former Sharkey's Dockside Cafe site at 111 Forsythe St. The quadrangle is opposite Bronte Harbour that is a block of land between Bronte Road and Jones Street, Ontario Street and Marine Drive. Stoneboats Restaurant, which suffered a fire this past Tuesday morning, is another heritage property that sits on one side of the proposed devel opment. The Police Station is another heritage building that sits on Town-owned land on the other side of the proposed development It's proposed the Post Office -- already relocated once from a more northerly site on Bronte Road, would be relocated to Marine Drive near the home of the late Bill Hill' s grandson John MacCharles. Glendella, which has sat for years over looking the harbour from Ontario Street, is to be moved to a location to the north of the quadrangle site. Glendella, once the Ned Thompson Hotel, later was the home of the late Bill Hill and his family. Hill operated the Lakeside Marketeria on Bronte Road which is now owned by Birchgrove Estates. While Townsend-Renaud will be legal counsel for Birchgrove Estates, Ian Lord of Toronto's WeirFoulds will represent the Town of Oakville. Local architect Andy Bruce, who was the architect for the Oakville Trafalgar High School on Devon Road, will also be a party to the OMB hearing and will be represented by lawyer Marc Kemerer. MacCharles has hired both planner Carol-Anne Munroe and lawyer Jane Pepino, however Pepino said MacCharles may opt to be a participant, not party. Other participants, who will be able to testify, but don't have to attend regularly and don't run the risk of having costs awarded against them, will include the Bronte Historical Society and the Bronte Village Residents Association (BVRA). Though a settlement may have played out differently at the OMB, such settle ment was not reached -- in fact a memo randum of understanding was rejected by the Town at the eleventh hour Tuesday -- so it was a scramble yesterday. Lord had to file the council's resolu tion and the minutes of Tuesday's meet ing almost as they were typed formally. Birchgrove had just filed its heritage applications and had yet to file a site plan. An issues list should be ready March 3T: Town council will have until the next pre-hearing conference to review and vote on the heritage applications. 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