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News - Councillors admitted the city got it wrong as they voted down a proposal for an-18-storey tower to rise above the Parkdale Market. In a rare move, planning committee rejected Tega Homes’ plans for its Attika condo on June 25, but the decision means the battle is sure to continue in an appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board. Taking that route is “not without significant risk,” said planning committee chairman Peter Hume, the councillor for Alta Vista Ward. The OMB might end up granting the extra height for the property at 233 Armstrong St. and 3 Hamilton Ave., or it could decide to hold Tega to the eightstorey height limit spelled out in a community design plan for the area. Kitchissippi Coun. Katherine Hobbs represents the area and asked her colleagues to refuse Tega’s application for the 239-unit building. “To my mind and the minds of my community… what is of absolute importance here is the CDP,” she said. See RESPECT, page 7
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Hintonburg association pres mulls council run Jeff Leiper says he isn’t the only person looking to challenge Hobbs Laura Mueller
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News - Hintonburg Community Association president Jeff Leiper says he is one of several community activists contemplating challenging Coun. Katherine Hobbs for her seat as Kitchissippi coun-
cillor. The municipal election isn’t until October of 2014, but there is already chatter about change in the ward. Leiper said there is a sense that Hobbs and those in power at city hall are not engaging residents in the ward. “We’re having some real challenges politically right
now,” Leiper said. “We don’t feel as though our councillor is on our side … There us a lack of engagement and willingness to listen to residents.” Leiper referenced a fight over a proposed development at 1050 Somerset St. However, his comments came just after he thanked the planning
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committee for siding with Hintonburg neighbours and a community design plan they helped write when the committee rejected a request for an 18-storey building over the Carleton Tavern. Hobbs led the charge to reject Tega Homes’ application for that building, Attika, due to lack of community support. See BEING, page 12
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