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LEAMINGTON — With the news last week that splashpads were allowed to open up, local youngsters waited anxiously for thier first visit of the year to Seacliff Park’s splashpad. These young water enthusiasts also waited patiently for the big tomato to fill up and topple over, spilling hundreds of gallons of water on them. Leamington’s splashpad did not open at all last summer, due to COVID restrictions, while Cottam’s Ridgeview Park splashpad and Wheatley’s Arena splashpad both saw delayed openings. All three splashpads are now open and ready to enterain the kids on a daily basis. Sun photo by Deanna Bertrand
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Leamington Council narrowly upholds holding designation on corner property
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By Mark Ribble LEAMINGTON — The Leamington Roma Club is attempting to sever and sell the corner lot at Erie Street South and Seacliff Drive and have applied for a severance to do so. A prospective purchaser and developer is balking at one of the conditions applied by Leamington’s planning department. That condition requires a holding symbol be placed upon the property to make sure that any development on the property meets the municipality’s planning standards. At a public meeting held via Zoom last Tuesday, May 25, Roma Club lawyers Frank Ricci and Simon Yared presented their objections to that specific condition. There are 11 conditions to be met to get the severance through and Ricci says the Roma Club can comply with all but one. “Our issue is the holding zone,” he said. “The application meets all zoning and municipal requirements.” The Roma Club is selling the property to help with their current financial situation, which has been greatly affected due to the COVID pandemic. “It will ensure the financial viability of the club,” said Ricci. Yared says the situation is a unique one and each case should be judged on its own merit. “This is an opportunity for you to provide the Roma Club with a lifeline,” he said. “There’s no need for the holding symbol.” The prospective purchaser was not present at the meeting, nor at the previous meeting held on the issue. Ricci said the purchaser doesn’t plan on developing the property right away. They’ve also asked for a 40-foot chunk of the abutting property — the Roma Club soccer field — to be severed as part of the corner lot. Administration had asked that the property be returned to its state that it was in prior to 2018. Tenants at the time had installed a light standard and laid gravel over the property, without consent of the town or the Roma Club. The Roma Club has agreed to have the property returned to its previous state at their cost. Mayor Hilda MacDonald was not eager to allow the severance without the holding symbol. “We’re here for the betterment of the municipality,” she said. “We’ve been down that slope a couple of times and it was met with regret.” Councillor Tim Wilkinson, however, disagreed. “We’ve looked at other unique situations, such as the church on the Bevel Line,” he said. “We’ve come up
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