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Reflecting on 10 years since annexation in Barrie and Innisfil
by Shane MacDonald, Chris Simon Barrie Advance Ten years after the City of Barrie annexed land from Innisfil, and as development begins to ramp up in that area, Barrie Mayor Jeff Lehman says he feels the right decision was made. Sitting on a bargaining committee back then, he remembers there was a lot of misinformation circulating around the […]
Construction community concerned about revamped development charges
Karen Hansen from Pratt Homes says she’s ‘never seen a DC bylaw rushed through so quickly’; Developers ask for more time to review data by: Raymond Bowe As the city works toward an overhaul of its development charges, people in the construction community are hammering home concerns that the process is moving too quickly and mistakes could be […]
Adjudication panellists urge parties to ‘pay up’ or face consequences
Panellists presiding over a recent Osgoode Professional Development session on the repercussions of Ontario’s new construction adjudication system had a simple message for parties who might end up on the losing end of disputes: unless you are ready to deal with all sorts of troublesome consequences, just pay up. Construction lawyers James Little and […]
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