Another municipality has lost a wind fight. The City of Kiwartha lakes was dealing with a wind turbine project. The project backers had completed all the necessary permits with the province and their site plan was dependent on creating an access road, where there was simply an old unopened road allowance on title.
They had supplied the City of Kiwartha Lakes with plans to bear the cost of acquiring and paving the road and some day retiring it.
Yet the City passed a bylaw preventing its officials from co-operating- i.e. preventing the access road from getting municipal approval.
The applications court, the Divisional Court and now the Ontario Court of Appeal, have sided with the wind developer.
Perhaps when Kathleen Wynne is ousted from office with the lowest approval rating in history, she can take comfort in this win- although I doubt she will retire to rural Ontario to talk about it.