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PLEASE NOTE: The following Public Meeting has been CANCELLED as of Friday, September 10, 2021.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
REVISED COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN
MUNICIPALITY OF SIOUX LOOKOUT 

TAKE NOTICE THAT the Municipality of Sioux Lookout is proposing to amend the Community Improvement Plan (approved April 2013) pursuant to Section 28 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, Chapter p. 13, as amended.

The Community Improvement Plan establishes a program for municipal financial incentives to encourage the rehabilitation and improvement of private lands in designated areas of the Municipality. The proposed updates to the Community Improvement Plan will provide other financial opportunities for businesses and to provide a general update to the document.  No changes are proposed to the geographical extent of the designated Community Improvement Project Areas as established in the Municipality’s Official Plan.

The Municipality of Sioux Lookout will hold a Virtual Public Meeting on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom to consider this application.

Due to COVID-19, if you wish to provide comments on the application, please do so in writing to the Planning Coordinator in advance of the Public Meeting.  You may also provide verbal comments by calling 807-737-2700 ext. 2234 and the comments will be transcribed and presented at the Public Meeting.  Further, if you wish to participate or speak at the Public Meeting, please contact the Planning Coordinator.

ANY PERSON may attend the Public Meeting and/or make written or verbal representation either in support or in opposition to the proposed updates to the Community Improvement Plan.

If you wish to be notified of the decision of the Municipality of Sioux Lookout in respect of the proposed amendments to the Community Improvement Plan, you must make a written request to the Municipality of Sioux Lookout (address below).

If a person or public body would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of the Municipality of Sioux Lookout to the Ontario Land Tribunal but the person or public body does not make oral submission at a Public Meeting or make written submissions to the Municipality of Sioux Lookout before the proposed By-law is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision.

If a person of public body does not make oral submissions at a Public Meeting, or make written submission to the Municipality of Sioux Lookout before the proposed By-law is passed, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Land Tribunal unless, in the opinion of the Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to add the person of public body as a party.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION relating to the proposed updates to the Community Improvement Plan is available for inspection between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, in the Department of Development Services at the Municipal Office, 25 Fifth Avenue, Sioux Lookout, Ontario, P8T 1A4. Due to COVID-19, additional information about the application can also be requested by email at [email protected] or phone at 807-737-2700.

Dated at the Municipality of Sioux Lookout this 17th day of August 2021.

Kristen Bartmann, Planning Coordinator
Municipality of Sioux Lookout
Box 158, Sioux Lookout ON P8T 1A4
Phone: 807-737-2700
Email: [email protected]

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