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Originally Posted by kph06
The recent Hogan Court case is the only one I recall in the last couple years.
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That was the Cresco appeal. It definitely wasn't the only one in the past several years. I could go through the reports and compile a list, but not tonight. But just a few months before Cresco was the Hatchet Lake Plaza case, which was just as bad.
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That seemed like it was an awful waste of taxpayer money. From the surface, it looked like a pointless fight.
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Hatchet Lake Plaza,
Cresco was a ludicrous waste of time, and the UARB in its decision took great care to spell out in detail just how silly the council's decision was. The application was for a trivial change to the development agreement and should have been an absolute no-brainer for the community council. And, true to form, they found a way to feck it up.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, in both cases before the Board, HRM's lawyers led no evidence at all, simply because they knew the councillors' decisions were indefensible in law. Both appeals were essentially unopposed.