How to register for the olt hearing for PW 218 20

1. Decide if you need full Party status (to lead evidence, cross-examine, make full submissions) or Participant status (to provide a written statement and brief oral comments).  See lists of possible justifications for Party and Participant status below.  It is most likely you are a Participant.
2. Make note the deadline is August 11, 2025.  Don't wait to the last minute!

1. Go to the Tribunal's website and scroll down to the Other Forms section.
2. If you wish to be a Party, select the Party Status Request Form (3rd from the bottom) either in HTML or Word.
3. If you wish to be a Participant, select the Participant Status Request and Participant Statement Form (4th from the bottom) either in HTML or Word.

1. Fill in the Request Date in the format yyyy/mm/dd, for example 2025/08/01.  The date must be on our before 2025/08/11.
2. Fill in the Tribunal Case Number as follows: OLT-23-000388
3. Fill in the Date of Case Management Conference Hearing as follows: 2025/08/26.
4. Fill in your Contact Information. 
5. Only if you plan to be represented by someone other than yourself, complete the Representative Contact Information, otherwise leave blank.
6. If you are requesting to be a Party, complete the Status Request Details section, by outlining your interest and providing an explanation as to how your involvement will help the Tribunal resolve the issues, and list the documents or attachment you are providing to support your request.
7. If you are requesting to be a Participant, complete the Participant Statement section, by describing your interest in the case, your position on the issues and an explanation of your reasons in support of your position.  You may also provide documentation or attachments to support your request.

Helpful Tip: Draft your reasons in bullet points—clear, concise, and factual.  When applying, link each reason to how the decision will affect your legal rights, property values, personal use or community mandate.

Some examples of Justifications for Party Status

• You are a statutory body with decision-making authority (e.g., municipality, conservation authority).
• You are a conservation authority or environmental agency with mandates under the Conservation Authorities Act.
• You represent a provincial ministry or agency directly affected by the outcome.
• You provide critical infrastructure services (e.g., utility provider) on or adjacent to the land.
• You have been granted party status by prior Tribunal order or consent of all parties.
• You possess a statutory approval or permit (e.g., environmental compliance certificate) tied to the site.
• You are an Indigenous community or group asserting treaty or fiduciary interests in the area.
• You are a utility or telecom provider with critical infrastructure on or adjacent to the land.

Some examples of Justifications for Participant Status

• You own land adjacent to or within 120 m of the subject site.
• Your vehicle access, privacy, daylight or view will be materially affected.
• You are a tenant or business operator on a neighbouring property.
• You belong to a community or ratepayers’ association representing local interests.
• You hold expertise or professional qualifications relevant to key issues (e.g., heritage, noise, stormwater).
• You lead an environmental or cultural heritage group concerned with project impacts.
• You have unique personal or historical connections to the site (e.g., ancestral home, archaeological significance).
• You have public-interest standing under a statute governing the matter (e.g., Expropriations Act).
• You run a home-based business or live-work studio adjacent to the site, and client access or deliveries will be affected.
• You manage or frequent a nearby community centre, park, church, or senior’s residence concerned about heightened traffic, parking or noise.
• You’re responsible for recreational trails, shorelines or waterfront amenities that could see altered use or environmental degradation.
• You’re a member of a heritage or archaeological society focused on preserving cultural landscapes near the lands.
• You lead a neighbourhood food-security or community-garden initiative relying on shade, drainage or pollinator habitat in the area.
• You serve as a point person for emergency services (fire, EMS, police) and foresee response-time impacts.
• You’re on the board of a utility consumer co-operative (e.g., rural hydro, telecom) facing potential service relocations or easements.
• You operate a local transit or school‐bus service whose routes or stops could be re-routed.
• You coordinate a neighbourhood watch or community safety network concerned about lighting, sightlines or pedestrian flow.

Some examples of concern you may have are below.  Please DO NOT copy and paste these.  YOUR concerns (and only your concerns) should be stated in your own voice.

• Significant intensification of use, increasing daily occupancy from under 100 to over 1,085 individuals, far exceeding the property's historical use. 
• Disruption to rural character and inadequate municipal infrastructure to support 1,000 students and 85 staff, including wastewater treatment, stormwater management and transportation systems.
• Heightened traffic congestion on York Road, with an estimated additional 240 peak-hour vehicle trips, exacerbating existing capacity and safety issues at key intersections.
• Risk of environmental harm to the last intact ecological corridor between Lake Ontario wetlands and the Niagara Escarpment, including habitat disturbance and loss of open-landscape character.
• Potential threats to natural streams and local water supplies from a substantially larger onsite sewage treatment system and its possible failures.
• Increased noise, air pollution, and general urban encroachment pressures incompatible with the Pleasant View's rural context.
• Inappropriate location for a large private school whose students reside elsewhere, suggesting the site fails to serve the local community or leverage existing transit networks.
• Fragmentation of the Natural Heritage System, disrupting wildlife corridors and reducing biodiversity.
• Alteration of groundwater recharge and flow patterns, risking groundwater quality and nearby wetlands.
• Heavy reliance on private servicing (onsite septic and stormwater ponds) with heightened risk of system failures and contamination.
• Significantly increased traffic on narrow rural roads, compromising safety for local residents.
• Conflict with Escarpment Plan policies that limit non-resource institutional uses in Rural Areas.
• Setting a precedent for further large-scale developments, eroding Greenbelt protections over time.
• Greater impervious surface coverage leading to stormwater run-off, erosion, and downstream flooding, on lands deemed to have erosion hazard issues.
• Strain on emergency services (fire, ambulance, police) servicing high occupancy in a remote area.
• Undermining the rural character and sense of place valued by the local community.

1. Email your completed form (either the Party Status Request form or the Participant Status Request and Participant Statement) and any documentation that supports your request, to ALL of the following on the SAME DAY to:

paul.demedeiros@ontario.ca (Tribunal Case Coordinator Paul De Medeiros)

demetrius.kappos@ontario.ca (NEC Legal Counsel Demetrius Kappos)

suzanne.robinson@ontario.ca (NEC Contact Suzanne Robinson)

ssnider@tmalaw.ca (Applicant Legal Counsel)

atoumanians@tmalaw.ca (Applicant Contact Anna Toumanians)

Note: You must attend the CMC conference on August 26, 2025 to have your request for Party or Participant considered.  If you don't attend on August 26, your request may be denied.

1. Attend the CMC.  Status requests will be reviewed and considered by the presiding Member at the CMC. Attendance by the requestor, or the representative, at the CMC is required for all status requests.  Where a requestor, or their representative, fails to attend the CMC, the presiding Member may refuse to consider or dismiss the status request in their absence.

Notes:

Persons who are granted party status shall participate fully in the proceeding (see Rule 

8). Persons who are granted participant status may only participate in writing by way 

of a participant statement (see Rule 7.7).

Only persons who are granted party or participant status by the Tribunal at the CMC are permitted to participate in any further hearing event that is convened by the Tribunal for this appeal. 

Parties are expected to familiarize yourselves with the Tribunal’s Rules, including but 

not limited to the excerpted Rules included in Schedule D.

1. Review the Tribunal’s Hearing Guide for submission formats, page limits, and witness statement requirements. 
2. Additonal information regarding the balance of the hearing beyond the CMC will follow.

Helpful Tip: Practice your oral summary—keep it under 5 minutes and focused on your key points.