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Originally Posted by Don Andersen
It must be understood that your concerns may not be considered as you do not fall within the guidelines of the Dept. of Environment for the directly effected. To be directly effected you generally must live within a short distance of the proposed development. Over the last near 30 years, the "directly effected concept" has virtually stymied may citizens who have concerns of how their province is managed.
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Critical to understand that this "short distance" refers specifically to distance from the primary residence to the nearest edge of the affected property for the required Water Act approval by AEP and is legally defined as 1.6 km (1 mile). Any resident further away may well be ignored. Case law has it that upon appeal, this distance has been modified to almost 2.5 km to accommodate the nearest residence.
The sweet and short of it is that without the direct involvement of nearest residents directly affected, it does not, and will not matter what the rest of us think.
The current stage of this process is the county development approval. Border Paving needs this in hand before they go to AEP. In this process, I would think that any resident of Clearwater County has a voice right now.
Vic