- 1. Marion Plaunt
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- At yesterday’s Committee of the Whole, Newmarket’s Mayor, Tony Van Bynen, drops a bombshell - Marion Plaunt, the Town’s Senior Planner, is leaving us for Markham. This is a big deal. The planners ...
- Created on 26 May 2015
- 2. Town buys Mulock Farm for $24m
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- ... the house and the 12 acres of open space around it comes as no surprise. Marion Plaunt, the Town’s former Senior Planner responsible for developing the Urban Centres Secondary Plan, earmarked it for public ...
- Created on 27 February 2018
- 3. Redwood on Yonge (aka Slessor Square)
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- ... and buried. However, in 2013, the Town's planners, guided by Marion Plaunt, produced the Secondary Plan Directions Report. It talked lyrically about "exceptional architecture". "The Urban Centres ...
- Created on 26 October 2017
- 4. Hollingsworth Arena
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- ... front. Now what does that mean? (Newmarket’s former senior planner Marion Plaunt explains here.) Developers make a lot of money, so what? “Does the developer make money. Absolutely. But relative to ...
- Created on 23 October 2015
- 5. Glenway, the final act: What did we learn?
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- ... of Planning, whose face glows tomato red but will soon darken to beetroot. Marion Plaunt, who handled the Secondary Plan file and did the heavy lifting while Nethery looked on, is noticeable by her absence. ...
- Created on 24 June 2015
- 6. Glenway: what really happened
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- ... that the former golf course lands could be built on, her senior colleagues in the Town’s Planning Department - Rick Nethery, Jason Unger, Marion Plaunt - agreed. This led to the boycott of the OMB Hearing. ...
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- 7. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan rubber stamped by Region
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- ... Region’s Director of Community Planning, Karen Whitney, took councillors through the highlights. Looking on were Rick Nethery, Jason Unger, and the Plan’s midwife, Marion Plaunt, who brought it into the ...
- Created on 05 March 2015
- 8. Taylor sidelined by Town staff over Secondary Plan strategy
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- In one of their last meetings before Christmas, Newmarket councillors agreed the final modifications to the Urban Centres Secondary Plan that now goes up to York Region by the end of March to get its ...
- Created on 19 January 2015
- 9. Why I am asking the OMB to review its decision on Glenway
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- ... that statement, on 28 April 2014, the senior planner in charge of the Secondary Plan file, Marion Plaunt, told councillors: “One of the considerations in (the planned Mobility Hub study) is how do we, ...
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- 10. How the Glenway OMB Hearing ended up being seriously misled
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- ... Plan Study Area for the Anchor Hub at the intersection of Yonge Street and Davis Drive be detailed on the Schedules.” This recommendation is rejected. On the very same day (28 April 2014) Marion Plaunt, ...
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- 11. Glenway: why the delay in getting the OMB's written decision
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- ... the possibility of relocation or co-location of transit stations, the senior planner in charge of the Secondary Plan file, Ms Marion Plaunt said: “One of the considerations in (the Mobility Hub study) ...
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- 12. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan is still unfinished business
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- ... on 16 June, Regional Councillor John Taylor asks Marion Plaunt, the senior planner responsible for the Secondary Plan file: “Just one quick request. Is it possible… You pointed out here today and in ...
- Created on 12 July 2014
- 13. Making Rental Happen
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- ... development’s car park is, apparently, threatening the future of the entire project. On 18 June 2014, in an email exchange, Marion Plaunt, the senior planner in charge of the Secondary Plan file, tells ...
- Created on 27 June 2014
- 14. Secondary Plan gets the green light
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- ... they were assured it would meet all the relevant targets set for the Town. Marion Plaunt, the senior planner in charge of the file, tries to square the circle, explaining there has been no change ...
- Created on 17 June 2014
- 15. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan: the end is nigh
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- ... via bonusing. The senior planner in charge of the Secondary Plan file, Marion Plaunt, tells councillors “we are not increasing densities we have just re-shuffled them”. We are told the planners are proposing ...
- Created on 10 June 2014
- 16. Newmarket’s Revised Draft Secondary Plan gets lukewarm reception
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- ... work if necessary”. Taylor, too, asks for more detail on the proposed Mobility Hub study and what might be included. Would the Study look at relocation or co-location of the transit stations? Marion Plaunt, ...
- Created on 30 April 2014
- 17. Elect the Planners
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- ... growth. The Town’s Senior Planner in charge of the Secondary Plan file, Marion Plaunt, admits there could be spikes in development. She says the Town has tools to smooth things out if needs be through, ...
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- 18. High Rise Newmarket moves closer to reality
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- ... that very point, the top planner in charge of the file, Marion Plaunt, opens the meeting by reminding everyone that the Secondary Plan has got to be “in conformity” with the Growth Plan for the Greater ...
- Created on 30 October 2013
- 19. Slessor gets OMB approval
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- ... George Street) will be 9 storeys. And there will be publicly accessible open space in Yonge and George streets and in the internal courtyard. Whoooo! Now Newmarket’s senior planner, Marion Plaunt, takes ...
- Created on 19 February 2013
- 20. Slessor vote postponed
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- ... Zone don’t turn out as expected. Marion Plaunt, the planner in charge of the Slessor file, nods in agreement. Yes, she says. After an agreement in principle the development can be stopped or changed ...
- Created on 05 February 2013
- 21. Decision time approaches for Slessor Square
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- ... The staff report with recommendations will, unfortunately, not be available this week “due to complexities of this application”. The senior planner responsible for the Slessor file, Marion Plaunt, ...
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- 22. Letter to Mayor Tony Van Bynen and Newmarket Councillors
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- ... Bill Chadwick on behalf of the Shrink Slessor Square concerned residents Forsyth Road, Newmarket Copies to all Councillors, Regional Councillor John Taylor, Senior Planner Marion Plaunt ...
- Created on 05 December 2012
- 23. Councillors consider the costs - not the merits - of taking on the Slessors at the OMB
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- ... higher than the high end scenarios set out in the Town’s evolving Secondary Plan. The senior planner in charge of the Slessor file, Marion Plaunt, tells Tom the Slessors have come up with a FSI of 3.8 ...
- Created on 20 November 2012
- 24. Slessor update from Anna O'Rourk
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- ... Marion Plaunt writes: Hi Anna: You questions have been forwarded to me for response from the Ward 4 meeting last week. Please see the responses below: 1. We requested the FSI ...
- Created on 23 October 2012
- 25. Focussed on Newmarket
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- ... offering valuable insights. I learn a lot. The omni-present Newmarket Planner, Marion Plaunt, takes us through the process. First, we get an introduction to the Secondary Plan showing the implications ...
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- 26. CANCELLED: Community Engagement meeting on 2 May
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- Newmarket's senior planner with responsibility for the Slessor file, Marion Plaunt, writes: At the request of the Community Group, the Community meeting Scheduled for May 2, 2012 has been cancelled to ...
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- 27. Slessor Square and density
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- ... already in the pipeline. Era Banner reporter, Teresa Latchford, says Newmarket’s senior planner, Marion Plaunt, told the Community Engagement meeting (see below) on Monday evening that, other than phase ...
- Created on 26 April 2012
- 28. The Battle of the Bulge
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- ... Plaunt, the Town’s senior planner responsible for the Slessor file, announces another meeting on Wednesday 2 May at the Ray Twinney complex. By then, the changes proposed by the developers would be posted ...
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- 29. Slessor Square Shrinks
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- Just received this from Newmarket's senior planner, Marion Plaunt, who is responsible for the Slessor file. Given the limited space at the venue for Monday evening at the Community Centre and the anticipated ...
- Created on 20 April 2012
- 30. Community Engagement meeting update
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- The “Community Engagement” meeting on Slessor Square will take place at 7-9pm on Monday 23 April 2012 in Halls 3 and 4 at the Community Centre, Doug Duncan Drive, Newmarket. Marion Plaunt, the Town’s ...
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- 31. Shrink Slessor Square meets developers face to face
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- ... under the expert eye of Marion Plaunt, one of Newmarket’s top planners who will be chairing the event. The Slessor Square file is on her desk. Sitting opposite me are the Messrs Slessors flanked by ...
- Created on 26 February 2012
- 32. Help shape the Secondary Plan: deadline 27 February 2012
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- ... in a focus group to help plan Newmarket’s Urban Centres are requested to forward their letter of interest to Marion Plaunt, Senior policy Planner by 27 February 2012. You can write to Marion Plaunt at ...
- Created on 20 February 2012
- 33. Affordable housing must be part of Slessor Square
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- Marion Plaunt Planning Department Town of Newmarket Dear Ms. Plaunt, Here are the themes I mentioned on Tuesday night during the public meeting about the proposed Slessor Square development. I ...
- Created on 15 February 2012