The decision on the expansion of Quinte’s Isle Campark has been deferred.
The decision was supposed to be made at Tuesday’s special meeting of Prince Edward County council, however a last minute consultation from a member of planning resulted in the meeting being adjourned and pushed back.
Planning coordinator Matt Coffey joined the meeting to say he’d been approached by a First Nation asking that they be consulted before the project moves forward. He explained that with projects that are potentially controversial, they typically circulate it to First Nations for consultation. Coffey said they’d reached out to three First Nations, only hearing back from the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte.
He then explained that a fourth and separate First Nation from the three they reached out to had contacted them regarding consultation and that it would require that the decision be pushed back.
Councillors discussed, noting that there were nearly 30 members of the public attending virtually to provide comment on the decision. Some councillors preferred to let the deputations and public comments go forward despite the likelihood of the meeting being deferred, before being informed that if the deputations and comments were made Tuesday, they would not be allowed to be remade when council reconvened on the matter.
After discussion, councillors voted in favour of deferring both the decision on the expansion as well as the deputations and public comments until after the consultations could be done.
Coffey estimated the consultations would take around two months.
