Our three-day LPAT hearing has concluded

Now our community awaits the Tribunal's decision Our LPAT hearing wrapped up this week after three intense days. We now await Scott Tousaw, the Tribunal Member presiding over CAMPP's appeal, to deliver his ruling. Mr. Tousaw did not indicate when we could expect a decision. It may take several months. “I think our client is very pleased that the concerns they wanted to raise have been put forward, that the evidence that they wanted to rely on has been put in front of the tribunal, and now we’re in the hands of the tribunal member to await his decision,” Eric Gillespie, CAMPP's lawyer, told The Windsor Star after the hearing ended on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Challenging Windsor City Council's August 2018 decision to rezone Sandwich South (proposed location for a new single site acute care hospital) continues to be an incredible, community-wide effort. This new hospital would replace the City's two current centrally located acute care hospital campuses and create access barriers for many of the region's most vulnerable residents. Thank you to the thousands of local residents who support CAMPP; those deeply concerned about the future health of Windsor-Essex, and the democratic processes that shape it. Many thanks especially to those of you who have contributed so generously to our GoFundMe campaign launched in February 2019.  Together, you have helped us raise over $81,000. ​However, we are still $19,000 short of our $100,000 fundraising goal -- money needed to pay our LPAT legal costs. There is still time to make your donation while we wait for the final bills from last week's LPAT hearing.  Click here to be a part of our historic appeal Click here to read CAMPP's written submission In their own words: Round-up of comments from our friends and neighbours "Major investments of public funds should not be used to "anchor" suburban sprawl while hundreds of hectares of land within our city lie vacant. Rather, this multi-billion dollar project should contribute to the redevelopment of our city's core and/or a brownfield site within the develped footprint of Windsor. This is our money. This is our hospital. This is our city. We must use our land and financial resources wisely to achieve the greatest benefit for our citizens now and for decades to come." "the written presentation is excellent! i am truly grateful for the well-woven synthesis of issues, the particularity of the many failures to comply and the efforts of individual statements that surface to illustrate cogently the human factor that such planning should revolve around. very proud of CAMPP today." "We grow veggies on just 4 acres of our property for 100 CSA families plus the farmer's market with plenty to spare and donate to our local food bank we also provided one seasonal full-time job (me) and four part-time summer jobs this year. X that by 6 or 24 acres that would [feed] 600 families + perhaps several markets + 6 full-time seasonal jobs and 24 seasonal summer jobs. Every acre counts" "Moving our hospital institutions from our city core to the proposed county location will cause both CIVIC DECAY and URBAN SPRAWL. Practices which have been detrimental to general health and welfare. It's ironic then, a new hospital would instead be detrimental to health. THE HOSPITAL SHOULD BE IN THE CITY CORE." "My mom’s neighbourhood is full of low income and elderly. Also plenty of people with little education and weak language skills. They need services to be close and easy to access. Otherwise, their lives deteriorate a bit with each decision to sprawl our city despite its static population. An anchor institution in our community for 100 plus years is called an anchor for a reason. Times may change, but anchor institutions remain. They give citizens and investors hope and comfort. A local hospital doesn’t just heal sick people. It is a point around which a community is built." "Our core will be further undermined if this insane plan goes through. Imagine any downtown in the world without a 24hr hospital. Then imagine us."