Loughborough project gets approval extension

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GLENBURNIE – Despite pleas from neighbours and environmentalists, Frontenac County council voted to approve an extension to a planning approval for a controversial development on Loughborough Lake.

Magenta Waterfront Development Corporation is seeking to build a 15-property subdivision on Johnston Point, a 37-hectare property east of Perth Road, along the north shore of Loughborough Lake in South Frontenac Township.

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In 2016, the Ontario Municipal Board approved the project and a three-year draft approval.

That draft approval is to expire on June 28, and the project’s opponents saw this as an opportunity to stop the development.

Opponents of the project argue the area includes sensitive wetlands and is home to at least six species that are in trouble, including the threatened gray ratsnake, Blanding’s turtle and eastern whippoorwill.