Take a deep breath Thornhill Woods. We finally made some progress. As you may heard, yesterday Vaughan City Council approved a motion to reject the Jaffari development application. We thought we would send an update providing some clarification on what happened, what does it mean and what’s next for our community.

In a nutshell, here is what happened yesterday. The City’s planning department officially tabled their progress report on the Jaffari development application to Council and City Council opened the floor to public deputations. A representative from Jaffari restated their position. Preserve Thornhill Woods Association spoke and asked the City to reject the application on the grounds that insufficient progress was being made and that it wasn’t fair to the community to keep dragging this issue out. City Council then tabled a motion to reject the application and invited the applicant to resubmit a new application that was much more closely aligned with VOP 2010 and that addressed the community’s concerns. Some debate followed on the wording of the motion and then it was passed unanimously by the council.