Thursday, April 25, 2024
It is good practice to provide review agencies with the opportunity to comment on a draft copy of the ESR.
When completed, the ESR shall be placed on the public record and be available for review by the public and review agencies for a period of at least 30 calendar days.
For most municipalities placing on the public record will mean placing a copy with the Municipal Clerk and formal input and comment to the municipality will in turn be received by the Municipal Clerk.
In some cases however, particularly in larger municipalities, or in those municipalities where the Municipal Project Manager may be located in a different building from the Municipal Clerk, it may be more appropriate to have the ESR available at another Office and for the Municipal Project Manager to receive input and comment. This arrangement would equally well satisfy the requirement for the ESR to be placed on the public record.
It is sometimes inconvenient for members of the public to review the ESR during normal municipal office hours at the offices of the municipality. Copies of the ESR shall therefore be placed at public libraries, community centres, or at other places of convenient public access, where the document may be viewed for longer periods of time during the day, particularly outside normal office hours. The public should not be placed in a position of having insufficient time in which to review the ESR in order to make meaningful and informed comment to the municipality on the project.