The billboards posted along March Road leading into the quaint mill town of Almonte seem almost too good to be true.
Brylin Homes is advertising affordable townhouse units starting at $299,900 with the designs featuring complete floor plans and photos of model homes with names like the “Goldfinch” , the “Blue Jay” and the deluxe “Killdeer” model, boasting three bedrooms, two storeys, a garage and solar power.Trouble is, neither Brylin Homes nor its owner, Bryant Cougle, have the township’s blessing to rezone the industrial lands into a split residential and commercial sector, as Cougle’s designs would demand.
Maynard has argued to dismiss the township’s case against him as a so-called SLAPP designed to silence public dissent. He’s tendered an offer to buy a partition of the adjacent municipal property for the sum of one dollar. The land — 35 acres currently being used as part of the wastewater treatment plant — is central to his plan.He envisions a 48-unit motel with a small service mall and a coffee shop facing onto the main road, while extending Hope Street to branch out into a complex of affordable multi-unit dwellings, all to be built around an indoor pool, spa and fitness centre.
Cougle says the lagoons can be drained and filled over, and he comes armed with a list of other municipalities that have followed the same course. Cougle countered by saying he did have a phase-one environmental site assessment completed by Paterson Group in May 2011. Court documents filed by the municipality in February illustrate a decade-long chronology of litigation over the property through various levels of courts and tribunals. The municipality is now seeking to have both Cougle and his construction business, Brylin Homes, declared vexatious litigants.Article content
Cougle and Brylin have “continually to re-litigate the same issue or issues,” and have initiated “an excessive number of proceedings containing disparaging allegations that are without merit,” the statement of claim reads. Cougle has also alleged that municipal employees have, for the past 46 years, “been involved in perpetrating and then covering up various frauds and conspiracies targeting Mr. Cougle.”
According to the township’s recent lawsuit, the municipality “agreed to suspend its collection of these costs on the understanding that Mr. Cougle would not commence further claims against the municipality or its employees on the same facts… Notwithstanding the terms of the , Mr. Cougle commenced two further actions against the municipality in 2019 on the same facts, this time using his corporation, Brylin Construction Ltd., as a litigation vehicle.
Kelly says in his affidavit that he believes Cougle “is abusing the court system and is systematically using it to threaten and intimidate people with frivolous and vexatious lawsuits.”
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