{"id":9677,"date":"2011-04-13T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9677"},"modified":"2011-04-13T09:57:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T13:57:36","slug":"residents-win-david-versus-goliath-battle-over-queenston-docks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/13\/residents-win-david-versus-goliath-battle-over-queenston-docks\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents win &#8216;David versus Goliath&#8217; battle over Queenston docks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3072114\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A small citizens&#8217; group and a church in historic Queenston Village fought the town, Whirlpool Jet Boat Tour Co. and the Niagara Escarpment Commission &#8212; and won.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing before the Ontario Environmental Review Panel, which began in March 2009, ended in a victory recently for the Queenston Residents Association and St. Saviour Brock Memorial Church. They were successful in preventing the jet-boat company from receiving a permit from the escarpment commission to construct a two-storey building at the Queenston dock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A small citizens&#8217; group and a church in historic Queenston Village fought the town, Whirlpool Jet Boat Tour Co. and the Niagara Escarpment Commission &#8212; and won. A hearing before the Ontario Environmental Review Panel, which began in March 2009, ended in a victory recently for the Queenston Residents Association&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[5295,5298,5296,3929,5290,5297,5289,5291,5294,5292,5288,5293,126,256,122],"class_list":["post-9677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-building","tag-citizens-group","tag-dock","tag-docks","tag-hearing","tag-jet-boat-tour","tag-niagara-escarpment-commission","tag-ontario-environmental-review-panel","tag-permit","tag-queenston-residents-association","tag-queenston-village","tag-st-saviour-brock-memorial-church","tag-whirlpool","tag-whirlpool-jet-boat","tag-whirlpool-jet-boat-tours"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}