Country Communities Are Not All Peaches & Cream! So, What Happens When the Cream Sours! (Part Seven)

I would like to think that at this point in this ongoing saga if you will, that people, most people, would get the general idea of the mentality of these menaces amongst us.

The sad part is that I firmly believe that they are lashing out through ignorance, jealousy, fear and the ultimate destroyer of most any person’s integrity.

Gossip!

However! Maybe it is just the fear of the unknown naked people.

Ooooo! That is just too scary to understand, as you will soon see.

So, let me pause on the juvenile antics of a few  for a moment and look back to what we are all anxiously waiting upon!

That simple rezoning and our 120-day process.

Being that it’s 2019 at this point, one would perhaps agree it wasn’t so simple after all.

You can probably recall that all the documentation, fees etc. etc… were all submitted to the municipality on September 25^th, 2017, through my calculations that would garner a decision by January 22^nd, 2018.

Wonderful!

We should have it all cleared up in time for our upcoming season.

If in fact, the 120-day process was adhered to as was indicated.

NOT!!!!

One can only imagine that any  person would think everything is in place, lawyers and municipal employees have all had a great deal of time throughout 2017 to complete the required application and followed the proper process.

Lo and behold, December 19^th, 2017 we receive a phone call asking us to come in for a meeting to discuss the very application that has been prepared.

It is at this time, that we get blindsided by what was meant to be a simple process, is now turning into something on much larger scale. We are being asked to file in addition to this simple rezoning application an Official Plan Amendment for consideration, which would allow us to move forward.

Talk about being Gobsmacked, because you see that very question was posed to this municipality and by way of confirmation back in August of 2017 it was stated that this would NOT be required of us.

I really do not want to lose my readers at this point over technicalities and processes, but in all fairness, this ordeal needs to be told. To do this justice, I need to have you understand clearly what these past two years have been like for us.

Trust me when I say, not too many people would have endured what we have had to deal with.

You as nudists will become outraged as this unfolds.

Perhaps even those non-nudists will see the injustice of it all.

That I can assure you!

December 19^th, 2017, my mother’s birthday, where I probably should and would have been celebrating her special day. Instead here we are just a few days before Christmas Holidays start and we get this bomb dropped on us.

Being that this is the festive season for most we find ourselves with no one to turn too to discuss the current situation. Lawyers are on vacation, planners are making merry and the municipal staff and council are probably in full festive mode throughout this time.

Where does that leave us?

Hung out to dry!

Therefore, now that our Christmas has been thoroughly destroyed by this news, we endeavor to do our homework and get some answers.

I spent endless amounts of time researching for answers and possible solutions. What I discovered was back in the initial days of our opening existence, it became apparent that an Official Plan was not in place.

However, given that we had the encouragement of the top dog of the area, one would think that we should have been grandfathered past the creation of this plan, much like other campgrounds that existed at the time.

I found that kind of disturbing to say the least and I subsequently put that on my list of need to knows.

The other and more disturbing fact that I was able to obtain, was that this municipality was already in a process of updating their Official Plan, which was an obligation for this municipality to have done for them to be in conformity with its Upper Tier Government and that of our Provincial Policy Statement Standards.

What was also determined is what was now being asked of us was a further outlay of revenue and would be estimated at additional $16,000 to accommodate what?

Further delays?

Or perhaps maybe it would leave you with the impression that they were simply looking for us to contribute to there fees to get the official in place.

If this is not an issue to be believed and you find it doubtful! How about the fact that after all this time and given we are still in this horrendous process, that SURPRISE! Now they are implementing Agri Tourism and small campgrounds as an acceptable rezoning process.

So, I am sorry, but it leaves a bitter sweet taste of doubt in my mind and I am sure you can see why.

Christmas celebrations, come and go, New Years Celebrations, come and go.

Through due diligence and research, I now have a list of need to knows.

January resumes, business as usual for everyone, I fire off my discoveries looking for answers and solutions to get our business doors open for the enjoyment of our nudist community.

What I get back is responses that claim error, upon error, upon error.

You see I asked about the other campgrounds that were miraculously grandfathered and appeared on their plans in 2014, These additions were simple brushed off as errors and some claimed as to be well established businesses.

Well excuse me, so are we!

This error response was very much like the error in my overpayment for the rezoning in the first place.

But I will get to that later.

The big slap in face was a bylaw that was emailed to me.

This bylaw at first glance appeared to not allow any campgrounds in the area. I suppose after reading the first paragraph, I figured we were dead in the water.

However, in time I went back to this bylaw that was sent to me and what I had been given was an Interim bylaw that had been created in 2007.

Now for us average joes on the block, this bylaw on the surface would appear to be set in stone. The reality here is that this bylaw had an expiry date on it much like sour cream and was not permitted beyond two years of the passing of this piece of work.

So, my question is why was send it to us in the first place, it really wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.

That leads me to believe that it was meant as another deterrent and nothing more.

Something is smelling soured here!

Country Communities Are Not All Peaches & Cream! Let’s Add A Few Nuts To This Dish! (Part Six)

Nuts and perverts run amuck without any repercussions!

Throughout the course of the 2017 spring, summer and fall, if we had only had to deal with one responding Ontario Provincial Police detachment within our area, in all honesty I believe we would have been on a first name basis with our local law enforcement.

But sadly, and to our dismay, we have four different responding police detachments for the area that we live in. It was becoming extremely frustrating that we were starting to think that the left hand did not know what the right hand was doing. I will venture a quick guess here and say at a minimum there was at least 10 occurrences filed throughout the course of 2017 to the OPP all with regards to the ongoing harassment that a handful of individuals believed was their obligations to make our lives miserable. The question and reality of it all still to this day escapes us, why has no one or does anyone see that this whole mess is simply over a vendetta of livestock at large?

It reached a point, where the OPP suggested we purchase cameras and have them installed throughout the property. Once again, we followed through with these recommendations.

Now,  being that we are a nudist venue and take the privacy of our membership agreements serious, we had areas of the property where it became necessary to notify our membership of the locations of these cameras as we continually moved them throughout the land.

You see what non-nudists do not understand, we have a wide variety of participants enjoying the au natural lifestyle, people flock here from all walks of life, and because all the bling, glamour and clothing are non existent, no one in their right mind and or capacity would be able to identify perhaps a nurse, a doctor, a lawyer, a police officer, a sanitary engineer and the list goes on. You see when we all get naked and take away what the average everyday person has become accustomed to. It is these very covers of the books that define who we are sometimes.  Well in all reality, it is these very people that have had to endure the mindlessness of these aggressors and it is these same people that have witnessed all that has happened throughout a very uncomfortable and trying ordeal for all involved.

So, let me take you to another day in paradise at the ranch.

It was a beautiful day; the sun was shining and the happiness you feel when you hear laughter of people just relaxing and enjoying a wonderful hot summers day.

Awe, the memory of these days. Keeps our hopes and dreams alive!

I digress 😊

Well, his long weekend and in true form to most long weekends the misfits in the immediate area, decided that it was a great day to cause some trouble for the nudie people as they so affectionately call us.

Now being farmers ourselves, we completely understand and to date had never had any issue with any farmer going about his business of haying his fields, whether he owns the land or not, in all reality we know it must get done when the weather allows for it.

So, maybe we will just strike it all up to coincidence that all long weekends for the last 6 years to this point, seem to be the best time for working the fields.

However, on this long weekend while both my husband and I were elsewhere occupied on the property, the perverts and peepers were in full swing.

You see there was many people just relaxing, chilling and enjoying themselves peacefully on our deck. What broke this peaceful day up, was there were several men on the adjacent property, which I am sure were haying the next-door neighbours’ fields. Fortunately, it has been documented by witness accounts, that these men were peeping through the tree line and screaming out horrendous comments at the company minding the own business. Our people were being verbally assaulted by a few of these individuals and more in particular it was the ladies of the group that were being degraded. From the recount of the experience from many members, one of the husbands of the ladies, approached the fence line to address what their issues were and insisted that they be on their way. I believe it became very aggressive in nature and by the time we had been notified of the confrontation and intervened, it was apparent that these individuals were hostile in nature.

My husband was first on site, and he also had to endure a berating from the same individual whom had earlier that year came up our driveway with accusations of guns. I approached the fence line and instructed everyone of our people to leave and not engage in this any further. I had my camera and just took photos of them while they continued to yell and scream assaults at me. I knew that any form of verbal communication with this type of mindset was just a waste of my time.

The funny thing is that after I had all the photo evidence to be added to the already mounting heaps of reports, photos, statements and evidence. The mentality of these people was to call the police on us and claim we were harassing them for cutting hay and something about kicking up dust.

WOW!

Well, once again when the Police Officials did come by the very next day, we were all in a discussion as to whether we should ourselves report the incident that occurred the previous day. It was agreed by all that it  would be a  waste anyone’s valuable time and the reality for us was that nothing ever came out of any of the calls anyway. Imagine this, we were all starting to see how we were being ignored and treated by the very people sworn to serve and protect the citizens of this country.

Well as fate would have it, when they did approach us about the call they received, they were not even a bit interested in seeing photographs taken while they were peeping through the bushes, instead, we were cautioned and warned to keep the peace.

What the hell is that?

So, I determined from that day forward I would report everything that these people were up to.

Yes, I know the Police have better things that are more pressing and in honesty the last thing I wanted, was to ever have been placed in this predicament.

So, I guess they will just have to deal with it all moving forward.

MUST is a hard nut to crack, but in the end,  it has a sweet kernel!