The Citizens for an Accountable Mega-Hospital Planning Process, or CAMPP, is declaring victory after a tribunal approved all but one application for participant status at a hearing.
At the end of a six-hour Local Appeal Tribunal hearing on March 20, the Tribunal approved 28 of the 29 applications for participant status.
Only a submission by the Walpole Island First Nation was disallowed because it missed the deadline by 72 hours.
A release from the group says the participants represent a diverse cross-section of the community from municipal planners and architects, to residents who live in poverty.
The group has been fighting to have the location of the new acute care hospital in Windsor-Essex reconsidered.
City council approved a zoning change for the hospital on County Road 42 at the 9th Concession back in August during a marathon eight-hour meeting.
CAMPP has long argued that the information council used to approve the location is out-of-date and flawed.
It said the location would create "significant barriers to hospital-based healthcare services for tens of thousands of Windsor's more than 200,000 residents for decades to come." Participants in the hearing argued the institution is not integrated with existing neighbourhoods, is an unwise use of resources, environmentally unsustainable, and that the planning was not responsive to the concerns of residents.
The Tribunal did suggest that mediation may reach a resolution. CAMPP said the City of Windsor and Windsor Regional Hospital agreed, but only if the group dropped its objections to the proposed site.
CAMPP has launched a GoFundMe campaign to fund its appeal with a goal of $100,000.