DEVELOPMENT SERVICES COMMITTEE

 

 

 

 

 

TO:

Mayor and Members of Council

 

 

 

 

FROM:

Jim Baird, Commissioner of Development Services

Valerie Shuttleworth, Director of Planning and Urban Design

 

 

 

 

PREPARED BY:

Tina Roberge, Planning Department

 

 

 

 

DATE OF MEETING:

September 21, 2004

 

 

 

 

SUBJECT:

Report on Incoming Planning Applications for the period of

August 5, 2004 to August 27, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

RECOMMENDATION:

That Committee receive the report entitled “Report on Incoming Planning Applications for the period of  August 5, 2004 to August 27, 2004” and direct staff to process the applications in accordance with the route outlined in the report.

 

PURPOSE:

The purpose of the report is to provide Committee with a brief summary of all incoming planning applications and advise of the approval route each application will proceed through.

 

OPTIONS/DISCUSSION:

The chart below outlines each application type, the property location (ward, district and address), a very brief description of the proposal/request and the approval route, for all development related planning applications received through the period of August 5, 2004 to August 27, 2004.  A majority vote of Committee is necessary to move (bump up) an application from a staff approval route to the Committee approval route.

 

Notes: OP – Official Plan Amendment Application

            ZA – Zoning By-law Amendment Application

            SC – Site Plan Approval Application

SU  - Application for Draft Plan Approval, Revision to Draft Approved Plan or Extension                      of Draft Approval

CU – Application for Approval of Draft Plan of Condominium

 

 

 

 

 

Application Type & File #

Ward & District Team

Description of Development Proposed

Approval Route

ZA 04022520

1, West

Stepanova Ballet Academy Inc.

·        83 Glen Cameron Road

·        North of Steeles Ave. East, East of Yonge Street

·        To permit the addition of commercial schools to the list of uses permitted on the property and to reduce the amount of parking required

·        To permit a ballet school on the second floor.

Committee/Council

SU 04022673

6, West

Woodbine Mackenzie Developments Limited

·        37 Artisan Trail

·        Part Lot Control Exemption has been requested to permit twenty single lots and four semi lots.  Thirteen lots will be created through the merger of Block 138 (65M-3670) and Block 104 (65M-3763), while eleven lots will be created through the merger of Block 139 (65M-3670) and Block 105 (65M-3763).

Council (By-law directly)

SU 04022833

4, East

Wismerlin Development Corporation 

  • 9831 McCowan Road
  • An application for Part Lot Control Exemption has been received for Plan 65M-3613 Blocks 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, and 72.
  • To permit forty townhouse units.

Council (By-law directly)

SU 04023813

1, West

Valloncourt Estates Inc.

  • 348 Steeles Ave. East
  • Thornhill community
  • Part Lot Control Exemption (Plan M-896, Lots 30 and 31) To permit 10 street townhouse units.

Committee/Council

SC 04022634

5, East

Mattamy Homes

·        Markham By-pass

·        North side of Highway 7 between 9th Line and Reesor Road.  Cornell Community

·        To permit construction of 33 townhomes in an existing plan of subdivision.

Staff

SC 04022988

6, West

York Region District School Board

·        230 Calvert Road Ashton Meadows Public School

·        North of 16th Avenue and east of Woodbine Avenue

·        To permit a portable classroom to be added to Ashton Meadows Public School

Staff

SC 04023063

4, East

Town of Markham Fire Station No. 98

·        650 Bur Oak Ave.

·        East of McCowan Road on the north side of Bur Oak Avenue

·        Wismer Commons Community

·        Site plan approval for Markham Fire Station 98.  The fire station will include crew stations and apparatus bays. 

Committee

SC 04 023337

7, South

York Region Board of Education

·        11 Coppard Ave.

·        East of McCowan Road and north of Steeles Ave. E. 

·        A site plan application has been received for an existing institutional building

·        To permit removal of two single portable classrooms and the addition of a new portable classroom four-pack. 

Staff

SC 04023478

2, West

Rogers Wireless Inc.

·        25 Fairway Heights

·        Northwest corner of Steeles Ave. E. and Leslie St.

·        Site plan approval for a communications tower located on the site of the Bayview Country Club

·        The communications tower will be 21 m in height and will be accompanied by four cabinets

In accordance with the Telecommunications Policy

SC 04023810

4, East

Fram Building Group

·        99 Lakeside Vista Way

·        Within Swan Lake Village, north of 16th Avenue, east of Swan Park Road.

·        To permit construction of 85 condominium townhouse units

Staff

FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS:

None.

 

BUSINESS UNITS CONSULTED AND AFFECTED:

All applications have been circulated to appropriate departments and agencies for comment and/or conditions.

 

ATTACHMENTS:

None.

 

 

 

 

 

Valerie Shuttleworth, M.C.I.P., R.P.P.

Director of Planning and Urban Design

 

Jim Baird, M.C.I.P., R.P.P.

Commissioner of Development Services

 

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