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TO: Mayor and Members of
Council
FROM: Jim Baird, Commissioner of
Development Services
Valerie
Shuttleworth, Director of Planning and Urban Design
PREPARD BY: Nilesh Surti, Planner, South District
DATE:
Re: Town initiated Official
Plan amendment to re-designate certain lands adjacent to the Legacy Community
from High Density Housing to Medium Density Housing
File No. OP 04
017782
THAT the proposed Official Plan Amendment to
redesignate lands within the Legacy Community from High Density Housing to
Medium Density Housing, be adopted.
At
the
- Page 7,
Paragraph 2: Change “predominately” single-detached to “all”
single-detached
- Page 7,
Paragraph 3: delete the reference to future development being more
compatible with existing development, and substitute that future
development be single detached dwellings.
It
should be noted that the requested changes are to a non-operative section of
the amendment. With respect to the first
point staff believe that the appropriate wording to describe
development in the area would be as follows:
“The land surrounding the subject property is designated Low
and Medium density housing and to date has been developed with all single
detached dwellings.”
This
wording, included in the Official Plan Amendment, remains as current as
possible in the event built forms other than single detached dwellings are
approved in the area in the future.
The
proposed wording in the second point is not appropriate given that it is inconsistent
with the operative portion of the OPA, which designates the lands Medium
Density housing and provides a variety of built form permissions. However, staff acknowledge
the compatibility concerns of the area residents and have modified the draft
OPA to provide that the only permitted form of residential dwelling within 25
metres of the south boundary of the subject lands, (where it adjoins existing
single detached dwellings) shall be small lot detached dwellings.
In
addition, several other minor modifications have also been made to the preamble
of the amendment (Section 4.0 of the OPA document). All changes noted above have been reviewed
and agreed to with Mr. Hutchinson.
Attached,
is a copy of the public meeting minutes and a copy of the draft Official Plan
Amendment, revised as discussed above, for adoption.
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