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Council Planning · February 10, 2026 · Item 8.2

City-initiated Official Plan Amendment Number 110 to update the Official Plan be approved in accordance with Attachment-1 of Report 2026-40, dated February 10, 2026.

Main motion under the agenda item Official Plan Update - Phase 1 Official Plan Amendment Decision Report - 2026-40

Carried (11 to 0)

11 in favour, 0 against — unanimous

What was voted on

The motion in its exact words, as recorded in the minutes.

That the City-initiated Official Plan Amendment Number 110 to update the Official Plan be approved in accordance with Attachment-1 of Report 2026-40, dated February 10, 2026.

Moved by Councillor Gibson, seconded by Councillor Busuttil.

How the room voted

In favour (11)

  • Allt
  • Billings
  • Busuttil
  • Caton
  • Chew
  • Gibson
  • Goller
  • Guthrie
  • Hauser
  • Klassen
  • Richardson

Who spoke to it

Lucas Mollame, Project Manager, Policy Planner and Krista Walkey, General Manager, Planning and Building Services, presented on Official Plan Update - Phase 1 Official Plan Amendment Decision Report - 2026-40. The following delegates spoke: Susan Watson Hugh Whiteley The following delegates did not speak: Meg Thorburn Laura Murr

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What was said

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4:11:12decision report we are going to have a little bit of a presentation from staff and then we have

4:11:19three delegations on this matter and so i'll turn it over to staff terry are you kicking us off on this

4:11:29lucas is yeah lucas is okay no it just said to my thing to terry so uh over to you lucas thank you so

4:11:34much thank you mayor guthrie uh good evening mayor members of council in the public uh my name is

4:11:43lucas malami and i'm a project manager in policy planning i'll be leading the presentation tonight

4:11:49so tonight is the decision meeting of council for guelph's official plan update phase one

4:11:53titled laying the groundwork as council and the public may remember from our statutory public

4:12:01meeting in october there have been many changes to provincial legislation provincial policies

4:12:06and municipal plans and policies since our last official plan update in turn we have proposed official

4:12:13plan changes to respond to and to provide consistency and conformity between the official plan

4:12:19in this new legislation policies and plans our last major official plan update was official

4:12:25plan amendment 80 also known as shaping guelph or opa 80 opa 80 was the city's last growth management

4:12:32strategy which took a comprehensive look at growth to the year 2051 opa 80 was adopted by city council

4:12:40in july 2022 and approved by the ministry of municipal affairs and housing with modifications

4:12:45on april 11th 2023 the city continues to use opa 80 and this current phase of the official plan

4:12:52update is not proposing significant changes to where how or when guelph grows so for our timeline

4:13:01starting back in 2022 council approved two important master plan documents the transportation master

4:13:07plan and the parks plan these plans need to be integrated into our official plan to reflect

4:13:13new direction for transportation and parks policies in the city there have also been several

4:13:18provincial legislative changes over the last number of years such as bill 23 which made changes

4:13:23to the planning act and the ontario heritage act in addition on october 20th 2024 a new provincial

4:13:30planning statement or pps came into full force in effect the pps 2024 is a consolidation of the

4:13:37previous provincial policy statement 2020 and the growth plan for the greater golden horseshoe

4:13:43decisions made by planning authorities must be consistent with this new pps 2024 and so our

4:13:49official plan must be updated to reflect this new policy document with these changes the goal of phase

4:13:55one was to provide certainty and clarity on what policies are being maintained what policies have

4:14:01been removed and what policies are changing in our official plan staff also wanted to reiterate to

4:14:10council in the public what the scope of phase one was phase one included implementing the new

4:14:15provincial planning statement 2024 and aligning policies with recent changes to the planning

4:14:20act and the ontario heritage act this includes changes to official plan policies and definitions

4:14:26phase one also included adding recommendations and updating mapping from the transportation master

4:14:30plan the parks plan and the trails master plan we've also taken the time to improve our cultural

4:14:37heritage policies both to respond to provincial changes and to make cultural heritage policies

4:14:42more readable and accessible finally as per its title phase one lays the groundwork for future

4:14:48phases of the official plan update by providing a policy base and identifying areas within the

4:14:54official plan that may need further review and work to be consistent with provincial direction

4:15:00or to reflect recommendations from city master plans phase one did not include large changes to

4:15:06where how or when wealth grows this includes changes to growth set out in our existing growth

4:15:12management strategy or preparing a new growth management strategy it did not include changes

4:15:18to policies that require separate additional study this includes changes from the province or from

4:15:24master plans that may require more targeted work and are not immediately needed to facilitate

4:15:28short-term growth it also did not remove cultural heritage protections the ontario heritage act

4:15:34continues to be enforced through our official plan it also did not include the creation of a brand

4:15:40new official plan overall phase one can be characterized as an administrative exercise

4:15:48the timeline for phase one included two information sessions in july 2025 followed by the statutory

4:15:55public meeting with the draft official plan amendment 110 presented in october in november

4:16:00draft opa 110 was available on the project's have your say page for comment over the course of december

4:16:06staff made small adjustments to respond to comments received and today we're presenting the final

4:16:11recommended opa 110 with this being phase one it is expected that the official plan update will

4:16:22occur over multiple phases looking forward from phase one phase two is planned to take place over

4:16:28the rest of 2026 and will include amendments to respond to employment policy changes from the

4:16:33province and incorporating other recommendations from our transportation master plan future phases

4:16:39will commence in the years to come and our plan to include review on specific topics these future

4:16:44phases are still being scoped so some of what's highlighted in this particular slide may be subject

4:16:49to change as counsel in the public may remember from our from our october presentation we have

4:16:58divided the changes in phase one across seven different themes i'll be spending the rest of

4:17:03the presentation going over what has changed under each theme if any from the october draft to now

4:17:11so just before i do that we just wanted to explain how to read this amendment

4:17:15opa 110 has overall been presented in a table there are five columns in this table the item

4:17:21number the location of the policy in our existing official plan what that current policy says the

4:17:27amended words and finally staff comments for accessibility purposes text that is changing

4:17:33is denoted through the use of the strong or bold styling this bold styling is used in the second

4:17:39column to denote words that are being removed through this amendment and in the third column

4:17:44to denote words that are being added also for accessibility purposes all italics have been

4:17:50removed which are used in the official plan to denote words that are defined terms the fifth

4:17:55column notes what's word what words are currently defined and what words are proposed to be defined

4:17:59through this amendment so starting with cultural heritage following motions from the heritage

4:18:07advisory committee we've made the following changes from draft opa 110 so those are to include a

4:18:13policy objective on supporting adaptive reuse using existing language from the guelph innovation

4:18:18district secondary plan and revising the definition of heritage conservation district

4:18:23to clarify that properties listed within an hcd are designated on the city's heritage register

4:18:33for employment no changes have been made since october employment will be one of the two

4:18:37focuses for phase two with a large focus of that being understanding what guelph's current

4:18:41employment area needs are following changes by the province to permitted uses in employment areas

4:18:50but the theme of environment no changes have been made since october the natural heritage system

4:18:54will be a focus of a future phase of the official plan update moving to complete community no changes

4:19:03have been made since october following engagement with the mississaugas of the credit first nation

4:19:08and the six nations of the grand river planning staff have committed to undertaking an indigenous

4:19:12engagement project as part of a future phase of the official plan update at a high level this

4:19:17project will look at how indigenous communities are engaged on development applications for

4:19:25supporting growth staff have made a small change to strengthen the language on requirements for

4:19:29potential settlement area boundary expansions in a response to a motion from the planning

4:19:34environment and water advisory committee currently guelph's corporate boundary and our settlement

4:19:39area boundary are the same but if that were to change we want to be clear at the official plan

4:19:44level what the requirements are to expand our settlement area boundary for transportation we're

4:19:54making some corrections to schedule five which is our road and rail network from the draft so that

4:19:59the correct street hierarchy from the transportation master plan is included and those corrections

4:20:04have been noted in the staff report and finally with parks staff have made one minor change in

4:20:13response to a comment received so under our parkland dedication policies within our official plan

4:20:18we're clarifying that parcels of land where the sole function of that land is for trails or

4:20:22active transportation connections are not acceptable and not considered as parkland dedication

4:20:27this clarification is consistent with the parkland dedication criteria in the 2022 park plan since

4:20:36october staff have done a number of engagements with advisory committees of council including the

4:20:40heritage advisory committee and the planning environment and water advisory committee who

4:20:44both provided comments and motions which have been reflected in the final recommended opa 110 in

4:20:48front of you today as well our have your say page was open for comments from october 16th

4:20:53to november 14th and one comment was received there which staff have responded to as part of the

4:20:57staff report with that i'll pass it over to christa for some closing remarks thanks lucas

4:21:09so i just wanted to to close and bring us back to the the previous slide on what this is and what

4:21:15this is not we recognize there's been a lot of correspondence since the public meeting on the

4:21:19niska lands and tying a property specific amendment to this current official plan policy work as

4:21:25lucas has indicated there are not site specific property amendments associated with this amendment

4:21:31and we request that council keep the items separate and allow for the official plan work to proceed

4:21:36the work that staff has been doing over the past year is a conformity inconsistency exercise

4:21:42what policies definitions and mapping need to change to respond to specific provincial changes

4:21:47and municipal changes it has not been to look at site specifically and uses requests to how

4:21:54where wealth grows we've done that work most recently with official plan 80 which was a year

4:22:00long process with a lot of time and resources dedicated to it we've also based a lot of other

4:22:05city master planning work on opa 80 so this phase of the op update takes a look at what's changed

4:22:13since official plan amendment 80 at a provincial level and a municipal level to see what we can

4:22:19implement while keeping that comprehensive growth planning work intact so that is the the end of

4:22:26our presentation and we're happy to answer any questions following the delegations great thank

4:22:32you to staff very much for setting the stage for the report and what's ahead of us we appreciate that

4:22:39we have three delegations signed up for this one and just as our staff reminded council

4:22:49at the end there Christa reminded council I'm out about what's actually in front of us with the

4:22:57the scope of what we sent them away to do and what we're discussing about here and to keep the

4:23:02niska land issue separate because that is a separate agenda item it is uh it's important that we have

4:23:10our delegates do the same just that we respect that but up for up first sorry is Susan Watson who's

4:23:18going to join us by telephone and then we have Hugh Whiteley by video and Laura mirror also by

4:23:22telephone Susan I see you on the screen I think you know the drill here it is I believe star six to

4:23:30unmute and then you have up to five minutes same with every delegation in front of us here and a

4:23:36chime at four minutes and thirty second mark will be your warning before cut off at five minutes

4:23:43thank you for joining us Susan and we appreciate it and I'll turn it over to you yeah we can hear

4:23:47you good yep you're coming through great yep go ahead now about three and members of council

4:23:53the official plan update phase one includes incorporating key updates from the 2022 map

4:23:59park master plan in that plan staff identified a looming parkland deficit of 174 hectares or 430

4:24:07acres relative to population by 2051 in particular staff identified an increasing demand for playing

4:24:15fields and the overuse of the turf of some of our existing fields shortly after that 2022 report

4:24:21Doug Ford cut in half the amount of parkland dedication or cash in lieu that developers have

4:24:27to provide the high density buildings so the amount of parkland we will be able to get from

4:24:31development has actually been reduced on the population side a majority of this council approved

4:24:37a significant zoning change in the innovation district changing employment zoning to housing

4:24:42and thereby increasing the number of future wealth residents on top of that you now have increased

4:24:48density limits in the downtown core and the new provincial policy statement requires more

4:24:52intensification in existing built-up areas so my question is has the 2022 parkland shortfall

4:24:59figure been updated to reflect both reduced parkland acquisition opportunities as well as

4:25:05added population both these changes will have aggravated the future parkland shortfall

4:25:12174 hectares is the equivalent to five riverside parks and to give you a scale of the sense of the

4:25:19scale of the challenge of meeting our future parkland targets even the proposed acquisition of the

4:25:23court right waterfowl land from the GRCA will only address 30 percent of the originally projected

4:25:29shortfall which we now know is bigger so I would appreciate knowing it that shortfall figure has

4:25:34been updated and if yes what is the current number and I apologize if this has already happened that

4:25:40I've somehow missed it the other role of this OP update is to integrate the new provincial planning

4:25:46statement and the key goal of this policy is to increase housing supply and one of the requirements

4:25:52is that municipalities support redevelopment and intensification within existing built-up areas

4:25:59however I am extremely concerned about where we're heading with our water supply

4:26:03given the current crisis that is unfolding in Waterloo region they are 80 percent dependent on

4:26:09groundwater we are 100 dependent on groundwater the 2021 water supply master plan predicted

4:26:16that demand would exceed supply by 2051 and I'm not clear if that plan accounted for the 5000 new

4:26:22residents in the Doe line quarry lands which were annexed to the city it's my understanding that the

4:26:28additional 5000 population from Doe line exceeded our targets of 203 residents by 2051 then in 2023

4:26:37six of you still at the council table voted to allow fusion to change the zoning in the

4:26:41innovation district from employment land to housing Ms. Walske told you at that meeting that the

4:26:47water supply master plan was calculated to have quote barely squeaked by by 2021 and that was in

4:26:54jeopardy former CAO Scott Stewart said that he had a fiduciary duty to tell you there wasn't enough

4:27:00water for this additional housing and if you were going to add housing into the innovation district

4:27:05you would have to take it out elsewhere and where is the additional population growth triggered by

4:27:11downtown intensification and increasing density across the city being trapped this is the big

4:27:17boo boo in Waterloo region that they didn't include the increased demand from intensification and

4:27:23infill in their calculation the specter of quote illegal liability is now being raised in Waterloo

4:27:30region although it hasn't been said explicitly that will mean developers suing the region

4:27:36this council is even more vulnerable from a legal perspective because a majority of you

4:27:41voted to add housing against the explicit advice and advice of staff and this that could be framed

4:27:47as willful negligence if we find ourselves in the same water crisis as Waterloo region

4:27:53so two of your decisions this evening give and gave you the opportunity to rebalance

4:27:57wealth projected housing with our actual water budget by subtracting housing I'm not a lawyer but

4:28:04I'm thinking these could be important actions to minimize legal risk for the city and help us to

4:28:09live within our means when it comes to our water budget if the Ford government wants to impose MZO's

4:28:15and assume the legal risk of exceeding our water capacity I'd say let them but please don't you

4:28:21put wealth tax dollars at risk thank you thank you very much for your delegation is there a follow-up

4:28:28at this time by any my colleagues there is not so thank you very much and I know that I see your

4:28:34name on the next item so stay tuned we'll come back to you in a moment thank you Dr. Hugh Whiteley

4:28:41is going to join us by video next and we do see you joining Hugh I think you just need to turn on

4:28:53the camera if you wish and if the camera isn't working for you if you want to try just unmuting

4:29:07you could do it oh no here you go we see you now and do you want to try unmuting for us

4:29:25there I think I'm both visible and audible well we do we do see your forehead

4:29:32uh yeah uh and we hear you as well so there you go that's awesome perfect uh thank you

4:29:41thanks you for joining us and whenever you're ready to go you go right ahead okay okay I'm

4:29:48elegant uh delegating today on proposal OPA 110 because I think it's an obligation of the city

4:29:58whenever it's adjusting its official plan to take account of any errors in the official plan in terms

4:30:06of contradictions between the official plan and its adopted master plans and there's an instance

4:30:14which has I will outline below that occurs at the time of 110 that should be allowed to be incorporated

4:30:26into the change as an emergency response city council and city staff have received extensive

4:30:35correspondence from citizens requesting as a matter of urgency that OPA 110 contain a redesignation

4:30:47in open space to open space parkland of an eight heck there parcel acquired by the city

4:30:55in the g rca as parkland the redesignation would correct an erroneous designation of the parcel

4:31:05for housing the designation for housing was a planning error because it ignored the parcel

4:31:13having permanent designation as open space permanent zoning as conservation and the specific

4:31:23mention in future functions for this parcel in an adopted master plan that still remains active

4:31:35my request is that in view of the failure of staff to respond to these extensive submissions

4:31:43in OPA 110 and explaining to people how the city was going to take account of these comments on

4:31:53deficiencies in the official plan the circulation and instead has circulated background information

4:32:05that grossly represents misrepresents past actions of city council regarding this parcel of land

4:32:13because of all those functions i'm asking that council withhold consideration of approval of OPA 110

4:32:22until a further public meeting is held under the planning act to consider whether redesignation

4:32:30of the eight heck there's should be included in OPA 110 so i'm just going to stop your time for one

4:32:39sec dr waley i have stopped the time to make sure that i'm respecting your your delegation time limit

4:32:46okay i i see that you are only talking about a site specific issue which we have a separate item on

4:32:55the agenda in which i also see that you've signed up to delegate for that and so i'm just wondering

4:33:03why you're speaking about that separate agenda item that's coming up in in your delegation now

4:33:11i will uh make clear that what i'm talking about is the lack of response to a valid set of comments

4:33:24on OPA 110 what i'm objecting to is okay just one second just one second i'm not i'm i'm gonna

4:33:33can i'm gonna make sure that i tell the clerks to continue with your clock because i don't want

4:33:37you to lose your time okay but but i respectfully ask that you try your best to speak to this item

4:33:49and the details that are in front of us and try to focus your attention on a site specific issue

4:33:57under the agenda item that you've already signed up to delegate on okay you know me well enough to

4:34:03know that i hate interrupting people on this stuff i sincerely do so i'm gonna start the time i'm

4:34:08gonna let you continue but please make sure that you are trying to speak to this item and not trying

4:34:15to marry the two together or to double up just so that we have a fair for everybody okay your

4:34:21time continues to start right now in making your decision on OPA 110 i remind council that every

4:34:30official plan adopted by a city council determines how land in our community should be used choosing

4:34:39the best use for each parcel to ensure that future planning and development will meet the specific

4:34:46needs of our community where council has been informed of a deficiency in the official plan

4:34:54every official plan should be prepared with consideration of inputs from the community

4:35:01please adhere to this principle and listen to your community in this comments on OPA 110

4:35:13okay great thank you very much and and and i appreciate you and i kind of going back and

4:35:19forth there i didn't i did not want to interrupt you so thank you is there any questions then for

4:35:24dr wightley at this time okay seeing none and again just like i said to the last delegate i will see

4:35:32you and hear from you very soon uh now the meg thorburn has not is not on this particular one

4:35:41and we are are having a trouble connecting with laura murray now uh is that correct clerks you

4:35:47just told me that okay so what i'm going to do is i'm going to move on back to council right now

4:35:54but if you do get a hold of laura murray all of a sudden just interrupt me and let me know just so

4:35:59we can honor that that delegation okay um so uh at this time it is back to us

4:36:08council is there at least someone that would be willing to move the recommendation

4:36:13that's in front of us okay i'll go to the screen gipson and busitil okay thank you uh questions

4:36:21of staff and or comments you want to blend them together let's let's do that okay so gipson and

4:36:28katin thank you through you mr mayor um just a question i can't remember the slide that it was

4:36:35on to staff um it was about maybe we could just unpack this a little bit for me it was about the

4:36:42multi-use paths and the trail connections not being counted as parkland dedication because

4:36:48staff to broaden that i've just got a few case studies in my mind or that may be a maybe a little

4:36:55bit problematic but i just wanted to hear from staff um the rationale for that did i get that right

4:37:03through the mayor to councillor ipson so that that's correct so at a at a staff level for parkland

4:37:09dedication we do not accept trails so our trails are planned along the natural heritage system and

4:37:16within rail corridors where land can be secured but at no cost to the city unlike with parkland

4:37:22dedication so for example we have partnerships with the gulf junction railway that they've

4:37:27developed allowed us to develop trails at low cost to the city um developers typically convey

4:37:33the natural heritage system to the city at no cost through the development approval process

4:37:38since these areas can't be developed um because trails are permitted within buffers for natural

4:37:44heritage system land and because these lands are already transferred to the city um we do have

4:37:49already a reliable and cost effective method for securing land for new trails that doesn't then draw

4:37:55from parkland dedication requirements okay i i completely understand that rationale i guess

4:38:01my question is when a trail connection is sort of requested or needs to go across a developer's

4:38:11site and it's in it's in it's conveyed to the city but it's not through green space how does the city

4:38:17interpret that i i'm just i'm i know i'm i'm not going to zero in on one specific development file

4:38:23but i can't think of one where there's a parkland that's been created on the site and there's a

4:38:29trail connection going through it and i'm just it's definitely on the developer's land parcel

4:38:35not on city's parcel um and it looks like it's been able to use path or a trail that's connecting

4:38:41one one side of the property to the other and i'm just wondering other other exceptions to to this rule

4:38:48or um is it sort of uh this is the rule but there may be some exceptions

4:38:56i can take these questions offline i just i regret not asking them a little bit in advance so

4:39:05good evening so um so through the mayor generally we do not accept trails as parkland

4:39:11dedication as lucas has mentioned there are cases where a trail connection a small portion

4:39:17would need to go through developable land and in that case the city will generally

4:39:21purchase an easement uh from developers which is generally quite low cost so in most

4:39:28using that mechanism we are able through sub through subdivision applications to utilize the

4:39:35um parkland dedication for a park block and secure a trail okay that that gives me a peace of mind

4:39:42i appreciate it thank you um i'll i'll give the site specific details to staff at a later date

4:39:49but i just wanted to get that that clarified thank you very much great thank you uh kateen then alt

4:39:56thank you through you mr mayor um first i just want to say thank you so much to our planning staff

4:40:01um with this and every other project you've gone through and the amount of shifting legislation

4:40:08and council decisions like overall you are all just working constantly so i just appreciate

4:40:15that you've kind of consolidated all of the things that you've been through in the last

4:40:19term into this document um my question is about the transportation area and i just see

4:40:27there's a lot of streets um in ward one and throughout the city that are kind of shifting

4:40:33between being a collector and an arterial and existing collectors and i was just wondering if

4:40:40you could give a little bit of an overview of what those changes mean materially to the people

4:40:46on those streets i know a lot of folks who've been asking for like traffic calming and other things

4:40:50like that um there's different rules and regulations depending on what the street name is so could you

4:40:55give us a little bit of an outline on what those changes mean to the people on those streets

4:41:01mayor to to council kateen so the the transportation master plan related um connection and alignment

4:41:15to this official plan update is really around um recognizing the schedules and the transportation

4:41:20master plan um and putting them into the official plan so whether that's where where the city could

4:41:25for example take a road wedding so if a development application came forward and um the city was

4:41:31required to take a road wedding for example it's that type of alignment that we're now

4:41:35recognizing in the official plan um pursuant to that 2022 master plan approval for the transportation

4:41:41master plan so what would in terms of the road widenings just because i'm seeing a lot of

4:41:53and i know that there's a lot of easements on folks front lawns and things like that um

4:42:01can can you describe a little bit more about

4:42:07what that actually would what the impact would be of the road widenings and

4:42:11where specifically we're looking at that and how soon so through the mayor to to the council

4:42:20i mean certainly with with the respect to the entire transportation network the the nuances

4:42:25to your question can vary from street to street and then again this is really around giving staff

4:42:30the authority when development applications do come in to require the road widenings for those

4:42:35specific purposes so whether um you know depending on the schedule and the transportation master plan

4:42:40whether it's a local road arterial road collector road um that's it's just about aligning the

4:42:45opportunity to obtain those lands um to protect the future ultimate road design for a given corridor

4:42:52so it's kind of hard to answer your question in a site specific kind of manner um but that's why

4:42:57the official plan update is required thanks and i read that we're going to hear more about that in

4:43:04part two so there'll be more opportunities to discuss through the mayor to councillor kate and

4:43:11that is correct thank you very much great so we have only three more uh alt goller and then chew

4:43:22thank you very much mr mayor um just a quick question uh to staff with regards to

4:43:29comments on trails um councillor gibson actually piqued me on this a bit and i am just wondering

4:43:36do we follow a similar protocol to other municipalities when it comes to assessing our trail

4:43:44needs and establishing those trails or is what we do you need to go off staff is making their way

4:44:02down councillor Allt just so you don't know they decided to take a few trails to get here that's

4:44:06fine thank you yeah thank you for the question so our our approach is very much aligned with most

4:44:12municipalities in ontario great answer thank you all right thank you uh what do i have here i

4:44:26two more caller and chew thank you three worship the staff thank you so much for the presentation

4:44:32and for all this work i i do note that on on the third page of your presentation you mentioned that

4:44:38what is included in phase one included key updates from the transportation and parks master plans

4:44:43one of the delegates asked if the the projections of the parkland needed was updated is that something

4:44:50that has been updated through in this uh so not through this process but we are planning to bring

4:44:59back a parkland acquisition strategy for council consideration in 2027 perfect thank you so much

4:45:04thank you worship thank you thank you councillor glower and chew thank you thank you mr mayor first

4:45:12i want to thank that staff as well i think a lot of changes here to the classification of the trails

4:45:17on the road classification actually helps with a lot of case work and a lot of advocacy that's

4:45:25been done behind the scenes i just have to ask for my own ward i noticed for the trails there are

4:45:32changes within preservation park and also for the road classification there's uh there's a change to

4:45:39court right east and then also scott stalin you maybe mallory this is a question for you you can

4:45:44kind of hit a picture for the for the public on what we can expect with these changes um

4:45:52materially down the road just at a very high level yeah sure so through the mayor uh the changes

4:45:58schedule six the trail network generally follow updates that were approved through the

4:46:04guelph trail master plan so that update that mapping now reflects our guelph trail master plan

4:46:10mapping other updates to schedule six included um where trails have now been developed they're now

4:46:17shown as existing rather than proposed there was some cleanup to the legend and some map symbols

4:46:23and then in phase two we'll do a little bit more cleanup to that map to identify which lines are

4:46:29actually the trail network and which are part of the cycling network okay i appreciate this and

4:46:36maybe this might be a question more to terry on the scott stalin court right east changes

4:46:43will that have any implications on folks within the the traffic calming request queue

4:46:50uh for the warrants and kind of prioritization yeah so through the mayor to council true i would

4:46:58i would view that as separate the city has an updated traffic calming policy coming to council

4:47:04in q2 of this year and so that that conversation is to come okay thank you with that um it's been

4:47:15moved and seconded i'd like to call the vote then uh before i do thank you very much

4:47:23actually this was one of the most kind of laid well laid out easily read sort of changes so

4:47:31i don't know who was responsible for that but think oh who was responsible say it out loud

4:47:38lucas well done thank you if i can understand you're doing a very good job so we appreciate it

4:47:47all right i'll call the vote then on this is anyone against this new update there is no one

4:47:57that is unanimous thank you very very much we really appreciate it okay uh where are we next

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