Staff to finalize the proposed Rental Replacement By-law, as described in the Affordable Housing Policy Program – Recommended Policy Direction for a Rental Replacement By-law…

2:08:12goller do you want to move it

2:08:14busitil we'll second it okay um and a question from busitil

2:08:20yes thank you and through the mayor just to the staff um there was a compelling presentation

2:08:25by um mr quan from from acto and so this is the question about the calculation and the

2:08:32complexity of the compensation um could you please comment on that because really for me and i

2:08:38understand it the basket of rental is not equal of like to like uh and i think we heard that in

2:08:45the delegations as well can you just help me understand the calculations uh through the

2:08:57mayor to council busitil um sorry can you ask that question just one more time sorry as i'm

2:09:05switching my brain into a different yes so it's the calculation of the replacement the value of

2:09:13using like for like so if the big basket includes you know condominium rentals and all you know high

2:09:20end rentals and so on it it's it's not like for like and i think in one of the delegations i think

2:09:26it was sharon's talking about you know 80 percent of my income is what i'm paying for rent and so

2:09:34that is when you put it into the cosmetics you know the big basket it's not comparable

2:09:40and so my concern i at the end of the day the vacancy sorry thank you thank you for that mayor

2:09:47is about you know the mix of affordability so it's it's comparing same to same

2:09:55thanks so much again through the mayor to council busitil um in terms of what has been

2:10:00presented in the report it is really based on um some of the research from other municipalities

2:10:06that do have a rental placement bylaw and these are the triggers that they have used um given the

2:10:12time that we had to put this together we were not really in a position to uh go outside what is

2:10:20consistent with other municipalities um so there may be an you know we we could come back in again

2:10:28after a year um should this pass or should this you know go through come back to council in July

2:10:34and be approved and and look at at that but at this point um again this is what was in other

2:10:40municipalities that have a rental placement bylaw that have already been implemented thank you so

2:10:52it's my question is a follow-up as as part of that kind of one-year follow-up when it comes back to us

2:11:01would you would you be able to see if there is any research or any levers that can be pulled

2:11:09around the vacancy rate and how it can be more defined into sort of this type of affordable

2:11:15housing vacancy rate versus this type of housing is could that at least come back to council if you

2:11:22find something or a tool to be able to initiate that uh to the mayor yes definitely that is something

2:11:27we can look into i mean we do already report typically on vacancy rates um through our growth

2:11:33management report annually and that is something that is quite consistent that we've reported on

2:11:38but we can look into um uh other other ways of gathering data okay yeah are you good with that

2:11:49sorry i don't have my glasses i thought i thought you wanted to speak as well i thought before you

2:11:54retired you wanted to say something you don't want to say anything that's fine i think kushla has

2:12:05answered thank you mr mayor okay perfect just wanted to get you on public record uh in the minutes

2:12:12for your last last meeting okay is there anything further on this one okay i think i speak on behalf

2:12:22of council when i say thank you very much to staff thank you very much to the public thank you very

2:12:28much to advocates we have gaps in the system that should be filled by provincial and or federal but

2:12:35mostly provincial government in the absence of filling those gaps municipalities have to step in

2:12:44we would not be here today if some of these gaps were already filled and so i respectfully say to

2:12:51the province please get these things filled somebody at some point said you know you need to be going

2:12:59to the province i just want to say i have sat in front of three different housing ministers

2:13:10about this issue on behalf of the city of guelph and as the ontario big city mayor's caucus

2:13:17i think it was two years ago at the association of municipalities of ontario conference myself

2:13:25i think councillor Busuttil councillor clausen who were up there for that and with the spirit of all

2:13:32of council with us behind us um specifically had a delegation on some of these exact issues

2:13:39okay so i just want to make it very clear that myself and council combined and staff

2:13:48have advocated and advocated and advocated on much of these issues and we i talk to the mayors all the

2:13:55time with most of us like we don't even want to step into this space we really don't but we have to

2:14:02because the gaps exist and we're really hoping that the province does at some point fill those gaps

2:14:10so i just want to make sure that was stated out loud just so it wasn't left as if the city

2:14:17hasn't been advocating on these issues because it's been a unified approach both from the political

2:14:22and the administrative side on this issue okay um thanks for letting me clear that up uh with that

2:14:29i will call the vote is anybody against this nobody that's unanimous i think really important

2:14:36that it's it stated um that everything was unanimous tonight i think that shows unity around

2:14:42this issue so thank you very much and we're at the end here so councillor hauser lucky you you