City-initiated Official Plan Amendment No. OZS25-020 to correct mapping errors be received and approved in accordance with Attachment-2 of Report 2025-526, dated January 20…

1:54:25Okay, so uh, if I could have staff, uh come for quickly for

1:54:31The handling creek business park phase three. We will do that presentation and move on from there

1:54:41All right. Hello again

1:54:43Is he may

1:54:46All right, this is you may remember. Uh, my will gregory project manager with planning and building services

1:54:51And I'm here again to present a city initiate a city initiate a suite of housekeeping amendments for the handling creek business park phase three

1:54:59This is the statutory public meeting and decision meeting for these amendments

1:55:06All right, so handling creek business park as as council is no doubt aware is located in southwest corner of the city

1:55:14Uh, it is a very large scale

1:55:18Um business park that's being developed in phases the original drafts of division approval was first approved by the uh,

1:55:25ontarian miss will board

1:55:27In 2006 and is being built out in phases ever since phases one and two are

1:55:33Substantially complete phase three is is undeveloped and that's the subject of these housekeeping amendments

1:55:38Which include a red line amendment and extension of the drafts of division approval and mapping corrections

1:55:44The city owns the majority of lands in phase three with the snyder estate's owning the remainder

1:55:51I'll start with the mapping correction because that's the most complicated aspect of this. So since 2006 the city has

1:55:57adopted a series of amendments including a substantial update to the official plan

1:56:02in opa 80 and the new comprehensive zoning bylaw

1:56:06In 2023 and one of the things that we've observed is that there's been a kind of drift in some of our

1:56:13designations that has affected our stormwater

1:56:16Block that we've identified in phase three

1:56:19specifically

1:56:21blocks 62 63 and 64 in phase four are all identified for

1:56:25stormwater

1:56:27But they are now designating the official plan as significant natural areas and natural areas and

1:56:32In the zoning bylaw as natural heritage system NHS those are our two most restrictive

1:56:38designations and zoning

1:56:40Designations that really don't don't allow for any sort of development whatsoever

1:56:47These three blocks are not in the core ecologically sensitive areas in phase three, which there are several

1:56:53They're not in the city significantly prevent the provincially significant wetlands or woodland areas or habitat areas

1:57:00Um, they're along the border. They're a bit of a buffer area

1:57:05so

1:57:06The staff are proposing this city initiated mapping correction to

1:57:11Redesignate these two parks in open space and open space zoning that would allow for the stormwater management

1:57:18development

1:57:19Because under the current zoning, uh, they would not be permitted and any sort of development of phase three requires zoning change

1:57:25So here's our proposed zoning map showing the three blocks 62 63 and 64

1:57:32um

1:57:33And we're proposing to rezone those to open space, which is still a fairly

1:57:39conservative and restrictive

1:57:42Zoning district doesn't allow for a lot of development, but would allow for stormwater

1:57:47And here is our proposed official plan designation

1:57:49Redesignating those same three blocks to parks in open space. Uh, just so our official plan and our zoning bylaw are consistent

1:57:59Okay

1:58:01And the next thing that we have in this suite of housekeeping amendments is a red line amendment

1:58:06Um, we're proposing to break up block 33 on the draft approved subdivision plan into two new blocks blocks 33 a and 33

1:58:14The reason for this is that what we're proposing is block 33 a

1:58:20Has been identified as a potential new well production site

1:58:24Um, and right now water services is going through with the investigation for that

1:58:29The reason we want to pull that out and not just leave it on the same

1:58:33Block is in the event that phase three is sold to a separate developer

1:58:38It's better if the city retains ownership over the well production sites

1:58:41Uh, we discussed a few different options of leasing it or easements, but retaining ownership is is the the cleanest solution

1:58:50Um, that added bonus potentially is there's an existing heritage building to 33 forestall

1:58:55Which is located on block 33 a so we're also preserving that heritage structure by retaining ownership

1:59:03Um, I should have also mentioned that because we're creating proposing to create a new, um

1:59:10Block, uh, we're revising two of the conditions of approval from the 2006 omb hearing just to just to reference

1:59:17The new block to make sure that when the subdivision is registered that we are following the appropriate procedure

1:59:24And and do the appropriate studies for the new block

1:59:28And finally

1:59:30We're looking for a an extension of the draft subdivision approval is currently slated to expire november 8th 2026

1:59:38That was a condition from the omb settlement that there was a five-year expiration period that council has extended on several occasions

1:59:46We're recommending a three-year extension to november 8th 2029

1:59:50Just to give enough time for development and to register the subdivision

1:59:55An extension now doesn't preclude someone coming back in 2029 as needed and requesting a subdivision a subdivision extension

2:00:04And that's all I have and welcome I welcome any questions

2:00:09great, thank you very much and uh

2:00:13True to its title. They really are

2:00:15housekeeping amendments, so thank you. Um, is there any questions of staff at this time?

2:00:21That's pretty straightforward. Yeah

2:00:23Thank you

2:00:24This is one of those moments though where I do have to throw the phone number up on the screen

2:00:29Um, so if I could just have that there. I know it's 519837

2:00:34You think by this time I would know the rest of the numbers? I think there's a five in there

2:00:39Oh, I was right 837

2:00:425603 519837

2:00:455603 everyone take a two three minute

2:00:49Breath and we'll be right back to see if anyone calls in

2:00:56In the meantime

2:00:58It's will right

2:01:01Yes, that's correct

2:01:04You're you are here, right? Uh, I think I'm at my

2:01:0811 month anniversary as of I appreciate you embarrassing me. That's fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Is this your you knew her in

2:01:17Presenting to us. Yeah, this is actually my first presentation. Okay. I have redeemed myself. Yes. Yes. I am. That's great. Yeah. Okay. Well, I just

2:01:25Thank you very much. You've done a great job

2:01:29In both that presentation and the one before so

2:01:32Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I hope you're like hope you're liking it here. Yeah, it's great so far

2:01:37Yeah, good. Good. Thanks. Thanks for your work. We appreciate it

2:02:59All right, the clerks have indicated that uh, nobody did a call in on these housekeeping amendments

2:03:05There were no questions of counsel in regards to the report or the presentation

2:03:11So would someone be willing to uh, move those housekeeping amendments for me?

2:03:17All right, busitsel and old

2:03:19That's great anything else

2:03:22No, okay, I'll call the vote is anyone against these housekeeping amendments

2:03:28for

2:03:29The hand in crate business park phase three

2:03:33Nobody so that's unanimous as well. Thank you very much

2:03:38And so now we will take that break

2:03:42And let's see

2:03:44Wouldn't it be funny if you were presenting for the last one will

2:03:48You're not here. So you're off the luck, right?

2:03:50Okay, so uh, we will take it's 10 to uh,

2:03:56Six

2:03:57We're gonna do let's do a 20 minute break. Okay, so we'll do 20 minutes back here at 10 minutes after six

2:04:04And uh, we will do the last item on our list the designation of the downtown gulf heritage conservation district. Okay

2:04:12So thank you very much everybody. See you in 20 minutes

2:30:28Okay, to my friends online. We're sorry about the extra few moments of minutes. Sorry, but we are going to call the meeting back to order

2:30:35As long as we have quorum here

2:30:38Thanks, erin

2:30:42So erin leah and katherin so one two three four

2:30:46We have quorum. All right, perfect

2:30:49Thanks everybody. Uh, we are at the presentation now for the designation of the downtown gulf heritage

2:30:57conservation district this is

2:31:00to actually

2:31:02Adopt the bylaw. So this one's more nothing the other ones aren't important. They're all important, but this one's actually to do something

2:31:10So, uh, we'll turn it over to staff. We're looking forward to it. Thank you for waiting and yeah, it's over to you

2:31:22Uh, good evening. Mayor Guthrie members of council senior staff

2:31:27Um, thank you for joining us this uh this evening to discuss the proposed downtown gulf heritage conservation district

2:31:34As a quick recap heritage conservation districts are a proven approach to identify

2:31:40Identifying and conserving defined areas with cohesive cultural heritage characteristics

2:31:45In gulf, this includes our distinct locally quarried limestone structures street walls and architectural features in the downtown core

2:31:53Conservation districts are a planning tool that have been used effectively in ontario since 1980

2:31:58and in gulf since 2014

2:32:01Now often when we talk about heritage conservation and designations, it's easy to assume. We're only talking about the past