City-initiated Official Plan Amendment to enable a Community Planning Permit System for the Stone Road/Edinburgh Road Strategic Growth Area be approved…

5:13:56this as well and uh whenever our presenters are ready they can kick us off good evening

5:14:25mayor guthrie and members of council my name is dosa mckenzie and i'm a planner too with the new

5:14:31community and affordable housing team in the strategic initiatives and intergovernmental

5:14:35services department i'm joined by justine jen cola from dillon consulting who's been working with us

5:14:42on the creation of the cpp bylaw that is before you tonight for tonight's presentation i'll be

5:14:50giving a brief overview of the cpps project and engagement to date i will then hand the presentation

5:14:57over to justine who will provide information on what a cpps is and its important links to affordable

5:15:03housing after that i will discuss the proposed official plan amendment accompanying the cpp bylaw

5:15:10as well as some of the precincts under the cpps and next steps after tonight's decision the cpps

5:15:22project is one of eight commitments under the housing accelerator fund and one that the federal

5:15:27government is excited about seeing for affordable housing and wealth and and many other municipalities

5:15:33in ontario in late spring of 2024 the city initiated the pilot project for the project areas in order

5:15:41to help achieve its housing targets we have been listening to the development community

5:15:48hearing that there are barriers to building units under current approval timelines

5:15:53while the cpps is a new policy tool and a pilot project it's important to note that this tool

5:16:00does not add to the current process instead it replaces the current zoning bylaw amendment

5:16:07minor variants and site plan application process taking what's often two processes and turning

5:16:13them into one this will help to cut timelines and red tape while incentivizing affordable housing

5:16:23the cpps project has been broken down into two phases by project area the stone road and enboro

5:16:29road being phase one of the project phase two of the project will be to draft a cpps for the

5:16:35downtown secondary plan area which will build on the downtown heights work that was presented

5:16:40earlier tonight one of the key features of the cpps is its flexibility and clarity in accommodating

5:16:48variations to the rules around development which we call development standards in the bylaw

5:16:54while also incentivizing the creation of affordable housing units as i said previously the cpps is

5:17:01an innovative policy tool and it aims to address the city's identified gap in affordable housing

5:17:07while providing a streamlined and simplified process to builders our research and policy work

5:17:13done for the housing affordability strategy and associate official plan amendment for that project

5:17:20shows the need for 33 percent of future development to be affordable units and staff have applied a

5:17:26similar approach here for units granted by additional height and density in the cpps project area

5:17:38the city has held a number of engagement opportunities for the cpps project dating back to last year

5:17:45we held two in-person open houses on october 30th 2024 and november 27th 2024 at priory park public

5:17:53school these sessions provided a platform for direct community interaction and feedback

5:17:58we also conducted two virtual open houses via zoom on november 21st 2024 and january 14th 2025

5:18:06to reach a broader audience we organized pop-up events at key community locations such as the

5:18:15shelldale center, guelph farmers market, and victoria road community center we also leveraged our

5:18:21online tools to provide for some additional engagement through a mapping exercise and survey

5:18:26that were conducted on the have your say platform the draft cpp bylaw was released on december 31st

5:18:342024 for public review and comment and a statutory public meeting was held on january 21st 2025

5:18:42providing a formal setting for community members and council to voice their opinions and concerns

5:18:49in general some concerns were raised about the cpps adding more hurdles to development

5:18:54and that projects that would be exempt under the current process would now need a community

5:18:59planning permit staff have since revised the cpp bylaw from the public meeting to clarify that

5:19:06developments of 10 units or less would be exempt from requiring a permit so if you have if you

5:19:12would have an as-of-right or an automatic approval under the current process you would also have that

5:19:18same automatic approval or as-of-right or be exempt from requiring a community planning permit

5:19:27we also heard that there was more flexibility needed in the class 2 development standards

5:19:31so we added some discretionary approvals to a number of class 2 variation standards

5:19:36adding some flexibility for developers and their projects it is normal staff practice to meet with

5:19:43the local development community and address concerns brought forward at the public meeting

5:19:49which was also suggested of the golf home builders association

5:19:53in their letter submitted in january we listened and we held a number of targeted

5:19:58meetings with landowners and developers in the project area to hear their thoughts on the cpps

5:20:03and address specific issues and through these meetings staff were able to address the issues

5:20:09raised and develop and some developers have indicated their support and excitement for the cpps

5:20:16now i'm going to hand it over to justine and she'll talk some more about the details

5:20:20of the cps thanks Dawson um so a community planning permit system uh is a land use planning

5:20:30tool available to municipalities um in ontario and was previously known as a development permit

5:20:36system and as you know it offers an alternative to the typical planning process um and can be

5:20:43applied to a specific area or citywide um the uh this current project applies a community planning

5:20:52permit system specifically to the stone and edinburgh area and the bylaw in front of you

5:20:57is focused on that area a community planning permit system can streamline development approvals by

5:21:04replacing um existing boat zoning bylaws with a community planning permit bylaw and this can

5:21:11combine zoning amendments minor variances and community and um site plan approvals within a

5:21:17single application and a single approval process and uh that corresponds with a 45 day review period

5:21:25under a community planning permit system um it's important to note that um this does not impact

5:21:32the need for a building permit so where development requires a building permit that's still unimpacted

5:21:37and it also does not impact the need for a draft plan of subdivision or any land severance um that

5:21:45is unimpacted and this new tool does provide um an opportunity to accelerate housing supply

5:21:53while providing predictability and stability for development approvals and is being completed to

5:22:00fulfill a commitment made through the housing accelerator fund so um to build off of some

5:22:07of Dawson's points um we appreciate all the feedback and input um that went into the uh January

5:22:1321st statutory public meeting and a number of revisions have been made and I'll just go through

5:22:18them um briefly to highlight those in a little bit more detail so the first was modifications to

5:22:25the notice requirements um in the bylaw for both a class two and a class three permit

5:22:31so while the legislation does not actually have any minimum notice requirements that need to be provided

5:22:38um the uh community planning permit bylaw has been updated to require notice provided through

5:22:45onsite signage for a class two and class three permit application and this is in addition to the

5:22:51requirement for staff to post notifications on the city's website as well as for class three

5:22:58for mail to residents within 120 meters um aligned with the city's current practices

5:23:06um we also got a fair bit of feedback on um the need for uh Watson's feasibility assessment and

5:23:13we've now included that analysis in this package uh dated March 12th and it was undertaken to determine

5:23:19the minimum percentage of additional units that may be requested to be provided as affordable

5:23:26dwelling units in exchange for heightened density under the legislation staff are recommending

5:23:31that this percentage be set at 33 percent as stated in table 1.2 of the bylaw in alignment with

5:23:39the city's housing affordability strategy and official plan policies 7.2.1.2 um one of the other

5:23:48uh uh specific elements that Dawson mentioned um is uh the inclusion of four unit provisions

5:23:56based on council approval of the additional dwelling unit provisions in December on December 10th

5:24:012024 um those provisions have been carried forward now in in the bylaw um we also uh as as previously

5:24:11mentioned made a couple adjustments to the staff two variation um limits within table 6.2 and specifically

5:24:20that includes um things like minimum building setbacks maximum building lengths minimum building

5:24:25distance uh sorry minimum distance between buildings and active entrances as well as minimum

5:24:31tower separation um now have a statement around a class two permit maybe issued subject to the

5:24:39intent of that provision being provided um and achieved through alternative methods so again

5:24:45providing some flexibility and implementation of the overall object city's objectives um to support

5:24:51development we also heard um a fair bit of input on the need to accommodate legal non-conforming

5:24:59uses recognizing the transition of these areas over time and the need to support those uses that

5:25:05exist today and so provision 193 has legal non-conforming uses to comply with all other

5:25:17based on specific feedback from the from the development community um and the one other

5:25:25related to the point around um ensuring that this process isn't adding steps for

5:25:32development there it has been clarification uh for um development that is exempt from a

5:25:37community planning permit system um that includes development that are 10 use 10 units or less

5:25:44are also required from the need for a community planning permit um as a remark sorry I went too far

5:25:58does that work the back button thank you um as a reminder the bylaw is organized under a number

5:26:04of classes and a development um that comes in would fall within either class one two or three

5:26:10permit um class one uh captures all applications that meet the intent of the provision and is a

5:26:18permitted use and it meets all the standards of the bylaw and these applications would be approved

5:26:23by the general manager of planning and building services or a delegate um class two captures

5:26:30an application that meets the general intent of the bylaw um but requires some relief from one or

5:26:37more standards within the bylaw perhaps based on the unique site characteristics and um this

5:26:44is within the staff variation threshold established within the bylaw which includes development

5:26:50standards within section six um class two limits as well as any discretionary use a section four

5:26:58general provision modification to section four general provisions um section five parking or

5:27:03section seven site specific provisions and again this would be approved by the general manager

5:27:09of planning and building services or a delegate now a class three application um captures applications

5:27:16that again generally meet the overall intent of a standard but are above the class two established

5:27:22threshold uh within section six or propose an alternative facility services in matter

5:27:29contribution and that would require approval by council or a committee of council

5:27:36and all of these applications are subject to 45 day decision period as per the planning act

5:27:42and just to provide a little bit of an example of how that could um how that threshold works

5:27:47so if we take an example site um that would be medium density residential or M MDR uh within

5:27:55the MDR precinct um this provision provides for our rear yard setback of 7.5 meters

5:28:03and that's in your current comprehensive zoning bylaw and has been picked up in this

5:28:08community planning permit bylaw now if the um development constraints such as like a unique

5:28:15site or unusual shape is such that relief from that rear yard setback might be required

5:28:22if the development could accommodate six or a 6.5 meter rear yard setback

5:28:29so a reduction of no more than 20 percent of that standard it could be while demonstrating that the

5:28:36criteria in 191 have been met and those criteria include satisfaction to the approval authority

5:28:45of elements such as offsite adverse impacts are being mitigated and managed

5:28:52so staff have the ability then to look at you know based on the site characteristics that could

5:28:59be accepted through a class two permit process if that development um could not accommodate

5:29:06um the rear yard setback and and was uh needed required relief beyond that 20 percent so for

5:29:15example let's say it it could only accommodate a five meter rear yard setback that would come

5:29:21to council then that would be a class three permit and um again the same criteria would need to be

5:29:28demonstrated um but that would come to council for approval so the benefits of this tool um are

5:29:41directly related to uh you know the outcomes of the Guelph's housing affordability strategy

5:29:47and the need to look at streamlining development approvals and so um as part of the Guelph housing

5:29:53affordability strategy there was a specific target for 18 percent or 2,640 units of the new

5:30:01ownership homes to be affordable um and that's based on the provincial bulletin um established

5:30:06amount of either um 398 thousand dollars a unit for an ownership unit or approximately 1,160 to

5:30:161,695 for a rental unit depending on the size and one of the things the city um specifically

5:30:24identified that by streamlining development approvals there is an opportunity to to help

5:30:29accommodate those units um and so uh this process is intended to provide that framework to permit

5:30:36additional density um uh streamline development approvals and also accomplish the need for

5:30:42affordable housing units um through a contribution of facility services and matters so in the strategic

5:30:49growth areas such as stoneman edinbro um this does provide uh flexible development rules

5:30:56clear yet flexible so managing the need for clarity on expectations with the need to accommodate

5:31:02unique site characteristics um through the tools that we have available to us it facilitates growth

5:31:10while reducing the likelihood of appeals um supporting implementation of a consistent vision

5:31:16and speeds up the approval timelines to secure community needs such as affordable housing

5:31:22and so I'll get I'll get into a little bit more detail on what um that facility services and matters

5:31:28and that's language directly from the legislation I know it's a mouthful um within a community

5:31:33planning permit system uh community benefits charge does not apply and instead the legislation

5:31:39allows that a municipality identify facility services and matters um that may be imposed as

5:31:45a condition of development and this needs to be in exchange for additional height and density

5:31:50within the subject lands and so the community planning permit by law now establishes a new

5:31:56complete community charge um which is required for a class one two or three permit and is equivalent

5:32:02to your community benefits charge um that is currently required so only applies to development

5:32:08with five or more stories or 10 or more residential units and is set at the four percent of um the

5:32:15value of land um similar to the community benefits charge given that there's a pressing need in the

5:32:22city for affordable housing staff have identified the um opportunity for additional facility services

5:32:29and matters to be focused on affordable housing requirements um exchange within the class two

5:32:35permit and so the community planning permit system establishes a requirement for affordable housing

5:32:42consistent with that provincial bulletin amounts that I previously mentioned um and would be required

5:32:48for any class um for any additional density above the class one threshold or additional height

5:32:57above the class one threshold so it's only to be applied to those additional units

5:33:03and it establishes either requirement for 33 percent of those units to be provided as affordable

5:33:08housing or a cash in lieu thereof or some combination of the two um this is based on the

5:33:16financial analysis undertaken by Watson um and in alignment with the housing affordability strategy

5:33:21opa 101 for development applications above that class two maximum height or density there's again

5:33:29a framework for additional uh flexibility and but this is where the application would come to you

5:33:35and would um require complete community charge um and additional facility services matters greater

5:33:42than the value of those required under class two permit and the bylaw outlines a long list of things

5:33:47that may be accepted in exchange for height and density and you'll see based on some of the former

5:33:52conversations today there's things on there regarding sustainability development matters um

5:33:59above and beyond any requirements um so there are some provisions for that in there um and with

5:34:04that i will pass it off to Dawson to finish off the presentation thank you justine the planning

5:34:20act requires that a municipality's official plan contains enabling policies for a community

5:34:25planning permit system as such an official plan amendment is required to amend the development

5:34:31permit policies in section 10.11 of the official plan to reflect these legislative requirements

5:34:38additionally some properties have been up designated to provide for additional development

5:34:43opportunities consistent with the permissions of surrounding properties the map on the slide in

5:34:53front of you is the proposed precincts for the cpps of note since this is not a zoning bylaw

5:35:00precincts are used in the place of zones some changes to this schedule have been made since

5:35:07the public meeting in january made to reflect feedback from landowners currently with an active

5:35:15appeal of the comprehensive zoning bylaw to reduce conflict and to allow this appeal to continue

5:35:22the boundary was revised to leave that property out of the cpps for readability and simplification

5:35:30site specific provisions and well-head protection areas were added to this schedule from the version

5:35:35presented in january this was done in consultation with our building staff proposed precincts have

5:35:43remained the same from the version presented in january with those proposed up designations

5:35:48occurring on lands located on torch lane college avenue and scott stale drive the recommendation

5:36:02of staff before council tonight is to approve the community planning permit bylaw there are a

5:36:08number of associated bylaw amendments required to facilitate the implementation of the cpps

5:36:15this includes an amendment to the fee bylaw to provide for application fees

5:36:19it was the approach of staff to take existing application fees by application type and combine

5:36:25them to determine the class permit fee a comparison of the fees for the cpps against the current

5:36:32zoning amendment and site plan application process is included in the staff report additionally an

5:36:39amendment to the delegation of authority bylaw is required to permit the general manager of

5:36:44planning and building services or a delegate to approve certain applications as with other

5:36:52planning applications there is a 20-day appeal period for the cpps we're currently working

5:36:59with dillon on the creation of more educational materials for the public and the development

5:37:04industry to provide that further clarity and guidance on the application process so in closing

5:37:13we know that there is a need for affordable housing in the city and we know that the status quo

5:37:19is not delivering that right now this pilot project is an opportunity for us to change the

5:37:26status quo while maintaining the ability to monitor our impacts and revise as necessary

5:37:34staff are committed to working with our home building community to remove barriers and red

5:37:40tape the cpps is one of those tools that the city has to do this and it's an innovative and

5:37:46progressive tool that we can use to build more affordable units while streamlining and simplifying

5:37:52the process for our development community thanks great well thank you very much uh to both of

5:38:00you for your presentation and for this final recommendation to be in front of us there is

5:38:06no one else that is here as a delegate and there was some correspondence that was added as well

5:38:13with that is there someone that'd be willing to move the recommendations to approve this okay

5:38:19Gibson and downer thank you is there any questions of staff let's start with boost till

5:38:28thank you very much for the presentation um i i'm looking i have a couple of questions the first

5:38:34one is around the 20 day day appeal i assume that's for the cpps in its entirety here the mayor yes

5:38:45that's correct thank you and i'm looking at the chart uh you know in the staff presentation what is

5:38:51the cpps and i said this the last time that it seemed to count came to council is that for me it

5:38:57feels and i know this is all about the developers and all about building uh but that balance with

5:39:02community engagement and community opportunity to appeal it feels quite frankly looking at the top

5:39:09to the bottom is that that opportunity for site specific appeals have been eliminated

5:39:15including site plan approval process specific to sites can you comment on that um through you the

5:39:25mayor um there is no third party appeal on site um site plan control currently um so uh to clarify

5:39:33like the um when this is uh if this is in effect the bylaw um there is no third party appeal on an

5:39:40application um through this process if a application required an amendment to the bylaw um it would be

5:39:47going through a similar process to a bylaw amendment a zoning bylaw amendment which would have um open

5:39:54public engagement again and um additional um kind of limited third party appeals which you

5:40:00deal with through your zoning bylaw amendment thank you i'm i'm aware there's no you know in

5:40:05terms of the site plan appeal there but opportunities for stakeholders to have conversations i do

5:40:10want to ask specifically about the correspondence from the upper grand district school board about the

5:40:16inclusion of two ninety nine scotsdale and the move uh from low density to medium density can you

5:40:24help me just kind of operationalize in my brain you know they've articulated in their letter a

5:40:29number of concerns with this um and there's no opportunity to be engaged in a conversation

5:40:36with the developer in a site plan um conversation or a public kind of conversation what what does the

5:40:46upper grand district school board or any any member of the public um how can they influence

5:40:52what's happening in a specific site not the overall cpps but in a specific site what what

5:41:00options do those individuals or organizations have um thank you through the mayor um excellent

5:41:06question so uh within the bylaw there is um a provision um 116 um that states that um when

5:41:14considering a community planning permit the approval authority may confer with any other

5:41:19parties that may have an interest in the application um similar to your complete application

5:41:24requirements today um that could involve uh bringing in other agencies and and organizations

5:41:31and i'm not sure if staff want to add anything else related to your current process thank you

5:41:39i'd appreciate hearing from staff as well yeah we uh through the mayor um we did meet with the

5:41:48school board to discuss this process and um one of the points of the cpps is to sort of front

5:41:57load this engagement process um we did meet with them and specifically discussed uh this

5:42:06up designation i guess you would call it um yeah and and as justine said uh if there was a class

5:42:142 permit or class 3 permit uh they would be circulated uh under this proposed bylaw thank you

5:42:22and if you can comment i didn't hear the the remedy what what action what remedy would the

5:42:27organization the family the institution have if they had concerns around a designation

5:42:33because it seems around the cpps really there is no remedy no action that can be taken

5:42:41through the mayor um just similarly to the current process we would review

5:42:47any comments that we receive on an application and work through those comments with the agency or

5:42:53with the member of the public in order to try and find a solution before a decision is made

5:42:59thank you just final is this appealable to the olt um through you the mayor are you referring to

5:43:09the bylaw um today or an application just so i can clarify all of the things so the the bylaw

5:43:17is appealable um to the olt um once an application is in effect um only the sorry once a bylaw is in

5:43:26effect um only the applicant has appeal rights on an application itself so sorry just i'm clear

5:43:35sorry i'm going to dumb it down myself really well so the yeah this just this bylaw and the

5:43:42applicant you are referring to the developer the developer can appeal but not you know community

5:43:48organizations or or anything like that is that correct that they have no standing is what you're

5:43:53saying uh so they would um to Dawson's earlier point um uh through a class two or class three the

5:43:59notice requirements um would facilitate an opportunity for conversation and input into the

5:44:05decision um then uh whether a decision was a class one and two and therefore would be a staff

5:44:11decision or a class three and go to council um there's always an option to um to deny uh application

5:44:20or to approve with conditions attached um so there's a number of different processes that both staff

5:44:26or um council as the approval authority have as a framework to deal with issues that come up

5:44:34and if you'd like a little bit more information on those kind of different options i'd be happy

5:44:38to get into that as well thank you all for a lot thank you great thank you um i believe downer did

5:44:46you have your hand up i can't remember no okay anybody else with questions okay um it's been

5:44:54moved in seconded so i i just i have just one it's a high level question and i just got a here

5:45:01and i don't care if you take a little long for me in an answer if i am concerned about the

5:45:09correspondence that we got from sv law there were bullet points in there and in the public

5:45:19now i really need those things addressed i i really do because i feel uncomfortable

5:45:26but based on what i read but i would like to not feel uncomfortable if you can satisfy

5:45:35the answers so there's my open ended question if you need to start at number one and go through

5:45:39number 10 so be it i did give you a heads up that i was going to ask this so i'll turn it over to you

5:45:48yep through you uh mayor we did receive that letter from the home builders um and we're happy to

5:45:55go through some of their comments and provide some additional clarity beyond

5:45:59point on the presentation um you know their first point is that this bylaw adds complexity

5:46:08instead of streamlining um in general it's staff's opinion that that this this project does streamline

5:46:17the development approvals process we're taking multiple application processes with uh different

5:46:24lengths of timelines and combining them into one with a shorter timeline um you know additionally

5:46:30they they mentioned uh in that first point that this is sort of a patchwork of policy um that's

5:46:38sort of the intention of of the pilot project we want to be able to evaluate how this policy

5:46:44mechanism works in this area and then monitor and revise as as necessary um in terms of the

5:46:56second point uh actually do you mind if i just interrupt yep go ahead thank you my apologies

5:47:03but as you go through some of these things that i'm wanting to hear answers on i wouldn't mind

5:47:08just jumping in if i just don't get the clarity i'm looking for so you're saying it's a pilot

5:47:12project which we all agree it is so how flexible are you how flexible is staff within the pilot

5:47:18project to identify things that aren't working and to receive that feedback to be able to flex to

5:47:25change to pivot um and where where is that delegated authority for you and staff to be able to do that

5:47:32or where is there something that becomes noticeable that it's meets a certain threshold that says oh my

5:47:39gosh we we didn't we didn't contemplate this or that and you got to come back to council like

5:47:44where how are you going to address that if there's that flexibility in there for a pilot project

5:47:54yeah through the mayor with the pilot project um we know there probably will be changes the

5:47:59probably be changes after we have resolution of the comprehensive zoning bylaw as well and we'll

5:48:03incorporate that in and bring it back um we also don't really expect that there's going to be you

5:48:08know in 20 days after the appeal period there'll be a lineup of people the the door as well so we'll

5:48:13deal with them one at a time and make changes as as we go forward um and the intent is to really

5:48:18hone the process down as we go forward and to try to make it as easily as possible um you know for

5:48:24a typical development if you're doing a zoning bylaw amendment um you know if it's an OPE zoning

5:48:31bylaw amendment 90 days minor variance potentially after that another 60 days site plan another 60

5:48:38days if we can do this in 45 days we do think there's a lot of merit to bringing this forward

5:48:42as a pilot and try it and obviously because it's a pilot we'll we'll probably be we'll be making

5:48:47changes and I think that's the intent of it as well okay thank you very much I'm sorry to interrupt

5:48:52please continue through you that's totally okay um yeah so for their second point um just about

5:49:01undermining the half funding goals of increasing the housing supply and this there's a concern around

5:49:08again red tape and a chilling effect on the on the development of the city's housing supply

5:49:16as we as we mentioned by combining these processes we do believe that we are cutting red tape

5:49:22um like I said where there are and as uh Swahki just mentioned that we're where uh there were

5:49:30multiple application process with multiple timelines um occurring at different stages we are now

5:49:37processing an application at one time uh with a shorter review period um and additionally uh

5:49:45we the only new sort of I guess cost item that's that's added to this process is this

5:49:51provision of affordable housing uh under facility services and matters uh which we you know have

5:49:58demonstrated through Watson's work uh to be actually financially beneficial to developers

5:50:04who are building more height and density um even with that provision of affordable housing units

5:50:10Watson came up with a threshold percentage and we sort of reduced that to provide an incentive

5:50:15to developers to build and go ahead with projects um they also mentioned that there's

5:50:24unclear public need for the cpps from data um we've heard from the developers I don't think

5:50:33it's uncommon to say that we've heard that the approval process timeline is a barrier

5:50:39and this is our way of sort of trying to address that uh concern from the development community

5:50:43by shortening that timeline to 45 days um you know yeah and additionally this you know it is a novel

5:50:54tool but it's also been recognized by a number of other municipalities uh as a as a tool to address

5:51:01housing affordability um and I believe justine can can maybe discuss that a little bit more

5:51:06yeah I was actually going to jump in there justine I I asked I think might have asked you this

5:51:10last time it was here but you know we're not alone like there are some municipalities that

5:51:14have gone ahead of us I've talked to some of the the politicians the elected officials to see how

5:51:19it's going there some of it not a lot of uptake but they're they're saying that they're hearing

5:51:24positivity throughout their communities about about in place now and there was a some of them

5:51:31said to me there was a time frame with just more education from the development side to be like

5:51:35oh this is how it works and then they kind of came around a little bit to understand a little

5:51:40bit more so what you're the consultant that's been working on this with other like how are

5:51:45how are we stacked up against others what's your view on that um uh great question um so

5:51:53a number of municipalities have used this tool um for kind of shoreline or um a townwide for

5:52:00Huntsville is the most recent enforcement effect bylaw that that we worked on alongside SGL and

5:52:10in those instances like I think there's certainly a big ramp up on the education side of things

5:52:17both internally with staff and with development partners with the community in this scope of

5:52:24work we are looking at we do have implementation guide material that is part of this component

5:52:30that we would be moving into next the other thing is that a number of municipalities are now using

5:52:37this specifically for housing affordability through their half so we're working with the

5:52:42city of Waterloo we're working with the city of Peterborough as part of their housing accelerator

5:52:47fund commitments and they've just decided to go citywide on their bylaw so there are a number of

5:52:55others certainly Burlington as as I believe it was one of the ones you were referring to

5:53:02that have been trying to take this forward specifically focused around the need for housing

5:53:08affordability so I'll just buzz through some of their more specific comments continue through the

5:53:19letter they commented on the that the bylaw continues to impose site plan control for less than

5:53:2710 residential units this was an error that was revised on or added to the revised agenda

5:53:36so they wouldn't have had an opportunity to look at the bylaw before this that has been updated

5:53:42in 10 units or less is exempt from requiring a cpps or a cpp bylaw where it meets the other

5:53:49regulations of the bylaw they provided a comment about ev parking requirements mentioning mentioning

5:53:56the zoning bylaw appeal yep as that you know it's a it's a bylaw appeal issue that as Ms. Walkie

5:54:03mentioned earlier this will likely be updated as that gets resolved so they also they mentioned

5:54:12about not they're not being substance substantive revisions to the community planning permit classes

5:54:20we did make a number of changes to the class two variation standard thresholds and that was out

5:54:27of direct consultation with development or with the development community in the area who who are

5:54:32looking for a little bit more flexibility they commented about revised adu provisions

5:54:43so they had requested that the four units that we had just recently passed be extended to apply

5:54:50to all all housing typologies currently he permit four units on detached lots it was it was staff's

5:55:02intention to carry over that work that we had just completed into this bylaw and not make any changes

5:55:07to that so that remained the same they had mentioned some more comments around legal

5:55:16not conforming rebuilds and actually welcomed our clarifications and exemptions and though they did

5:55:25they did say that it's limited in scope it's staff's opinion that you know we did create some

5:55:33some more flexibility and clarity on those provisions from the first version of the bylaw

5:55:38addressing some of those comments and that was again in consultation with the local developer in the

5:55:43area um i'll just address some of these together the removal of definitions uh

5:55:53that has to do uh staff did a review of of the definitions uh and specific uses that

5:56:00are actually permitted in this subject geography and found that there are a number of uses and

5:56:06definitions that were carried over from the zoning bylaw that actually don't have any application

5:56:11in the in the geography so just for clarity we had removed those from this version

5:56:18um and they all they mentioned a reduction in the discretionary and uh or a change from the

5:56:24from discretionary to permitted uses we had made those changes again out of uh from hearing from

5:56:31the local community development community uh originally a staff had uh gone through uh the

5:56:38permitted uses table and made uses that contained a provision under the table as a discretionary use

5:56:46through some of the consultation that we heard we decided to change that to a permitted use

5:56:50because we believe that those provisions covered uh off the the permissions underneath

5:57:02there was a few comments about uh typographical errors and uh potentially

5:57:11clarifications on uh regulations that may not apply um we noted those comments um as

5:57:19miss walkie mentioned this is a pilot project um she has delegated authority to make minor

5:57:26editorial changes where maybe numbers don't add up where they should because of formatting issues

5:57:32and and we are committed to you know making those changes that that do need uh do need changed

5:57:39as a result of some of the monitoring that we can do through the project

5:57:46that's is that your list uh oh sorry there is wellhead protection area um and that was added

5:57:54to the uh schedule in the bylaw as i mentioned in my presentation that was through consultation

5:58:00with our building staff for readability and interpretation we added the wellhead protection

5:58:05area overlay to the uh to the schedule i believe that's everything okay well thank you and thank

5:58:14you to my colleagues for the patients there i i did want to make sure that those were addressed

5:58:19and i i just wonder does the ceo want to add anything around the pilot and and and you know

5:58:26action and the accountability through that pilot um yeah so uh thanks mr mayor i read the uh

5:58:37obviously the letter as well and um i did just want to say that uh everything that staff have said is

5:58:44is exactly um our opinion um we're really looking to put into action um the shorter timelines and uh

5:58:54and that uh with the discretionary um and uh you know the discretionary process here in some cases

5:59:02that allows the flexibility for staff to make those decisions to move things along um we we are um

5:59:10we're going to action that and that's uh that's my commitment um we are really looking to um to make

5:59:18our processes faster and that we're getting units coming on so um i'm really excited about this

5:59:24this planning system um i think there is a lot of education left to do um 100 i think that's all

5:59:31very true internally as well um and and so the reason we went with the pilot is because we do

5:59:37need that time to uh to work this out and uh and so we will be bringing back commitment uh you know

5:59:44updates uh through uh through the pilot as we learn and um and so uh i believe that we've addressed

5:59:53everything in in uh in the letter and and i feel really uh comfortable and excited about moving

5:59:59forward okay thank you and so my last question is and uh is this is that how do we get how does

6:00:07council get that feedback on how things are going is it an information report uh in six months is it a

6:00:14one-year timeline just how are we going to be able to see like how things are going because there is

6:00:20a lot of delegated authority here being given to staff to do things internally which i like so

6:00:26that things can go faster so i'll be clear on that but um at the same time what's the mechanism to come

6:00:32back to us to tell us how it's going um i'd like to know that um to the mayor so we you just had the

6:00:43recent semi-annual housing report so stats like that will be included in the next semi-annual housing

6:00:48report if we have any um there is a housing accelerator fund report that that'll be documented in

6:00:56and as well annually you get the delegated approval authority report i think that went out

6:01:00perhaps last week um and it says all the all the items that staff have done through delegated authority

6:01:07um those also you know the notice requirements i'm pretty sure you'll you'll see if there's any

6:01:11applications coming forward but um yeah there's at least three reports that you'll find this

6:01:15information amazing great thank you and so obviously thank you for the time with that i mean

6:01:22obviously i'll be supporting this with with with that caveat so the things that have just been

6:01:25discussed publicly and i look forward to that um i just want i just want everyone to know just where

6:01:31my headspace is at before i call the vote i'm really looking forward to this pilot and and to

6:01:36and to hone it and to see how it works in the real world sort of like boots on the ground how

6:01:40does it actually work um to the development community and to others or whatever please treat

6:01:45this in a way that is one for you to be educated on it as much as internal as you are external

6:01:51and so that we can work together in partnership and trying to figure that out and if there's

6:01:55opportunities to tweak that or whatever we'll do that i know we will so please please take that

6:02:00and then finally i just to say that this is a pilot and then the second one would be in the

6:02:05downtown core for our secondary plan but i i i have a vision of this type of thing across our whole

6:02:10city okay we we should we should be aiming as a city to try to get things done with within this

6:02:17type of time frame this is this is an important thing i think that we need to look at further so

6:02:23baby step number one baby step number two for the downtown but potential for the whole city

6:02:28to actually get under they like other cities are doing by the way um we should have a conversation

6:02:33about that at some point you know as as we kind of walk this journey together uh that should be

6:02:38that should be something that we should be aiming for and we should try to get there so that we could

6:02:42try to get more housing built much much faster with the delegated authority to staff um within the

6:02:48within the confines of the boundaries of what they're in so anyways that's just where i'm at thank

6:02:53you i'll happy to call the vote now so is there anyone against this this time just councillor Busuttil

6:03:03okay thank you very much that passes uh so with that kate and is not here but um if i take out the