City-initiated Official Plan Amendment No. 93 for the York-Elizabeth Land Use Study be received and approved in accordance with Attachment-1 of Report 2024-38…

2:46:58outlined in the study this rest re designation was to occur as part of the city's municipal

2:47:05conference of review an official plan review process also known as opa 80 council adopted opa

2:47:1280 on july 11th of 2022 and opa 80 was approved by the province on april 11th of 2023 while lands

2:47:22along york road were redesignated as part of opa 80 lands through the north close to victoria

2:47:29road and elizabeth street were not included as part of the staff's work to implement opa 80 this city

2:47:35initiated official plan amendment is being brought forward to ensure that council's approval of the

2:47:41york elizabeth land use study is reflected in the official plan land use schedule and that these

2:47:46lands can be developed efficiently as some of council may remember the york elizabeth land

2:47:57use study brought forward recommendations that included redesignating lands in the study area

2:48:02to accommodate residential intensification while protecting existing employment areas the york

2:48:07elizabeth land use study area was divided into four sub areas west of victoria road along victoria

2:48:14road east of victoria road and parts of york road frontage east of victoria road note that land use

2:48:21changes along york road have already been included as part of opa 80 the left map in front of you is

2:48:31the now existing land use designations that are in place with opa 80 the right map is the re

2:48:36designation of approved land uses from york elizabeth land use study to schedule to land use plan of

2:48:43the city's official plan mapping changes that we are capturing now include redesignating lands to

2:48:49mixed office commercial along elizabeth street at the northwest corner of empire street and gary

2:48:55baldy street along the southerly side of york road and at the block bounded by johnson street

2:49:00alice street and stevensson street these lands are proposed to be redesignated to recognize

2:49:07long-standing non-residential uses while also allowing for residential intensification council

2:49:13also approved recommendations to amend the northwest corner of york road and victoria road south

2:49:20and 48 victoria road south to mixed business as residential uses would not be compatible in these

2:49:26areas as noted changes along york road corridor including the northwest corner of york and victoria

2:49:34were already captured through opa 80 these are our recommendations for item 6.1 both myself

2:49:44lucas and melissa are here to answer any of your questions thank you let's see oh i got a hand up

2:49:59already from councillor uh gibson and maybe before we uh we go to that uh councillor gibson would you

2:50:08be willing to move the recommendation yes it's seconded by councillor oh yes we do have to have

2:50:16call ins for this i'm sorry it's first time my apologies so i'll get back to you uh you too for

2:50:22for tabling it we have no signed up delegations but let me ask the room and go online as well to

2:50:28see if there is any call ins first um is there anyone here in the room that wanted to talk about

2:50:33this specific item and is there anyone online i'm happy to put up a phone number here and i'll read

2:50:40that out as well 519-837-5603 again it's uh 519-837-5603 and we will just take about you know four or

2:50:54five minute little break here just to see if anyone wants to call in okay just give us a moment thank

2:54:18you mr mayor we didn't receive any call ins okay well thank you uh considering the public

2:54:26session there then over back to us as a council moved by councillor gibson seconded by councillor

2:54:34gullard and it looks like councillor gibson you said you had a question as well go right ahead

2:54:39questions only yeah thank you through you mr mayor i'm sorry i'm having a little bit of a connection

2:54:43issue so if i start cutting it at your end just let me know uh through you mr mayor to staff i was

2:54:50doing the read today and i was going back and forth between the properties looking at

2:54:55the zoning proposed zoning and the properties and is it safe to say that you made the comment early

2:55:01in your preamble that you were largely reflecting the land use that is existing now on those properties

2:55:07these these amendments so largely encapsulating just what's already existing on those properties

2:55:18through the mayor to councillor gibson through the york elizabeth land use study we did look at what

2:55:24what was existing on the ground in terms of some of the properties so recognizing their existing

2:55:29land uses but also looking at future potential so in some areas the designation was updated to ensure

2:55:36that there was potential for change to occur on those properties but mostly recognizing existing uses

2:55:42okay thank you last question through mr mayor and just cognizant of the um

2:55:47the correspondence that we received if a proposed change that's being amended through this opa update

2:55:55um is not exactly what's happening on the land today those existing um tenants to those properties

2:56:03they're they're not considered um non-legal at this point it's just that the the amendments to the

2:56:09the the amendments to the plan are just allowing that change to happen over time is that correct

2:56:17through the mayor to councillor gibson as long as the uses comply with the existing zoning bylaw

2:56:23then they would still be allowed to continue okay that that's the clear day I was looking for

2:56:29thanks very much is there anyone else I had a question on this no looks oh sorry councillor work

2:56:37go ahead thanks mr guthrie through you to staff I'm just wondering since opa 80 is uh

2:56:44still under appeal when would you expect these changes to work their way through and and be enacted

2:56:52through the mayor to the to councillor warwick opa 80 is now in effect there are no appeals permitted

2:56:57to opa 80 um so these changes would come into effect following an appeal period for this specific

2:57:04official plan amendment okay great thanks seeing nothing further I think I'll call the vote

2:57:12looks like I'll do that is there anyone against this item no all right I consider that matter

2:57:19closed and that's unanimous as well thank you so we got some items for discussion here and the first