Planning, Environment and Water Advisory Committee

0:02heard your hands are being seen somehow so that we can make sure that you get an opportunity to

0:08to participate

0:10so I'd like to call the meeting to order at six o'clock

0:14PM on

0:16July the 14th and

0:20We'll begin by land acknowledgement as we gather

0:25Let us take time to reflect on our privilege to live and work in Guelph a city built over rich indigenous histories

0:32We are guests here and we should reflect upon the responsibility to care for this land the people who live here today and the

0:39generations to come

0:41If our actions today can move us towards reconciliation, we should take pause and make those decisions with intention and gratitude

0:49This place we call Guelph has served as traditional lands and a place of refuge for many peoples over time, but more specifically

0:58the Attawan Derunk and the Haudenosaunee

1:02This land is held as a treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the credit First Nation

1:08Guelph lies directly adjacent to the Haldeman tract and as part of a long-established traditional hunting ground for the six nations of the Grand River

1:16Many First Nations Inuit and Métis peoples who have come across Turtle Island to call Guelph home today

1:23And with that the next item is a disclosure of pecuniary interest the general nature of their elves

1:30Anybody need to declare a conflict of interest given tonight's agenda having seen none

1:40We'll move on to approval in minutes

1:43Hopefully everybody's had a chance to read over the minutes of June 11th

1:48Are there any errors or emissions that need to be addressed?

1:53Do you raise you want us to speak up since you can't see us you can't hear me

1:59Oh, we can hear you, but how do you want us to?

2:03Do I raise my hand like can you see me? Yes, please. Yes, please. Yes

2:08One small edit my name wasn't in the attendance list. It's this is Bo

2:13Okay, I'm sorry about that. I would add that things very very minor

2:18But I figured it's supposed to it's important for the record. Thank you. Yes

2:23Any other errors or emissions?

2:27having seen none

2:29Would somebody like to move approval minutes then?

2:32For us does that

2:34Of course, thank you. Anyone would like to second it second it all in favor

2:41Thank you

2:43Now I want to the agenda for tonight's meeting

2:47We have four main items on the consent agenda

2:51There are descriptions of each of those brief descriptions as part of the agenda document itself

2:57Unless there's any questions for our members

2:59I like to put that we approve them by consent and

3:04I'd like to ask for a mover and a seconder. So if someone would like to move

3:09Adoption of the agenda. Sorry Mike. I would like to interrupt. I'm sorry because we do not we do not have any consent agenda item today

3:17So we may skip it. Okay. Yeah

3:20Thank you. All right

3:22Works for me

3:25Okay

3:27All right, then we're on to

3:30The committee items and

3:35There are four items planning orientation water wastewater and storm water orientation

3:41solid waste resources

3:43orientation and we have one item at the end of

3:46Administrative really do rescheduling the meeting date in October

3:51So

3:52We're very fortunate to have a number of city staff with us this evening who will be giving us some presentation

3:58The first one is by will Gregory project manager for

4:03policy planning

4:06Do you like to begin well, thanks Mike, I'm off screen, so I

4:12Know you can't see me

4:15Alright

4:16Good evening everyone. I'm well Gregory project manager with planning a step in for Lucas who was out today

4:23So I'll do the best I can here

4:25remember that Lucas your your liaison and use the person who's

4:30Really involved with PY, but you know, we're a good team. We're willing to step in

4:35So next slide Wendy

4:37Sorry a little bit delay

4:43Can you see that sorry? All right. Yep

4:47So today just want to go over some things very high level

4:53So the goal here today is to kind of go over what is P. Wack?

4:57What is your your purview when it comes to planning?

5:01And then provide a general introduction to what is planning very high level

5:06Then we'll go over some of the provincial legislation the planning act the provincial planning statement

5:11We'll go over some of our local documents specifically official plans and zoning bylaws

5:16Then we'll kind of go over the three thematic areas in our team policy planning environmental planning

5:21Development planning and then we have one slide that had a preview of some of the projects

5:26We're actively working on some of which will make their way to this committee

5:31Next slide

5:32So as you all know, this is a new committee in terms of reference were approved back in March

5:40in terms of planning

5:43The planning really mandate includes land use planning so that's looking at national development as well as protecting natural heritage system and water resources

5:53and

5:55And this committee also has an important role for planning because we are actually required by the promise to have a planning advisory committee

6:01This committee actually fulfills that requirement for us

6:05So it is something that we do really value and that's been required to have so we'd really happy to have you here

6:10Because it keeps us in compliance with the province

6:13so in terms of the things that we want to do that we look for

6:20from Pwhack is

6:22We want your advice your employee perspectives upon

6:25Projects that we're taking forward to council. We're talking about large-scale projects with citywide impacts

6:30So if we are looking at

6:33Overhauling our official plan we will bring that to you for your advice

6:38and

6:39Really when it comes to different kinds of projects

6:42secondary plans

6:43official plan amendments

6:45Things that come into conformity with different provincial legislation as well as

6:50Mobile environmental projects like our national heritage action plan and sub watershed

6:55sub watershed studies

6:58Next slide

7:00As you know and you've met each other a few times this committee brings together a pretty wide mix of lived experience and professional expertise

7:10The province the British planning Act that requires us to have a planning advisor committee doesn't specify

7:16Keep on it, but when we were putting this together we wanted people with maybe some background landscape architecture

7:22some development

7:24Architecture as well as a focus on ecology and natural heritage because this committee has a very wide purview

7:31The planning staff liaison's role who's Lucas he will be at these meetings

7:37And he will be that conduit back to staff who also help staff

7:42Schedule our projects that we're looking to take to council

7:46to bring them here

7:49next slide

7:50all right, so

7:53Let's actually

7:55Get into what is planning when we're talking about it the talk about from Missville respective as well as from this committee

8:02So what we're talking about planning its land use planning is how we manage Missville resources and land for development

8:10It's how we're thinking about how it can be able to grow over time

8:14Where to build money to density will go what we're protecting how we're allocating resources like parks and schools and

8:21and in new residents and and

8:25Generally, we're looking at

8:27How we're strengthening social economic and environmental well-being those are those

8:32Those are key planks of

8:34Other official plan that we're trying to show that as we grow. We're not sacrificing national environments and that

8:41people have enough affordable housing and that well will be a better place as we grow over time

8:48Next slide

8:49So next we're gonna look at planning in Ontario

8:55with planning

8:56There's a lot of overlap in planning across Canada the US but

9:01in both countries

9:03Every state and every province actually has some separate framework that's set out by by the government

9:09So I worked in Pennsylvania and I worked in Scotiabuff for and we had a very different land use

9:15Regions set up by the state and the province respectively. So in Ontario

9:21A lot of this comes from provincial law. These are acts passed by the provincial legislature

9:27The big ones that really impact us this plan is the planning act

9:31We'll talk about that a little bit more

9:33As well as a heritage act

9:36We build that it's set up the framework for planning what we're required to do what we're allowed to do what we're not allowed to do

9:45Recently the province introduced was called the provincial planning statement that came into effect last October

9:50And that's more of a high-level policy

9:53Guidance for keeping things that the province wants us to work on so planning acts beats a legislation

9:59The the children planning statement is more of a guidance policy for that. We'll talk a little bit more about that too

10:07Then we're getting into the local level

10:10We have a miss or we have a municipal official plan

10:13That's that's an hours and that's adopted by council here. That sets out

10:19very broadly policies over the next 25 years of how we're growing

10:24over time and

10:27Generally, if the official plan is very high level

10:30We also have these master plans that kind of slot in in certain thematic areas

10:35So we've called it out transportation and parks where we're actually getting a little bit deeper into those specific areas

10:42And how we're actually actualizing these very very high level goals

10:46And I'll and I'll talk a little bit more about the additional plan and some of the other these patients

10:51We can see what that means

10:52And then the last thing which I'll also talk about a little bit more is a zoning bylaw

10:57This is a regulatory document that actually sets out standards for new development that you have to meet

11:03You can't get a little incremental if you're in compliance with the zoning bylaw

11:09and next slide

11:11so our role here as

11:15Planners with the city is we prepare and review these local planning documents

11:21So you prepare the official plan updated over time be prepared in the secondary plans these master plans

11:28We make local planning decisions. So we are very much concerned just with the city of Guelph

11:34We have that provincial framework, but we are really only focused on on Guelph

11:40We do have to make sure we're we're you may think consistency with provincial requirements

11:45But we have a lot of latitude to make a meeting wealth approach

11:49So it doesn't matter but see if kitchen or a city of Toronto is doing we can

11:54We can adopt policies that that be our goals and and these of our residents

12:00Next slide. All right. So I choose the exciting planning act

12:06This is the foundational piece of legislation

12:11Adopted by the province that actually sets out the framework for for planning. It sets out what we're required to do

12:18Says that we're required to have a plan when what that entails

12:22As well as the procedures for how we adopt it

12:26Does have to go to council one of the public notice requirements?

12:31It's basically a series of rules that we that we follow

12:35and

12:37It also has some really high-level

12:41Discussion of provincial interests around having at the diversity of housing options affordable housing

12:46protecting natural resources and the provincial planning statement

12:50Kind of pulls that out a little bit further because this is a piece of legislation. So it does have a lot of commentaries more

12:57just a series of requirements

13:01Next slide

13:03So the provincial planning statement. This is a new piece of legislation like came into effect last October

13:11It gives us some really broad

13:13discussion around some of these key points

13:16Everything that we do has to be consistent with this provincial with this with this provincial planning statement

13:23it

13:24It actually replaced a few other things. It was a previous

13:27Ritual mind statement for 2020 and it replaced that updated it

13:32We had this growth plan for the greater golden horseshoe that we are part of and it replaced that and kind of folded it into this new document

13:40that

13:41This kind of sets out some really high-level requirements

13:45for us and

13:47One of the big projects that we're working on is updating our official plan to be compliant with this new provincial planning statement as well as other changes

13:55to the planning at

13:57Lucas quality bring that project before this

14:01year next slide

14:05So the artificial plan is our high-level framework for what we want to achieve and how we're going to grow for time

14:14It sets goals objectives policies and of last week's show you some of the visioning statements

14:21Setting out how we want to throw

14:24the way that that meets

14:28These are residents and the desire to counsel next slide so with an official plan

14:38We need one first of all first bonus because we were required to buy the province

14:45We are not allowed to regulate

14:49Development without having a visual plan that is consistent with provincial policy

14:52So first and foremost that is that's one good reason why we haven't how our official plan provides a lot of other guidance

15:00It's a really effective document when making sure that

15:05Our growth is for new initial services so that we have areas where you've identified

15:10That we that virus growth there is where we expect to see more people

15:15We're going to upsell those so that you can build higher density and then our

15:20Then our other colleagues in transportation water know that those areas that we expect to see more growth and they can

15:27they can

15:28Consider that as they're doing their capital plans and allocate additional resources to make sure that there's not transit was left water service

15:35There so it's a really good tool in terms of making sure that everyone's kind of pulling in the same direction

15:41It's a public document that

15:43Communicates how land is used now, but also how we wanted to use in the future

15:48So an example of that downtown is we have a few parcels that are identified in future parks

15:53They're not currently parks that are currently used as like shopping buses

15:57but we identified them in our plan as being areas that we think would be good for parks and

16:04And the people who own those problems know it

16:06I will sort of the purchase it and all that but it said it sets out and then to

16:12Extend that art depth or can get rid of some of those gaps that we currently have downtown

16:17It also provides a lot of guidance around how we're protecting things like our natural heritage art

16:24plan has a lot on

16:27Protecting natural heritage wetlands cultural heritage sites

16:32significant woodlands

16:33And some of the standards there to get a reinforcer to make sure our policies are

16:39Really clear and that we don't want a lot of development in wetlands. We want to make sure that they're protected and

16:48Finally

16:49Again that dialogue between all these documents special land informs on Sony by law which actually sets out really specific

16:57Sight-specific standards for development. That's where your setbacks come in your maximum height your maximum density

17:03And your permitting uses and things like that

17:06Next slide

17:08So here we've actually pulled out some of our visions and so this is an example of what the kind of language that you see

17:18Official time. It's really high level. It's really aspirational

17:22so

17:24And but it serves as kind of a north star so when we're developing some of these action secondary plans and

17:32Updating those was only bylaw that we're thinking of these kinds of things and trying to actualize them in other documents

17:39so

17:44So as you can see these are

17:47Generally, I would say fairly positive responsible things when it comes to to growth that we're talking about and having compact diverse

17:55Violent city. We're talking about having a full range of

17:59Housing that is sensible and affordable

18:03that we're talking about having both having a city where you can get around on foot and transit on bike and not just in cars

18:12That we're celebrating our cultural heritage systems and that we're protecting and maintaining our national heritage systems and our water resources

18:19So anytime we're adopting a policy

18:24We're looking back at these visions to make sure that they are generally pulling in the right direction. They have to be consistent

18:31Right next slide

18:33So here we actually have a table of contents which may be not which may not be the most exciting content

18:39But it does give you an idea of the kinds of things that we're looking at in the official plan

18:45So we've highlighted here protecting what is valuable that is a lot of large focus of that chapter four is on natural heritage

18:53Water and things like that. I'll see we have policy specific around

18:59Land use where is residential? Where's high density residential where our employment districts?

19:05Where are our parks going? We'll be talking about that in land use for design

19:09How we're actually designing our public spaces as well as how to house a new development relate that to

19:16the public realm

19:19all right and in total

19:22plan about

19:24Solvated version 2022 is about 400 pages long. So it is a lengthy document. It does a lot

19:31Practically every aspect of how we think about growth transportation design land use for all that

19:38Next slide please

19:42So we've talked a lot about the importance of the official plan

19:45One of the central tenets of a plan is it is a living document

19:50It is something that is adopted but it is not that is static or spent in zone

19:54It's something that you visit on a regular basis and it's designed to be amended and updated

20:01So generally we'll see three scenarios in which we're taking an official plan amendment to council because council has to approve any sort of

20:08Change to the official plan because it is a public

20:11document and it does impact how the city is

20:15Regulated growth

20:17So the first one that we see fairly often is it is site specific and generally that's coming out of

20:24development

20:25Someone's proposing a development that doesn't meet the official plan

20:31We can actually update the official plan

20:33On a site specific basis so that they meet

20:35So an example that would be the princess auto project on wood lawn

20:40They were then employment district, which is really really restrictive. It's actually

20:44Defined term by in the planning act that says as basic things like warehouse for protecting land so that you can have those

20:51manufacturing

20:52warehouse uses

20:53And princess auto is a retail store. So it didn't fit that designation as employment

20:57So as part of their development application, they went to council and they got a site specific

21:03Change that will allow retail store within an employment district

21:08The second time that we see a plan amendment is a city or staff initiated one where we're responding to different changes

21:15So we have to update the plan to apply with changes to legislation

21:19we have to update the plan to

21:22To deal with unexpected things like perhaps there are terrorists and we need to revisit how we're thinking about some of our economic development

21:30Haven't done that yet for that same example something that we could do or we want to update our plan so that we're better

21:37Have a better reacting to things like climate change

21:40or to the natural environment and

21:44And then those presentation will ask some examples of what some of those projects that our staff initiative will look like

21:51And finally

21:53We're required to do to do a periodic plan update

21:57Every five years

21:59We'll take a look at the plan to make sure that it's still working in the same direction

22:02That still makes sense and so it's not getting too stale

22:06Next slide please

22:09All right, so official plan process has a few steps

22:13a few public hearings

22:15So

22:16What you do is pretty quickly. So first we identify why an amendment is needed

22:21So that could be a site specific one third development or we can update the plan to apply right on the potential planning statement

22:28So I'll use the example of

22:33A staff initiated one

22:35We need to update the plan to comply with changes to the planning act

22:39So we know why we need to do it

22:41Then we'll go and do our primary research. We'll scope it out. We'll get an idea of what we actually need to do

22:48to realize it

22:49Then we'll take it to the public

22:51We'll have an open house to kind of talk about

22:54What we're proposing and why and get some of that primary input from the public to make sure that we're on the right track

23:01And we're not really missing anything

23:03After we've done that what you draft up the amendment and then we're going to be going through that council process

23:10Generally with the major amendment we'll go twice. We'll go to the statutory hearing

23:14The floor council

23:16We'll get some feedback from council. There's also public delegations who can speak and talk about

23:22Their opinion on it and there's always some sort of feedback. So we'll take that back

23:27sensitize it

23:29update the amendment and then we'll get back to council again

23:33With that relation of the changes that we did or did not make and the planning justification for that

23:38and then

23:39You and then hopefully it's approved by council

23:42if

23:43and at that point

23:45either

23:46Uh, we're sending it to the province to the history of housing to actually get it approved

23:51Yes, we have to approve every uh, our

23:54Yeah, they have to approve our

23:56plan amendments

23:57Or sometimes they might get appealed or go to the OLT, which is the Ontario Land Tribunal, which is what here's uh planning

24:04Appeals, so say someone didn't like it. They couldn't appeal it if they are standing

24:10All right next slide

24:12All right, we're on to the zoning bylaw. So

24:16zoning bylaws are that regulatory document that actually set out

24:21uh, very very specific and sometimes numerous requirements for development

24:27so generally talks about where where buildings can be placed and as well as other structures, so

24:33Where are their houses?

24:35Where is the household a lot where the accessory structure is like if you have an accessory dwelling unit or a shed or a garage

24:41Where are those built into the house?

24:44Uh, talks about the types of buildings that can be permitted and as well as the use so

24:49Where are restaurants permitted where a single family house is permitted where apartments permitted

24:54those zoning bylaw lays that out

24:57as well as things like

25:00Lot sizes how big is your law have to be developed on it?

25:03Um, how much furniture do you need on the street?

25:06Do you have open space or amenity requirements? Typically that's more of a commercial or apartment requirement

25:12Probably market spaces are required

25:14How tall can you build? How dense can you build?

25:18Um,

25:19It's sometimes those are minimums of those are maximums

25:22As well as setbacks. So you have 15 meters back from the street or five meters back from the street depending on that

25:28um

25:29That's a pretty brief description of what the zoning bylaw does that controls a lot of different aspects of

25:35of development, but any but any development that comes in has to apply to the zoning bylaw or

25:42It's vended to the zoning bylaw or give the variance

25:46Next slide, please

25:49So, uh, why do we need a zoning bylaw?

25:53Well, the first thing it does is it implements the objectives of the policies of the official plan

25:57Sony bylaw is one of the most powerful tools that we have to spow the to regulate land use

26:03It's not an incentive. It's not we're not saying you should probably do this is a regulatory requirement

26:08You can't develop unless you have unless you're compliance with the zoning bylaw. So if we're talking about

26:14uh, protecting natural natural heritage if we did we have a zoning district called

26:19National Heritage System, which is really really restrictive. You basically cannot develop in there

26:24So we're using the zoning bylaw in that case to really prohibit development

26:29And it's all wants to build a house or build a factory or build a warehouse in a place that we designated natural

26:35Heritage system they're going to have to go through that lengthy process to either rezone it or give a series of amendments

26:41Both the witch art are challenging to do

26:44It it provides a legal framework

26:47Or controlling permissions and and helps us manage growth

26:52It is a transparent document because developers know what to apply what what they what can they build there

26:59And how much can they build so and it also gives

27:02People on the neighborhood understanding of what kind of what kind of growth can happen in their vicinity

27:10And finally one of the big things that I bylaw's do is they separate

27:15Completing uses so like a coal pines next to a house generally aren't really compatible. So they would be in different areas so that

27:25That people are getting along as much as possible

27:27And if you have think about what uses they're happening away from each other as much as possible

27:33All right next slide, please

27:36So now we're going to actually go through and touch on the three thematic areas within our team

27:42So the policy planning that's where I work. That's where lucas works

27:46and we work on general long-term strategies, we're looking at

27:52uh

27:53The official plan the secondary plan so where the ones who are going to be point on developing those and updating the official plan for

28:01Not specified specific but larger scale initiatives

28:06Generally we're looking long-range

28:09So we're not reacting to an active development application. We're thinking about

28:13Long-term changes. So right now our big initiative is increasing housing supply

28:18So that's we're working on updates to the official plan

28:21As well as sony bylaw secondary plans to

28:24Try to find ways to facilitate more housing development

28:28We have a few folks in our in our on our team who are looking at growth forecasts and monitoring

28:33So they're they're helping us look at what we expect to happen in terms of like some nice population growth

28:39But they're also looking at how are we doing how many permits have been issued?

28:44How are we doing when it comes to the local housing and things like that?

28:48And we're also really big in community engagement

28:50A lot of our counties require a lot of community engagement a lot of open houses

28:56So that's what we that's what we spend our time doing

29:00So this the next part. Oh, sorry next slide

29:06Can you go back to slide 19?

29:12So I think we're going to go back about four to environmental planning. Yes. Thank you

29:18Next part of this is environmental planning

29:20Um, so environment or we have a few people. We also have a Jane Gurney

29:27Uh on the call who of course the environment's planning specific questions around it

29:32um, so

29:34Generally with environmental planning we're looking at protection and preservation and restoration of

29:41sensitive environmental areas and our

29:44include

29:46ecological and hydrological areas

29:48um, so

29:51So that's a little bit of maintenance a little bit restoration

29:55and a little bit of improving

29:57improvement of biodiversity connectivity so that we have these these

30:02Natural networks that kind of function together. They're not just pockets around the city that don't really

30:08work together

30:10And environmental staff also are I'm sorting with policy staff development staff and other staff in other departments to help us

30:18Um,

30:19to tell us stay oriented on links between natural air just systems and water resources to make sure that

30:26um, when we're updating policies or thinking about capital projects that we're not causing damage to those natural

30:34natural air systems or

30:36um, or water supply

30:38Okay, next slide

30:42So, uh, we'll together map here. Um, just to kind of show

30:47within the city where some of these natural, uh, just the different kinds of

30:54Natural just the different areas we're doing environmental planning

30:58So the big one that you see here is that dark green, which is our natural

31:03Which is significant natural areas

31:06Um, so this isn't the official plan if you look at our zoning map

31:10Generally our natural heritage system zone generally corresponds with those dark green areas

31:16as an example of how the official plan forms

31:19the uh, zoning bylaw

31:21um

31:22We also have natural areas which are smaller wetlands cultural woodlands

31:28And some habitats those are light green

31:31But the line you just got up on here, but there's a few

31:34Generally, they seem to be attached to the dark green

31:37Restorations are mapped in purple. These are public lands that we're using for solar management

31:43Infrastructure as well as restoration

31:46Hopefully long term they will be part of that dark green significant natural areas

31:52Uh, and then we also have these ecological areas that are light brown

31:56You see them kind of there's some if you look at the bottom of the maps out to see a few between the big green parts

32:03These are areas that are wildlife corridors that allowed wildlife to actually connect between these

32:09disparate significant areas to increase their

32:14their

32:15living area

32:17All right next slide please

32:22And then we have development planning. That's uh, these are the folks who are working on actual applications people are coming in with

32:29With a plan to develop property

32:32On our team generally our development planners are looking at larger scale projects

32:36um

32:37So usually those projects require an official plan amendment or a zoning bylaw amendment because

32:42They don't strictly comply with either

32:45Um, when you're dealing with 100 main documents, it's easy to find one or two places where you're not exactly aligned

32:52We can make those little adjustments

32:56And if we

32:58We also have the discretion to support or recommend denial to council

33:02depending on what we

33:04What the merits of that application are

33:06um development planning also works on as a subdivision. So that's uh

33:11Applications where you have a large tract of land and so it wants to develop it. So we're actually looking at the infrastructure

33:18So where you putting new streets where you're putting water sewer where you're putting amenities like schools and parks and is that large?

33:25um

33:26They also do site line control

33:28That's regulated. That's kind of defined under the planning act

33:31But generally that is looking that's more of an urban design look at how we're actually placing buildings outside

33:37It's not regulatory as much as more of a back and forth on how do you realize the best possible project?

33:43And how it relates to to neighboring areas as well as public spaces

33:48And then they also work on minor areas and consensus ever minor variants are very small adjustments to the zoning bylaw

33:56Where it's not an amendment to the bylaw when it's you get a site specific allows where you don't need it

34:02So a setback is a good example

34:04You have that 15 meter setback

34:06But you have a really narrow lot. So, you know, you're uh, 14 meter setback

34:10You can go to the committee of adjustment and ask for site specific allowance so that you can actually

34:15Have a slightly smaller setback

34:17And consensus ever that's where you have a one big lot and you want to make it two lots

34:22You're not putting a new infrastructure through the subdivision process. So it's a very straightforward

34:28More administrative process also is with the committee of adjustment

34:32All right, next slide

34:35This is as a general overview of what it looks like in terms of the development review process

34:40Uh, a few different steps. Uh, generally someone wants to

34:44Do a large-scale project that'll come in for pre-consultation

34:48So again, this would be you're building a 15 story building downtown not according to the addition on your house

34:53This is for a large-scale project

34:56Make an application

34:58in this case, um

35:00We're assuming that there's some sort of amendment. So we'll go to council

35:04Uh, and we'll do a staff recommendation report

35:08Either saying we recommend you approve it. We recommend that you deny it council make a decision and then again

35:14Can be appealed to the Ontario Land Tribunal or it is not it'll come into effect

35:21All right, next slide

35:24This is my last content slide

35:25These are just an example of some of the planning projects we're actively working on

35:29So we're updating the official plan to comply with some of the changes to the planning act in provincial plan

35:36provincial planning statement

35:38We're working on a post-doc community planning permit system cpps. That's my project

35:45That I will be referring to you. Maybe it's the number of October

35:49We're working on green development standards and sustainable master plan

35:53Looking at how can be incentivized use of higher quality environmentally efficient

35:59building materials and practices in construction

36:03We're looking at the feasibility of allowing five units on lots around the city

36:09Currently we've been four and everyone we're looking at the feasibility of promoting five

36:14We have some environmental ones the klystree sub water study update

36:19We just have our standard our

36:22our

36:23Rolling growth management and affordable housing monitoring reports

36:28That we present to council publicly periodically and we also have some large development areas

36:35Deli or a redevelopment into the housing and mix use community as well as the wealth innovation district of north kind of west side

36:43It's another project where we're looking at

36:46And how and how can we develop those areas bringing in

36:50thousands of residents in those areas

36:53All right, and uh next slide

36:55All right

36:56Thank you for listening to me for the last little bit and uh, please let me know if you have any questions

37:03All right. Thank you very much will um, that's an incredible amount of information

37:07Nobody ever said that the planning process in ontario was simple and straightforward

37:13You've covered a lot of territory and we appreciate it

37:16Any questions comments?

37:20Points of clarification from the members

37:23Yes

37:23I have a question. Um, I know that there was recently um an act tabled. I don't think it's past yet

37:30Protect ontario by building sputter and faster act which

37:35Would likely affect some of the projects that are ongoing like the building

37:40I think something with the building code like everyone's going to have to follow the same requirements

37:44So some of these green initiatives might not be

37:47It's a little better. That's right. That's bill 17. That is now an effect

37:52Yeah, it did a few things

37:54It changed what what we can require to be considered a complete application like for instance, we can have noise studies or shadow studies

38:02Uh as a requirement or what we consider to be a complete application

38:06It it did change what we can regulate in terms of building standards

38:12um, and you're right

38:14it did

38:16It was pretty it's pretty clear that we're not really able to

38:20mandate increase the environmental efficiency beyond the building code. So

38:26We we have a draft uh green building standards and we're looking at other ways how we'll be implemented maybe more in an incentive program

38:34Rather than a requirement

38:36so but yeah bill 17

38:39Did do the series of those changes so it is an example of

38:44um

38:45Why were livy as we uh, we haven't updated the

38:50Official plan to comply with uh last year's bill 185

38:53We've updated the planning act and the provincial planning statements that we also consider bill 17

39:00Have any of your like planning growth projection like the amount of population that you're like did the province mandate any changes or go well?

39:08so

39:10the one of the changes they made in one of the updates and I can't remember which one

39:15Does it the province has basically had a after the planning act every year for the last few years

39:20There was one

39:23change

39:24One change was like they shifted from

39:26use of values were independently responsible to using uh mystery of finance projections

39:32We're still able to supplement it, but uh, that's the big change that we have

39:37I don't think that the the growth projections have been updated yet

39:41um, and I expect that they'd probably be different now than they were

39:45earlier last year because you know, obviously there'd be a lot of

39:49changes to

39:51immigration policy that affects our growth as well as you know, I cannot determine that may also affect that

39:57Okay, thank you

40:01Any other questions or comments?

40:06Okay, seeing none. Winnie. I just wanted to ask sort of an administrative question. We uh kind of

40:12I'm sort of mumbled through the consent agenda part of the uh intro to the meeting. Um

40:19Do we need to have a motion to receive the presentation for information purposes?

40:25Uh, no because there's a kind of workshop and training so that we can just listen to stop presentation and

40:33Just uh, let members ask questions. We do not need to do any motions for training and orientation. Yeah, okay

40:41All right, so there was the one recommended motion

40:44That's part of the agenda which is related to the october meeting

40:48Um, do we handle that okay or do we have to go back to that later?

40:51Uh, yeah, we can just do all the training and also orientation first and and then we can just because I think because the

40:59administration

41:01Uh motions could we could do at the end of the meeting. Yeah, okay. Great. Thank you

41:06Okay, uh, well with that then um

41:09Thank you very much for your presentation. Well, appreciate you taking the time and going through all that detail

41:15Our next presentation is on water wastewater and storm water

41:20Uh, and an orientation is going to be provided to us by wane galler her division manager water services

41:26Uh, wane if you'd like to go ahead

41:29Hey, I'm uh

41:31Stopped sight will here off camera, but

41:34Thanks everyone

41:36You can hear tonight. Happy to provide you with some orientation with regards to water wastewater and storm water

41:42um, I guess

41:44As mentioned by mike, you know, my role is formally on the drinking water side. So looking at uh treatment and conveyance as well

41:52source water protection and uh the development of new water supplies for the city

41:57Um, you know have a little bit of learned experience that are related to wastewater and storm water

42:02But um, we'd just like to acknowledge my colleagues both in environmental services

42:07And development engineering further support and bringing together tonight's presentation

42:11Um to that end I'll do my best to answer your wastewater and storm water questions, but uh, I mean takes things away and right back to as well

42:19Sure, those are appropriate

42:21Uh, when you next slide, please

42:26Hey, so just to look at the agenda, uh, my intent is just to provide some background and use perspective system here within the city of gwell

42:33Um provide an overview of key legislation drivers that really dictate terms of these systems in many cases

42:40Um start to highlight some key city policy documents. That would be of interest to this group

42:46And um again just providing a bit of a teaser of some items that we may bring to you later this year for input in the water space

42:54Next slide, please winnie

42:57Great so getting started with water services

42:59Um, essentially the city's um first foray into providing municipal water was for firefighting in 1879

43:09Uh thereafter we saw a number of properties come to join the system as they were dealing with private health issues coming from

43:15Well security and things like that

43:18Um today essentially we have over 40 000 customers that are supplied of both business and

43:24Residential by the city of gwell coming from 25 municipally owned production wells that we rely on each day for our drinking water needs

43:32You can see each of these as the black dots here on the diagram the sources of water

43:37Um beyond those black dots essentially there's

43:41565 kilometers of water main which conveys water between three pressure zones in the city

43:46um

43:48And yet 99.9 percent

43:50Serviced everyone within the municipal boundary certainly if they have services in front of their home as a zoning requirement to pick up on wills

43:57Um presentation we're seeking them to join it's only cases where in turn they wouldn't have access to customary services that there may be

44:04Uh, you know private wells and private septic for development in the city

44:10Um together the capacity um of all the wells equals about 79,422,000 liters per day

44:19With again each of those individually permitted and approved by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment Conservation and Parks

44:27That's part of the permit to take water process

44:30Although it is our permitted value essentially as we come to operate all the wells we do see mutual interference

44:37Um, so the physical yield is actually below that 79 million at the end of the day

44:42Um

44:43And you know may take into effect

44:45You know into account as well that you know, there's wells we need to have a suitable capacity to take wells offline to do maintenance

44:51To do plant work to renew that infrastructure and ensure that it's an efficient state of repair

44:59Next slide please

45:03um, so as one of Canada's largest communities reliant on groundwater for our water supplies needs the

45:09Geological setting is very important within Guelph as well

45:13Uh for reference the picture here you can see is from Dolan quarry and starts to show the cross sections of the various geological formations

45:21within the city itself, I guess

45:23Primarily the city does take its source from or take its water from the anvil or gas port aquifers

45:29And the aquifer is protected

45:32By again the vine mount member that you can see there that's very important. So when this comes from the picture of Dolan quarry

45:39They have or had an aggregate resource license that allowed them to mine through

45:44The actual vine mount when we had found this years ago again

45:49We sought tools to intervene and stop and knowing the the you know overall benefit of that water source and again

45:56fears of poor quality waters coming to again contaminate what is our pristine aquifer source. So

46:03Um, regardless there's not too often that we get to see this. You see a person here

46:08for reference within the diagram

46:11um, but yeah, as we come to look at

46:14again hydrological surveys

46:17We come to look at permission to take water applications outside of the city such as glenn christy or lefarge

46:22Maintaining this vine mount member is very important locating it working with it

46:28Ensuring that we're not coming to compromise our existing water resources are taking so significant focus for us

46:34Next slide, please

46:41A key document on the water side is our water supply master plan

46:44This was approved by council in 2022 and comes

46:48Under an ea format to define what our short medium and long term recommendations project recommendations and meeting

46:56defined growth forecasts of the province

47:00At this time our work continues to focus on the zero to 10 years

47:04Um, an interesting component of both this plan and our wastewater services master plan is that we do look at conservation and demand management

47:11as a source

47:13And we're acknowledging that, you know, it's not only putting these sources online. It's optimizing and making the most of our current takings

47:20Both on the customer side as well as through our operations through leak detection and things of that

47:27At this time, you know work is continuing on clithe well, which is a permitted source of

47:34Municipal drinking water but offline due to natural occurring sulfides and manganese

47:38Um, we have a test well that we're currently doing a 30 day pump test as part of the ea within phase three of the handling creek business park at this time

47:47With a significant monitoring program to come to understand what are the impacts from attaining both to existing sources as well as private lands within

47:55muslin for the most part

47:57Um, since the time of settlement of our dolain quarry

48:02Um

48:04Essentially, we have been actively working on an operational testing program

48:08Which is coming to exercise wells and separate iterations around the quarry

48:13To ensure that essentially we're maintaining what is a gradient of flow the the quarry

48:19I guess enjoys currently

48:21Um, but also there's concerns that that flow should reverse in time

48:25Um, that we may see again changes in our source water as a result of you know, what's been done in for centuries

48:32at the quarry itself. So

48:34That operational testing program is part of that larger environmental

48:38Assessment for wealth south that I was speaking to the group about

48:41A lot of great information coming out later this fall on that side

48:45Uh, lastly, we had conducted an ea on the logan logan test well

48:50Logan and Fleming are two test wells are quite close together in a gulf or a mausetown shed

48:55Um

48:56And essentially that was a 30 day pumping test at the logan test well that showed to be quite fruitful

49:02We will be trying to essentially secure a permanent to take water for that and that would initiate thereafter

49:09What is an ea for construction of a treatment facility and booster pumping station

49:14As well as a separate environmental assessment for what would be, you know, the linear works to bring that from

49:19What's essentially east of you and first lines into the city?

49:25um

49:26So really yet we're looking at the short term we're coming to

49:29um

49:30revise these master plans

49:32On a coordinated basis the next scheduled update is in 2029 by which we'll come to confirm again

49:37Is this the path to meeting our growth needs into the future?

49:41um and essentially going through the process of incorporating new field data

49:46Um and coming to action what we know is perhaps

49:50More fruitful than other sources as far as prior prioritizing the work moving ahead

49:55Next slide please

49:58I apologize if this is a busy

50:03Slide but is a key point of reference in the water supply master plan

50:07Uh, essentially what this slide shows is um, you have two projections here

50:13This being what would be average day under the growth projections of the city

50:17And this being what would be peak day or our highest day of usage for each year

50:21um, and then different scenarios from there on in

50:25We come to plan based on peak day because that is our our limiting factor here as far as water supply planning

50:33um

50:34And the order at which these are to be pursued you can see the separate lines at the bottom of the graph

50:40And as the projection comes to essentially approach those lines, we need to have those sources online and running

50:45Uh to meet the projected demands of growth

50:50um

50:52I guess one thing just with respect to new water supply projects and complexity in a groundwater environment

50:57We've generally been seeing that from the point of what's a concept in a master plan to where there's feasibility studies ea's

51:05um, you know detailed design construction commissioning

51:08um

51:09You know from the a conceptual idea to a functioning water plant is essentially 10 and a half years

51:15Um at minimum unless we're getting into you know other challenges questions about the sustainability of the source

51:21and having to go back and do field tests so

51:24um, this doesn't work that we can stop and start

51:27Things like ea's expire

51:29There's a lot of competition for water both, you know from municipalities who need to grow as well as private industry who have interests

51:36um

51:37So yes a key reference point and I just know I'll talk wastewater master plans soon

51:42but you'd see equivalent graphs and wastewater talking to essentially where we stand currently for our

51:48Ability to treat and essentially when the timing would be needed and the investment would be needed for expanded wastewater plant to support future growth

51:57Okay, next slide, please

52:02um being groundwater based as well, you know a pair amount importance as well as source water protection so

52:08um, you know the foundation of our works is the clean water act and the grand river source water protection report and plan

52:15um

52:16For those who haven't seen this documents an excellent source to come understand municipal water supplies throughout the grand

52:21river

52:23understand again the threats of the

52:26clean water act and

52:29You know a lot of great mapping as to where water resources are for each respective community and their supply to servicing

52:37Um

52:39Yeah, essentially what would be what's being done currently to support the program is you know ongoing municipal

52:45Building permits and planning application reviews to in turn define threats

52:50um

52:51reinforce planning or construction opportunities to address threats

52:56And where we can't essentially putting in place risk management plans to ensure that if an activity is a threat within a well-aid protection area

53:04That we have terms by which we're managing and measuring

53:07that threat and have

53:09You know terms by which to intervene should we see something coming which may form a quantity or quality threat to our local source waters

53:18um

53:18Education and outreach of significant focuses for us to really target the human behavioral elements of source water protection

53:25um salt management seasonal water use appropriate disposal of hazardous waste are kind of the key links to this program

53:36and lastly um

53:39Essentially to reduce or eliminate transport pathways or possible means of contamination of our source. We've also ruled out incentive programs

53:47For property owners who again may have established a household based off of private well and septic where there were no city services near them

53:54And essentially the city has come to grow and encompass their property now when there is traditional servicing there. So

54:01Um these in turn help in a septic case, you know, we're not seeing contaminants

54:05We're eliminating those contaminants if that source is gone and retreating that within the municipal system

54:10Um wells aren't always maintained as well or constructed at the appropriate time meaning there's vulnerabilities

54:16so

54:16um

54:17Yet this has been a great program as far as eliminating those challenges and addressing some of the financial barriers that come along with it

54:25Next slide, please

54:29So when we're speaking source water protection for the community's reference is important really we're talking about water quantity and water quality

54:37um

54:38And really we're looking at both water intake protection zones. So, you know, where does our source water come from?

54:44We're seeing that essentially, you know, precipitation and center wellington as much as 100 kilometers away coming to benefit replenishment of our water source

54:53Um beyond that we start to look at the wellhead protection areas as well

54:57So individual wells have time of travel zones and protection areas that are established around

55:02Um and from that we map from what's a a one year time of travel generally within 500 meters of the well to what would be a 25 year time of travel

55:11Uh, which gets into the two to three kilometer range

55:15Um the following diagram here shows you what is the composite wellhead protection area

55:19So as we come to essentially put into place wellhead protection areas around each of those dots

55:25As we overlay them all essentially that black line that goes over that dotted line that goes around the city is the you know

55:31the composite wellhead protection area and the focus of our planning efforts

55:37And program efforts to ensure again, we're not introducing threads

55:42Um as you can see here with that dotted line water doesn't respect the geography of the municipal boundary

55:49um within this, you know, we we

55:52We're actively working with uh, puss Lynch

55:55Uh, as well as center wellington and guelphyramosa township

55:58We formed a collaboration agreement to ensure that we're doing things the same way both inside and outside

56:03um to ensure that again, uh

56:06Those municipalities who may not benefit from municipal water resource have the resources the financial resources do the work that they're doing

56:13um to again protect our water resources

56:17And um, you know through that as well, they're coming to implement

56:22building reviews risk management plans and support us as we're developing policy

56:27for the wellhead protection area

56:30um with respect to

56:32um

56:34Water quantity policy specifically

56:37Um, we've been working for the last eight years to develop what are water quantity policies for wealth

56:43well, veramosa township area

56:46Um, this will be one of those items that we do want to bring to this group. Um, there is public consultation

56:51That's actually being done through the g rca as the source water protection committee

56:55um

56:57Starting this fall to again get these in the public realm and start to solicit feedback

57:01There will be formal consultation to come beyond that as a planning step, but

57:07These are important to you know the protection of our groundwater and vitality of our communities

57:12We certainly want the committee's insights on those policies. We'll bring those to you at a later time

57:17Next slide, please

57:21The same as quantity, uh, there are specific maps for quality as well

57:28You can see here

57:30HPA so wellhead protection area a 100 meters around

57:34And you start to get into different times of travel once again as we come to

57:40Again implement these areas for quality and overlay them again

57:44You can start to see areas are formed where you know a greater sensitivity is a present around the well

57:50Um and as such, you know things like chemical handling or certain land use types were proposed within that

57:57um

57:58Certainly, you know if we get to a gas station, it doesn't make sense to put that in the 100 meter for quality

58:03um, but uh, this is where risk management plans come into play. So again residential developments have

58:09um, salt management plans that are a part of each development at the end of the day by which we're starting to say

58:14How are you managing your snow? Where are you putting it all of these things in turn with the interest of uh,

58:21Maintaining the health of our water supply

58:24Next slide, please

58:28Hey moving to wastewater

58:32Um, so in the early 1900s the city became uh, or began the daunting task of constructing separate sanitary and storm infrastructure

58:41Uh by 1903 we had two covered septic tanks a stone tool house

58:46An influent channel were built the current location of the water resource recovery center

58:52Um, since then essentially our wastewater system is comprised of over 525 kilometers

58:58of sanitary pipe

59:005 sewage pumping stations and a single wastewater treatment plant

59:04You'd probably be familiar with located by the Hanlon and Wellington road

59:10um our

59:12Water resource recovery center has been recognized as a leader in wastewater treatment

59:17Within the Grand River watershed is annually recognized by the GRCA since 2017

59:22With either a gold silver or bronze awards for efforts in reducing pollutants to the Grand River and its tributaries

59:28Um, would note I'm used to saying wastewater service as well

59:33But the official name is the water resource recovery center and that was officially changed in 2022 as part of an open house

59:42Next slide, please

59:46So the fact the following map just shares a representation of our collection system at the end of the day

59:51um

59:53Most of the actual flow

59:55Reaches the plant via gravity although there are five sewage pump stations that are depicted with triangles here within the system

1:00:03And you'll note the location of the wastewater treatment plant

1:00:09Next slide you probably jump ahead to sort of this next one has similar info one more please

1:00:15perfect

1:00:18Okay, so wastewater treatment plants in Ontario operate under environmental compliance approval from the Ministry of the Environment

1:00:23Conservation and Parks under the Environmental Protection Act and the Ontario Water Resources Act

1:00:28This approval ensures the plant's design and operation meets established effluent limits and regulatory requirements

1:00:36um, the wastewater system

1:00:38Include collection and treatment and are owned by the city of Guelph

1:00:42Um with our wastewater being comprised of domestic institutional commercial and industrial sources

1:00:48throughout the city

1:00:50Beyond our own servicing. Um, we as well accept wastewater volumes from the town of rockwood

1:00:55Which enter along highway seven coming into the city

1:00:59Um, and then they equal about two percent of the total plant flows that we see at this time

1:01:06Um, the plant is rated at 64 000 or 64 million liters per day

1:01:13With average day being around 55 million

1:01:16And an interesting fact then told this is 1.2 times the volume of the roger center. So yeah

1:01:23Um, a big part of this as well, uh, is both

1:01:27You know the wastewater treatment plant essentially generates residuals and nutrients that have energy value

1:01:33Um, that are both recovered throughout practices both biogas is catheter used within the plant itself

1:01:41Uh, as well the biosolids generated essentially are land applied

1:01:46through a treatment process called listec, which is an approved canadian food inspection agency

1:01:53Uh, fertilizer and beneficially refused once again

1:01:58Next slide please

1:02:04um

1:02:05Yeah, so as far as key policy documents with respect to wastewater in 2022 as well

1:02:10We saw the wastewater treatment and biosolids master plan

1:02:13Um, a similar study to the water supply masquer plan, which I talked to previously and again showed the investments needed

1:02:21and prioritized recommendations to implement projects to the 2051

1:02:27Population projections that we have currently

1:02:30um, the scope of the master plan included

1:02:32um

1:02:35Pardon me meeting the growth targets, but was also expanded to a schedule c class environmental assessment

1:02:41Incorporating phases three and four of the class he a process

1:02:45um

1:02:45This expansion resulting to delivery of an environmental study report

1:02:49Which facilitated the immediate progression of capital projects to a pre design

1:02:55Pre design status

1:02:58next one

1:03:02Okay, so like um, the water supply master plan

1:03:07This plan as well came to define the timing needed of investment and what investment was needed at that time

1:03:14To essentially ensure that growth continued on uh in meaning our 2051 targets

1:03:19Uh phase one, which is currently underway is 140 million dollar investment that will increase the flow capacity by

1:03:278.5

1:03:28million liters of water today

1:03:31A day to

1:03:3372.5

1:03:36million liters of water per day

1:03:38That addition being the equivalent to about 23,000 more people within the city

1:03:43Phase two of this expansion, which again, uh, is at this time anticipated for

1:03:49238 will further essentially expand the plan by 6.7 billion liters of water per day

1:03:55To an overall capacity of just over seven 79.2 million liters of water per day or a population of

1:04:032008,000

1:04:05208,000 pardon me

1:04:07Okay next one

1:04:11Okay, moving to storm water. So storm water management involves the implementation of storm water controls to retain

1:04:17detain and treat storm water run on

1:04:20The city currently owns and operates 124 storm water management facilities

1:04:26160 oil grid separators

1:04:28459 kilometers of storm sewers

1:04:31and

1:04:3292 kilometers of uh ditches and swales

1:04:36Stormwater management facilities can include wet ponds

1:04:40dry ponds infiltration basins or greenways

1:04:46and the figure here

1:04:48Essentially shows the southern half of wealth south of stone road with various types of storm water management facilities

1:04:55Clotted along with oil grid separators, which are shown in the red and yellow dots

1:05:01Okay

1:05:02Next slide, please

1:05:06Okay, so this figure shows the um various storm sewer

1:05:10Sewer sheds in the city and it's color coded to show where the there is a water quality or quantity control

1:05:16The blue shaded areas are water quality quality control only the yellow shaded areas no water quality

1:05:23but some water control the maroon shaded areas

1:05:26and uh

1:05:28no water quality or quantity control are the pink shaded areas

1:05:33The original purpose of the municipal storm water management was to alleviate flooding on properties by moving storm water away from the property as quickly as possible

1:05:41via

1:05:41storm sewer system

1:05:43Which then generally is to discharge the nearest water body

1:05:47Municipal storm water management to control water quantity and improve water quality began being implemented in the late

1:05:541980s and early 1990s city

1:05:57This is seen uh, this is seen in the figure as the older developed sections of the city including the downtown

1:06:02Do not have many areas with water quality and water quantity control

1:06:07Whereas the southern and eastern sections of the city do

1:06:10Next slide, please

1:06:18So the city storm water management system is operated and consolidated linear infrastructure environmental compliance approval a cli eca

1:06:26Issued by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment Conservation of parks

1:06:30The cli eca is an instrument that allows the city to bundle most of its storm water facilities under one approval

1:06:35Which provides a lot of efficiencies in managing the facilities

1:06:39Uh, the facilities that provide

1:06:41quality and quantity control from storm water runoff generated

1:06:45For example our waste resource innovation system

1:06:48Or snow management facility have their own dedicated environmental compliance approvals

1:06:54The city's current future storm water programming

1:06:59Is directed by the most recent storm water management master plan which again was completed in 2003

1:07:06This plan is generally updated on a five-year frequency

1:07:10Next slide, please

1:07:14And today uh, based on this plan our storm water programming includes annual inspections and swim facilities oil grass

1:07:22Oil gas separators catch basins and maintenance holes ditches and river outfalls

1:07:27Repair replacement of infrastructure

1:07:30Swim condition assessment and sediment clean out coming from storm water facilities

1:07:35Management including design and construction oversight of new facilities

1:07:39Compliance with the eca cli eca including a monitoring program and annual reporting

1:07:45review of proposed storm water facility infrastructure designs

1:07:50Collaboration with public works in response to public calls on storm water management issues

1:07:55And oversight of the city's storm water fee program and rebate program for rain gardens tree planting and rain barrel sales

1:08:03Uh, the photo here is an image of the storm water management facility 87

1:08:07Which is off seven drive on the east side of the city

1:08:10This photo was taken during a sediment clean out of the facility which took place last year

1:08:15In addition to removing the built up sediment within the facility. We also corrected the bottom elevation of the wetland

1:08:23Um, which was being measured higher than design of the facility or what was the design elevation of the facility

1:08:31Next slide, please

1:08:36These I won't invest too much time in it. I'm sure we're all familiar with the individual ranks, but I think as we look into each of

1:08:42Each of these given services

1:08:44Just to be cognizant. There are some significant regulatory drivers that talk about how we do the work

1:08:49We do quality management systems to create things that way

1:08:52next slide

1:08:56I started to talk to some of these in the presentation, but

1:09:00again

1:09:01In in the water world our bylaws are much of kind of the common place that we're starting to talk to what's prohibited

1:09:08Um versus, you know requirements for certain things

1:09:11Um, so, you know, uh of note is the water bylaw last updated in 2024 the sewer use bylaw last updated in 2024

1:09:20Water and wastewater customer accounts bylaw, which is currently being updated

1:09:23Which is really the terms of having to account for water wastewater or storm water with the city as far as customer expectations

1:09:29the

1:09:30outside water use bylaw

1:09:32Which essentially was implemented in the 90s and has helped to greatly reduce peak demand and make the most of the infrastructure investments

1:09:41We have as a community

1:09:42very significant

1:09:44a backflow prevention bylaw which again is a

1:09:48Which was unique to wealth coming from a contamination issue by which

1:09:53Uh an industrial client had pumped water into the system

1:09:57Within the 90s and there was all kinds of flushing and challenges that came with that

1:10:01From there our council and building officials came to define a bylaw by which

1:10:06If you have threats based on end use at your facility that you have to have premise isolation meaning water will only flow in

1:10:13It won't flow out

1:10:15And that's a great a great resource both from source water protection as well as adhering to our requirements

1:10:23under the state drinking water act

1:10:25um

1:10:26Fees bylaws with reference to both water wastewater and storm water

1:10:31And I like the customer accounts bylaws so much. I listed it twice. Okay

1:10:35Beyond that we do have servicing policies here within the city

1:10:38We'll start to talk to some of the policies within the official plan and those key

1:10:42documents as well

1:10:44it was common

1:10:46Preco is while we're being approached by jason landowners to the city seeking servicing of their lands

1:10:51Under the municipal act it is the requirement of the host municipality to serve first

1:10:57Have the ability to

1:10:59service and if they're unable to service then perhaps approach a remaining municipality or neighboring municipality

1:11:06based on the

1:11:09The regular

1:11:11Request that were coming through the door. We then brought ahead of a policy to council and had them bless that in 2019

1:11:18Essentially reinforcing that we're still working to develop the capacity that we need to support the community into the future

1:11:24And we're not in a place to essentially service outside of our boundaries at this time

1:11:29um, however that policy would allow a stakeholder again if there were other benefits

1:11:35To the proposal that was there to go to the host municipality

1:11:39Seek that host municipality support to make a council to council based resolution

1:11:43By which after which it would come back to us much like the planning process to have a staff response

1:11:49Delegations and all these great things

1:11:51Certainly council the community or the owners of these systems. So wanted to acknowledge that but also

1:11:57Uh, a bravely position expectations around some of these asks

1:12:03Next slide please

1:12:06Again and master plans are our key documents within our world have talked to the water supply master plan

1:12:11the wastewater treatment and biosolids master plan

1:12:14Uh, when I didn't speak to was the water and wastewater linear servicing master plan. So the first two really talked to

1:12:20How much treat how many water sources do we need and how much treatment do we need? Where are those?

1:12:25The once that's been determined that our engineering services team follows up

1:12:29Such that saying again, we need to service this new well site. Um, as I've talked about that's at east view and first line

1:12:37So that's going to be six kilometers of pipe into the city. We're doing it at this time. We're doing it at this cost

1:12:42Um, so both on the water and wastewater side the linear servicing master plans a key documents as well

1:12:48Um, lastly and honoring the conservation and demand management

1:12:53part of capacity

1:12:55Um, we've had a number of water conservation strategies award winning strategies that were blessed and have been very successful

1:13:02Um, the city looking at water wastewater storm water is now taking more of a one water approach

1:13:07Um, and looking at shared benefit

1:13:10Understanding that there's a lot of places where these utilities overlap at the end of the day from a programming perspective

1:13:15um, this strategy has been

1:13:18Um, but called the blueprint. Um, and there will there have been engagements, uh over the last year and a half in support of this

1:13:25Um, but essentially as we come to the end of this, uh, plan as well

1:13:27We'll be bringing it to the screwed for feedback and

1:13:31Seeking your insights as well

1:13:34Next slide, please

1:13:39Be on that again key policy documents are designed standards. So again as we start to get into infrastructure

1:13:44There's both local standards and those that are at regional municipal based and shared by a number of municipalities

1:13:52um

1:13:53Stormwater master plan here. We have a water infiltration policy

1:13:58Certainly we want infiltration with the ground water source, but we don't want to infiltrate what is salt laden water at the end of the day

1:14:04so

1:14:05we've seen

1:14:06you know proposals come to us through

1:14:09Uh development that seek, you know roadside to infiltrate everything

1:14:12Well, we that's not the type of water that we want beating our water source and starting to see a growing salinity concern in time. So

1:14:19um more information there with just a little bit of context

1:14:22um

1:14:23Will it mention the greed development standards that again stormwater are a part of?

1:14:28and

1:14:29furthermore there are environmental impacts study guidelines as well defined by our development engineering team should be part of this approach

1:14:37Next slide, please. Um

1:14:41Yeah, I've talked to both of these next slide, please

1:14:46Yeah, I've mentioned these through the presentation. Um at this time, um, you know, I'm engaging my water peers to say

1:14:52You know, we have a new committee how we're working with this group and um, yeah at this time

1:14:58We we've anticipated coming ahead and speaking to you about the blueprint project

1:15:02um

1:15:04Essentially we are designing those pre consultation water quantity policies as well for source water protection. So we'll be bringing those to you

1:15:11uh, lastly in the um

1:15:13In the theme of bill 185, uh, I'm actually leading a corporate project

1:15:19That starts to develop bill 185 spoke to what was a user or loser policy at the end of the day

1:15:23so speaking to what our

1:15:25age development approvals in our community that may hold capacity at this time

1:15:30and you know intent to move ahead move ahead to what is physical construction of that really, um,

1:15:36You know with the intent of more housing faster

1:15:38If there isn't the intent to essentially move ahead with construction and others are holding these approvals

1:15:43Um, we're essentially defining a policy which will be operationalized through a bylaw

1:15:48That would talk to the means by which the city could come to reclaim that capacity if developments do become stalled

1:15:54um, but also through transparency talking about the process as to how we physically allocate

1:16:00Service and capacity to all, you know development approvals across the city

1:16:06That's the end of my presentation. So

1:16:09Apologize that may have been a little long-winded, but

1:16:11Love to open things up as anyone has any questions

1:16:15Thank you very much Wayne. Uh, lots of information there again

1:16:19A bit of information overload. I suspect but it's nice to have the

1:16:24Power points and the supporting documentation that we can go back to later on

1:16:28Um, is there any questions or comments from the members?

1:16:36Yes

1:16:39So the water supply master plan

1:16:41I mean, I know like I mean wealth is groundwater based. So maybe

1:16:46more sensitive to things like

1:16:48I don't I'm not sure how sensitive we do like things like drought and climate change and

1:16:52I'm just wondering like for that master plan was that

1:16:55like part of your

1:16:57Planning for capacity like when some of these projects will be required

1:17:01Like I suck wealth like as a supply source like in the distant future. Is that considered climate changer? Is that sort of a more?

1:17:09Based on current historical trends

1:17:12Yes, so part of an answer to question part of the EA structure does look at climate change and impacts of drought

1:17:18Um, numerous years of drought and and what that means to the availability of local water supply both looking historically

1:17:26As well as coming to model into the future as we're seeing more demand what that would mean

1:17:31um

1:17:33Through that, um

1:17:34If you if you read the water supply master plan, there's a whole section on security of supply

1:17:39And what that seeks to do is ensure that we have necessary redundancy and building our system such that should something fail

1:17:46An unexpected issue happen. We know that we got to take facilities offline maintain them rebuild them preserve them

1:17:53um that that's included within the servicing projections for that period of time so

1:17:58um

1:17:59Commonly like if you were to look at the Ministry of Environment design guideline for a community

1:18:04They would say at minimum you should plan for a peaking factor of like 1.5. So

1:18:091.5 times your average day

1:18:11um to be safe

1:18:13um, but there's also

1:18:16Other engineering contingencies and things like that that have been brought in

1:18:19Um, we're fortunate that you know due to a lot of the work that we've done with conservation with things like the outside water use bylaw

1:18:26We only see a 30 increase seasonally in in water use here within the community

1:18:31There's a lot of communities in the province that see 100 upgrade and you know, there's questions or there's commonly dialogue about

1:18:38Waiting for those drought years to fund the piggy bank so to speak

1:18:42um

1:18:43We have long story short all those things are taken into consideration. We aim to have uh, essentially a 15 buffer

1:18:51through design of our system

1:18:53Through the water supply master plan we did plot a path to 2051 with local projects

1:19:00um to date our planning has been

1:19:03Essentially scoped by council through the first water supply master plan in 2007. There was an evaluation of a Great Lakes pipeline

1:19:10which was quite contentious

1:19:12um

1:19:13Through that and thereafter a local growth management

1:19:17A plan essentially council directed us to plan within the context of local resources

1:19:23So that's where you see us getting very creative and coming to something like wealth lakes

1:19:27Which is more of a seasonal water source and something that would be very expensive from a treatment perspective

1:19:32We look at all the you know storm nutrient collection to that point

1:19:36um

1:19:37I guess in advance of our next plan. However, we will be going back to council and saying council since 2007

1:19:43We've been honoring your direction here. Do you wish us still to pursue?

1:19:47Um, you know within this guideline or these directions

1:19:51um, you know admittedly as we got to the end of that plan

1:19:54We started to have to look to source water because there weren't any easy groundwater sources remaining

1:20:00So the pipeline idea might come back in future

1:20:04It may uh, we have like there's no active investment. There's no one at the table right now

1:20:09driving this from the city

1:20:12Um

1:20:13And yeah, it's a significant project very politically contentious

1:20:17affordability being a concern

1:20:19um, and getting into challenges like I think

1:20:22Obviously you had to be determined by interface transfer and other things that are challenging from a regulatory perspective if we look at

1:20:29Returning the water from where we take it from but yes, that hasn't been part of our planning to date and

1:20:34Council will control should that be part of our planning approach?

1:20:40Any other questions

1:20:45When I've just got a couple of items. I wonder if you might expand on them a little bit on uh, page 31

1:20:51It makes reference to four wells that are offline due to water quality concerns

1:20:55Could you just give us a little bit of background as to uh, what those issues are?

1:21:04um

1:21:06Yes, so we have um

1:21:08I spoke to one one well that's offline that we're currently designing treatment for the clice

1:21:14Clice well

1:21:16It's essentially offline due to naturally occurring saltbites and manganese

1:21:21Um, it was a water source in the past for the city, but from an aesthetic perspective the sulfur smell

1:21:28meant that that was taken offline and treatment is being designed now

1:21:33Looking to come live for 2028

1:21:36Uh, there are two wells as well that are adjacent to

1:21:42speed veiled water tower

1:21:44That tend to I guess we're coming to see

1:21:49Some neighboring industrial contaminants associated with those wells. They've been offline for a long period of time

1:21:56And through the water supply master plan we had essentially sought the province's commitment to

1:22:03You know bring these back and and work with landowners that would be responsible for these costs

1:22:09Um, essentially through that the province had said it wasn't an immediate priority for them

1:22:14So we'll be continuing to knock on that door. Um as we move ahead

1:22:18Uh, the fourth is escaping me right now mic if uh, I'm happy to get back to the group with the uh, fourth

1:22:24Well, it just can't think of it off the end. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, no problem. I appreciate that

1:22:29um, and the other item is just if you could expand and I don't know how much time this would take but um, if you'd be willing to um

1:22:36elaborate a little bit on the rebate program that you made reference to

1:22:40Page 47 for rain gardens tree planting and

1:22:44And those two in particular ring barrel sales as well, but uh, how does that system work?

1:22:50Uh, as far as rain barrel sales, um, the city does coordinate uh, a mass buy and sells them back to the public at cost

1:22:59Um, there's a lot of focused engagement in areas that may have direct downspouts things like that again with hopes of getting those volumes out of the sewers

1:23:08And that's commonly an annual event. Um, you'll probably see a plant sale being paired with that

1:23:13I think it may have just happened a little bit earlier this year. Yeah

1:23:19There are um as well

1:23:22incentives towards, um

1:23:25You know, uh all season type systems as we get to gray gray water or rain water

1:23:30um, those would essentially um, see an application process of someone coming to us with the intent to install

1:23:37the system. Um, and

1:23:40Yeah, essentially would just be picking the right

1:23:44Well picking the right technologies

1:23:46And uh, it would be subject as well to you know, building code a building permit

1:23:52required approvals

1:23:54Um a backflow prevention device and those type of things

1:23:58Um

1:23:59There are a whole host of rebate programs. I'm not doing it justice right now

1:24:03Perhaps I could send a link to the group with some more information

1:24:07following tonight and um

1:24:09Yeah, there's toilet rebates. There's there's all kinds of great things to help people conserve

1:24:12So i'm happy to share that as well. Uh, if that's easier. Yeah, okay. That would be great. I appreciate that

1:24:19um, if there are no other questions then we'll uh

1:24:23Move on to the next presentation. Thank you very much. Wayne

1:24:27Thank you

1:24:28Our next presentation is on solid waste resources

1:24:33From cameron walsh division manager solid waste resources and environmental services

1:24:38Go ahead cameron. Thank you very much. I've got a few pictures. I'll point out. So I'll just stand over here

1:24:43And uh, when it comes to any point, I'll do that. So thank you very much

1:24:47Um, if I could get the next slide, please winnie. Thank you

1:24:50So, um in terms of um

1:24:53What I'd like to cover today just talk a bit about the legislative context for salt waste as we've heard from the other two areas

1:24:58Uh, talk a bit about the waste management system we have and the overview of that

1:25:02Program impacts to date from our waste management system

1:25:06And then our salt waste management master plan emerging issues and some of the advocacy work that we do and that's ongoing for salt waste

1:25:12And then upcoming items for committee engagement. Uh, just a quick discussion there. So I'll go through that

1:25:18Trying to have the cognizant of our time at least sometimes for some questions as well. Next slide, please winnie

1:25:24In terms of the acts of the authority to provide the service comes from the municipal act

1:25:29So that's uh for the betterment of the community the service is provided

1:25:32We have the environmental protection act was just foundational

1:25:38And we have the waste free Ontario act and the resource recovery and circular economy acts. Um, those provide provincial direction regarding

1:25:46waste reduction and resource recovery and producer responsibility. So you

1:25:50Maybe you've heard of a circular economy and things like that. There's a thrust to move towards responsible making producers responsible for their actions

1:25:57So instead of cradle to grave type thinking it's it's cradle to cradle type thinking in terms of the resource recovery

1:26:04And I'll talk a bit more about that

1:26:06Body barbless assessment act should we need to cite any waste infrastructure?

1:26:10Occupational health and safety act, of course

1:26:12And then we have ecas which which all of uh, you know, Wayne wastewater water at ecas. We have that as well

1:26:20we have, uh

1:26:22What's unique to our ecas a plc for is this part of that plc?

1:26:26And uh, thank you very much for your time and that as well. So we have a

1:26:29ongoing requirement to have engagement with the community as part of our ecas

1:26:33As well as annual reports to the ministry on

1:26:36Two sites which would be our waste resource innovation center, which is the main site as well as the closed east field landfill

1:26:42And we'll talk a bit about that

1:26:44And then the toughest environmental penalties act is is really that's the stick. So there's there's the carrot in the stick in this

1:26:50And managing this we have a safety management system that has multiple staff touch points

1:26:56We've recently been accredited to iso 14,001 for our environmental management system to make sure that we're uh,

1:27:03We're managing this

1:27:04To the best of our ability and managing the risk as well as achieving the impacts

1:27:08Next slide, please, Wayne

1:27:13So it's a quick overview of services

1:27:15administration, so we have integrated customer service

1:27:19Receiver 20,000 calls a year

1:27:21supporting that so

1:27:23Service wealth takes many of the sort of low level calls are escalated to our

1:27:27Area we have a high citizen satisfaction rate of the 92%

1:27:32Most recent that i'm aware of do performance monitoring continues improvement. That's a big cultural thrust and again is that

1:27:39Included in our ems. They're accredited to ems

1:27:42Research planning policy and bylaw developments. We have a solid waste management bylaw as well that helps

1:27:47us provide context

1:27:49um

1:27:50A program development and delivery

1:27:52Contract management environmental health and safety compliance as I mentioned materials marketing is unique in wealth

1:27:58We work well in ways in terms of the journeys. We actually sell materials

1:28:02So we have folks who who might monitor commodities and markets and those sorts of things and sell recyclables back

1:28:09Um, and then we have uh our asset management that we do for the the site and then next slide, please, Wayne

1:28:17In terms of the operation maintenance, so we we actively

1:28:21In-house collect curbside waste and organic collection five minimum of blue box transition in a moment

1:28:27So which is the recycling portion of that?

1:28:30Um, we do card maintenance and bulky service. Um

1:28:34Public drop off you'll see at the waste source innovation center. So we have hazardous waste there depot

1:28:40CFC pump down for our own

1:28:42Um

1:28:43preservation

1:28:45We we managed to close the east fuel landfill site and talk a bit more about that

1:28:49Organic waste processing facilities are regional facilities. So we process waste organic waste for the city as well as the region of water loop under contract

1:28:57We operate a transfer station

1:28:59and uh environmental monitoring control so Wayne touched a bit on that via

1:29:04uh, source water, um, sorry not source water. We have uh, storm water

1:29:08Management systems as well as we monitor groundwater shallow and deep for

1:29:13potential contamination to be back for and leachate from the landfill site. So we have a comprehensive

1:29:18environmental monitoring program

1:29:21Next slide, please, Wayne

1:29:24In terms of just giving a feel for the the makeup the profile of the community

1:29:28This is 2021 data in 21 meter servicing 50,000 roughly houses

1:29:34That's roughly 53,000 currently and you can see some of the challenges we have this is the makeup of uh,

1:29:40Sort of it's called what's in our garbage here

1:29:42And uh, this comes from the the summary from the the uh master plan that was included as an attachment

1:29:49into your package

1:29:51But we you can see some form for different areas here public space downtown core multi residential single multi residential

1:29:57We should say in single family and the makeup is different in depending on where we're collecting from

1:30:03This is part of our audit data

1:30:05You were you were looking for that just the other day for us

1:30:09And you can see here garbage is blue

1:30:12Her food containers and things like that

1:30:15You can see that in our guards. There's opportunities to get that stuff out. That's called diversion. So

1:30:20This is all we want going to landfill would be the garbage portion the rest we want to get out which is a challenging

1:30:25Proposition depending on where people live multi residents of different accountability

1:30:30In single family depending on where people come from

1:30:33language barriers

1:30:35Different programs as well and part of the blue box transition is harmonizing those programs across the province

1:30:42So that so that is easier to recycle when you move around the province and so on and so forth

1:30:47So this is just gives you a feel for some of the challenges we have

1:30:5030 000 single family customers

1:30:5319 well 18 000 or sorry almost 20 000 multi rest multi rest is a different

1:30:58Bailey wig than single family

1:31:02And we service all that with in-house services

1:31:06next slide please 20

1:31:08And this is the integrated waste resource innovation center the strength of this site is its integration

1:31:13So we have organics pro investing we have recycling which is now no longer in operation as of this year

1:31:19It's a transition to the producers

1:31:21For the circular economy discussion earlier have a transfer station. We have a public drop off here with multiple saw teeth for different

1:31:28diversion programs

1:31:30construction renovation demolition programs here

1:31:33yard waste here going off site for composting again the regional facility here

1:31:38household hazardous waste depot here and

1:31:41And we just recently upgraded scales so that would be a better measurement in throughput of people

1:31:47Um using the site

1:31:49Um, and I'll talk a bit about what comes to the site now for the next slide. Please witty

1:31:55So in terms of what the site does, uh, we we collect around 33 000 tons 34 000 tons at the curb

1:32:03with with the trucks you see open about

1:32:06Uh, we receive about 43 000 tons of commercial

1:32:09Waste at at the site itself and then we bring in another 15 000 tons of public drop off

1:32:15So in total it's 92 000 tons coming to the site per year

1:32:19um, and then where where it ends up 50 50 000 tons 51 000 tons ends up in landfill

1:32:27um

1:32:28We recycled at this time this is 2023 data when we were still operating our recycling depot

1:32:33Uh, and and we're to recovery facility 15 000 1500 tons sorry recycling

1:32:39Uh compost finished compost

1:32:4130 000 8500 tons and garden centers, uh, roughly uh, uh, 5000 tons

1:32:48Um, so a lot's going in and a lot's still going to landfill would be some of the uh key key messages there

1:32:55And then you're going to see a reduction here. This doesn't add up to 92 000 tons

1:32:59Reduction is in composting so as as the compost facility processes 30 000 tons a year

1:33:05A lot of water is driven off and there's volatile salt reduction as it's composted

1:33:11In it too is a cloud a double a compost that's also cfia regulated in and returned to uh to agricultural land

1:33:19um

1:33:20So that's that's how that site works and that's what it's managing on an annual basis

1:33:24There's seasonal peaks and so on and so forth. So that's just give you an overview of that next slide, please. We need

1:33:30Going too fast. Let me know if it's that the clip is good and and that's fine

1:33:35um

1:33:36In terms of select program impacts. So all this is is there to achieve a goal, right? Um

1:33:41That's why we we do what we do

1:33:44So with uh our program

1:33:46our education programs

1:33:49we're

1:33:51Producing on a per capita basis uh 132 kilograms less than the national average

1:33:56So that's the kind of thing that we'll invest in so the awareness in the long-standing recycling programs three stream

1:34:02uh

1:34:03Source separation that has an impact and that that's an example of them for other communities are

1:34:08Are just bringing on organics programs and so on and so forth. Well, that's a very mature

1:34:13three stream program

1:34:15Not perfect, but mature

1:34:18And in this in this uh through this program

1:34:2223 2100 sorry

1:34:2421,000 300 tons roughly of ceo 2 are avoided through landfill gas management

1:34:29So wealth will actually put in landfill gas management

1:34:33many decades ago and

1:34:35And currently combust the gas for a long time also produced energy from the gas

1:34:40But it's on the decay curve now so the it's uh, we're not in a position to produce electricity

1:34:45But we're still flaring the gas and that gives us carbon credits which we sell in the voluntary market

1:34:51The the funding from the carbon credits goes into an environmental reserve which then in turn funds upgrades

1:34:56So if you go to our scale house, you'll see we have a solar

1:34:59Uh panel on top of the upgrades and that's on top of the scale house. That's now net

1:35:06carbon neutral and reducing revenue in the city as well

1:35:09And that's sort of that closely. So it's like a cap and trade

1:35:12We had a municipal level. So we sell and we reinvest

1:35:16in uh in in environmental infrastructure

1:35:19And brian hoey and we'll speak more to that when he's back in september when he does his portion of this

1:35:24It speaks to uh, uh the climate change

1:35:27portions of it

1:35:29Similarly then your gas plan avoids, uh, again

1:35:34Methane that would be generated at landfill. So we get carbon credits there as well

1:35:38Which we sell on the on the voluntary market

1:35:41Those carbon credits have a value and that's again part of that whole

1:35:45A cab internal sort of cabin trade policy we have here

1:35:49As as for the other illustration we've averred about 55 percent of curbside waste

1:35:55From from the curb from the residents

1:35:58We'd like to obviously that improve that is declined over time. That's the make make up of

1:36:04of

1:36:05The blue box has changed so less newspapers less things like that's all weight based

1:36:09So we're moving to a different target there now in our master plan where

1:36:14It's a per household

1:36:17Generation rate of waste specifically in and in working towards that target

1:36:24And then the organics what I was talking about some 30 000 tons

1:36:27Organics was converted to 5000

1:36:29Tons of compost that made it back to agricultural land. So that's a bit of an overview of

1:36:34Environmental performance from our current programs not done by any means but that's where we're currently next slide. Please wait. Thank you

1:36:42Under our master plan again. So like like all the other significant

1:36:49Services we have a master plan as well. These are the 12 themes that and that were contained in our master plan

1:36:56And

1:36:58It was approved in council in 2022. So we've been a few years out and some are going well some are not going so well

1:37:04So we've got I'll speak to the red which are the sort of ones we're struggling with and then the green

1:37:09I'll speak to it in one of the yellow that we've done that I'm going

1:37:12So promotion education

1:37:15In our master plan, we wanted to increase funding for promotion education to four dollars per household from our base

1:37:21You've actually not done that and reduced our funding for promotion education

1:37:25So that the intent of the master plan was to increase that try and get the diversion

1:37:30We talked about it at the household garbage

1:37:32But we're not in island in solid waste and we're on the tax side of the house. So there's affordability. There's housing

1:37:37There's all these other pressures. So that was one of the areas that is is now reduced

1:37:42From where it was and now we're sort of in a monitoring sort of area of that and and less proactive less

1:37:50able to influence

1:37:52As we would have liked to admit doesn't mean we're done. It just means where we're at currently and that's why that's red

1:37:58Some of the relative to the objectives

1:38:02Organic waste reduction is another one we wanted to look at

1:38:05You know potentially composting on site the leaf in yard waste currently goes off site

1:38:10So folks will want compost from the site, but all of our compost is other is spoken for it other places

1:38:15So there's opportunities there potentially and then education enforcement closely tied to promotion and education

1:38:21Is another area that's just just really at at sort of status quo

1:38:25Maybe even a little bit back simply because of the pressures

1:38:29that the community is facing relative to

1:38:33competing needs on the tax base

1:38:37Next slide, please winnie

1:38:39In terms of just highlighting some of the significant initiatives we have ongoing

1:38:43So future state and I'll talk a bit more about this but residual waste management is a key

1:38:49Thing we need to look at so we've got a closed landfill

1:38:52Guelph in the mid 90s

1:38:55focus on diversion so built

1:38:57Its own material recovery facility very rare for a city to have something like that

1:39:02um, the organic facility or uh in the end the waste transfer station

1:39:08But wealth doesn't have landfills. Um, so there's about 10 years left of landfill capacity in the province currently

1:39:15Um, so everyone's looking at what the solutions are including wealth and in what the opportunities are

1:39:21Uh, a lot of waste is exported to the us as well from Ontario

1:39:26So if there's any issues at the border that actually shortens the timeline

1:39:30Or for the need there, so it's it it's something that the entire industry is working on including wealth and we've we've uh looked at some alternatives

1:39:37To landfill and we like to further diversify our reliance on landfill and part of that is

1:39:43Programmed the diversion and getting that that you can see the tensions here

1:39:46Getting the getting the material out of the waste in the first place for diversion

1:39:50Yet we're stalled yet. We're running out of landfill capacity. There's a lot of tension in in in the objectives here and I'll speak a bit more about that

1:39:59Blue box program transition

1:40:01So 2025 was is is the last year for transition if folks aren't familiar with that

1:40:07um in 2016 in the province, uh

1:40:12Each royal ascent is that the ways free Ontario act every trial royal ascent which you outline the path ahead to the strategy for waste free Ontario

1:40:22to achieve

1:40:24Climate change goals and through diversion and so on and so forth

1:40:27Part of that was transitioning to what's called a circular economy or producer responsibility regime

1:40:34And so through over the last several years several programs of transitions such as electronics tires

1:40:41In the actual recycling program the blue bin

1:40:44um, so for wealth that means that we had to plan we had a

1:40:48Six uh six pronged approach to deal with that including staff

1:40:52And we had to reduce our staff complement shut down the material regard facility

1:40:57Transition to a new service provider the blue box collection and the blue box is now the responsibility of the producers under

1:41:05um a new structure with the province

1:41:08Over overseeing by the resource recovery and productivity authority. So a new authority was established

1:41:14And so our role in that has stopped. We've got a bit of a different role now

1:41:19Being the concern that we want to make sure that the recycling goes in the loop in and not in our waste

1:41:24and so on and so forth

1:41:26And there's some concerns with how they'll legislations

1:41:29Unfolding so we're doing some advocacy work as part of on behalf of wealth is part of a larger consortium

1:41:35That was a big transition that's still ongoing. We're still working through that. I've got a media interview on friday

1:41:41Speaking to how this is going. So it's still very topical as we go through this

1:41:45This type of this this significant change for wealth

1:41:49Um downtown is another significant issue. So uh part of the master plan

1:41:53Uh the downtown never designed for three stream

1:41:58sorting

1:41:59So there's a capacity problem in terms of

1:42:02What's generated and in the available um capacity. So we put in the public space containers

1:42:08We spent the mushrooms in the downtown we call the mushrooms

1:42:12And you can see that they overflow and they're not you know, they're they're not

1:42:17Not ideal

1:42:19So part of the master plan is to look at better ways of doing that. We've proposed and worked with

1:42:24Uh the community to propose underground containers

1:42:27Larger and we can adjust the frequency of collection right now. We collect six days a week

1:42:32It's trying to keep up with uh with the material flow

1:42:36Um, so that work is ongoing and then the public space containers

1:42:40Uh litter control and things like that. So you'll see in the future state

1:42:44underground containers matched with the downtown

1:42:48infrastructure renewal program

1:42:50As well as litter containers that are promoting then proper diversion and

1:42:55potential user fee study related to that. So that's the other thing we've been working on

1:43:00Is we have we have a current cost in the tax base. There's a delta between the current system and an approved system

1:43:06What does that look like and is it funded all tax partial tax?

1:43:10Uh, um, what would a user fee look like and how would the user fee work?

1:43:14Would it be a bag would it be on that on the vi a how would we implement it?

1:43:19And what what's the overall proportion?

1:43:22And then how does that relate to a tenure implementation timeline in the downtown?

1:43:26And relative to the concerns of the business community

1:43:29Uh with interruptions and additional fee and so on and so forth. So that that'll be coming your way shortly

1:43:35But that's one of the things we're working on

1:43:38And in the circular economy policy, so we've done a lot of good work on that

1:43:41In terms of the framework development, which is part of the

1:43:45city's strategic plan

1:43:47So we've done a lot of engagement around circular procurements internally

1:43:52And we're looking at the downtown revitalization project as an opportunity to do

1:43:57Do some work on material flow analysis and so on and so forth

1:44:00So are some nice integration there and then we want to attract circular economy businesses and then waste exchange platforms

1:44:07So we've got some work the Guelph-Tool Library is a good example of a waste exchange

1:44:11of

1:44:12catalyst

1:44:14Reused so and so forth and we're looking at waste exchange platforms

1:44:17One of them you may have seen be one to give on the organic side

1:44:22looking for ways to to get food waste out of the

1:44:27Sorry recover

1:44:28The the the value of the floor becomes food waste through waste exchange platforms

1:44:33So it's probably not even the right it shouldn't even be waste exchange platform

1:44:36It should be a never never wasted in the first place platform

1:44:40Would be the better way to put it next slide please Wendy

1:44:45So why do we do all this?

1:44:46And these are the the diversion targets related to the Waste Free Ontario Act again, that I've mentioned

1:44:52earlier and

1:44:54in 2016

1:44:56So the 20 20 target has been met the 2030 target

1:45:02This is sorry. This was taken courtesy of policy integrity

1:45:06They presented this at our municipal waste association

1:45:09spring workshop in May

1:45:11So what Peter Hargrave is illustrating here is to get to the 2030 target

1:45:16We need essentially to divert an additional

1:45:19Used blue whales but 17,000 blue whales worth of garbage

1:45:23To meet those targets

1:45:24And then to meet the 2050 target. We need to divert another 45,000 blue whales worth of garbage

1:45:32Out of out of our landfills

1:45:34How this works is

1:45:37You can see here the the targets and then

1:45:41potential ICI

1:45:43Organics, so this is a we've got a pilot ongoing in the city to try and help create the economy to scale to promote diversion of organics

1:45:51But the whole industry needs to be focused on that and that's sort of a rapid see that we've gone as well

1:45:55Getting that organics fraction out of the ICI sector

1:46:00And then

1:46:01Potential ICI blue box material. So the theme here is the industrial commercial institutional sector needs work

1:46:08And that's that's one of our key pieces of advocacy. We we work on that aim alone and through our other

1:46:15advocacy work and then

1:46:18So those are two key areas and we'll talk a bit more about that and then additional tons required to meet the target

1:46:23this

1:46:25This turns into like the crd and construction renovation demolition work

1:46:29Um in in that area as well. So that's the kind of stuff we're working on

1:46:33Gualt as a leader in this in this area and we continue to advocate and promote this type of thing

1:46:39But you can see the challenge, right?

1:46:41So diversion is really really important and we're running out of landfill and we're in climate change and and then

1:46:47Add in housing and cost funding and it's our the tensions are real and then I think that's an

1:46:52Great thing for us to recognize as committees is that

1:46:55Attensions we're working against and in how we cut through the noise and make the best calls

1:47:01Next slide, please

1:47:04In terms of circular economy is a quick example

1:47:08Of the organics stream

1:47:10This was an award-winning piece of work we did with our master plan and it came from the smart cities award

1:47:15So we put together a proposal. We won a 10 million dollar award

1:47:19looking at the organics

1:47:21Framework essentially and how to generate economic benefits environmental benefits and so on and so forth

1:47:27And one of the things we did that was unique was

1:47:30Look at ways from a regional perspective. So not just the city welfare, but what's flowing into the city welfare

1:47:35It's flowing into the city welcome

1:47:37And this is called the Sankey diagram metabolic out of the Netherlands where the folks who did this

1:47:42And we started those we tried doing a protein chicken and corn and it was

1:47:49unbelievably difficult

1:47:50So so the fact these folks were able to to pull this together

1:47:54This is the first one of its kind in Canada. They do this for energy and they and I'll show you another one

1:47:58That was a spin-off of this

1:48:00But what it's showing is is the thickness is is the material moving through the the county in the city

1:48:07What's becoming waste and it's also revealing some of the data gaps we need to work on

1:48:11It's a great first step in terms of understanding

1:48:14Where things are and then what are some of the interventions by knowing how much mass is moving

1:48:19You can determine how much cost is there the carbon footprint and so on and so forth

1:48:24So we've we were piloting some interventions like the ICI

1:48:29Organics diversion that were derived from this work and this is going to be foundational pieces we move forward

1:48:36On the organic side of the house if I could get the next slide, please

1:48:39That was a 10 million dollar award from that we received another five million dollars for

1:48:44For coil, which is the circular opportunity opportunities innovation launch pad that is now migrated

1:48:51From wealth to be housed with the circular innovation council

1:48:55This is interesting. This is now concrete and stuff flowing in and out. So it's not food anymore

1:48:59It's concrete and so on and so forth

1:49:01And you can see here that a lot flowing in but not a lot flowing out

1:49:05So the concept here is cities are a resource bank as the materials flow in and then

1:49:11understanding and

1:49:12Quantifying that and designing for deconstruction

1:49:16Then those resources are able to be so we use excuse me

1:49:20And so on and so forth solely

1:49:22This is another key focus area and you remember our previous chart where you got that gray area

1:49:26This is this is how we intended influence on that and in your package that was was sent as part of this

1:49:32There's some of the work that came in this was a t's sort of guideline to create circularity around around

1:49:40CRD ways to we we also piloted a source separation at the construction sites. That's a barrier

1:49:46Uh, so when you mix all the ways together, it's very hard to get it apart

1:49:49But if you source separately, you do your home at a construction site

1:49:52It makes it easier to get it to the right places

1:49:55That's the kind of stuff that came into this work and we're continuing to work on

1:49:59Um next slide winning please

1:50:02And then the advocacy work that's involved here. So

1:50:05Again, the tension is increasing diverting climate change mitigation and rising costs and affordability. That's really the tensions we're feeling and we work in

1:50:14Um, I talked with limited landfill capacity in the province and then we're expecting some new federal requirements in the fall to be determined

1:50:21And one of the barriers, which is a good thing and I think it's folks have input

1:50:26But that also slows the process down for sizing new landfills and stuff and in a council an adjacent council

1:50:32The veto

1:50:33Uh, citing a new waste infrastructure transfer stations or so on and so forth. So it's the tension again

1:50:40Uh, blue blocks transition to producer responsibility

1:50:43So integration with municipal services. We have an ongoing

1:50:46uh, working group with the waste management Canada the successful proponent on behalf of other producers. We work with them and love

1:50:54Um, you have some eligibility and service levels. We're seeing across the you know, one of the things we're working in

1:51:00Ineligible services. So services we provided but now are not provided that then

1:51:05Who's holding the bag if we don't provide a cost increase because people lose economies of scale

1:51:11And then you lose diversion, right? So the tension is is there in that as well

1:51:16Um, potential conflicts we respect decision making. So for instance, we collect five days a week

1:51:21A different proponent for recycling could choose to collect four days a week do 10 hour days

1:51:26Then all of a sudden you got this customer service issue and all these other things going on

1:51:30And policy uncertainty

1:51:32So what we saw recently commented through through wealth and through ripco, which is the regional public works commissioners of Ontario

1:51:40uh

1:51:41Forum, uh, there's a relaxation now of those certain economy proposed relaxations for the certain economy

1:51:48objectives in uh in the legislation

1:51:51Which essentially relaxes in so much that it's left and was actually the market in tonnage

1:51:56From 21

1:51:57So that disincentivizes the whole circular economy thing

1:52:03The incentive the incentive there is the accountability and the cost. That's how it drives innovation. There's no cost

1:52:09Then there's no incentive for innovation

1:52:11And our concern is where does that go that does it end up in there?

1:52:15Does it end up in the garbage which we would pay for right if it migrates out of the blue

1:52:19Into the waste and we're paying for it and then we're not also not in your environmental objectives

1:52:25So and so forth. So we're saying hey that that doesn't work for us. There's some good things, but we have to speak up

1:52:31Multi res we have a service level that we provide they're saying well moving forward

1:52:35Then we won't do a service level on multi res

1:52:38But they committed that the existing service levels would be respected and in that situation

1:52:42We have a

1:52:43Disconnect we have an existing service level and then other other folks would be paying a premium for blue box

1:52:49Which again would then promote to that

1:52:52If going in the garbage essential

1:52:56And I mentioned the plan or mentioned the waste grant area a couple times

1:52:59So some what we're seeing too is a slipping of targets

1:53:03So in 2018 they're supposed to be consultation on a ban

1:53:07Ban from landfill

1:53:09Landfills cheap. So if you want to start creating infrastructure, you need to evaluate it properly to then create the business case for for investments

1:53:16Um, so nothing has happened there and and in 2021 they're supposed to be implementing landfill ban in 2022

1:53:23an organic span

1:53:25Um, none none of that's happened

1:53:27So that's the kind of stuff that's that we're saying we need this that that context is important

1:53:32That well, we'll preserve your landfill capacity, which is limited in the province

1:53:37Um, and we're not the only ones saying it. We're part of we're part of the choir

1:53:40Uh, and we say it as the city proper in through grip coal and other other advocacy areas

1:53:47So this is the kind of stuff I envision us all getting involved in down the road

1:53:51Getting your input on and in thoughts on

1:53:53Um, not only uh, just how we make the system work better how we increase diversion how we advocate for needs across

1:54:00In harmonize with needs across the province

1:54:03Um

1:54:04And then greater focus on on plastics in organic waste. So there's a plastics registry now

1:54:09Um, what does that mean? We need to look at that and then get the organic waste and policy

1:54:15Uh issues around that that we're seeing so I'm not sure if I have another slide ready

1:54:19I think that might be it

1:54:21Oh, sorry, and here's the most recent touch point coming up

1:54:25Um, so I mentioned the downtown user fees. We're we're heading to a committee of the whole october 7th

1:54:30And we'll be sure to stop here and update

1:54:33I'm not sure the timing of work for for input

1:54:36We'll certainly get a review and your thoughts will be collected

1:54:40And in the future now this committee's established will be working to get this kind of thing in well ahead of time

1:54:46To get uh, get the valuable input as part of the process

1:54:50Thank you very much. Um

1:54:52Five minutes to spare

1:54:53All right. Thank you very much any questions folks. Thank you very much Cameron. Uh, again incredible amount of information and uh,

1:55:01Clearly guelph is on the leading or the bleeding edge of waste management

1:55:06And appreciate appreciate all your efforts

1:55:09Okay, thank you

1:55:10Questions

1:55:11Yes

1:55:13I just wanted to be related to education and outreach. I was just wondering if

1:55:19The city has considered opportunities with

1:55:22University or high school students to kind of like help promote that educational side and it can be like a

1:55:29hands-on experience for them and also like an unpaid opportunity to help

1:55:33conserve some budget and then also

1:55:35could kind of work

1:55:37With what you were saying with some of the multi-use residential areas where there might be some gaps

1:55:42in understanding the streamline system or even businesses where they might not have

1:55:47Um, like the three step process where it's just like a regular garbage bin or something

1:55:53That's an excellent idea. Uh, I've not had any conversations about that specifically

1:55:57And I'll bring that back to my colleague Heather Yeats in the programs area and uh, so we'll take a look at that

1:56:02That's a great idea. Thank you for that. Thanks for that any other questions or comments

1:56:11Yeah, I was surprised to learn that you gathered the gas and flared

1:56:15So don't generate electricity

1:56:17That's an excellent. So we did generate electricity, but in a landfill

1:56:21The gas production decays over time as the organics are used

1:56:25So it's just it's simply off the curve to to be efficient to run

1:56:29So the flare is the backup to that and we're actually now in a spot where the flare

1:56:34Is is almost too big so we have to downsize the flare as the gas continues to decay

1:56:39So the objective is to stay on that decay curve

1:56:42Right until it's as exhausted as possible to maximize the uh, so you could switch on

1:56:49You have the capability to generate electricity. We did we did. It's just there's not enough gas anymore

1:56:55So the we have a we have a big engine and not enough gas because the landfill gas decays

1:57:01It it doesn't generate as much

1:57:03So as as the bugs eat up, uh

1:57:06Eat up the material that's in the landfill they chew it up and then less gas is produced

1:57:12So it's off and it's off the curve if you understand what I'm saying is a

1:57:15Efficiency curve where we can produce electricity. It's just off the curve

1:57:20The gas is free

1:57:21But we don't have enough gas

1:57:23To run the engine

1:57:26It's just not enough gas. So the engine that's it. Yeah, the other question

1:57:31Will you will we be able to still monitor how much recycling the new folks

1:57:38To the rate excellent question

1:57:39So one of the concerns is a loss of access to data. So the data call from 21 was from municipal reporting

1:57:46Um, so uh, that's definitely one of the pieces of advocacy. That's what about the data

1:57:51And what we're doing is is in a reduced way

1:57:54Um, it's our still our auditing and we had some success with using a awning

1:58:00To identify contamination and so on and so forth. So we'd like to bring that back

1:58:06We can pilot it that as part of the smart cities as well

1:58:10So

1:58:11Measurement's a big thing and and certainly through the audits the what's in their waste

1:58:16We'll continue that but that's sort of point in time

1:58:19The the marketed tons is really important and they recovered tons on an aggregate basis is really what we want to preserve

1:58:26And then we take that and then start looking at you know, the

1:58:30point time sampling or leverage ai if we can but

1:58:33Great, that's a gap and we're all concerned about it right now current. But what we have is these are audits

1:58:40We have the historic data

1:58:42And uh, and we're advocating that that that doesn't get lost

1:58:46That the monitoring is critical to determining performance, right? It's it's basic. So

1:58:52But it's a concern because it's not you need it you need it in writing and you need to see

1:58:56We need to see how it's going to happen. And that's what that's what we were advocating for and so is our industry

1:59:03Yeah, okay any other yes

1:59:08um, you mentioned that there was

1:59:10previously going to be a ban on landfills, but that has

1:59:14Changed so that's where where did that come from that change? So that's so yeah, just just to let well, I

1:59:22I think the pandemic

1:59:23but some of this stuff

1:59:26Became a focus that we all wanted to Spain. So I gotta give them some grease on that

1:59:30but in 2018, um

1:59:33We're you know, this shows

1:59:36Some of the areas that were meant to be implemented that are highlighted in red that are installed now are delayed

1:59:42So this was a development consult on disposal bans food waste materials under existing waste diversion programs. That was 2018

1:59:49um, and then in 21

1:59:51Begin implementing disposal bans

1:59:53materials under existing waste diversion programs 22

1:59:57Possible food waste disposal ban that never happened. There's really been no consultation. No, so they are they are not on track to

2:00:06to ban

2:00:07materials from landfill in our master plan we have

2:00:11Have one of one of the red areas is is the

2:00:14Considering bans locally we get banned at the transfer station so on and so forth

2:00:19This is really important. And so we're advocating for that

2:00:22again

2:00:23By having clear policy direction that's confident science-based

2:00:28The markets respond very well to to consistency and that sort of thing this kind of stuff does not facilitate

2:00:35investment

2:00:36In anything when it's not valued properly and the folks can't count on talent timelines

2:00:41So those are the kind of things we uh, we advocate for but that's that's so this came out of the waste free Ontario Act

2:00:47We're watching it happen. Blue box happen things happen

2:00:50But this didn't happen

2:00:51And we see it as one of the key pieces to stimulate a circular economy around organics for instance

2:00:56So if you can't put your your organics in the landfill, what do you do with it? Well, then it comes, you know

2:01:02You move up the hierarchy from

2:01:04compost what we do now

2:01:06I see I but into other uses

2:01:09That we demonstrated through smart cities through through that focus phones

2:01:13Okay, um, I just realized now that we're just a little bit past eight o'clock when I guess we need a

2:01:19Motion to extend the meeting beyond eight so that we can wrap things up

2:01:24Actually, we do not need a motion to extend the meeting. We can just carry on according to my procedure by law. Yeah, okay, great

2:01:32Okay, any other questions then?

2:01:37All right seeing none

2:01:39Again, thank you very much Wayne for your presentation

2:01:42Very informative and obviously lots of interest from the members. Thank you

2:01:48Our next item is um rescheduling the meeting date for October. Um, there's a motion before you

2:01:56um

2:01:59Any questions

2:02:01About the the motion

2:02:04But someone would like to move the motion to adjust our meeting in october to uh tuesday october the 14th

2:02:13I'll move it

2:02:15I can

2:02:20Anybody like to second that

2:02:24Can second that?

2:02:25Okay, great

2:02:27Thank you all in favor

2:02:32here

2:02:34Okay, um, I don't have any announcements. Um, is there any announcements from staff?

2:02:42for me

2:02:44Okay, uh, right so, um, I guess now we need a motion to adjourn

2:02:50Someone like to move a motion to adjourn the meeting

2:02:54I can do that well

2:02:56Okay, thank you

2:02:58and the seconder

2:03:01And seconded

2:03:03Okay, all in favor

2:03:07Okay, thank you everyone appreciate it. Um, this actually worked out reasonably well

2:03:13under the circumstances and again, thanks to the staff for for the great presentations

2:03:18And uh to everyone enjoy the rest of the summer try to stay cool and we will see you in september

2:03:25Next meeting will be on september the 8th at 6 p.m