SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
AGENDA

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

3:30 P.m. - 10:00 P.m.

Brantford City Hall, 100 Wellington Square

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1.

INVOCATION

2.

ROLL CALL

3.

DECLARATIONS OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

4.

STATUTORY PUBLIC HEARINGS/ PUBLIC MEETINGS

4.1

Deferred Amendments to the November 19, 2020 Motion Regarding the New City of Brantford Official Plan [Financial Impact – None], 2021-20, 2021-20

• THAT the Deferred recommendation from the November 19, 2020 Special Committee of the Whole – Community Development meeting and the pending amendments to the deferred recommendation BE STRUCK and REPLACED with the following:

  1. THAT Report 2020-139, Envisioning Our City: 2051 – The New Official Plan for the City of Brantford, which includes the “Municipal Comprehensive Review – Final Addendum Report, November 2020”, prepared by SGL Planning and Design, attached as Appendix A to Report 2020-139, BE RECEIVED; and
  2. THAT Report 2021-20, Deferred Amendments to the November 19, 2020 Motion Regarding the New City of Brantford Official Plan BE RECEIVED; and
  3. THAT Council ADOPT the new City of Brantford Official Plan – Envisioning Our City: 2051, attached as Appendix 2 to Report 2021-20, as amended to include the following;
     1. A revision to Modified Policy Area 4 to specifically include museum uses and associated outdoor education and interpretive centres as permitted uses upon the Greenwich Mohawk Lands, as proposed in Section 9.1.1 of Report 2021-20; and
     2. A revision to Schedule 5: Downtown Urban Growth Centre, to designate Earl Haig Park as Parks and Public Open Space, as proposed in Section 9.1.2 of Report 2021-20; and
     3. An additional modified policy area encouraging redevelopment of the motel strip along Colborne Street East, as proposed in Section 9.1.3 of Report 2021-20; and
  4. THAT the By-law to adopt the new City of Brantford Official Plan – Envisioning Our City: 2051, as amended BE PRESENTED to City Council for adoption in March 2021; and
  5. THAT Planning Staff BE DIRECTED to submit the Council-adopted City of Brantford Official Plan – Envisioning Our City: 2051 to the Province of Ontario for final approval in accordance with Section 17(22) of the Planning Act; and
  6. THAT in accordance with Section 26(7) of the Planning Act, Council DECLARES to the approval authority, being the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, that the Council-adopted City of Brantford Official Plan – Envisioning Our City: 2051:
     1. conforms with provincial plans or does not conflict with them, as the case may be,
     2. has regard to the matters of provincial interest listed in Section 2 of the Planning Act, and
     3. is consistent with policy statements issued under subsection 3(1) of the Planning Act; and
  7. THAT the Comprehensive Block Plan Terms of Reference, attached as Appendix 3 to Report 2021-20, to guide and assess future Block Plan applications within the lands that are subject to block planning in the new City of Brantford Official Plan – Envisioning Our City: 2051, BE ENDORSED; and
  8. THAT the Urban Design Manual, attached as Appendix 4 to Report 2021-20, to guide and assess future development proposals and applications in the City of Brantford, BE ENDORSED; and
  9. THAT the Infrastructure Staging Report, attached as Appendix E to Report 2020-139, to guide the provision of infrastructure and services within the expansion lands, BE ENDORSED.

• Motion to Reconsider

  WHEREAS a Special Committee of the Whole – Community Development meeting was held on November 19, 2020 for purposes of adopting the City of Brantford Official Plan; and

  WHEREAS an amendment was considered to the Official Plan and subsequently lost on a vote of 2 to 6; and

  WHEREAS the Official Plan was deferred to January 19^th and there is a desire to reconsider the amendment;

  NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the following amendment BE RECONSIDERED:

  THAT the Text and Schedules to the Draft Official Plan be amended to include the lands municipally known as 218, 194, 170 & 152 Powerline Road in the Settlement Area Boundary and that the Agricultural Designation be changed to Residential Designation with core Natural Area Designation to remain as is.

5.

NOTICES OF MOTION

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ADJOURNMENT