16 Jan 2023 Council meeting Housing

Rezoning Application No. RA482 - 488 & 492 Fifth Street

Motion
That: 1. "Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2023 No. 4500.207" (To rezone 488 and 492 Fifth Street from Single Dwelling Residential [R1] to Residential Corridor [COR1]) pass first reading; 2. "Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2023 No. 4500.207" pass second reading; and, 3. Council direct Staff to secure the conditions related to "Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2023 No. 4500.207" as outlined in the "Conditions of Rezoning" section of the Staff Report dated 2023-JAN-16 should Council support the bylaw at third reading.
Sources
Agenda itemCity agenda
Staff reportPage 2
Purpose
To present Council with an application to rezone 488 and 492 Fifth Street from Single Dwelling Residential (R1) to Residential Corridor (COR1) to facilitate a multi-family residential or mixed use development.
Staff report, page 2
Staff recommendation
That: 1. “Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2023 No. 4500.207” (To rezone 488 and 492 Fifth Street from Single Dwelling Residential [R1] to Residential Corridor [COR1]) pass first reading; 2. “Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2023 No. 4500.207” pass second reading; and, 3. Council direct Staff to secure the conditions related to “Zoning Amendment Bylaw 2023 No. 4500.207” as outlined in the “Conditions of Rezoning” section of the Staff Report dated 2023-JAN-16 should Council support the bylaw at third reading.
Staff report, page 2
DocumentsStaff report about Housing, Land Use & Urban Form

Questions and answers

Councillor Sheryl Armstrong
Speaker identificationConfident
Yes

asked
Armstrong counts prion comes here two of the first one is I know is that forty eight fifty is could be a ... heritage and it hasn't been registered yet what happens is that that property does get put forward out to the registry
City staff answered
... yeah thank you through through the chair so the private currently not on the registry ... it through the her would neighborhood plan it was identified as having ... heritage potential others in an older ... home on on the property ... but it it doesn't have any protected heritage status currently
followed up
if if if it does get the protection of somebody replies to have that done the what then happens ...
City staff answered
The other would be if the house were removed, there have to be heard alteration permit to ... to allow that to happen
followed up
And then, and then my second question is: Will there be a traffic study available for us at the public hearing? Because that is one of the largest complaints that we've been getting on emails as well as that was in there... open house as well. And that is one of my major concerns as well for that area, which is always already extremely busy.
City staff answered
am I would I would have to confirm that but ... it is on fifth street and ... Bruce so it's quite a while ... served from a transportation perspective as well as ... well served by transit and and
followed up
Active transportation routes as well. I think the concern was that number vehicles coming onto a road with it's already blocked all the way back that far in the morning, so there's gonna be no opportunity for people to for egress; that would be my concern. Thank you. Oh, wait.

Councillor Hilary Eastmure
Speaker identificationConfident
Yes

asked
quite sometime ago and is there ... like a follow up do you typically do if you haven't got a response by certain time are typically no and I'm just regarding the ... public information meeting that was held by the applicant ... insisted ten neighbors attended the meeting ... can you give me a sense of like do we keep track of how many people attend these type of public information sessions and is that considered like a low number of people to to attend
City staff answered
I'm sorry through the chair right I would say ... to cap to councillor smear this is that would probably be a reasonable for this this type of ... the scale project in this area really depends some some developments will attract a lot more ... interest ... but that is that's a reasonable turnout ... reasonable level of interest I think ... it's difficult to say with us those aren't organized by ... by the city staff to attend ... there recommended ... in this case I'd say tennis is a reasonable level of five of interests ... we'll see I guess we'll have a better understanding ... when the public hearing notice goes out if if we ... if the ... developer was able to reach out to ... many of the people that are interested