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09 20 1995 Sp Public Minutes . ~ .,.. CORPOn~IOH OP .,.. IfOWNSBIP OP oao-lIItDO1rlB SPECIAL PUBLIC DftIBG 1IBD1I1BSDAY . S~:mœER. 2 0 . 1 t t 5 , 1:1<& P.M. - COUNCIL ~ER.S ~IR~IBTK KBBrING 1tt<&-ltt1 COUNCIL (P42/95) The following members of Council were present: 8 Mayor Ian Beard Deputy Mayor Murray Martin Councillor Walter Dickie Councillor Neil Craig Councillor Larry Cotton Councillor Ron Sommers Absent: Councillor Don Bell staff Present: Gary Cunnington, C.A.O., Mark Stagg, Planner, Andria Leigh, Zoning Administrator Also Present Were: David White, Thelma Halfacre Mayor Ian Beard chaired the meeting. Mayor Ian Beard opened the meeting by explaining to those present that this Public Meeting was to receive public comments with respect to a proposed Zoning By-Law Amendment, under provisions of section 34, of the Planning Act. The applicant has applied to rezone certain lands, Part Lot 28, Concession 4, former Township of Oro, to rezone those lands as described from a site Specific Natural Area (NA-1) Zone to the Natural Area (NA) Zone. The purpose of the amendment is a condition of consent by the Committee of Adjustment. To date, the Council of the corporation of the Township of Oro- Medonte have not made a decision on this application, other than proceeding to this Public Meeting. Only after comments are received from the Public, requested agencies and Township Staff, within the appropriate time period, will Council make a decision on this application. 8 Notice of the Public Meeting was mailed out on August 31, 1995, to all property owners within 400 feet of the subject lands. Mayor Beard then asked the Clerk if there had been any correspondence received on this matter. The Clerk responded by indicating that no correspondence had been received. The Mayor then stated that those persons present would be afforded the opportunity of asking questions with respect to the proposed Amendment. He then turned the meeting over to the Township Planner, Mr. Mark Stagg, to explain the purpose and effect of the proposed Zoning By-Law Amendment. - 2 - Mark stagg: 8 Mr. Mayor, members of Council, the subject property is located on the south side of Ridge Road in Concession 4. We have two existing residential properties that front onto Ridge Road. The parties there proceeded to the Committee of.. Adjustment to expand the size of those lots at the same time that the main property would also receive some of the subject land. The land at the moment is zoned site Specific Natural Area (NA1) and in order to accomplish the approval of the Committee of Adjustment it is necessary to rezone it to Natural Area (NA). We are not, in other words, seeing any additional lots created through this rezoning but we are providing the rezoning so that we can expand the lots. There is a map at about page three of your documentation which shows a NA shaded area and very simply the part at the north end will get added into the two lots that you see facing on the Ridge Road and part at the south end of that shaded area will be added into that area that sort of has the label Lot 28 on it. So it is really a technical rezoning rather than a matter of anything else. Thank you. Mayor Beard: Are any of the proponents present or would anyone like to speak on their behalf? David White: Your Worship, my name is David White and I appear for Albikin which is the applicant in this matter. Mr. Stagg has advised Council and members of the public that this application is a result of actually a series of Committee of Adjustment applications where we are doing a number of boundary adjustments for Mrs. Martha Billes who is the owner of Albikin. The property that is in question, that is (NA1) , the 1 designation in the NA zone is to permit a Boxing School. This was added on the site as a special zoning prior to Mrs. Billes owning the property and she objected. She was the neighbour at the time and she objected to the Boxing School being established there but the Township in its wisdom decided to allow the then current owner to establish a Boxing School in a barn behind the house. 8 The property consists of a bungalow on the Ridge Road and then the property falls away and there is a small barn, a new barn structure in part of a larger area behind and that is to be severed off and the other lands all being joined into the Billes waterfront property which is a large waterfront property. So it is really a boundary adjustment and consolidation of properties and one of the conditions was that this Boxing School provision be removed from this one property. The Boxing School hasn't been there. I think it was a very short lived Boxing School, no one really wants it and there were a number of people objecting to it and this owner is turning the property back to its natural area. Thank you. Mayor Beard: Questions from Council? Councillor Dickie: Yes, can somebody explain the map to me. holdings and how are they going... What is the Billes - 3 - David White: 8 This is the original Billes property (indicated on map) here and it goes up there. I believe this is also Billes property over here. But the application involved this property and the shaded subject property were I believe owned by Fudas and were acquired by Mrs. Billes and we made an application .to take this surplus property off here and join it onto the main waterfront property so this is a very long waterfront property by itself with a house just down at the water and then we are also taking a certain block of this lot and joining it onto the Billes property so the subject property will become a residential lot, similar to the neighbouring two residential lots and there will be a long narrow waterfront lot over here and the rest will all be incorporated into the Billes waterfront property. We are not creating any new lots. We are simply adjusting the boundary and taking the surplus land off these two properties and adding them to the Billes waterfront property. The Committee of Adjustment granted the application subject to the Boxing provision being removed from the subject property. councillor cotton: Thank you Mr. Mayor. Mr. White is the remainder of the property being zoned Natural Area? David White: Yes. Everything will be zoned Natural Area once the subject property is Natural Area 1 and if we take off the 1 which is the Boxing School, then all of these properties are Natural Area. councillor Cotton: The residential lot, about? is that the remainder you are talking David White: 8 Yes, the other property, absolutely everything is Natural Area. One other point, I asked in my request with my application that Council consider passing the By-law tonight. We are under a bit of time constraint, the deeds must be stamped by the 27th of this month to do this conveyancing if it to be permitted and it is my understanding the Secretary of the Committee of Adjustment will stamp the deeds and hold them during the Appeal period if Council has passed the By-law. I realize that it is rather unusual but I think this is a relatively insignificant rezoning and I don't think there is anyone here that doesn't realize that this is really a clean up zoning and so I would ask Council to consider passing the By-law tonight to permit us to proceed as authorized by the Committee of Adjustment. councillor Dickie: The reason for that is that it has just been inactive for a time? David White: Lack of communication between myself and Mrs. Billes, she actually resides, during the year, in Calgary and she forgot about it and quite honestly, I forgot about it and all of a 8 8 . - 4 - David White: sudden, a light turned on and so the bungalow on the remainder should be a residential lot on the Ridge Road has been for sale and has not yet sold. Mayor Beard: You are not creating a new lot but just putting the lot together and taking some off and... David White: Just readjusting the boundaries. There being no further questions or comments, when being called for the third time, the Mayor in closing the meeting, thanked those in attendance for their participation and advised that Council would consider all matters before reaching a decision. He then advised those present that if they wished to be notified of the passing of the proposed By-law, they should leave their name and address with the Clerk. MOTION NO.1 Moved by craig, seconded by Cotton Be it resolved that this Special Public Meeting of Council (Part of Lot 28, Concession 4, formerly Township of Oro) now be adjourned at 7:23 p.m. carried. i1 i;? I::;~. ¡~/ ~'f.l.~l..,~.. i¡i~'i:;, <;.::.n./t.l! HAYOR IAN BEARD