DOCUMENT 1
Report
to/Rapport au :
Planning and Environment Committee
Comité de l'urbanisme et de
l'environnement
and Council / et au Conseil
Submitted by/Soumis par : Councillor/ conseillère Diane Holmes
Contact
Person/Personne ressource : Diane Holmes, Councillor/conseillère, quartier
Somerset Ward
(613) 580-2424 x26658, diane.holmes@ottawa.ca
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SUBJECT: |
deviations from approved site
plan – |
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OBJET : |
dÉrogations au plan d’implantation approuvÉ – |
REPORT RECOMMENDATION
That the Planning and Environment Committee recommend to Council that the City of Ottawa complete the required work undertaken by contractors hired by the City – with the costs to be placed on the owner’s property taxes.
RECOMMANDATION DU
RAPPORT
Que le Comité de l’urbanisme et de
l’environnement recommande au Conseil de donner instruction à la Ville d’Ottawa
de confier à des entrepreneurs le mandat de réaliser les travaux requis et d’en
ajouter le coût à la facture de taxes foncières du propriétaire.
263-65 Bank Street is a surface parking lot
fronting onto Cooper Street (south side) east of Bank Street. A commercial
public parking operation is located here.
A Site Plan Control Agreement registered on
June 10, 1980 required soft landscaping at the Cooper Street frontage. This was
not fulfilled, and in 1989 enforcement of the agreement was approved by the
Planning Committee of the former City of Ottawa.
On April 18, 2005 the landscaped area was
removed, and illegally converted to additional parking stalls.
The owner was advised by letter that if
re-instatement of the landscaping was not completed by June 30, 2005, a report
to Planning and Environment Committee and Council recommending re-instatement
by the City of Ottawa at the owner’s expense would come forward.
As almost one year has elapsed since that time,
with no re-instatement, this recommendation is being brought forward by the
Ward Councillor.
There have been on-going discussions with the
Director of By-Law Services regarding the enforcement of this Site Plan
Agreement.
Residents of the condominium buildings are 372
and 364 Cooper Street have been requesting re-instatement of the landscaping in
accordance with the City of Ottawa’s policies for landscaping of surface
parking lots.
$1,670 of financial security was retained in
1980. This was applied to the costs of bringing the site into compliance in
1990.f
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION
Document 1
- Correspondence dealing with the Site Plan from 1980 to 2006, photographs of
landscaped elements that were removed and original site plan dated July 1989.
Corporate
Services, Clerk’s Office, will advise the property owner, Golden Dragon Ho
Inc., 338-27 Beechwood Ave., Ottawa, ON, and the Acting Director, Financial
Services, of the disposition of this item by Committee and Council.
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