1.                   OFFICIAL PLAN AND ZONING - 280 DIDSBURY ROAD

 

PLAN OFFICIEL ET ZONAGE - 280, CHEMIN DIDSBURY

 

 

Committee recommendationS

 

(This matter is subject to Bill 51)

 

That Council:

 

1.                   Approve an amendment to the Kanata Town Centre Site-Specific Policies in Volume 2-B of the City of Ottawa Official Plan to amend Special Policy Area 3 of the Low Density Employment Area for the property known as 280 Didsbury Road, as shown in Document 1 and detailed in Document 4.

 

2.                   Approve an amendment to Zoning By-law 2008-250 to change the Urban Exception 1412 provisions that relate to the property known as 280 Didsbury Road, as shown in Document 1 and detailed in Document 3.

 

 

RecommandationS DU Comité

 

(Cette question est assujettie au Règlement 51)

 

Que le Conseil

 

1.         approuve une modification aux politiques sur les sites particuliers relativement au centre-ville de Kanata dans le Volume 2B du Plan officiel de la Ville d’Ottawa afin de changer la politique spéciale du Secteur 3 de la Zone d’emploi de faible densité en ce qui a trait à la propriété dont l’adresse municipale est le 280, chemin Didsbury, comme il est indiqué dans le Document 1 et expliqué en détail dans le Document 4;

 

2.         approuve une modification au Règlement de zonage 2008-250 afin de changer les clauses de l’exception urbaine 1412 relativement à la propriété dont l’adresse municipale est le 280, chemin Didsbury, comme il est indiqué dans le Document 1 et expliqué en détail dans le Document 3.

 

 

Documentation

 

1.                  Deputy City Manager's report, Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability, dated 18 December 2009 (ACS2010-ICS-PGM-0013).

 

2.                  Extract of Draft Minutes, 9 February 2010.

 

3.                  Extract of Minutes, 12 January 2010


Report to/Rapport au :

 

Planning and Environment Committee

Comité de l'urbanisme et de l'environnement

 

and Council / et au Conseil

 

18 December 2009 / le 18 décembre 2009

 

Submitted by/Soumis par : Nancy Schepers, Deputy City Manager/Directrice municipale adjointe,

Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability/Services d’infrastructure et Viabilité des collectivités

 

Contact Person/Personne-ressource : Michael Wildman, Manager/Gestionnaire, Development Review-Suburban Services/Examen des projets d'aménagement-Services suburbains, Planning and Growth Management/Urbanisme et Gestion de la croissance

(613) 580-2424, 27811  Mike.Wildman@ottawa.ca

 

Kanata North (4)

Ref N°: ACS2010-ICS-PGM-0013

 

 

SUBJECT:

Official Plan and ZONING - 280 Didsbury road (FILE NO. d01-01-09-0006 and d02-02-09-0067)

 

 

OBJET :

plan officiel et ZONAGE - 280, chemin didsbury

 

 

REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS

 

That the Planning and Environment Committee recommend Council:

 

1.                  Approve an amendment to the Kanata Town Centre Site-Specific Policies in Volume 2-B of the City of Ottawa Official Plan to amend Special Policy Area 3 of the Low Density Employment Area for the property known as 280 Didsbury Road, as shown in Document 1 and detailed in Document 4.

 

2.                  Approve an amendment to Zoning By-law 2008-250 to change the Urban Exception 1412 provisions that relate to the property known as 280 Didsbury Road, as shown in Document 1 and detailed in Document 3.

 

RECOMMANDATIONS DU RAPPORT

 

Que le Comité de  recommande au Conseil :

 

1.                  d’approuver une modification aux politiques sur les sites particuliers relativement au centre-ville de Kanata dans le Volume 2B du Plan officiel de la Ville d’Ottawa afin de changer la politique spéciale du Secteur 3 de la Zone d’emploi de faible densité en ce qui a trait à la propriété dont l’adresse municipale est le 280, chemin Didsbury, comme il est indiqué dans le Document 1 et expliqué en détail dans le Document 4;

 

2.                  d’approuver une modification au Règlement de zonage 2008-250 afin de changer les clauses de l’exception urbaine 1412 relativement à la propriété dont l’adresse municipale est le 280, chemin Didsbury, comme il est indiqué dans le Document 1 et expliqué en détail dans le Document 3.

 

 

BACKGROUND

 

Site Context

 

The subject property, known municipally as 280 Didsbury Road, is located in the Kanata Town Centre near the Terry Fox Drive and Highway 417 interchange.  The site is situated south of Campeau Drive, north of Highway 417, east of Didsbury Road and west of Goulbourn Forced Road in the Kanata North Ward.

 

The currently undeveloped site functions as a through lot, with public street frontage onto Didsbury Road to the west and Goulbourn Forced Road to the east, as shown in Document 1.  The subject property is located south of three retail establishments, comprising Canadian Tire, Staples and New Look Optical, and is located north of a Ministry of Transportation (MTO) service yard.  A 25-metre transit right-of-way abuts the subject site to the immediate south, between the MTO site and 280 Didsbury Road.  The parcel of land is 1.49 hectares in area and has approximately 65 metres of frontage along Didsbury Road and 50 metres of frontage along Goulbourn Forced Road, with an approximate depth of 220 metres.  The entire north limit of the site abuts an internal private road servicing the above-mentioned retailers.

 

Previous Approvals

 

On August 29, 2007 City Council passed an Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment (ACS2007-PTE-APR-0125) on the subject lands that had the effect of permitting a retail use with a maximum gross floor area of 600 square metres and a warehouse use with a maximum ground floor area of 2,500 square metres.  The maximum building height was increased from 13.5 metres to 24 metres to allow for a six-storey self-storage warehouse building and various zoning provisions related to warehouse parking rates, and yard requirements were modified to adapt to the proposed concept plan at the time.

 

On February 4, 2008 a one-storey, 511-square metre, retail building for New Look Optical was approved through a Site Plan Control application (D07-12-07-0059).  This approval represented the permitted retail uses less than 600 square metres and Phase I of the development.  Through the same Site Plan Control application, a six-storey Dymon Storage self-storage building, 13,200 square metres in gross floor area, was subsequently approved on September 30, 2008.  The Site Plan Agreement for the 511-square metre retail building was registered and the building was constructed, however the applicant did not proceed with the construction of the six-storey self-storage building.  The revised subject Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment applications reflect the applicant’s decision to redesign the self-storage building and the need to amend both the Official Plan and Zoning By-law to facilitate this redesign.

 

Development Proposal

 

The purpose of the subject application is to amend the Official Plan and Zoning By-law such that a three storey, 19,340-square metre self-storage building and an additional one storey, 1,255‑square metre, retail building can be constructed at 280 Didsbury Road.

 

The conceptual site plan for the subject site shown in Document 2 functionally orients the self-storage warehouse building towards the internal private road and provides windows and glazing exposed on Goulbourn Forced Road.  The building will comprise approximately 1,600 storage units accessible via internal elevators and will feature a 743-square metre drive-in vehicle loading area.  The three-storey building will be served by seven surface parking spaces and another 12 parking spaces within the vehicle loading area.

 

The proposed one-storey retail building, also shown in Document 2, is planned along the Didsbury Road frontage at the western limit of the subject site and is served by approximately 50 surface parking spaces.

 

Official Plan Amendment

 

The purpose of the Official Plan Amendment (OPA) is to amend the Kanata Town Centre Secondary Plan (Volume 2-B – Site Specific Policies) to permit an unlimited ground floor area for a self-storage building within Special Policy Area 3 (LDE-3), by removing the current 2,500‑square metre cap on floor area (see Document 4).

 

Zoning Amendment

 

The City’s Comprehensive Zoning By-law (2008-250) zones the subject site ‘Light Industrial Subzone 7, Exception 1412’ (IL7[1412]H(24)-h).  This Light Industrial zone permits a range of uses including retail and warehouse uses.  However, Exception 1412 limits the ground floor area of a warehouse building to 2,500 square metres and imposes restrictions on retail greater than 601 square metres in floor area. 

 

The purpose of the Zoning By-law Amendment is to eliminate the maximum allowable ground floor area of 2,500 square metres for a warehouse building and permit a full range of cumulative retailing up to 4,999 square metres while maintaining the existing holding symbol on retail greater than 1,857 square metres in area pending the submission and acceptance of a Traffic Study.  In addition, the Zoning By-law Amendment proposes various changes to the zoning provisions detailed, which provisions are site specific to facilitate the development of the proposed self-storage warehouse building and the independent retail building.

DISCUSSION

 

Official Plan Policies

 

The site is currently designated ‘Mixed Use Centre’, with a “Town Centre” overlay, in Volume 1 of the City’s Official Plan, and ‘Low Density Employment – Special Policy Area 3’ in the Kanata Town Centre Secondary Plan, Volume 2-B of the City’s Official Plan

 

The Mixed-Use Centre designation identifies areas that have been acknowledged as strategic locations on the rapid-transit network and lie adjacent to major roads.  These areas act as focal points of activity, both within their respective communities and within the larger municipal structure.  They should contain development that is both locally and regionally oriented and that permits a broad variety of uses including transit-supportive land uses such as offices, secondary and post-secondary schools, hotels, hospitals, large institutional buildings, community recreation and leisure centres, daycare centres, retail uses, entertainment uses, services (such as restaurants), high and medium-density residential uses and mixed-use development.  The “Town Centre” overlay identifies Mixed-Use Centres that are planned to accommodate at least 10,000 jobs.

 

The Special Policy Area 3 designation is defined as the area situated north and west of the interchange of Highway 417 and Terry Fox Drive and permits the following uses: restricted industrial uses including offices; automotive commercial uses; large retail warehouses; retail warehouses; business park retail outlets; planned retail centres; accessory commercial development; home renovation uses, a self-storage building and retail uses.

 

The Kanata Town Centre Site-Specific Policies set an employment target of at least 12,500 jobs for all of the lands within the Town Centre.  Most of the employment target is intended to be achieved on lands within the “Central Business District” and “Main Street” designations, which are located to the east of the “Regional Shopping Centre” designation (Kanata Centrum).  The proposed development will add some employment at a low density to the Town Centre, in keeping with the general intent of the Low Density Employment Area Designation.

 

There are two distinct policy directions for the subject site: to create vibrant, compact, mixed-use, transit supportive centres through the ‘Mixed-Use Centre’ designation; and to allow for low density employment to protect the planned function of the Regional Shopping Centre, through the Low Density Employment Area, Special Policy Area 3 designation.

 

The Site-Specific Policies provide further refinement of the Official Plan policies and in this particular case the policy direction for the north west area of the Kanata Town Centre is to make an allowance for low density employment generators such as restricted industrial, automotive commercial and large format retail uses to name a few.

 

The purpose of this designation originates from the creation of the Kanata Regional Shopping Centre, where a market study was required to demonstrate that retail warehouse uses permitted within the Low Density Employment Area would not undermine the planned function of the Kanata Regional Shopping Centre.  This requirement for such study was to remain in force until the Regional Shopping Centre developed to 50,000 square metres of gross leasable area, which it has now surpassed.  Thus, this allowed for a mechanism to permit larger format retail users to locate in the northwest quadrant of the Kanata Town Centre.

 

Zoning By-law Amendment

 

In terms of the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment, both the warehouse and retail uses are permitted in the existing Light Industrial Zone (IL7[1412]H(24)-h).  Coupled with these two permitted uses are associated size restrictions: 

 

a)      The restriction on the type of retailing permitted for a retail store greater than 600 square metres.

b)      The restriction on the maximum ground floor area for a warehouse use of 2,500 square metres.

 

The traffic impact study prepared in support of the application has determined that the revised site plan demonstrates good on-site operations, adequate parking supply, and appropriate pedestrian facilities, and continues to be recommended from a transportation perspective.  Therefore, from a transportation perspective permitting unrestricted retail up to 4,999 square metres in gross floor area is supportable given that the existing holding symbol within the site specific zone will remain.  The net effect will be restricting the cumulative development of retail to less than 1,857 square metres as until such time a traffic study can support further retail development.  Thus, the removal of these restrictions is not in contravention of any Official Plan policies and represents good planning.

 

The proposed zoning amendment will also have the effect of modifying the IL7[1412]-h (Light Industrial, Subzone 7, Exception 1412, Holding) such that Urban Exception 1412 is amended (see Document 3) as follows:

 

 

The above modifications to Exception 1412 are all site specific changes that are necessary to the viability of the proposed Warehouse and Retail use at 280 Didsbury Road; the reduction in minimum lot size for a retail building is to facilitate the future severance of the site; the reduction in rear yard requirement is to recognize the dual frontage; the increase of maximum lot coverage is to facilitate the increase in allowable ground floor area of the building; the reduction in the required parking rate for a warehouse use is a reflection of the actual parking needs for the external parking lot of a Dymon Self-Storage building (where parking is also accommodated within the internal loading area); and the elimination of the bicycle parking and loading space requirements reflect the specific function of the self-storage building.

 

Rationale for Support

 

In context of the Low Density Employment Area, Special Policy Area 3 designation, the removal of the maximum ground floor restriction of 2,500 square metres for a warehouse use does not contravene the policies of Official Plan, Volume 2-B.  The overall intent of the Low Density Employment Area is maintained and given the surrounding site context, the proposed three‑storey (19,340 square metres) self-storage building will allow for a level of compatibility with adjacent land uses that is satisfactory. 

 

In context of the Mixed-Use Centre designation, the design of the site allows for several principal Mixed-Use policies to be achieved, such as:

 

  1. Allowing for a mix of uses in adjacent buildings, where the site design will allocate 25 per cent of the site (3,900 square metres) for retail development.  Document 2 illustrates a 1,255-square metre retail building and coupled with the existing 511-square metre New Look Optical constructed in Phase I of this development, there will be a total of 1,766 square metres of retail space on the subject lands.
  2. Contributing to the creation of a street network and pedestrian network that provides convenient and pleasant walking environments, linking public transit through barrier-free movements.  The concept plan illustrates the location of sidewalks on private land that will link to the public sidewalk system, adjacent uses and a future rapid transit corridor.
  3. Providing animated at-grade uses such as retail and office directly associated with the self-storage use.  The building will be oriented towards Goulbourn Forced Road and will include architectural treatment that is generally compatible with other buildings in the vicinity of the site. 

 

Traffic 

 

Based on the conclusions and recommendations of the supporting Traffic Impact Study, the 1,255‑square metre retail building and 19,340-square metre self-storage building can be supported by the existing network.

 

Conclusion

 

The Planning and Growth Management Department recommends that the proposed Special Policy Area 3 for the Low Density Employment Area and the provisions of Exception 1412 of the Zoning By-law be amended such that the policy requiring a maximum ground floor area for a self-storage building and limitations on retail greater than 600 square metres be deleted.  The unlimited allowable ground floor area for the self-storage use is appropriate given the demonstration that additional retail will be added to the site contributing to the mix of uses at 280 Didsbury Road.  In addition, the proposed zoning changes are considered appropriate given the site context and traffic analysis.

 

Concurrent Application 

 

The applicant has submitted a Site Plan Control Application (File #D07-12-09-0140) to permit the proposed development.

 

CONSULTATION

 

Notice of this application was carried out in accordance with the City's Public Notification and Consultation Policy.  The City did not receive any negative comments or opposition to this application.

 

COMMENTS BY THE WARD COUNCILLOR(S)

 

The Ward Councillor is aware of this application and the staff recommendation.

 

LEGAL/RISK MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS

 

There are no legal/risk management implications associated with this report.

 

CITY STRATEGIC PLAN

 

The Planning and Growth Management priorities of the City’s Strategic Plan are upheld whereby the subject Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendments respect the existing urban fabric and limits of existing hard services, so that new growth is integrated seamlessly with established communities.

 

TECHNICAL IMPLICATIONS

 

N/A

 

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

 

N/A

 

APPLICATION PROCESS TIMELINE STATUS

 

The application was not processed by the "On Time Decision Date" established for the processing of Zoning By-law amendments due to the time required to resolve site design issues related to the concurrent Site Plan Application.

 

 

 

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION

 

Document 1    Location Map

Document 2    Concept Plan

Document 3    Details of Recommended Zoning

Document 4    Proposed Official Plan Amendment

 

DISPOSITION

 

City Clerk and Solicitor Department, Legislative Services to notify the owner, applicant, OttawaScene.com, 174 Colonnade Road, Unit #33, Ottawa, ON  K2E 7J5, Ghislain Lamarche, Program Manager, Assessment, Financial Services Branch (Mail Code:  26-76) of City Council’s decision.

 

Planning and Growth Management to prepare the implementing by-law, forward to Legal Services and undertake the statutory notification.

 

Legal Services to forward the implementing by-law to City Council.


LOCATION MAP                                                                                                                                                  DOCUMENT 1

 

 


CONCEPT PLAN                                                                                                DOCUMENT 2

 


DETAILS OF RECOMMENDED ZONING                                                    DOCUMENT 3

 

Proposed Changes to the Comprehensive Zoning By-law

 

Details:

 

Exception 1412 - Section 239, Urban Exceptions is amended as follows:

 

Column III - add “retail store”

 

Column V - the words “for a retail store…the types of products sold” are deleted;

 

Column V - the words “a maximum of one…area of 2,500 m2” are deleted;

 

Column V – the words “minimum parking rate…gross floor area” are deleted;

 

The following provisions will be added to Column V:

 

- One lot for zoning purposes

- Section 204(7)(d)(ii) does not apply

- No minimum lot area for a retail store

- Minimum rear yard set back: 3.0 m

- Maximum lot coverage: does not apply for both Table 203B and 203C

- Required Parking Rate for a Warehouse Use: 4 spaces

- Required Loading Rates and Provisions for a Warehouse Use:  0 spaces

- Required Bicycle Parking Rates for a Warehouse Use: 0 spaces

 


PROPOSED OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT                                             DOCUMENT 4

 

 

 

 

 

Official Plan Amendment    Modifications du Plan directeur

 

To the Official Plan of the City of Ottawa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Land use

Utilisation du sol


 

 

INDEX

 

 

 

THE STATEMENT OF COMPONENTS

 

PART A – THE PREAMBLE does not constitute part of the Amendment.

Purpose

Location

Basis

 

PART B – THE AMENDMENT consisting of the following text constitutes Amendment. No. __ to the City of Ottawa Official Plan (2003).

 

Introduction

Details

Implementation and Interpretation

Schedule A of Amendment __ – Official Plan of the City of Ottawa

 

 

PART A – THE PREAMBLE

 

1. Purpose

 

The purpose of the Official Plan Amendment (OPA) is to amend the Kanata Town Centre Secondary Plan (Volume 2-B – Site Specific Policies) to permit an unlimited ground floor area for a self-storage building within Special Policy Area 3 (LDE-3), by removing the current 2,500 square metre maximum.  Furthermore, through the review of this OPA the numbering sequence of LDE-2 and LDE-3 was found to be incorrect, as such this sequence will be amended to complement Schedule B-1.

 

2. Location

 

The subject property, known municipally as 280 Didsbury Road, is located in the Kanata Town Centre near the Terry Fox Drive and Highway 417 interchange.  The site is situated south of Campeau Drive, north of Highway 417, east of Didsbury Road and west of Goulbourn Forced Road in the Kanata North Ward.

 

The currently undeveloped site functions as a through lot, with public street frontage onto Didsbury Road to the west and Goulbourn Forced Road to the east.  The subject property is located south of three retail establishments, comprising Canadian Tire, Staples and New Look Optical, and is located north of a Ministry of Transportation (MTO) service yard.  A 25-metre transit right-of-way abuts the subject site to the immediate south, between the MTO site and 280 Didsbury Road.  The parcel of land is 1.49 hectares in area and has approximately 65 metres of frontage along Didsbury Road and 50 metres of frontage along Goulbourn Forced Road, with an approximate depth of 220 metres.  The entire north limit of the site abuts an internal private road servicing the above-mentioned retailers.

 

3. Basis

 

Background

 

On August 29th, 2007 City Council passed an Official Plan Amendment (Amendment 56) on the subject lands that had the effect of permitting a retail use, and a warehouse use with a maximum ground floor area of 2,500-square metres. 

 

Although retail was developed as Phase I of this development project (511-square metre New Look Optical) and a six storey warehouse building with a 2,500-square metre ground floor area was approved but not built, the subject Official Plan Amendment reflects the applicant’s decision to redesign the self-storage building in a three-storey format with a larger ground floor plate (6,200-square metre).

 

 

Discussion

 

The site is currently designated ‘Mixed Use Centre’, with a “Town Centre” overlay, in Volume 1 of the City’s Official Plan, and ‘Low Density Employment – Special Policy Area 3’ in the Kanata Town Centre Secondary Plan, Volume 2-B of the City’s Official Plan

 

The Mixed-Use Centre designation identifies areas that have been acknowledged as strategic locations on the rapid-transit network and lie adjacent to major roads.  These areas act as focal points of activity, both within their respective communities and within the larger municipal structure.  They should contain development that is both locally and regionally oriented and that permits a broad variety of uses including transit-supportive land uses such as offices, secondary and post-secondary schools, hotels, hospitals, large institutional buildings, community recreation and leisure centres, daycare centres, retail uses, entertainment uses, services (such as restaurants), high and medium-density residential uses and mixed-use development.  The “Town Centre” overlay identifies Mixed-Use Centres that are planned to accommodate at least 10,000 jobs.

 

The Special Policy Area 3 designation is defined as the area situated north and west of the interchange of Highway 417 and Terry Fox Drive and permits the following uses: restricted industrial uses including offices; automotive commercial uses; large retail warehouses; retail warehouses; business park retail outlets; planned retail centres; accessory commercial development; home renovation uses, a self-storage building and retail uses.

 

The Kanata Town Centre Site-Specific Policies set an employment target of at least 12,500 jobs for all of the lands within the Town Centre.  Most of the employment target is intended to be achieved on lands within the “Central Business District” and “Main Street” designations, which are located to the east of the “Regional Shopping Centre” designation (Kanata Centrum).  The proposed development will add some employment at a low density to the Town Centre, in keeping with the general intent of the Low Density Employment Area Designation.

 

There are two distinct policy directions for the subject site: to create vibrant, compact, mixed-use, transit supportive centres through the ‘Mixed-Use Centre’ designation; and to allow for low density employment to protect the planned function of the Regional Shopping Centre, through the Low Density Employment Area, Special Policy Area 3 designation.

 

The Site-Specific Policies provide further refinement of the Official Plan policies and in this particular case the policy direction for the north west area of the Kanata Town Centre is to make an allowance for low density employment generators such as restricted industrial, automotive commercial and large format retail uses to name a few.

 

The purpose of this designation originates from the creation of the Kanata Regional Shopping Centre, where a market study was required to demonstrate that retail warehouse uses permitted within the Low Density Employment Area would not undermine the planned function of the Kanata Regional Shopping Centre.  This requirement for such study was to remain in force until the Regional Shopping Centre developed to 50,000 square metres of gross leasable area, which it has now surpassed.  Thus, this allowed for a mechanism to permit larger format retail users to locate in the northwest quadrant of the Kanata Town Centre.

 

In context of the Low Density Employment Area, Special Policy Area 3 designation, the removal of the maximum ground floor restriction of 2,500 square metres for a warehouse use does not contravene the policies of Official Plan, Volume 2-B.  The overall intent of the Low Density Employment Area is maintained and given the surrounding site context, the proposed 3-storey (19,340 square metre) self-storage building will allow for a level of compatibility with adjacent land uses that is satisfactory. 

 

In context of the Mixed-Use Centre designation the design of the site allows for several principal Mixed-Use policies to be achieved, such as:

 

  1. Allowing for a mix of uses in adjacent buildings, where the site design will allocate 25 percent of the site (3,900 square metres) for retail development.  Document 2 illustrates a 1,255-square metre retail building and coupled with the existing 511-square metre New Look Optical constructed in Phase I of this development, there will be a total of 1,766 square metres of retail space on the subject lands.
  2. Contributing to the creation of a street network and pedestrian network that provides convenient and pleasant walking environments, linking public transit through barrier-free movements.  The concept plan illustrates the location of sidewalks on private land that will link to the public sidewalk system, adjacent uses and a future rapid transit corridor.
  3. Providing animated at-grade uses such as retail and office directly associated with the self-storage use.  The building will be oriented towards Goulbourn Forced Road and include architectural treatment, that are generally compatible with other buildings in the vicinity of the site. 

 

Conclusion

 

The Planning and Growth Management Department recommends that the proposed Special Policy Area 3 for the Low Density Employment Area be amended such that the policy requiring a maximum ground floor area for a self-storage building is deleted.  The unlimited allowable ground floor area for the self-storage use is appropriate given the demonstration that additional retail will be added to the site contributing to the mix of uses at 280 Didsbury Road.

 

 

PART B – THE AMENDMENT

 

1.      Introduction

 

All of this part of this document entitled Part B – The Amendment consisting of the following text and the attached Schedule A constitutes Amendment No. __ to the Official Plan of the City of Ottawa.

 

2.      Details

 

The following changes are hereby made to the Site Specific Policies for the Kanata Town Centre in Volume 2-B of the City of Ottawa Official Plan:

 

a)      Section 5.7.5.5 Low Density Employment Area, is amended to delete the following subsection for the “Special Policy Area - 3:

 

Special Policy Areas – 3 – LDE 3, delete Policy ii “A maximum of one self-storage building with a maximum ground floor area of 2500m2”.

 

b)      Section 5.7.5.5 Low Density Employment Area is amended to change the title from Low Density Employment Special Policy Area 2 – LDE 2 to Special Policy Area 3- LDE-3.

 

c)      Section 5.7.5.5 Low Density Employment Area is amended to change the title from Low Density Employment Special Policy Area 3 – LDE 3 to Special Policy Area 2 - LDE-2.

 

d)     The numbering sequence of LDE 3 and LDE 2 shall be adjusted accordingly.

 

3.      Implementation and Interpretation

 

Implementation and interpretation of this Amendment shall be in accordance with the policies of the City of Ottawa Official Plan (2003).

 


OFFICIAL PLAN AND ZONING - 280 DIDSBURY ROAD

PLAN OFFICIEL ET ZONAGE - 280, CHEMIN DIDSBURY

ACS2010-ICS-PGM-0013                                                           KANATA NORTH (4)

(Deferred from the meeting of 12 January 2010/ Reporté de la réunion du 12 janvier 2010)

 

(This matter is subject to Bill 51)

 

A letter dated 8 February 2010 was received from Katherine Freeman, Canadian Tire Real Estate Ltd, and is held on file with the City Clerk.

 

Miguel Tremblay, Fotenn Consultants was present in support of the application.

 

That the Planning and Environment Committee recommend Council:

 

1.                  Approve an amendment to the Kanata Town Centre Site-Specific Policies in Volume 2-B of the City of Ottawa Official Plan to amend Special Policy Area 3 of the Low Density Employment Area for the property known as 280 Didsbury Road, as shown in Document 1 and detailed in Document 4.

 

2.                  Approve an amendment to Zoning By-law 2008-250 to change the Urban Exception 1412 provisions that relate to the property known as 280 Didsbury Road, as shown in Document 1 and detailed in Document 3.

 

                                                                                                CARRIED

 

 


 

            OFFICIAL PLAN AND ZONING - 280 DIDSBURY ROAD

PLAN OFFICIEL ET ZONAGE - 280, CHEMIN DIDSBURY

ACS2010-ICS-PGM-0013                                                           KANATA NORTH (4)

 

(This matter is subject to Bill 51)

 

A letter dated 11 January 2010 was received from Katherine Freeman, Canadian Tire Real Estate Ltd., requesting deferral of this item to allow for time to work with the applicant to resolve some outstanding issues.  A copy of this correspondence is held on file with the City Clerk.

 

Katherine Grechuta and Miguel Tremblay, Fotenn Consultants, were present on behalf of the applicant.  They expressed their agreement with the proposed deferral.

 

Moved by Councillor P. Feltmate:

 

BE IT RESOLVED THAT this item be deferred to the next Planning and Environment Committee meeting of February 9, 2009.

 

                                                                                                CARRIED

 

That the Planning and Environment Committee recommend Council:

 

3.       Approve an amendment to the Kanata Town Centre Site-Specific Policies in Volume 2-B of the City of Ottawa Official Plan to amend Special Policy Area 3 of the Low Density Employment Area for the property known as 280 Didsbury Road, as shown in Document 1 and detailed in Document 4.

 

4.       Approve an amendment to Zoning By-law 2008-250 to change the Urban Exception 1412 provisions that relate to the property known as 280 Didsbury Road, as shown in Document 1 and detailed in Document 3.

 

                                                                                                DEFERRED