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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBy-law 5941/02PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM January 14, 2002 To: From: Subject: Bruce J. Taylor City Clerk Steve Gaunt Planner II Pickering Official Plan Amendment OPA 01-003/P (City Initiated) Zoning By-law Amendment Application A 19/01 (City Initiated) (to implement the Notion Road Land Use and Urban Design Study) Part of Lot .17, Concession 1 City of Picketing On January 14, 2002, Planning Committee will consider. Planning & Development Report PD 02-02 which recommends that: 1) Council approve City initiated Official Plan Amendment Application OPA 01-003/P to replace the Urban Study Area designation on the subject lands with a Mixed Employment designation, delete Policy '3.17 - Urban Study Area: Notion Road Industrial Area and add new policies to Section 11.11: Village East Neighbourhood in the Pickering Official Plan; and 2) that Council enact a draft by-law to adopt Amendment 7 to the Pickering Official Plan. The purpose and effect of this amendment is to permit a higher quality of mixed employment uses on the west side of Notion Road that is' more compatible with abutting residential development. Report PD 02-02 also recommends that Council approve Zoning By-law Amendment Application A 19/01 on the subject lands and enact a draft by-law to replace the existing "M1 -Light Industrial" zone with a new "MC-15" Mixed/Prestige Employment zone. The purpose of the by-law is to permit the development of a range of prestige and higher order mixed employment uses including related development standards along the west side of Notion Road. A. draft by-law for the enactment of Amendment 7 to the Pickering Official Plan (including Amendment 7) and a draft by-law to amend Zoning By-law 3036 have been prepared and are attached for the consideration of City Council at its meeting scheduled for January 21, 2002. The draft by-law to amend Zoning By-law 3036 was circulated to all property owners within the subject lands. A Statutory Public Meeting was held for these applications on October 18, 2001. Please note that these by-laws may be given all three readings at the January 21, 2002 Council Meeting provided Council adopts the recommendation of Planning Committee. If you require further assistance or clarification, please do not hesitate to contact me at extension 2033. I concur that this by-law be considered at this time: Dir'ecto~ing & Development SG/sm Attachments Steve Gaunt, Planner II FINCH AVENUE KINGSTON ROAD DRIVE PICKERING PARKWAY SI K£LLINO QUARTZ ST. BAYLY City of Pickering STREET BAYLY Planning & Development Department PROPERTY DESCRIPTION PART OF LOT 17, CONCESSION 1 OWNER CITY OF PICKERING DATE JAN. 8, 2002 DRAWN BY lB APPLICATION No. OPA 01-004/P; A 19/01 SCALE 1:7500 CHECKED BY SG FOR DEPARTMENT USE ONLY PN-9 PA- THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PICKERING BY-LAW NO. 5941/02 Being a By-law to adopt Amendment 7 to the Official Plan for the City of Pickering (OPA 01-003/P) WHEREAS pursuant to the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.p. 13, subsections 17(22) and 21(1), the Council of the Corporation of the City of Picketing may by by-law adopt amendments to the Official Plan for the City of Picketing; AND WHEREAS pursuant to Section 17(10) of the Planning Act, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing has by order authorized Regional Council to pass a by-law to exempt proposed area municipal official plan amendments from its approval; AND WHEREAS, the Region has advised that this Amendment is NOT exempt from Regional approval; NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PICKERING HEREBY ENACTS AS FOLLOWS: 1. That Amendment 7 to the Official Plan for the City of Picketing, attached hereto as Exhibit "A", is hereby adopted; That the City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to forward to the Regional Municipality of Durham the documentation required by Procedure: Area Municipal Official Plans and Amendments, to seek Regional approval of an Amendment to the Pickering Official Plan; 3. This By-law shall come into force and take effect on the day of the final passing hereof. BY-LAW read a first, second and third time and finally passed this 21 2002. day of January BRUCEJ. TAYLOR 5941/O2 Exhibit "A" to By=law AMENDMENT 7 TO THE CITY OF PICKERING OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT 7 TO THE CITY OF PICKERING OFFICIAL PLAN PURPOSE: LOCATION: BASIS: The purpose of the amendment is replace the Urban Study Area designation along Notion Road with a Mixed Employment designation on Schedule I - Land Use Structure, delete the related Urban Study Area: Notion Road Industrial Area text policy 3.17 of the Plan, and establish new Village East Neighbourhood policies to guide development and redevelopment, to implement the results of the Notion Road Land Use and Urban Design Study. The amendment-affects land located in Part of Lot 17, Concession 1, City of Pickering, adjacent to Notion Road, which includes lands on the west side of Notion Road, between Picketing Parkway and Kingston Road, excluding the south-west comer of Kingston Road and Notion Road. The areais approximately 5 hectares in size. This amendment to the Picketing Official Plan has been determined to be apPropriate following the completion of the Notion Road Land Use and Urban Design Study for- both lands in the City of Pickoring, and abutting lands in the Town of Ajax in the summer of 2001. The central issue is the land use compatibility between the existing heavy industry located on the Ajax lands, and the surrounding newer residential development in Picketing. The vision for the study is to facilitate the evolution of the Notion Road Area, over time, to a prestige employment area which is compatible with nearby residential development through new developments, redevelopment, and pride of current ownerships, in partnership with City and Town infrastructure investment. The Land Use objective for Picketing is to establish a land use that will allow new development that will be compatible with existing residential uses to the west while co-existing with existing heavy industrial uses to the east. Accordingly, a Mixed Employment designation is appropriate. The Land Use Objective for the abutting lands in Ajax is to establish a land use that will allow new employment development that is compatible with nearby residential uses that will co-exist with heavy industrial uses'until they cease operations at this location, while respecting the existing industrial operators. With this objective, Ajax Town-Council .amended the Ajax Official Plan to permit Prestige Employment uses on its study area lands with existing heavy industries permitted to remain, and expand in a limited manner subject to criteria. -2- ACTUAL AMENDMENT: The Pickering Official Plan be amended by: "1. Revising Schedule I - Land Use Structure by replacing the "Urban Study Areas" designation with a "Mixed Employment Areas" designation, as shown on Schedule 'A' to this amendment. 2. Deleting policy 3.17 - Urban Study Area: Notion ROad Industrial Area, which policy currently reads as follows: "3.17 City Council shall recognize as an Urban Study Area on Schedule I, lands located south of Kingston Road, along Notion Road, opposite an industrial area in Ajax, and, (~) shall consider eliminating the Study Area designation following completion of a land use and design study for the lands demonstrating that the proposed use, (i) is consistent with the goals, objectives and general purpose and intent of this Plan; and (ii) is compatible with the surrounding area given the area's location between residential lands in Picketing, and industrial lands in Ajax; and (iii) considering the results of the above study, shall establish, by amendment to this Plan, appropriate land use designations and policies." 3. Adding new policies to section 11.11 - Village East Neighbourhood Policies, as follows: "11.11 City Council shall, (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) recognize the transitional location of the lands on the west side of Notion Road between Iow and medium density residential land uses to the west and existing heavy industry to the east in the Town of Ajax, and further recognize the efforts of the Town of Ajax to upgrade the industrial areas to the east. Accordingly, City Council shall endeavour to, (i) improve the compatibility and design interface between existing residential, and existing and new employment uses established in Picketing adjacent to Notion Road; (ii) provide more direct accessibility for pedestrians from the residential areas west of Notion Road to the Duffins Creek valley to the east; and, (iii) generally upgrade the quality of the area by, o supporting improved public infrastructure such as upgraded urban standard paving, sidewalks, street planting, boulevard treatments, gateway treatments, transit facilities and burying electrical wiring; and, o supporting an improved stormwater treatment pond in Ajax; -3- (0 (g) despite Table 8 of Chapter Three*, not permit the establishment of any new automotive and vehicle sales and repair uses within the lands designated Mixed Employment Area adjacent to Notion Road, after the date this amendment comes into force; in order to ensure that development within the Mixed Employment Area on the west side of Notion Road is compatible with residential lands in Picketing and industrial lands in Ajax, require that the following design criteria be met in the development or redevelopment of properties: (i) consider protection for pedestrian pathways to the satisfaction of the City, to connect Marshcourt Drive to Notion Road at Beechlawn Drive and Bainbridge Drive, as a condition of development for abutting properties on the west side of Notion Road; (ii) provision of a continuous landscaped strip along the west property lines to contain fencing, plantings and/or berms in order to provide adequate visual screening for the existing residential dwellings; (iii) provision of loading and service areas at the side of buildings, not in the rear yards, unless suitable acoustical buffering and/or screening is provided for the existing residential dwellings; (iv) prohibition of outside operations or storage; (v) provision of a landscaped treatment along Notion Road to screen parking areas, loading areas and service areas from Notion Road in order to establish an attractive Notion Road streetscape; and, (vi)provision of screening for rooftop mechanical equipment so that it is not visible from residential dwellings to the west or from Notion Road." IMPLEMENTATION: The provisions set forth in the Pickering Official Plan, as amended, regarding the implementation of the Plan shall apply in regard to this Amendment. The Clerk shall renumber section 3 of the Official Plan following the deletion of section 3.17. INTERPRETATION: The provisions set forth in the Pickering Official Plan, as amended, regarding the interpretation of the Plan shall apply in regard to this Amendment. * A copy of Table 8 of Chapter Three is provided for reference at the end of this Amendment. It does not constitute part of the Amendment. Schedule 'A' ,ICH REDESIGNATE FROM ~)THER DESIGNATION~URBAN STUDY AREA" TO 'EMPLOYMENT ARF_A~MIXED EMPLOYMENT' -- PICKERING OPEN SPACE SYSTEM OFFICIAL PLAN EDmON2 ~~s^c~ .~c.~o~ MIXED USE AREAS LOCAL NODES I COMMUNrFY NODES I MIXED CORRIDORS I DOWNTOWN CORE REGIONAL NODES I R EGIOI'~AL NODE 1 IREGIONAL NOD~ ~' LAND USE STRUCTURE IMmXE~ EMPLOYMENT OTHER DESIGNATIONS URBAN RESIDENTIAL AR~S I URBAN STUDY ~REAS LOW DENSITY ~ ~;i.~ S~TON UR~ ~DY RU~L S~LEMEN~ ~ ~P~ IRU~ CL~T~ IRU~ ~ EXTRACT FROM THE PICKERING OFFICIAL PLAN For Reference'purposes only; does not ~onstitute part of the Amendment CITY POLICY TABLE& Emp/oym~t A~ar: PoT'aisdbk Us~$ By Subc. aUgory Manufacturing, assembly, processing of goods, service industries, research and development facilities, warehousing, storage of goods and materials, waste transfer and recycling, waste pm.ce,sing, freight transfer, transportation facilities, automotive and vehicle sales and repair; Offices as a minor component of an industrial operation or serving the area, limited personal service uses serving the area, restaurants serving the area, retail sales'as a minor component of an industrial operation; CommHnity, cHltutal and recreational uses, and other uses with similar performance characteristics that are more appropriately located in the employment area. Light manufacturing, assembly.and processing of goods, light service industries, research and development facilities, warehousing, equipment and vehicle suppliers, automotive and vehicle sales and repaY;, Offices, corporate office business parks, limited personal service uses serving the area, restaurants serving the area, retail sales as a minor component of an industrial operation, hotels, financial institutions serving the area; Community, cultural and recreational uses, and other uses with similnr performance characteristics that ate mote appropriately located in the employment area. ,! All uses permissible in prestige employment areas; Limited retailing of goods and services serving the area. t