Barrie councillors have meetings on not one but two evenings this week.
Today (Oct. 1), affordability committee is scheduled to meet in the Council Chambers at 6 p.m.
There is but one item on the agenda, and it’s a doozie.
It’s a public meeting to review the application to repeal and replace the current Zoning By-Law 2009-041 with the proposed new comprehensive city-wide zoning bylaw.
A zoning bylaw is a tool used to implement the policies of the newly approved City of Barrie Official Plan 2051.
This key document controls the use of land, buildings and structures, across all property within Barrie.
The zoning bylaw shows where buildings may locate on a property, how they can be used and what form they can take — for example, detached house, mid-rise, etc.
Meetings continue the next night.
On Wednesday (Oct. 2), the city’s infrastructure and community investment committee is scheduled to meet, beginning at 5 p.m., again in the Council Chambers.
Committee members will consider a motion that the sport tourism strategy, funded by the Canadian government through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, be endorsed in principle.
Also that in partnership with Tourism Barrie, a sport tourism working group be established to execute on the recommendations and actions identified, and report to the infrastructure and community investment committee.
At 7 p.m., Barrie city council is scheduled to meet in the Council Chambers.
Krista Marie Potestio Sina of St. Peters Catholic Secondary School will be sworn in as Barrie’s student mayor, the first of city council’s fall session.
Council will consider final approval to a motion that the city enter into a five-year agreement with the Rinomato Group of Companies to defer payment of development charges until the time of building occupancy — instead of when building permits are issued, with standard interest charges being applied three years after building permits are issued — for its industrial/commercial property at 80 Big Bay Point Rd., called the Bayview Point Commercial Centre.
Council will also consider final approval to a motion to rezone 242 Edgehill Dr., so three street townhouses with attached garages can be built there. The rezoning is from residential single detached dwelling second density to residential multiple dwelling second density – townhouse, with site-specific provisions. This variance would permit an increased gross floor area of 85 per cent, whereas a maximum of 60 per cent is permitted.
