Notice of Public Meeting: Amendment to the Zoning By-law for 339 Veteran's Drive and 341 Veteran's Lane

Date Published

_Re: Amendment to the Zoning By-law and Draft Plan of Subdivision Applications – Sean Mason Homes (Veteran's Lane) Inc.,339 Veteran’s Drive and 341 Veteran’s Lane,.

TAKE NOTICE that General Committee will hold a Public Meeting on:

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.

City Hall Council Chamber

70 Collier Street, Barrie

TAKE NOTICE that the Corporation of the City of Barrie is in receipt of complete applications as of Monday, November 11, 2019 for a proposed Amendment to the Zoning By-law and Draft Plan of Subdivision.

Innovative Planning Solutions, on behalf of Sean Mason Homes (Veteran's Lane) Inc., has submitted complete applications for an Amendment to the Zoning By-law and Draft Plan of Subdivision for lands located at 339 Veteran's Drive and 341 Veteran's Lane.  The property is legally described as Lot 1, Registered Plan 1200 and Part of Lot 5, Concession 13, Geographic Township of Innisfil, now City of Barrie, and is located within the Holly Planning Area. 

Open House

Immediately prior to the Public Meeting, an Open House will be held in the City Hall Rotunda from 5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.  Planning staff, the applicant and/or their consultant will be available to discuss the application and review the proposed plans. The Open House is drop-in style with no formal presentations.  No decisions on the proposal will be made at the Open House or the Public Meeting.

About the applications

The lands are designated Residential Area in the City of Barrie Official Plan and are currently zoned Residential Hold (RH) and Residential Single Detached Dwelling First Density (R1) in accordance with Zoning By-law 2009-141.  The owner has applied to amend the current zoning of the property to Mixed Use Corridor with Special Provisions (MU2)(SP), to permit the development of a 57-unit residential block/cluster townhouse (33 units) and 4-storey walk-up apartment (24 units) development. The Special Provisions (SP) relate to a reduction to the minimum required front, side and rear yard setbacks, an increase to the maximum permitted side yard setback, a reduction to the minimum required street level floor height, a reduction to the minimum required landscape buffer areas, a reduction to the minimum required size of a parking space, and reductions to the minimum required exterior side and front yard setbacks associated with accessory structures, specially decks, for the proposed units.

Concept plan.

For more information including meeting cancellation notices due to inclement weather and copies of plans, please visitingWard 6 atbarrie.ca/Proposed Developments

Share your views

Anyone can attend the meeting to share their views about this matter; however written submissions are encouraged and should be directed to Legislative & Court Services by Tuesday, September 3, 2019.

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at the public meeting or make written submissions to the Corporation of The City of Barrie before the Draft Plan of Subdivision and Rezoning is passed:

a)  The person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of the Corporation of The City of Barrie to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal ; and

b) May not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal unless, in the opinion of the Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to do so.

All information including opinions, presentations, reports and documentation provided for or at a Public Meeting are considered public record. This information may be posted on barrie.ca and/or made available to the public upon request. Questions about this collection should be directed to the undersigned.

For more information or to be notified of Council's decisions in respect to this application please contact:

Carlissa McLaren, Senior Planner

705-739-4220, Ext. 4719

Carlissa.Mclaren@barrie.ca

Planning and Building Services Department

City of Barrie

70 Collier Street, P.O. Box 400

Barrie, Ontario, L4M 4T5