Grand Ba Bay-Westfield Municipal Pla lan Update Public Hearing March 9, 2020
AGEN ENDA: • Why We Are Here: Legislative Process Overview • Your Municipal Plan • What We Did • What We Heard • Where We Are • Municipal Plan Highlights • Legislative Process Update and Next Steps GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
YOUR MUNICIPAL PLAN GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
WHAT WE E DI DID: Summer/Fall 2019 December Background Prepare for Document Policy and Engagement Legislative Drafting Drafting Research Process GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
WHAT WE E DI DID Public and Stakeholder Engagement: July 15 – PAC July 24 – Public Open House (2 session) – 80 participants; Stakeholder Meeting #1 June to November - Online Community Survey – 96 Responses June to December – Online Engagement Website – 2128 visitors/680 unique users GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
WHAT WE E HEARD THE COMMUNITY ASKED FOR THEIR PLAN TO: • Support and encourage sustainable development by means of environmental protection and climate change mitigation strategies; • Support and encourage specialized/group care facilities and various forms of housing that encourage aging in place; • Support the expansion and densification of the commercial and institutional footprint of the Town by offering strategic and flexible development opportunities; • Support comprehensive recreation and leisure policies to capitalize on existing and future public space and amenities; • Support the possibilities for various modes of transportation and connectivity throughout the Town; and • Add clarity to the Town’s development process. GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
WHER ERE WE E ARE ARE Dec Jan Feb - Dec 9 Jan Feb April Dates 10 8 March 30 Day Public Hearing Decision Council Public Council Refer Minister’s Comment PAC Point Presentation to PAC Registration Period 1 st & 2 nd (Initiate 30 Reading day Comment Period) 3 rd Reading GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
WHER ERE WE E ARE ARE Dec Jan Feb - Dec 9 Jan Feb April Dates 10 8 March 30 Day Public Hearing Decision Council Public Council Refer Minister’s Comment PAC Point Presentation to PAC Registration Period 1 st & 2 nd (Initiate 30 Reading day Comment Period) 3 rd Reading GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
MUNICIPAL PLAN HIGHLIGHTS GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
UPDATED VI VISI SION “The Town of Grand Bay – Westfield is a dynamic community and fosters an enhanced quality of life displayed through our beautiful public spaces, healthy active lifestyle, and growing amenities and services. Recognizing we are sensitive to the effects of our changing climate and environmental needs to the Town, we will continue to make and attract investments that support sustainable growth; all while maintaining our values and principles as an inclusive community of friends. ” GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
INTENSIFICATION ARE AREAS • APPROACH: IDENTIFIED NEED: • Focus growth in areas with existing • Measured approach that plans for the services to allow for the Town to needs of all residents while accommodate more dense development encouraging growth and ageing in patterns. place. • Balance between fiscal responsibility and innovative, modern approaches to • Provide a framework / rationale for future manageable and appropriate density. infrastructure updates or improvements. • Create a series of intensification areas based on the sanitary servicing boundary and areas identified for targeted development (residential and commercial). GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
SER SERVICE BOUNDARY MAP AP GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
COMMERCIAL AN AND INDUSTRIAL INTENSIFICATION GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
RE RESI SIDENTIAL INTENSI SIFICATION GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
RESI RE SIDENTIAL HOUSING TYPO YPOLOGIES APPROACH: IDENTIFIED NEED: • Encourage the development of townhouses and • Increased diversity of housing types. row houses through policy and updates to zoning bylaw. • Allow for multi-generational living and ageing • Encourage new residential subdivisions to use a in place. variety of housing types, promoting smaller lot size and efficiency of services (policy and advocacy). • Identify residential infill opportunities. • Position appropriate areas for multi-unit, larger format housing. (Mixed use potential) • Affordable housing in all formats. • Identify areas where large single family conversion to multi-unit would be appropriate. • Affordable seniors housing. • Direct secondary and garden suites to be permitted in all residential zones through updates to the zoing bylaw. GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
EN ENVIRONMENTAL POLI LICY : : CLI LIMATE CHANGE - FL FLOODING IDENTIFIED NEED: APPROACH: • Adaptive strategies to flooding to minimize • Incorporate the direction of the Town’s damage to existing development. Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan into municipal plan policy to provide consistency and legislative weight. • Flood mitigation to prevent new development and infrastructure from risks • Direct a framework for minimum building associated with flooding. elevation and criteria for analysing future applications including proposed variances • A minimum building elevation. to any future standard. GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
COMMERCIAL AN AND MIXED USE SE DE DEVELOPMENT – Col. ol. Nas ase IDENTIFIED NEED: APPROACH: • Increase development on Col. Nase. • Create the foundation for a complete community through mixing institutional, residential, and commercial uses. • Increase provision of goods and services to residents of the Town and traveling public. • Use existing infrastructure to focus development. • Identify areas for mixed use. • Aligning policy direction with sustainability • Identify areas for larger developments like goals and foundational principles of special care facilities, big box retail, education community planning to allow for fiscally facilities, etc. responsible development. GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
COMMERCIAL AN AND MIXED USE SE DE DEVELOPMENT – Riv River Valle alley Dr Dr. IDENTIFIED NEED: APPROACH: • Allowing River Valley Dr. to evolve from a • Define a mixed used corridor on the traditional residential land use pattern to a ‘commercial’ area of River Valley Dr. mixed use corridor to respond to existing pressures in the area. • Provide framework for mixed use within the zoning bylaw that avoids spot re-zonings. GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
INDUSTRIAL DE DEVELOPMENT IDENTIFIED NEED: APPROACH: • Define types and intensity of industrial uses to allow for green energy, cannabis production, • Grow the tax base by allowing for appropriate and non-offensive, light industrial uses. industrial and energy land uses. • Identify an ‘industrial intensification area’ to • Respond to new and emerging industries. centralize the types of uses identified above. GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
LEGISLATIVE PROCESS UPDATE & NEXT STEPS GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
Leg Legis islative Ado Adoption Proc ocess ss Dec Jan Feb - Dec 9 Jan Feb April Dates 10 8 March 30 Day Public Hearing Decision Council Public Council Refer Minister’s Comment PAC Point Presentation to PAC Registration Period 1 st & 2 nd (Initiate 30 Reading day Comment Period) 3 rd Reading GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
Leg Legis islative Ado Adoption Proc ocess ss Dec Jan Feb - Dec 9 Jan Feb April Dates 10 8 March 30 Day Public Hearing Decision Council Public Council Refer Minister’s Comment PAC Point Presentation to PAC Registration Period 1 st & 2 nd (Initiate 30 Reading day Comment Period) 3 rd Reading GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
30 30 DAY COMMENT PER ERIOD RE RESU SULTS • 1 written submission • Westfield Golf and Country Club • Requesting land use designation change to align with potential development plans
Propo oposed Chan Changes fr from om 30 30 Da Day y Comm Comment t Per erio iod • Incorporation of the Zone B and Zone C buffers for the Loch Alva Protected Watershed Area; • Regulatory conformity to reflect new provincial Wetland and Watercourse Mapping (as of Jan 1 2020); • Text change to include “Westfield Golf and County Club” in Parks and Recreation section; • Parks and Recreation Designation ‘snapped’ to the physical golf links; • Residential Intensification extended to capture services along Country Club Drive and reasonable extension of those services on lands adjacent to the Golf Course
th 2019) ber 9 th Gener Ge eral alized ed Futur ure e La Land nd Us Use e Ma Map p (Dec ecembe 19) Strategic Policy Approach Overview
th 2019) ber 9 th Gener Ge eral alized ed Futur ure e La Land nd Us Use e Ma Map p (Dec ecembe 19) Strategic Policy Approach Overview
Leg Legis islative Ado Adoption Proc ocess ss Dec Jan Feb - Dec 9 Jan Feb April Dates 10 8 March 30 Day Public Hearing Decision Council Public Council Refer Minister’s Comment PAC Point Presentation to PAC Registration Period 1 st & 2 nd (Initiate 30 Reading day Comment Period) 3 rd Reading GBW Municipal Plan Public Hearing
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