CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES

That the Planning and Environment Committee confirm the Minutes of the Meeting of 28 May 1996.

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ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ITEMS

1. ROBERT O. PICKARD ENVIRONMENTAL CENTRE

DIGESTER GAS COGENERATION FACILITY

- Environment and Transportation Commissioner's report dated 21 May 96 01

That the Planning and Environment Committee recommend Council approve:

1. The establishment of a Cogeneration Facility Capital Project at the Robert O. Pickard Environmental Centre in the amount of $3,800,000;

2. The transfer of funds in the amount of $3,800,000 from the Sewer Capital Reserve Fund.

2. REGIONAL CORPORATE REVIEW - ENVIRONMENT AND TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT (ENVIRONMENT SECTION)

- Planning and Environment Committee Co-ordinator's report dated 29 May 96 03

That Planning and Environment Committee and Council receive this annex for information.

PLANNING ITEMS

3. TOWNSHIP OF GOULBOURN COMPREHENSIVE OFFICIAL PLAN

- Planning and Property Commissioner's report dated 28 May 1996 07

- Annexes I, II, III and Schedules issued separately

That the Planning and Environment Committee recommend Council approve the new comprehensive Official Plan of the Township of Goulbourn subject to the Modifications and Deferrals noted in Annex I, the Approval Page.

4. AMBERLAKES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

DRAFT PLAN OF SUBDIVISION 06T-93018

TOWNSHIP OF GOULBOURN (STITTSVILLE)

- Planning and Property Commissioner's report dated 28 May 96 39

(deferred from Planning and Environment Ctee. meeting of 23 Apr 96)

That the Planning and Environment Committee recommend Council:

1. Request the Ontario Municipal Board to impose the draft plan of approval conditions attached as Annex II to Amberlakes Development Corporation's Draft Plan of Subdivision 06T-93018 should the Ontario Municipal Board choose to approve Draft Plan of Subdivision 06T-93018 as well as the Township of Goulbourn's Official Plan Amendment No. 121 and Zoning By-law 26/94; and

2. Direct Regional staff to appear before the OMB on the above-noted matter to represent Regional Council's interests.

5. TOWNSHIP OF OSGOODE COMPREHENSIVE OFFICIAL
PLAN - PARTIAL LIFTING OF DEFERRAL NO. 8 -
PROPOSED CARL AND MARY MOORE SUBDIVISION
(PART OF W 1/2 LOT 1, CONC. 6)

- Planning and Property Commissioner's report dated 24 May 96 64

That the Planning and Environment Committee recommend that, as stipulated on the Approval Page attached as Annex A, Council lift Deferral No. 8 to the Township of Osgoode Official Plan insofar as it affects Lot 1, Concs. 5 and 6, and approve instead a designation of "Marginal Resource".

6. RESPONSE TO THE REPORT OF THE

WETLANDS WORKING GROUP

- Planning and Property Commissioner's report dated 29 May 96 68

- Planning and Property Commissioner's report dated 29 Apr 96 and Extract of Minutes of Planning and Environment Committee meeting of 14 May 96 issued separately

(Referred to Planning and Environment Committee by Council at its meeting of 22 May 96)

That the Planning and Environment Committee recommend Council approve the following:

1. That staff be instructed to prepare a new draft Wetlands Regional Official Plan amendment (ROPA 61) for circulation;

2. That draft Regional Official Plan amendment 61 be circulated to all agencies and interest groups and to all landowners impacted by the Provincially Significant Wetlands Policy;

3. That the Region not adopt or implement a policy to provide flexible methods to purchase, acquire and receive lands or to compensate owners of Provincially Significant Wetlands;

4. That all Provincially Significant Wetlands evaluated and classified by the MNR be designated in draft ROPA 61;

5. That draft ROPA 61 include an identification of economic and productive uses permitted within a wetland;

6. That the Region not initiate a remapping program of Provincially Significant Wetlands;

7. That draft ROPA 61 be based on Council's existing Official Plan approach to delineating floodplains that is, to determine the extent of the wetlands Council will have regard to maps that delineate the wetlands prepared by the MNR, and in conjunction with the MNR, will consider other information, such as the results of an Environmental Impact Study, as may be pertinent;

8. That draft ROPA 61 identify when, and what type of Environmental Impact Study is required, to support development applications;

9. That draft ROPA 61 indicate that proponents requesting development approval under the Planning Act continue to be responsible for the provision of an Environmental Impact Study, or its equivalent.

7. REGIONAL CORPORATE REVIEW - PLANNING AND PROPERTY DEPARTMENT

- Planning and Environment Committee Co-ordinator's report dated 29 May 96 71

That Planning and Environment Committee and Council receive this annex for information.

INQUIRIES

OTHER BUSINESS

INFORMATION PREVIOUSLY DISTRIBUTED

Staff Report: Economic Trends and Their Implications for Ottawa-Carleton

- Planning and Property Commissioner's memorandum dated 15 May 96

Grants to Agencies

- Planning and Property Commissioner's memorandum dated 23 May 96

Overview of Ecological Field Studies

- Planning and Property Commissioner's memorandum dated 27 May 96

ADJOURNMENT