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2. OFFICIAL
PLAN AMENDMENT - 3730, 3738 AND 3746 INNES ROAD
MODIFICATION
AU PLAN OFFICIEL – 3730, 3738, 3746 CHEMIN INNES
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Committee recommendation
That Council endorse modifications to the Official Plan to redesignate 3738, 3746 and part of 3730 Innes Road from Employment Area to Arterial
Mainstreet and Urban Natural Features, as shown on Document 1 and detailed in
Document 2.
Recommandation du Comité
Que le Conseil appuie les modifications au Plan
officiel afin de changer la désignation des 3738 et 3746, et d’une partie du
3730, chemin Innes de secteur d’emploi à artère principale et à
caractéristiques naturelles urbaines, tel qu’il est indiqué dans le document 1
et expliqué en détail dans le document 2.
Documentation
1.
Deputy
City Manager's report Planning,
Transit and the Environment dated
02 February 2007 (ACS2007-PTE-APR-0074).
Report
to/Rapport au :
Planning and Environment Committee
Comité de l'urbanisme et de l'environnement
2 February 2007 / le 2 février 2007
Submitted by/Soumis par Nancy Schepers, Deputy City Manager /
Directrice municipale adjointe,
Planning, Transit and the Environment / Urbanisme, Transport en commun
et Environnement
Contact Person/Personne ressource : Karen Currie,
Manager / Gestionnaire, Development Approvals / Approbation des demandes
d'aménagement
(613) 580-2424, 28310 Karen.Currie@ottawa.ca
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SUBJECT: |
OFFICIAL PLAN amendment - 3730, 3738
and 3746 Innes Road (FILE NO. D01-01-07-0003) |
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OBJET : |
MODIFICATION AU
PLAN OFFICIEL – 3730, 3738, 3746 CHEMIN INNES |
REPORT
RECOMMENDATION
That the recommend Council endorse modifications to the Official Plan to redesignate 3738,
3746 and part of 3730 Innes Road from Employment Area to Arterial
Mainstreet and Urban Natural Features, as
shown on Document 1 and detailed in Document 2.
RECOMMANDATION DU RAPPORT
Que le Comité
de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement recommande au Conseil d’appuyer les
modifications au Plan officiel afin de changer la désignation des 3738 et 3746,
et d’une partie du 3730, chemin Innes de secteur d’emploi à artère principale
et à caractéristiques naturelles urbaines, tel qu’il est indiqué dans le
document 1 et expliqué en détail dans le document 2.
BACKGROUND
This report is being advanced in response to the disposition of the Planning and Environment Committee Report 56-A, approved by City Council on 25 October 2006, which deals with the re‑designation of the subject lands.
In December 2003, Emparrado Corporation filed one of 85 appeals to the City’s Official Plan. The relief sought by Emparrado was generally to permit retail uses with the Employment Area designation.
This appeal was one of approximately 25 appeals
with respect to the retail and intensification policies of the Official
Plan. The City and Appellants engaged
in a series of facilitated sessions with respect to these appeals. Council adopted Official Plan Amendment 28
in July 2005 in response to these discussions and negotiations. Emparrado Corporation has also appealed
Official Plan Amendment 28.
Emparrado, through its appeal of
the Amendment, requests that the Arterial Mainstreet designation located along
a portion of Innes Road be extended 610 metres west to include the frontage
along their lands so that they may be developed for retail uses. The extension of the designation will affect
two other properties that are located at 3738 and 3746 on Innes Road. This designation promotes a mixed-use
corridor mainstreet with a wide range of goods and services for the surrounding
communities. The land use is compatible
with existing large-format retail developments on the south side of Innes. The residential community of Chateau Neuf is
located north of Innes Road.
The
Emparrado lands encompass an area of 23.5 hectares spanning a distance of
approximately 1100 metres between Innes Road and the Hydro Corridor. Within this parcel is a 9.19-hectare woodlot
that is rated moderate by the Urban Natural Area Environmental Evaluation
Study.
The City, through discussions with Emparrado,
has negotiated the re-designation of the woodlot area and extension of the
Arterial Mainstreet designation to include the portion of the property fronting
on Innes Road. Therefore, the woodlot
will be protected and the Employment Area designation will remain in effect on
the rest of the site in exchange for the withdrawal of their appeals to
Official Plan Amendment 28 and the Official Plan itself.
The Official Plan Amendment will re-designate a section of the lands from Employment Area to Urban Natural Features and Arterial Mainstreet. The lands re-designated Urban Natural Features encompass the woodlot that the City wants to protect. The Arterial Mainstreet designation will apply only to the area fronting on Innes Road and extending to a depth no greater than 475 metres, for the Emparrado lands, excluding the Urban Natural Features area.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS
As discussed above, the Urban Natural Areas Environmental Evaluation Study rates the Innes Park Wood (UNA#87) as moderate in environmental value. The Innes Park Woods is recommended for protection based on environmental value and planning status. The Provincial Policy Statement and the City's Official Plan also contain policies concerning the protection of natural features. The designation of the woodlot as Urban Natural Features will ensure that this site is identified in the Official Plan as protected in the long term from commercial development pressure.
CONSULTATION
The Ward Councillor is aware of this application and the staff recommendation. Emparrado Corporation is aware of this report and concurs with this approach and recommendation. As a negotiated proposal and being a matter before the Ontario Municipal Board, no public consultation is required.
FINANCIAL
IMPLICATIONS
The previous
report to Committee and Council dealt with the financial implications of the
land exchange.
APPLICATION PROCESS TIMELINE STATUS
This application was processed by the "On Time
Decision Date" established for the processing of Official Plan
modification applications.
SUPPORTING
DOCUMENTATION
Document 2 Proposed
Official Plan Modification
DISPOSITION
Corporate Services Department, City Clerk’s
Branch, Secretariat Services to notify the owners of the subject lands,
Emparrado Corporation, 190 Lisgar Street, C/O Shenkman Corporation, Ottawa,
Ontario K2P 0C4, Mr. Arthur Laurent
Parisien, 3738 Innes Road, Orleans, Ontario K1C 1T1, Mr. Richard Parisien,
3746 Innes Road, Box 467 RR 2, Gloucester, Ontario K1C 1T1, applicant, City of
Ottawa, 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1J1, Ghislain Lamarche,
Program Manager, Assessment, Financial Services Branch (Mail Code: 26-76) of City Council’s decision.
Planning, Transit and the Environment Department to prepare the by-law adopting the Official Plan Amendment, forward to Legal Services Branch, and undertake the statutory notification, if required.
Corporate Services Department, Legal Services
Branch to seek modifications from the Ontario Municipal Board hearing of April
23, 2007.
LOCATION MAP DOCUMENT
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PROPOSED OFFICIAL PLAN MODIFICATION DOCUMENT
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Part A – The PREAMBLE
The purpose of this modification is to
re-designate 3738 and 3746, and a portion of the property known as 3730 Innes
Road from “Employment Area” to “Arterial Mainstreet” and “Natural Urban
Features”.
LOCATION
The lands affected by this modification are legally described as Part of lots 2 and 3 Concession 3 City of Gloucester. The lands are known municipally as 3730, 3738 and 3746 Innes Road and are located on the south side of the Innes Road, west the Belcourt Boulevard extension.
BASIS
The proposal to re-designate a portion of the subject lands from “Employment Area” to “Arterial Mainstreet” and “Natural Urban Features” to allow the property to be developed for large format retail uses with the protection of a woodlot located within the boundaries of the site. The proposed land use is consistent with policies related to Arterial Mainstreet and Natural Urban Features outlined in the Official Plan.
Part B – THE MODIFICATION
1.0 INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT
All of this portion of the document entitled Part B – THE MODIFICATION, and attached map designated Schedule ‘A’ constitutes the modification.
2.0 DETAILS OF THE MODIFICATION
The Official Plan is modified as follows:
Volume 1, Schedule B of the City of Ottawa Official Plan is amended so that the properties fronting on the south side of the Innes Road, to west of the Belcourt Boulevard extension, to the north of the Hydro Corridor, and 610 metres west of the existing limit of the Arterial Mainstreet Designation Road, are proposed to be re-designated from “Employment Area” to “Arterial Mainstreet”. In addition, lands designated “Employment Area” are re-designated to “Natural Urban Features”. These changes are as outlined in Schedule “A” to permit large format retail development and protect a woodlot located on the site, respectively.
Notwithstanding the policies outlined in Section 3.6.3 of the Official Plan, the following new policy is added to become Section 3.6.3 subsection 12: For the lands known municipally as 3730 Innes Road, the Arterial Mainstreet designation shall extend no greater than 475 meters from Innes Road.
