Presentation to Ward 5

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Presentation to Ward 5
November 23, 2004
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Presentation Outline

• About the Department
• Planning for the Future
• Information on Growth
• Places to Grow and City Response
• Guelph Growth Plan
• Development Application Review Process
• Old University and Centennial Neighbourhhoods
  Community Improvement Plan (CIP) Status
• Shared Rental Housing Regulation Review -Status

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Mandate

• The Planning and Building Services Department is
  committed to promoting and guiding the planning,
  development and maintenance of a quality
  community through leadership, innovation,
  foresight and cooperative spirit.

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Corporate Business Plan Initiatives

• Communication/Outreach
• Community outreach and neighbourhood networking
• Develop/enhance relationships with industry
  partners
• Enhance department community profile
• Promote the department
• Integrate Planning and Building Divisions
• Enhance customer service delivery
• Provide customer feedback mechanisms
• Enhance website
• Improve access to services

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Our Purpose

• Planning Services
• To provide leadership and guidance on physical
  change (i.e. Official Plan)
• To manage growth and change (i.e. Zoning By-law)
• To retain Citys best qualities including
  environmental and heritage resources as it grows
• To ensure that new development contributes to
  balancing economic, social and environmental
  objectives.

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Our Purpose

• Building Services
• To ensure that new development and renovations
  meet the minimum health and safety requirements
  of the Ontario Building Code
• To enforce City by-laws that affect development
  (Zoning, Signs, Demolition) or that affect the
  health and safety of residents (property
  standards, standing water).

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Planning for the Future

• requires an understanding of how the City and
  its citizens are changing with respect to
• Population growth
• Demographic changes
• Transportation
• Economic conditions

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Growth of the City

• The land area of the City has expanded by 700
  since it was founded

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Growth of the City

• The land area of the City has expanded by 700
  since it was founded

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Growth of the City
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Growth of the City

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Growth Forecasts
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Growth Forecasts Summary 2001-2027

• 50,000 more people (including students) by 2027
  (168,000 people)
• 35,000 more people in 10 years
• In-migration accounts for ¾ of this growth
• 1/3 of population will be 55 - up from 20 now
• 20,000 more housing units required
• 12,000 singles, semi-detached
• 5000 town homes
• 3200 apartments

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Automobile Transportation

• Changes from 1996 to 2001
• Population Growth 10 increase
• Car Ownership 18 increase
• Number of Car Trips 25 increase
• Increased commuting patterns
• Increase in single occupant vehicles 5000 more
  trips/day

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Automobile Transportation
Commuting Patterns
1996
17 of all people working in Guelph came from
Waterloo Region, Puslinch and Guelph
Eramosa. 9.2 of Guelph residents commute to this
area
2001
20.7 incoming 9.9 exiting
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Automobile Transportation
Commuting Patterns
2001
1.4 commute north, 9.39 to GTA and 1 to
Hamilton
5.5 commute from north, 3.2 from GTA and 2
from Hamilton
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Economic Forecast Summary 2001-2021

• 20,700 new jobs
• 9500 industry
• 1900 corporate office/research
• 7700 commercial
• 1600 institutional
• Floor Area (sq. feet)
• Industrial 8.5 million 40 increase
• Commercial 3.7 million 48 increase
• Institutional 3.2 million 54 increase

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Growth Related Challenges

• Adequate Land and Servicing Capacity (15-20
  years)
• Efficient Transportation Networks
• Affordable Housing
• Balancing Residential and Business Development
• Impact on the Built and Natural Environment
• Impact on Municipal Financial Resources
  (providing new services and renewing existing
  infrastructure and facilities)

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Places To Grow

• The Provincial Places to Grow discussion
• paper is
• A preliminary Strategy to better manage growth in
  the GGTA over next 40 years
• Anticipates 4 million people will be added from
  Peterborough to Niagara and Kitchener/Waterloo
  and northerly to Barrie
• Considerable number will locate outside GTA proper

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Places To Grow- Response

• The City responded to Provinces request for
  comments on the Discussion Paper
• Advised of some of the implications of the
  document
• Suggested an approach to deal with implications
• The report response was not about whether City
  should grow or how

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Places To Grow- Concepts

• Direct Growth to Specific Nodes
• Urban Development Form
• Transportation Links - Transit First
• Infrastructure to Support Growth
• Economic Corridors and Clusters
• Implementation Measures

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Direct Growth to Specific Nodes

• Priority Urban Areas (11)
• Immediately Ready for Growth with Intensified
  Development Forms and Transit Corridors
• Emerging Urban Areas (15)
• Could become Priority Urban Area over time
• Future Growth Areas (5)
• Study areas to assess growth potential

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Response to Direct Growth to Specific Nodes

• Despite Emerging Area status Guelph will face
  long term development pressure given
• Geographic location
• Provincial growth projections
• Future major road networks

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Urban Development Form

• More efficient use of land in urban centres and
  greenfield developments
• Set a Regional standard of 40 growth through
  infill and intensification
• Strategic Directions
• Legislation, Regulation and Performance Standards
• Review Development Charges Act, Brownfield and
  Greyfield Financing Incentives, Capital funding
  for affordable housing, greenfield development
  standards

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Response to Urban Development Form

• Use the Greater Golden Horseshoe Area as the
  region for the 40 infill and intensification
  standard
• Local autonomy to establish Community specific
  infill and intensification standards which
  respect cultural heritage and neighbourhood
  character
• Greater clarity required in terms of Provincial
  density expectations
• Provincial funding incentives for brownfields and
  affordable housing.

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Transportation Links - Transit First

• Moving People
• Inter-Regional Transit no link between KW and
  Guelph
• Go Transit stops at Milton
• Moving Goods
• New Economic Corridor (Major Highway between
  K/W/Guelph and GTA)

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Transportation Concept
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Response to Transportation Links - Transit First

• Future Inter-Regional Transit Link between Guelph
  and GTA to be extended to KW
• Include GO Transit to Guelph as a priority
• Complete Hanlon improvements and northerly
  extension prior to developing the new economic
  corridor

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Infrastructure to Support Growth

• Strategic Directions
• Optimizing existing infrastructure
• Identification of strategic infrastructure
  investments on the basis of Priority Areas first
  and then Emerging Areas
• Coordinating infrastructure plans through a 10
  Year Strategic Infrastructure Investment Plan

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Response to Infrastructure to Support Growth

• Provincial funding should be available to assist
  both Priority Areas and Emerging Areas to
  undertake sustainability and capacity analysis as
  part of a local growth strategy.
• The document should include waste management.

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Economic Corridors and Clusters

• Strategic Directions
• Vibrant downtowns
• Recognition and investment in economic business
  clusters
• Potential fiscal tools

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Response to Economic Corridors and Clusters

• The document should recognize the bio-tech,
  agri-food and creative clusters in Guelph.
• Municipalities need as wide range of tools to
  support economic development as is possible.

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Implementation Measures

• Strategic Directions
• Regulatory Change
• Fiscal Tools
• Prioritized Provincial Investments
• Performance Measures

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Response to Implementation Measures

• Measures currently not well defined more detail
  in terms of how the strategy will be implemented
  and implications for municipalities is necessary.
• Further consultation with municipalities in
  defining the implementation parametres should
  occur both Regional Government and Separated
  Cities.

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City Initiatives - Action

• Begin the process of examining long term growth
  beyond the current 2021 horizon.
• Coordinate the necessary investigations forming
  the basis of a local growth strategy (sewer,
  water and transportation infrastructure, land
  capacity, updated population projections).
• Staff to come back with draft Terms of Reference
  for undertaking a local growth strategy.

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• Develop a broad local Growth Plan that
• Consider at least 30 to 40 years in future
• Develop details of how analysis will be
  undertaken
• Must undertake numerous investigations
• City has developed local principles that will
  form part of analysis Smart Guelph
• Study parameters to be debated and approved by
  Council before work starts
• Recognize importance of involving key interests
  early

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Public Consultation (Growth Plan)

• Public Consultation Process to be
• Inclusive (everyones view known)
• Objective analysis of issues/options
• Embody Guelphs Guiding Principles for Public
  Involvement
• Collaborative and cooperative
• Achieve a common understanding
• Define issues and solutions
• Terms of Reference in new year to Council

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Development Application Review Process

• Joint venture by Planning and Building Services
  and Engineering Departments
• Issues raised by development community and public
• Refocus on why we are providing the service
• Actions
• Stakeholder input on the various options in
  November 2004
• Meetings with public, developers, consultants and
  staff
• Final report with Recommendations to Council in
  December 2004

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Development Application Review Process

• Two of the broad topic study areas were
• Public Involvement Procedures
• Communications
• Need for enhanced communication with all
  stakeholders
• Suggestions Include
• Hold statutory public meeting earlier in planning
  process
• Publish Planning Reports earlier than now i.e.
  one to two weeks ahead of the meeting

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Old University and Centennial Neighbourhoods
Community Improvement Plan
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Old University and Centennial Neighbourhoods
Community Improvement Plan - Components

• Analysis of population, land uses, buildings,
  traffic patterns, infrastructure, parks and
  community facilities
• A concept plan to guide anticipated change in
  neighbourhood and conditions to be met
• Recommended changes to Official Plan, Zoning
  By-law, other regulations/guidelines
• Potential initiatives that encourage private
  sector reinvestment
• List of prioritized infrastructure,
  transportation, recreation and other community
  improvements

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Components of a Community Improvement Plan

• Based on Community Consultation, the
• overall draft strategy includes suggestions to
  identify
• Areas of stability where change will be limited,
  i.e. small intensification projects
• Appropriate areas where more moderate scale
  change is anticipated i.e. changes to zoning
  by-law
• Areas where heritage resources warrant higher
  level of protection i.e. through a Heritage
  Conservation District under the Heritage Act
• Discussions at Heritage Guelph
• Community support needed
• Provide a proactive response to change

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Next Steps

• By end of November a draft plan to Advisory
  Committee for discussion.
• By end of year, a draft plan to the public to
  enhance the quality, safety and stability of a
  community.

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Community Improvement Plan Connections
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Shared Rental Housing Regulation Review

• Common form of rental accommodation mainly
  associated with lodging houses and accessory
  apartments
• A review to address community identified issues
  and meet basic tests of
• Health/safety standards for tenants
• Generate land use regulations to promote
  community compatibility
• Create efficient/effective regulatory framework
  and enforcement
• Structure an administrative tracking system (for
  health/safety inspection)

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Public Consultation

• Involved a Community Stakeholder Advisory
  Committee to develop recommendations/changes to
• Current regulations
• Methods of administrative enforcement
• A staff Technical Advisory Committee discussed
  suggestions
• i.e. June 2004 Community Forum
• Developed alternative approaches
• Presented legal framework

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Public Consultation

• November 23, 2004, Advisory Committee is meeting
  to review solutions/develop options for
  recommendations pertaining to
• education
• regulations
• enforcement
• administration
• January 2005 Community Workshop to review
  recommendations with public
• Winter 2004 Recommendations Report to Council