Growth Plan (2019) and Municipal Comprehensive Review / Conformity Exercise Requirements

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The decision

2019-10-15 · Planning and Housing Committee · amended

As filed

The Planning and Housing Committee: 1. Requested the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to report in the first quarter of 2020 to the Planning and Housing Committee on a work program and associated timing for the completion of the required Growth Plan conformity exercise. 2. Requested the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to include in the work plan report back on the required Growth Plan conformity exercise a review of Official Plan policies relating to improved design standards under the policy area four: "developing environmental policies".

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3. Directed the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to prioritize the study of the Keele-St. Clair area including lands around McCormack Street where lands are designated as Employment Areas and are not identified as a Provincially Significant Employment Zone as part of the upcoming review in order to enable the potential unlocking of the lands in the vicinity of the Smart Track/GO Kitchener line and planned station located in the area of these lands.

On the agenda

As the city filed it

On May 16, 2019, the Province brought into effect A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, 2019 ("Growth Plan (2019)"), for which all planning matters are required to conform. This new Growth Plan replaces the previous Growth Plan (2017). The Places to Grow Act, 2005 requires that official plans must be amended to conform to the Growth Plan by a specified time period. In 2017, the Minister of Municipal Affairs directed that by July 1, 2022 official plans be brought into conformity with the previous Growth Plan (2017).

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With the release of the new plan in May 2019, a new conformity date was not set. It is staff's understanding that the City's Official Plan must be brought into conformity by July 1, 2022. This report highlights the policy areas contained within the Growth Plan (2019) that will be addressed through a Municipal Comprehensive Review (MCR). Staff will report in the first quarter of 2020 to the Planning and Housing Committee on a detailed work program, resources and the associated timing for completion of the next MCR.

Staff recommended

The Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning recommends that: 1. Planning and Housing Committee request the Chief Planner and Executive Director, City Planning to report in the first quarter of 2020 to the Planning and Housing Committee on a work program and associated timing for the completion of the required Growth Plan conformity exercise.

On the record

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