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Okay, great. Well, welcome, everyone, and I just want to make sure that we've got a sound check here for councilor Furlong. You can hear me? Absolutely. Perfect. Thank you. And Councillor Davidson, you can hear as well. Yes, I can. Great. Thank you very much. And welcome, everyone, to our meetings this afternoon, our special council meeting today. First, we'll call the meeting to order and do our territorial acknowledgement. I would like to acknowledge that our gathering today is taking place in McMaggi.

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the traditional unseeded and ancestral territory of the McMaw people.

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I would also like to acknowledge that Nova Scotia has another unique people, the people of African

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descent, who's legacy in contributions date back over 400 years, predating

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confederation of this land.

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We are all treaty people.

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Included in the package is a number of items in the agenda.

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First we'll get a, we're going to proceed with the development agreement, synopsis,

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and Council Wells, you're going to take us through that.

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Thank you very much.

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So, development agreement, second reading of One Albion Street.

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The YMCA Commerland has applied for development agreement to permit the construction of a 36-unit residential development on the property located at One Albion Street.

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A public participation opportunity was held on March 30th, where verbal and written input was submitted, both in support for and in opposition to the proposal.

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The Planning Advisory Committee reviewed the revised proposal on June 1st, but failed

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to make a recommendation on the application.

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Our public hearing was held on July 8th, where verbal and written input was provided to

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counsel both in support for and in opposition to the proposal.

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The attached development agreement contains the terms and conditions intended to address

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the relevant policies of the Municipal Planning Strategy.

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this infill development addresses the high demand for affordable housing and would be located

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in a central location in the downtown core area. The motion is that council gives second reading

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of the development agreement for one Albion Street to permit the construction of a 36-unit

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residential development. Thank you. Do we have a second or further?

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Deputy Mayor? Second

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out. Thank you. Just before I call for question, I know I'd like to thank Councillor Furlong for

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For a number of clarifications that were provided to Council this week, and I think all of Council

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had received those and read through those very important points to make with respect

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to this development.

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Are there any other questions with respect to this motion?

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I'll share a comment, if I may.

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Absolutely.

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Go ahead, Councillor Ferdinand.

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Most of my questions were thoroughly answered by the Planning Department, so I very much

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Thank them for the the strong response and citing a lot of useful information to help us make our decision there.

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I am still a little unclear around policy 5.7 around amenity space.

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It uses the strong language that Council shall ensure adequate on-site amenity space.

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It doesn't say on-site space can be replaced or supplemented by parks or other off-site spaces.

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So, I'm a little unclear on how we meet, this proposal meets our policy and whether any

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exemptions need to be explicitly made in order to comply with that policy.

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Okay.

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I'm going to ask the CAO if you want to ask Andrew, you want to come up and just speak

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to that question and provide any clarification that you can.

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Thank

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you for the opportunity to answer the question.

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I guess ultimately that policy talks about ensuring that there's adequate amenity space.

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As I attempted to answer in the questions that Councillor for a long and post, I attempted

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to put that into context.

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First, there is 3250 square feet of outdoor amenity space on site.

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And I guess the other part would be if they did provide a 20 square foot balcony, which

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is not very big for each individual unit, that would satisfy the landies bylaw requirements.

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But I'll reiterate that under a developed agreement, those hard and fast rules of the

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land use by our negotiated.

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So I guess at the end of the day, there is over 3,000 square feet of outdoor amenities

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space on site and I guess our opinion that that is better than providing a six, a 20 square foot

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balcony for each unit. There's an opportunity to gather, to have perhaps a swing setter for

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children to play together in that in that common outdoor area. So in our opinion, I guess in staff's

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opinion that the intent of that to provide adequate amenity space is being met.

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Ultimately, it's Council's decision to make, whether that is adequate.

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Right.

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Okay.

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Council, for a long.

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Does that provide any further clarification for you?

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It helps.

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I'm a little on clear, the land use and the difference between the land use and our municipal

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planning strategies.

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So the policies 5.73s from the MPS, that's where the languages from from the Shell provide adequate on-site

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and many of these space. I'm a little on clear on

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the minimum, I think we talked about a six foot balcony space and the gap between 6 and 20 and if you do the math

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the the green space on the property is roughly eight

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so then I'm trying to close the gap here and I'm still a little on clear why

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by the minimum standards of the land use bylaw

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when the environment is coming from the NPS

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and just trying to cover my bases there.

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Would you like to respond to that, Andrew?

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I'll try.

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So the municipal planning, the development agreement

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must meet the intent of the municipal planning strategy policies.

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It is not required to meet the standards

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of the land use bylaw.

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So, if we were doing a different development that didn't require a development agreement,

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you would be held fast to the minimum requirements of the land use bylaw because the development

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is by a development agreement, those land use bylaw minimums are not a steadfast requirement.

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We rely on the intent of the policies and we use those requirements that might be relevant

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from the land use balla as a sort of measuring stick to evaluate the proposal.

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Okay.

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Would it be fair to say the adequate on-site square footage that we're using?

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That's coming from our land use bylaws, those numbers, the 20 square meters.

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Yes, the 20 square meters, the 20 square meters of outdoor manatee space requirement is from the land use bylaw.

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Which is what we're kind of saying as our baseline for adequate base give or take based on the attend of the MPS

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Correct

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Just to wrap up my thought there

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I'm good. That's pretty much it

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We talked about the traffic congestion in the area Andrew provided some some great

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Tangible stats on the current flow of the area the number of cars and how the

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Development would impact that my only question that the number you gave me

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about an expected increase of around 20 to 24, I forget what the term was, but that

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increase is that inclusive of service delivery vehicles, visitors and all that stuff, would

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that just be the residential impact of that 36 units going up and that's where we think

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the numbers would generate?

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But that's really a, that's kind of a generic plug-in, you know, what is a 36 unit apartment in a downtown setting using affordable housing with no public transit and 18 square feet of office space.

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So, if you kind of, like, literally, it's as simple if you Google that traffic manual,

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the traffic demand manual, and you put, you key in those conditions, that's the number

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it gives you.

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So, yeah.

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All right.

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That's all I have, I guess, I've been on the receiving end of policy where I thought I

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met the intent before, so just being a little extra cautious, I didn't get the results I wanted,

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So I just want to make sure I'm ensuring the consistency in the application of our policies is also.

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Thank you. Certainly understand. We'll thank the Council for a long. Are there any other questions?

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Councillor Wells, do you have a question?

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Oh, no. Sorry.

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No, okay.

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Everyone good, okay? I'll call for a vote. Now, all those in favor of the development,

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approval, please signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Those against?

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Aye.

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Okay. One nay. Two nays. Council for a long and councilor Ripley.

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The motion has passed. That completes our actions for today. Thank you very much, Council,

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for being here and folks for attending. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you,

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Councillors.