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We're good. 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.

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Perfect. Thank you. And councilor Davis and you can hear as well.

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Yes, I can. Great. Thank you very much. And welcome everyone to our meeting afternoon, our special council meeting today.

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First we'll call the meeting order and do our territorial acknowledgement. I would like to acknowledge that our gathering today is taking place in McMoggi.

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the traditional unceded and ancestral territory of the McMot people.

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But also like to acknowledge that Nova Scotia has another unique people, the people of African descent,

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whose legacy and contributions date back over 400 years predating

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confederation of this land, where 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, um, we're going to proceed with the development agreement synopsis and council

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wells.

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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 Carverland has applied for development agreement to permit the construction of a 36-unit

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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

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

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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 the

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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.

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The motion is that Council gives second reading of the development agreement for one Albion

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Street to permit the construction of a 36 unit residential development.

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Thank you. Do we have a seconder for that?

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Deputy Mayor?

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Seconder?

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Thank you.

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Just before we call for a question, I know I'd like to thank Council Firmlong for

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a number of clarifications that were provided to Council this week.

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I think all of Council had received those and read through those.

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Very important points to make with respect 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, Councilor Furong.

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Most of my questions were thoroughly answered by the Planning Department.

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So I very much thank them for the strong response and

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citing a lot of useful information to help us make our decision there.

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I am still a little on clear around policy 5.7 around a

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minority space.

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It uses the strong language that Council shall ensure adequate

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on-site of an empty space. It doesn't say on-site space can be replaced or supplemented by

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parks or other off-site spaces. So I'm a little unclear on how this proposal meets our policy

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

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

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question and provide any clarification that you can.

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Thanks for the thanks for the opportunity to answer the question.

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I guess ultimately the policy talks about ensuring that there's adequate

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amenity space.

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As I attempted to answer in the questions the Council are for a long and

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I attempted to put that into context.

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There is 3250 square feet of Outdoor Humanity Space on site.

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

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which is not very big and they for each individual individual unit.

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That would satisfy the land use by law requirements.

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But I guess I'll reiterate that under a development agreement,

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those hard and fast rules of the land use by law are negotiated.

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

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many space on site in, I guess, our opinion that that is better than providing a 20-square

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foot balcony for each unit, there's an opportunity to gather to have perhaps a swing

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set or for children to play together in that common outdoor area, so in our opinion,

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I guess

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

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Right. Okay. Council, for a long-deserved, provide any further clarification for you?

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It helps. A motor long-clear, the land use in the difference between the land use and

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our municipal planning strategies. So the policy is 5.73 from the MPS. That's where the

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I'm a little on clear on the minimum, I think we talked about a 6 foot balcony space and the gap between 6 to 20 and if you do the math,

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the green space on the property is roughly 8.

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So then I'm trying to close the gap here, I'm still a little on clear, why the minimum standards of the land use by law,

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when the the verbiage is coming from the NPS 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 must meet the intent of the

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municipal planning strategy policies.

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It is not required to meet the standards of the land use by law.

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

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development agreement, you would be held fast to the minimum requirements of the

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landies by-law. Because the development is by a development agreement, those

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landies by-law, minimums are not a steadfast requirement. We rely on the intent

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of the policies, and we use those requirements that might be relevant from the

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wait for the proposal. It would be fair to say the adequate on-site square footage that

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we're using. That's coming.

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Or land use by laws, those numbers, the 20 square meters?

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Yes, the 20 square meters, the 20 square meters, about dormant space requirement, is from the land use by law.

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Which is what we're kind of saying at 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

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glad that's pretty much it. We talked about the the traffic congestion in the area and you're provided some some great

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

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development would impact that. The only question that the number you gave me about the next expected increase of around 20 to 24

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I forget what the term was, but that increase is that inclusive of a service delivery

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vehicles, visitors, and all that stuff, would that just be the residential impact of that

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36 units going up, and that's where we think the numbers would generate.

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That's really a, that's kind of a generic plug-in, you know, what is a 36 unit apartment in

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down town setting using affordable housing with no public transit and 18 square feet of

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office space. So if you kind of like literally it's a simple, if you Google that that

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

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number it gives you. So, okay. Yeah.

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All right.

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That's all I have

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I guess. I've been on the receiving end of policy where I thought I'd

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

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results I wanted, so I just want to make sure I'm ensuring the consistency in the

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application of our policy is also. Thank you. Certainly understand. Well, thank you

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council for a long. Are there any other questions? Council, well, do you have a

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That's all.

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Everyone good.

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I'll call for vote.

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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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Those against.

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One nague.

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Two nays.

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Councilor Furlong accounts, though, quickly.

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The motion has passed.

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That completes our actions for today.

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Thank you very much council for being here and folks for attending.

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Meet you.

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Meet you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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The answers?