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all right good evening everyone welcome
to uh council's meeting after our summer
break we thank you all for being here
Council welcome back I'll call the
meeting to order at 700 p.m. I'll read a
land acknowledge statement as visitors
on this land the town of Bradford
acknowledge is that the land on which We
Gather today is the traditional
territory of the schic nation which
includes ojibway oatawa and pami Nation
collectively known as Three Fires
Confederacy we recognize the hon wand
Chipawa and hinoni Nations have walked
on this territory over time in times of
great change we recognize more than ever
the importance of honoring indigenous
history and culture and are committed to
moving forward in the spirit of
reconciliation respect good health with
all First Nation matey and Inuit people
thank you adoption of the agenda
recommendation that the count regular
Council agenda dated August 6 2024 be
adopted as a amended may I have a move
in a second for this please move by
councelor dyy second by councelor F
Genie question concerns with the
agenda seeing none all in favor carried
thank you declar interest and the
general nature so if you have that uh
you can declare now or if the issue
comes up and you recognize you have a
peun interest let us know then seeing
now this time we'll move
forward there are no presentations we're
at number four there are no
presentations for tonight so I think now
we can uh move into the public uh
information meeting so the application
for proposed zoning bylaw Amendment so
I'll convene the meeting at
7:01 uh 5.2 the introduction and purpose
of the meeting so this meeting is a
statutory public meeting held pursuant
to section 34 of the planning act to
discuss amendments to zoning bylaw 2010-
050 the town has received applications
that have been deemed complete under the
planning act and is therefore required
to hold this public meeting as part of
the application review process comments
presented at this public meeting are
being recorded by staff personal
information is being recorded according
to the municipal Act and the municipal
uh Freedom of Information and protection
of privacy act questions regarding the
collection and use of personal
information should be directed to the
clerk if a person or public body would
otherwise have an ability to appeal the
decision of council to the land to the
Ontario land tribunal but the person or
public body does not make an oral
submissions at the public meeting or
make written submissions to council
before decision is made on the proposal
that person or public body is not
entitled to appeal the decision to the
tribunal and may not be added as a party
to the hearing of an appeal unless in
the opinion of the tribunal there were
are reasonable grounds to do so so under
5.3 the public information meeting it is
owner Karen Mills Car of Tom Mills agent
land Pro planning Solutions Inc uh so
it's address 4023 line 3 part of lot
three concession 2 planning file number
D14 d
24-1 zoning bylaw planning report the
planning staff will now present the
contents of the staff report please note
that the application being presented by
staff represents the applicant's
development proposal the presentation by
staff will contain an update on comments
received to date and does not include a
recommendation on the proposal Town
staff will provide a report at a later
date which will also reflect and
consider the public comments made during
this public meeting and written
submissions received before the report
is written so I will turn over to our
planning staff
Priscilla it's over to
you good evening Council and members of
the public thank you for attending this
evening's public information meeting
regarding the zoning bot Amendment for
4023 line 3 next slide
please in today's presentation we'll be
looking at the purpose of the public
meeting
the posting and distribution of Public
Notices details about the subject
property and application a summary of
the comments as well as concluding
remarks and the next steps next slide
please the purpose of the public meeting
today is to introduce the applications
proposal to council and to the members
of the public to invite questions as
well as to seek input once an
application is deemed complete it is
required by the planning act to hold a
public information meeting currently
staff is in a process to write a
detailed review of The Proposal and
Council will not be making a decision
tonight the result of the public meeting
will be reviewed alongside the comments
received through the circulation process
and once a comprehensive review has been
completed a recommendation will be
provided to council if anyone is
interested in providing comments or
receiving notification regarding this
application
please send an email to plan toown of
bwg
docomo address next slide
please as per the ponic act it is
required to put public notices regarding
um a public information meeting a
signage was erected on the property on
July 18th and it was published in a
Bradford today and on the town's website
on July 15
distribution um as per a council
resolution the notice was dist
distributed within 200 met of the
property and allowed for 36 residents um
Property Owners to receive the notice
and this was also done on July 15th next
slide
please in terms of the application the
town has received an application for
zoning B amendment to support the
following proposed development which
includes Event Center short-term
accommodations Farmers Market horse barn
Archer processing building livestock
Barn as well as a garage Workshop the
application was submitted by Mal Michael
Sullivan of lro planning Solutions Inc
on behalf of the owner Karen Mills and
the application was deemed complete on
July 12th next slide
please the cic property is located north
online 2 south of line 3 East of Road 27
and west of canel Road and the site area
is
3976 hectares the applicant describes
the area to be used as a farm with the
occasional Farmers Market as well as
Event Center the surrounding property
consists of agricultural properties and
there is also estate residential on the
west west side next slide
please the following is the extra
provided for the site plan from the
applicant so there's two rectangles
demonstrated here the blue one as well
as the green within the blue one is the
proposed location for the livestock the
horse barn the short-term rental will
consist of five tiny homes and semi
trilers ranging in size from 40 square
met to 165 Square met and the orchard
processing building which is about 140
square m the green um rect jingle
located Below in the center of the
property will consist of the event Barn
which is about 495 sare M the farmers
market 740 Square me as well as the
garage
Workshop additional parking driveway
aisles laneways will also be added
throughout the proposal to access the
proposed uses throughout the blue and
the green rectangles the combined total
of existing and proposed parking space
will result result in 13 7 parking
spaces consisting of two barrier-free
space and two loading
spaces next slide
please the following slides is an
extract of the official plan where the
red outline represents the property this
is located outside the Bradford urban
area and is designated as Rural and
agricultural it permits a range of uses
inclusive but not limited to
agricultural uses agricultural Rel lat
uses as well as on Farm Diversified
uses next slide
please this is an extract of the zoning
bylaw where the property is seen to have
three zones the top is agricultural the
middle section Marsh Agricultural and
the lower half lower section natural
heritage system too The Proposal is
identified within the AG agricultural as
well as the marsh agricultural section
where agricultural uses are permitted
such as the proposed livestock barn and
horse barn the prop the area however
does not permit for short-term
recommendation an event center as well
as farmers market and Orchard processing
building the proposed development um as
the proposed development is not
permitted a zoning bout amendment is
required next slide
please the following is what the
applicant is proposing there is two
except Ops the first is for the
agricultural area um as it is in
addition to the agricultural users
permitted it would also allow for the
event venue as well as short-term
accommodation next slide please you'll
see that the other exception added is
for the marsh agricultural um it permits
a a Varity of uses as mentioned
previously and would also allow for the
event venue farmers market and
short-term accommodation next slide
please the subject application was
circulated to internal Department as
well as external agencies on J July 12th
um the following are the current
agencies that show there was no
objection in addition since that time we
received comments from the town of bwg
um development engineer advising they
had no concerns as well um a few
correspondents were receiv receives from
the public from neighboring properties
inclusive of w fman m wock St babber a
andb Hearn as well as gr Gardens and
helping pan Food Bank have provided
support for the development
proposal and there is also one
neighboring resident C mon Monaco has
brought about concerns about the event
center and short-term accommodation
identifying that permitting these uses
would result in the potential loss of
Prim agricultural lands in the future
additionally it was requested that clear
definition be provided for short-term
accommodations and daily operations of
the event center and Archer Processing
Unit be assessed by determining the
noise traffic and orders
generated next slide
please to close um for any members of
the public interesting to hear to
provide comments or to receive
notification when the application will
be considered to coun please send an
email to plan at toown of bw.com the
owner's representative and agent is in
attendance this evening and will be able
to answer any questions the council may
have on the application um at this point
in time I would like to invite the
representative and agent to introduce
themselves and add any comments
following um following this the floor
will be open to questions um thank you
for
listening okay thank you so thank you
for for for that we will now ask the
applicant to come up and uh present if
you'd like you have anything to add to
that
presentation hi there I'm Mitchell Baker
I'm planner with L Pro planning
Solutions uh we do have a couple of
slides here um however firstly I just
like to thank the staff for uh preparing
the staff report and providing a
thorough overview uh for us so I'll try
to keep this short and simple um next
slide
please so this is the subject property
as as mentioned it is located west of
Highway 27 uh east of Highway 400 uh and
about Northwest of Canal Road uh next
slide
please so just to give some some
background information on this uh
application uh this was initially bylaw
Enforcement issue um back in mid 2021 uh
and with the following direction of
planning staff and the building
department we then attended a
pre-consultation meeting uh and then we
we prepared several studies and
submitted the required uh
applications uh which were then then
deemed incomplete and then we we went
back and revised them uh to include
several other studies including a
functional servicing report a storm
water management report uh traffic
impact study um all in support of the
application uh this formal application
was submitted back in uh June uh which
which leads us to today and then uh
following this would be the council
meeting with a decision uh next slide
please so as as mentioned the existing
zoning is agricultural with an
agricultural Marsh and then the the
about southern third of the property is
a natural heritage 2 Zone uh we're
proposing uh the the same zones just
with site specific exception to uh
permit various agricultural related and
on-farm diversified
uses uh including an event venue um an
occasional farmers market and uh Orchard
with a small processing facility to
mainly to process the vegetables um on
site for the farmers market and and
event
venue uh next slide
please uh so today we haven't received
any any comments from the the general
public however we we do uh look forward
to addressing any comments that come up
today uh and I know that the owner owner
applicant uh Tom is is here as well um
to add a few quick words as well
thanks well thank you
Council I so yeah it may be a little
over personal but I grew up at 4023 um
yes that's me on the moer and uh was
born raised there and um have
appreciated that next
please my grandfather Sinkler Mills
bought the property from the Brandon
family in the mid 1930s yes if you've
been to our property that was the house
uh mid
1900s um we've done some upgrades since
next
please I'm the S seventh generation of
Mills that have farmed raised a family
and created a livelihood and uh
community in this town uh and my
children will be the eighth that's uh
that's us there on the
screen next
please the Mills the brandons the
brandons who originally were on the 4023
the Mills Farm was just across the road
of the Mills the brandons and many other
families settled on the third line
having immigrated from F Mana County
Northern Ireland in the mid 1800s and as
from this history and to celebrate this
Heritage that we chose the name for Mana
Farms I mentioned this history to
indicate that my Heritage and connection
to this town and Community is long and
deep my family has been here for a long
time and I anticipate that to be our
future
next my uh my parents my L my late
father Ron and my mother Karen who is
here with today believe that we are to
be stewards and caretakers of what we
have inherited the land the work of our
forbears the opportunities and I seek to
build upon this he farmed
organically believing that was the right
way to take care of the land my late
brother Alec had a similar vision and
his son and my nephew Ian continue in
that to farm on the property next
please the barn in my my uh in Ron's
latter years he would look at the barn
on the property as in the picture there
and say to me we need to do something
about the barn or it'll fall down one
day he was indeed correct of course uh
but being a bank Barn it had little uh
modern use in modern farming um it was
really just serving as storage at that
point there was no economic case to be
made to invest in or repair the barn
when the Ontario fit solar program was
announced we saw an opportunity to
install solar on the roof thanks to a
previous council's decision to support
rooftop solar installation our barn
gained a new economic lease on life we
repaired the barn and added to it to be
part of our 60 kilowatt green solar
energy that's generated from our
farm next please
um it's important to note that in this
economic environment on Farm Diversified
uses as in our application is a critical
way in which our farm and possibly many
others can remain economically viable
without having to sell to property
investors or others and from my
perspective this is an important aspect
to the makeup of Bradford rurales uh
rural
culture next
please uh the barn that was repaired and
added to and had the solar added to in
2014 is the same Barn that now is the
center of more opportunity and with this
property reasoned will allow us to fully
utilize a property at the core of our
vision statement where we exist to give
people the opportunity to connect and
celebrate with those important to them
the environment that sustains them and
the spirit that created
them next
please in an increasingly Urban world
people are looking for connection to
Nature and experiences in Open Spaces
and in covid you know during the winter
of 2020 a woman and her daughter uh
stayed at one of our short-term rental
spaces after pulling her vehicle out of
the snow which she got itself into we
talked for a minute and she started to
cry she told me that she was living in a
condo in Mrs Saga feeling like her and
her daughter were locked up and this was
an opportunity to get out and make a
snowman next
please we've heard similar stories from
couples simply enjoying our Forest
Trails during their weekend away next
please uh or the couple having invited
uh friends and family to come celebrate
their wedding day with their ceremony
among the trees and their reception in
the barn the property the barn the
structures are all the building blocks
to set the stage for all of these next
please the Mills have been building
community over the generations the Mills
help build and maintain the United
Church and dun Karen our nearby Hamlet
at County Road 27 and third line from
Community guard gardening to helping
neighbors with snow plowing Farm help
and more our family has been a constant
presence on the third line looking for
ways to engage and help our neighbors we
saw an opportunity for the farm to serve
as a Connecting Point for our immediate
community Through neighbor meetups and
potlucks next
please we connect to the larger
Community through our biannual farmers
and vendor Market these markets bring
together neighbors people from Bradford
plus tourist dollars from near and far
it's also given us the opportunity to
raise money and collect for the Brad
helping hand food bank it's about the
interpersonal connections the
environment and the economy all coming
together and it's about the families fun
and kids and jumpy castles it's um it is
at these markets where I've appreciated
the opportunity to meet up with a number
of you next
please as a business we have made
intentional decisions to support our
local fellow businesses we promote and
offer products uh from our neighbors
Ernest cider and Hollow Marsh Wier our
short-term stays of advertisements and
coupons for local restaurant including
the 1812 Grill House Down the Road in
brick and fire and when the hotels are
complete at Highway 488 in Walmart we
will welcome the opportunity to partner
with them for
accommodations next
please we see an incredible future um
for our family and our farm here in
Bradford and we thank you for helping
make this
possible thanks so much no thank you
thank you for the history on this it was
wonderful to hear that so uh thank you
for being a Seventh Generation and
looking forward to the eighth generation
coming soon to farming okay so this is
the uh Public Presentation now so I'll
ask uh if you gentlemen want to go sit
and I'll ask the members of the public
or now invited to address Council and
provide any comments and any questions
ask questions please provide your name
and speak directly into the microphone
every resents have prepared a written
submission that they are reading from
please submit it to the clerk upon
completion of your presentation uh so I
will now invite the public up to see if
anybody would like to comment on this uh
application
so state your
name uh my name is Ron weening I'm also
a resident on the third line right at
the intersection of Fifth Fifth Side
Road and uh third line I've lived on the
road for almost 60 years not quite but
and have known the mills for that entire
time and and absolutely fully endorse
what they are proposing have been to the
event center a couple times for uh
funeral and just some neighborhood
Gatherings and uh have no objections
whatsoever would love to see it go
forward thank you Ron for those comments
appreciate that I will ask other members
of the public to step up state your
name good evening my name is David
gangle I live on the property just to
the east of of Tom um as a neighbor Tom
is a very hospitable um Tom and his
family very hospitable to us they've
invited us over we've been to his
facility many times we fully endorse uh
whatever um Direction he would like to
take the property I think it's an
excellent opportunity to ensure that
both the agricultural aspect and as well
as bringing the community together in a
multicultural multifaceted way is the
way to go um and so we look forward to
uh to his success in the future with
regards to that thank
you and thank you for those comments
appreciate that I'll ask further
representatives in the public if they'd
like to comment further on this
application I will call a second time uh
for further comment from the
public and I'll call a third and last
time all right seeing no further
comments from the
public uh there was no questions for the
public so Council now you're invited to
ask questions so I uh open up the
council mayor
Sandu thank you your
worship I want to begin by
thanking Miss Lan and and the
applicants consultant for the
presentation and Mr Mills your
presentation as the mayor said it's it's
really good to see that the farming is
passed on generation to generation ation
when especially times like this people
are getting out of farming and and for
obvious reasons and and you
need other options to carry on where you
can carry on the agriculture side of it
but
also earn a living through something
else and and I'm supportive of that I do
have um two questions for clarification
in the presentation it was mentioned
occasional Farmers Market how does one
decide
when you're going to have a farmers
market or or what drives that
occasionally is it going to be every
weekend or is it going to be once a
month what drives that second one I have
is about the short-term accommodations
um short term is what a night um so you
you're encouraging people not to drink
and drive and they can stay over or
short term is people renting week at a
time and it it becomes like a hotel type
of thing um other than that I'm I'm in
favor of uh what you're looking to do
but I do have these two
concerns so I can invite the applicant
back up uh if you want or you can
address all the questions at once it's
you might as well sit there if you're
gonna you can address these two
questions right now if you'd like to
Sir thanks for the questions currently
the uh the markets are a annual thing
spring and a fall market
um straight up I haven't considered more
than that um
uh
the yeah um at this point I think we're
probably going to limit it to a it's not
going to be a a constant thing um at
this point we'll probably limit it to I
would say once a month at the most but
current ly it is a biannual thing spring
and
fall oh yes the short-term rentals um
your question around that is what's the
definition of short-term uh so uh for us
it uh it ties in with the wedding event
space yes absolutely people um often
times the couple getting ready that kind
of thing and then stay in the night um
we also make it available uh through
other shortterm uh rental platforms um
that uh and that is as people book it
does that answer the
question ex thank you I will ask Council
F next to comment questions thank you
thank you very much for the presentation
thank you for coming today um I've been
to your place I've got to see the
farmers market I enjoyed it uh went to
an event there um and enjoyed that as
well uh from what I see from what you've
presented I like everything on here the
uh we have approved event centers on
other agricultural pieces so I don't see
an issue with that especially the way
that I've seen it being run um and then
the extra pieces that you were asking
for the orchard processing that all ties
into agricultural so I have no issues
with that I think it's great I think
it's a great idea the way that you're
utilizing your farm and it's bringing
people there I do have issues with the
short-term accommodation I'm not sold on
that we have I don't think we have
anything that's uh any other
agricultural land that has requested
that I know with accessory dwelling
units there are trying to use that in
urban areas right now and the province
is working on actually extending that to
rural areas and it may come to a point
where you can put a couple of units on
your property but do they do we really
need to give permission for ex for uh
short-term accommodations because this
sounds like an Airbnb to me if somebody
comes and they want to book it for a
weekend or whatever the case may be
that's what it sounds like from your
presentation so it sounds like an airbm
to me which we've we've had issues with
but as stated in Zoning for an
Agricultural piece I do have an issue
with that I can't support that part of
it everything else I absolutely love but
I feel that
supporting uh a short-term rental in the
zoning aspect of your property opens the
floodgates to any other agricultural
land who may want to do the exact same
thing so again with the Airbnb part I'm
not sure how that would work or even if
you have to ask for that um but those
are just my comments on
it okay thank you for your comments I'll
turn it over to councelor verik and I've
got councelor Harper and Jano
next yeah I I don't really have any
questions just to comment that I totally
support this
application uh I live one line north of
the third line uh I've known the family
for a long time and uh I've had a chance
to spend some time there and I totally
support this um even the short-term
accommodation because I think it Blends
well with the wedding aspect of it and
uh it adds more just more economics to
it okay thank you for those comments
I've got councelor Harper next and then
councelor jordano and then councelor
dke well thank you for the presentation
um had a bit of a chuckle there and you
said what shortterm is is as much as
they book it I like that um you know
what if we had a lot of hotels and
tourism popping in here I'd be totally
against but we don't so um you know
you're obviously going to be in charge
of your own land and you know taking
care of uh you know care and control of
people that do come to there with strict
rules so you know what it's uh you
buyers remorse buyers would beware
really so you know it's to your own
property the only question I do have is
is that would you have to implement any
type of fire code um you know
Renovations and stuff to meet certain
requirements right now is that something
that uh is already in place or do you
know of that needs to be um amended no I
understand so we are currently working
with fire department um and uh working
with them as part of the building
process um to address any concerns that
they have and obviously nothing would
move forward until all that was be would
be met I
guess yes um in communication with fire
they are satisfied that we are good cool
perfect that's uh it for me thanks so
much for bringing us
forward thank you for those questions uh
councilor
jordano all right thanks for the
presentation um couple questions or
maybe some clarity on the short-term
rental
um structures I think there was a
mention earlier in the first
presentation that it could be trailers
as well as some additional structures
can you maybe just clarify what type of
buildings or are they you know multiple
unit dwellings or they individual
trailers or tiny homes scattered
throughout the property just a little
more clarification on that please sure
understand uh so
um so initial short-term rentals are
part of structures that are already on
the property uh any further um um
short-term rentals would be in the form
of a tiny house that kind of that type
of structure um on wheels something to
that effect uh located and I know the
site plan's not up there
but have you been to my if you've been
to my property um long Lane way up the
long laneway there's a bit of a forested
area uh by the fields these would be
located by the forested area I know
there was a uh a point made about uh
farming property and so forth we're not
taking uh farming agricultural land out
of use um to accommodate these they are
back to my point originally people like
getting into the middle of nowhere like
connecting with nature and that's kind
of what we're we're we're bringing these
connecting
with okay no it's great great answer so
here here's my concern with the
additional structures or or I guess the
short-term rentals is that you've got
fantastic
contentions if there's other property
owners that don't have those same
intentions and they use this as a case
study to turn around and just start
slapping trailers everywhere and housing
people or putting like I I'm okay for
adus in farming you know uh in in
agricultural areas I think that's a
great idea and a great alternative my
concern is that does this set a
precedent if if we open up this in this
area for for allowing anybody or anybody
else to make the same applications
without this the great intentions that
you have so that that'd be my only
reservation I you know like to talk a
little bit more about it and then my
other question or comment and this one's
uh when we spoke I guess I think it was
last year the last time we we had a
conversation uh which really touched me
was your your generational living on the
property and having a an additional home
for let's say your children to live
within the property is that still on the
table or is that a future consideration
as well because you know at the end of
the day having the multiple Generations
living on the one property something I
would definitely like to support I'm
just curious about how that all fits
into this
sure
um yes that that could be my children on
the property in in some way shape or
another um we're still figuring that out
or they're still figuring that out uh
we're all still figuring that out
um I'm sorry I know that doesn't fully
answer your
question could you ask it again what
does
it so if in the future you were to come
forward with an application to either
subdivide the lot or add an additional
dwelling unit for
you know right a member a member of the
family or uh you know how does that
affect what we're looking at here to
because I know that that was a big that
was a big consideration in the past when
we spoke
sure so the short-term dwelling units or
the that we have proposed that is again
for a short term um and we don't have
other plans to do another living
structure on the building on the
property all right thank you for those
questions I have uh councelor d
I just want to say thank you for the
presentation adding that personal in the
history of your family on the land are
really uh it's really nice to see
because you know you have the drive you
have the investment you're bringing
investment to our community and as you
showed our hotels and our local
restaurants and the and the restaurants
in the area you know we have lot lots to
be thankful here in our in our community
we have these Farms are gorgeous farms
and and a lot of people come up from the
city and they're you they're blessed to
have that opportunity to have a wedding
there and I know the van Luke's on the
13th line have quite a few they're
pretty well booked all summer and I'm
glad there's other venues that can bring
people to our community and it promotes
our community but provides a great venue
for for weddings and and being in as
somehow related to that industry the
wedding industry it's it's we're lucky
that we can offer something in our
community so I just want to see a great
presentation from your consultants and
the problems when they when when we see
these documents is very dry but to see
the personal and and the aspect of it
really adds to the presentation I want
to thank you both thank you thank you
for those comments I've got councelor
Scott
next I'll be really quick I just wanted
to say I think first and foremost it's a
beautiful property and you shared a
wonderful family heritage story and your
plans make a lot of sense to me they're
contained to what you think is
manageable and I think we can point to a
lot of uh similar examples whether in St
Jacobs or Prince Edward County even a
few in innisville where there's a little
bit of a short-term rental to
accommodate the wedding and a bit of
agriturism and I love diversifying more
streams of income for our farm so I I
think this sounds like a home run to me
and thank you for the presentation to
present it tonight thank you all right
thank you for those comments any further
all seeing none at this time Mr Mills I
want to thank you number one for
following through in the application
since 2021 you've been working towards
us I know it's timec consuming costly
the whole bit and I thank you for doing
that uh this is going to be an
opportunity for many families to
celebrate enjoy not only weddings
farmers markets and short-term rentals
because you know what I absolutely
support that also I I've seen your
property I've seen the the housing style
uh i' I've been able to go through the
markets I think it's fantastic it's what
our community needs it's a it's an
excellent opportunity I can tell you
right now my son came to me and he said
Dad we got to buy some property up north
he said I'm telling you we just have to
put ccans on there he said people are
rending it for 300 bucks a night and I
said what a great business opportunity
so you're on the right track and I think
it's an excellent opportunity and I and
I'll tell you many families will come
and and enjoy that because you are right
by the nature you'll see the you know
You' got the foret area and everything
so beautiful beautiful setup I I look
forward to uh having this report come
through from counsil from our staff and
and moving this forward because I think
you you've caught a great idea there so
thank you so much for following up on
this appreciate that further comments or
questions from Council
all right seeing none we're going to
move on further Action Council will not
make a decision on this matter tonight
but receive the staff report for
information the matter will be referred
back to staff for further recommendation
report at a later date I recommendation
Council that the report pln 2024 d37
titled public information meeting
application for zoning bylaw Amendment
4023 line 3 D14
d241 for the lands legally described as
part of lot three concession 2 be
received and that the comments received
in writing and or made at the public
meeting be received and that the office
of the community planning consider the
matters raised and address the same in
its future report move by councelor Kik
second and by councelor Scott all in
favor carried thank
you all right followup it is recommended
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I will now adjourn the public meeting it
is 8:39 or 7:39 sorry I'm getting ahead
of myself wow I was almost ready for
bed all right recommendation of the
public planning meeting hereby adjourn
at 7:39 moved by dep mayor Sandu and
seconded by councelor farini all in
favor carried thank you we'll reconvene
the uh public meeting the our regular
meeting at 9 or 7 oh my
god let's go
7:40 I'll be in bed before you know it
all right deputations I have 7.1 storm
water utility funding strategy ilmar
you're
up and Andrew Kerr thank you so
much thank you to you uh my worship and
counselors here tonight we are here to
speak to the strategy for your uh storm
water funding program and this is a
project that was kicked off in July with
your staff and we're here to give you a
quick update next slide
please so what is a storm water funding
strategy the storm water utility funding
strategy will accomplish four objectives
review current and potential future
costs for maintaining a sustainable
storm water system recommending a
funding levels and Reserve targets for
long-term
sustainability engaging the community on
Alternatives impacts and benefits while
considering feedback back and
concerns and assessing and recommending
funding Model A funding model that will
be fair affordable and simple to
understand and
deliver next slide
please why have a storm water funding
strategy Asset Management as defined by
the town's Asset Management plan and the
corresponding targets for levels of
service are what Drive the funding
requirements for
sustainability compliance with
regulatory requirements uh related to
storm water management are also a
priority the Consolidated linear
infrastructure Environmental Compliance
approval document as issued by the
ministry of environment is what the town
will use to outline its requirements for
storm water systems including operations
and maintenance and long-term
sustainability of those assets cost
Effectiveness to identify required works
early on rather than be reactive to
major problems a proactive plan
including annual programs and funding is
more effective than a complaint-based
system flood mitigation as well to
prepare for more frequent intense storm
events the recent event of this last
summer July 16th where the city of
Toronto experienced a nearly 100
millimeter storm event which is
equivalent to a one in 100-year storm is
something that we're seeing more
frequently and that we need to be
prepared for as well public health and
safety protection from pollutants and
effects of unmaintained pipes ponds
catch basins
Etc and resilience to impacts of climate
change and protection of the
environment next slide
please what does the town's Community
consist
of in looking at the community profile
there are essentially four categories of
uh characteristics in the community the
Halland Mars Community which is large
controlled and managed by the drainage
act to ensure that the storm water
systems and uh water levels are
controlled and maintained the urban
communities which are are conventional
communities with cross-sections uh with
sidewalks with culverts or sorry with
sidewalks and um Urban sections that
rely on storm water collection and pipes
to distribute them and bring them to
collection systems and storm water ponds
for discharge these urban communities
are more tense and land use is more uh
more active and there's more risk of
flooding and then the rural communities
are areas where we have ditches and culs
and larger spaces but also need for
moving the water that's collected both
from the private lands as well as along
the roads and rights away and then the
Bradford Highland farming lands are the
areas that are outside of the March but
are also farmed in these areas that may
not need direct uh water management or
drainage act requirements but will still
need to be included in a storm water
management
system our assets are based on five
classes that's based on your asset
management Plan and there's a total of
about $1.1 billion in assets of which
177% or1 184 million doar represent the
replacement cost for your storm water
systems this will require funding in the
long term both for maintenance and
replacement and ultimate
expansion next slide please
so next steps for the study as we
initiate is to continue with data
collection and
Analysis complete our community outreach
program which includes web promotion and
online surveys uh our our first
Community engagement Public Information
Center number one which is planned for
the latter part of
September and a second engagement
session would be in the latter part of
November
2024 as well as the evaluation and
Community feedback considerations and
discussions based on the information we
gathered from those sessions as well as
interviews with staff and
Council once we consider all the final
feedback and look at the evaluation of
the various alternatives for funding and
for cost distribution as well as
long-term sustainability and Reserve
recommending Reserve um programs we
would then bring a final report back to
this Council for presentation in January
2025 for final approval and future
recommendations so with that your wor
ship all right thank you very much
appreciate that appreciate you keeping
it on schedule questions councelor uh
Scott just one question how will this
relate and protect Marsh farmers who
already pay into the drainage system we
have I will volunteer that I I think the
answer should be they should be entirely
separate from
this thank you um for the question
through uh your ship that is why we've
identified four classes or four four
groups of users or of communities within
within uh the town and definitely the
farming community Through the municipal
act or the drainage act should be
considered very specifically with
regards to what they're already
contributing to how they're managing the
system and that their management is
within their uh Watershed and that is
probably something that definitely would
not be related to an additional charge
thank you uh I got councelor verite next
and then I've got councelor
dyky um yeah I recently I saw a
presentation at an AGN knowledge uh
Forum uh put on by the N Wasaga Futures
and there were a few municipalities that
are ahead of us on this and there was
some
negative implications for uh
agricultural lands in more urban areas
like Brampton or something like that so
they were going on a square
footage where the agricultural land is
basically permeable it's it's not uh
causing uh infrastructure that needs to
be created and the ditches in rural
areas are basically to keep the roads
drained and to divert to water away from
the road um so I just want to make sure
that we don't put any negative
implications on our Highland
Farms thank you for that I've got
councelor Dy next well in your
presentation I'd like the the key word
that you mentioned about colberts you
know we have a lot of certs that are 40
50 years old and some of these sub
divisions and and funding funding them
for the for the residents is it's quite
an expensive uh Venture and impact to
the residents that you know that have
paid taxes so so long on these uh these
homes in a rural area and I just hope
that through your study that we could um
get some grants in the future as well
some funding from the federal or
provincial or federal whatever is
available and then that we have
everything in place as as the weather
changes and and the frequent storms and
and the volume of storms that we've seen
in the last little while you know we
have to keep you know keep this flowing
as best we can so I'm glad we're being
proactive and reactive
just to reiterate this this presentation
is all about what we're going to be
doing and going out to the public and
getting all that feedback from everyone
so we look forward to seeing a lot of
that data like councel said there's a
few communities ahead of us so we'll be
able to understand some of the some of
the niches that they ran into so uh I've
got councelor Deany
next thank you mayor
um thank you again for the presentation
my question is how are we going to
ensure fairness for those who have say
bigger properties and of course with the
water runoff on the pavement how are we
going to ensure that those people pay
more um compared to a person with a
smaller property also I know that we're
still at the beginning phase of course
of this so with set fees how are we
going to determine the set fees um also
based on property size do you have any
idea so
far certainly through uh Mr uh My
Worship the modeling that we use there's
a number of various Financial models as
well as uh engineering models to look at
impermeable surfaces to look at area to
look at distribution of costs that
create an equitable sense of um of of
ownership and of contribution towards
the system the ultimate goal of the
program as we bring this this
information through to the public
information sessions and for the
community is to get the feedback on what
these models could look like how the
cost could be distributed what the
impact would be per household per
resident per area and then receive that
feedback and work with the community to
try and find a a a solution that's
Equitable that has a sense of
distribution but also meets the funding
needs of the long-term cost for the for
the
town one more question thank you so for
those um persons that are practicing
green cuz you know of course we try to
encourage that will there be some
initiative some discounts for those um
um people that are practicing green and
also to encourage others also to go
green will there be any discount in mind
you know what I mean for that as
well uh through you Mr Mayor there are
programs in other municipalities where
there's either initiatives or
opportunities for some sort of credit
system so definitely those opportunities
will be explored and the various options
presented as part of our work and
depending again on what the community is
looking for we'll tailor solutions that
will meet where the what the demands
are okay so any further questions or
comments from
Council all right seeing none I thank
you very much there's no recommendation
here that I have to follow up on so
thank you for the
presentation and we thank you thank you
Council for the questions look forward
to the uh the program moving
forward okay we are on to open form
Madam clerk anybody signed up open Forum
uh no no your wishop there's no
participants for open Forum this evening
okay thank you very much we move into
adoption of the minutes of the committee
and the committee hold recommendations
so I have 9.1 adoption of regular
Council minutes Rec recommendation of
the many to the regular council meeting
dated June 18 2024 be adopted as printed
move by counc Dy second by councelor
Harper question concerns with that
seeing none all in favor
carried we're on to 9.2 adoption of
special Council minutes recommendation
that the meeting of the special meeting
of council dated June 25th 2024 be
adopted as printed move second for this
please by councelor deaney second by
Deputy Mayor Sanu question concerns with
this seeing none all in
favor carried thank
you uh correspondence we are into
correspondence 10.1 we have the
association of municipalities of Ontario
the Amo and the Ontario medical
association joint to health resolution
campaign so I'm going to ask councelor
Scott speak to it you'll move it okay
sorry move by councelor Scott then
seconded by councelor verik questions on
this right I I think the resolution says
it but it's worth highlighting
that Ontario's Healthcare is in crisis
2.3 million ontarians don't have a
family doctor we're seeing emergency
room closures particularly in rural
communities and I think most alarmingly
nearly half of our existing family docks
are looking to retire in the near future
so I think adding our voice to amos's
resolution I know a few of us are going
to amos's conference at the end of the
month is important because we've been
working to attract more Family Health
teams working with South Lake and uh the
so Simco Northern York Region Family
Health uh team led by Gail sedon uh and
we'd love to see the hospital come to
Bradford quite frankly but we definitely
need more local Health Care in our
community and we might be a community
despite having healthcare needs that's
actually comparatively doing well Rural
and Northern Communities I think are
particularly struggling and I I'm almost
afraid that we've sort of as a society
given up that we should have excellent
Healthcare we have a lot of hallway
medicine we have a lot of uh nurses
Nurse Practitioners and doctors who are
quite stressed and patients who are
frustrated but almost think this has
been New Normal so uh after probably 30
years wor the promises that we'd fix
Canadian
Healthcare it's not gotten any better in
fact it's got worse so the more we can
do at a local level to promote the fact
that uh this is an urgent need and the
public deserves High qu Quality
Healthcare close to home uh the better
it will be because I I think all levels
of government recognize the need but we
need to start seeing the results and
putting urgency behind
it great point and and uh I think did
you you must have watched CBC last night
national news because it was on there
about Healthcare and how critical it is
in the northern regions and how uh they
talked about uh Blind River Thessalon s
St Marie that that region there where it
was uh it was they were closing
emergency rooms and there was last
minute uh arrivals of doctors at the
last second which was costing all
ontarians tons of dollars to get them
there at last minute so just to keep the
emergency rooms open so not hard to
support this 100% so like councelor
Scott said we're we're going to uh Amo
will be advocating for this uh through
the uh through the Ontario medical
association and we've done lots of work
with our local Physicians and and
everything in our community so we want
to continue that advocacy on our part to
make sure that we gain the support work
as hard as we can to uh gain doctors and
family physicians for sure because there
is a there is a pandemic out there I'm
going to say it so I've got councelor uh
uh um councelor deaney first and then
I've got councelor Harper
next thank you mayor um you know as a
healthcare worker myself working in the
field for over 16 years I see the um the
challenges that you know what I mean we
are facing in health care the long wait
list you know for long-term care and
also different critical um you know
clients that need care and of course
sometimes to get a family doctor the
long weight list right unless you're
maybe have your family doctor for years
right then maybe you can had your
children on it but sometime it's a long
wait so definitely I do support this as
well and um yeah looking forward to Amo
conference
coming so thank you uh councilor
Harper thanks mayor you know I know
you'll be pushing for this and it'll be
pretty much a Hot Topic at the uh
Amo um you know provincial government's
definitely not made it uh you know quite
quite aware that uh you know Federal
government's capital gains taxes is
putting stress on a lot of Corporations
and doctors mostly actually create
corporations and it's not making it easy
for them to actually make a living
through this and then they're actually
just picking up their business and
leaving the country or leaving the
province so when we're already in short
supply and you see a capital gains tax
that's taken away from one of our most
crucial aspects which is Health Care
Physicians and
doctors I think that should be stressed
urgently at the Amo as well uh this
doesn't this falls short in regards to
correspondence because I think they're
just being polite and even though
they're asking for the doctors got to go
to the they got to make a living too
because they take on a lot of stress it
it's not easy being a doctor I mean they
make one false call getting suit so you
know they got to have some reward for
the risk that they're taking as well
plus all the education that they've had
to
endure thank you for those comments okay
further comments or questions here so I
think uh we've got it uh I've got a
recomendation here that the council
received the association of
municipalities of Ontario Amo and the
Ontario medical association joint health
resolution campaign for information but
I'd like to say that we actually support
the council support the resolution as
written okay so we add that into to the
uh so I'm going to actually say as
amended a friendly Amendment so I can
ask the two mover and seconders if they
support that yeah thank
you if uh if you can clarify the last
sentence of
the resolution that's attached is asking
to insert the name of the municipality
that's short of the doctors are we
putting Brad for West bloombury or we
putting something
else no Brad for West bloombury yeah
yeah we'll support Brad for what's going
be first and then but we will talk about
the rural area because the rule is
costing everybody I mean there's no
offensive it's a shortage and we're
going to go there fight for Bradford
West lury and Ontario in general we're
going to fight for doctors and hopefully
we get our our health care System
improve I wanted to make sure since you
guys were
generous more generous here first though
Council
forini since we are supporting it and
we're we're doing the resolution as is
does it not need to to be sent out to
everybody as well all of the
municipalities of Amo so that way we
show that we're on
board I think Amo is going to send that
out right I I will tell you what if we
uh I I take that as a yes as a as
another amendment we will draft it so we
go out to that we support this so we can
send it to the premier and our MPP and
all 444 municipalities in Ontario I
think that's I was I was thinking Amo
was going to distribute this through but
we should make sure of that ourselves so
uh good suggestion so okay is everybody
okay with that we will we will certainly
send it to our MPP Premier uh um Sylvia
Jones our minister of Health uh so we'll
have a list of them but certainly we'll
send out to the correct
people okay got that all right all in
favor carried thank you okay that's
10.1 we're on to staff reports and I'm
at 11.1 procurement activities 2024
second quarter I have a recommendation
that the report LG
224-5222 second quarter be received for
information moved by councel F second by
councel jordano question concerns we
have zero activity in here so it's it's
good means that we've uh stayed right in
line with all of our uh purchasing
requirements so no extra cost anybody so
all in favor carried thank you uh we are
into 11.2 2024 enforcement activity
report this is a recommendation that the
report efn 20247 titled 2024 enforcement
activity report January 1st to June 30th
be received for information mve
by councelor Harper second by councel
Rik question concerns with this report
we can see councel
Harper my only uh question would just be
to get clarification when the updated
one for the
pilot project for the as will be
incorporated in this or it be in the
next one or is that different
department I have Robert come you can
save you the walk if you want that
report will be coming we'll get a an ASC
report coming up very soon so uh it's
not R Roberts it's a it's a combined
effort it's the corporate services so
it's going to probably come through will
come through your department Vanessa or
yours Robert
okay from Brent directly from Brent so
that will be coming up uh shortly he's
got it scheduled I think for first one
of September okay I
know further Council
fie thank you just a comment I see
uh some areas we've had increases in
calls um which is unfortunate but I just
want to say thank you to you Rob and to
your staff uh it's not an easy job to do
and uh I know I know some of the issues
that you deal uh deal with out there and
I know that the members around this
table usually put you in some of those
issues too so I want to say thank you
for everything that you guys
do yes thank you very much because it's
been very busy for that department and
we uh certainly want to thank the folks
of that department for all the work they
do because everything is increased
dramatically in there so we thank them
all for for taking on these concerns for
us Council jordano
so my my biggest concern when I saw this
and it's almost a throwaway line but if
you look there's a 25% increase in
Property Standards clean yards
investigations and this is something
that really bothers myself and a lot of
other residents in in the town as well
it it's uh it's it's definitely very
challenging for the staff to deal with
but it's it's something that 25%
increase that's significant and that's
something that you know whether it's
through education I've been talking with
some of the the staff to find out what I
can do in into my word to try to help
neighbors you know work with each other
to try to deal with this because it's
becoming an isore it's affecting
people's quality of life and living next
door to some of these uh these
properties so that's something that I
want to be make make it very mindful to
everybody here on Council that 25%
increase is is pretty
significant duly noted thank you it is
significant we wish that people would
take care of their properties a lot
better uh but there are a lot of people
that do a great job there's just a few
out there that don't so we'll hopefully
uh impact that with some change uh
further to uh your your ask for that ASC
report councelor Harper uh the reason
why he's bringing it later we have
another camera for a full four months
and he wanted to get a good look at for
Council but because everybody's wanting
to see the data that we uh we he asked
if he could bring it earlier so so he's
going to bring it
September okay
comments um just a question um maybe um
what's your name it sir what's his name
again Rob Rob I Rob
so with the
um 2011 property standard clean yard
investigation 25% increase because I
know that I've been sending lots of
email especially about W one where
Miller Park across from Z there and it's
continuous nonstop and other areas in W
one do we have any future plan of um
implementing any penalty at all
that could discourage others from
dumping where they're not supposed to
like how can we what can we do now
because it's becoming even more and more
and more is there a way that we can
maybe do some fines I know some of the
properties are owned by private um their
private properties however Town staff
still take the initiatives initiatives
and do clean it right and that's
basically taken away from other jobs
that could have get done by staff we
looking after another private property
what can we do now to end to come with
us more stricter enforcement right to
kind of stop
that through year your worship to
councelor duany that's a great question
so there's a number of different tools
in the tool belt uh that communities can
use to address situations whereby we end
up with a focal point where people tend
to dump there and treat it like it's
their own personal um Dumping Ground so
to speak so um in terms of private
properties that we have like complexes
commercial complexes these types of
things when they find themselves to be
constant targets of this we'll do a
variety of different measures so we'll
increase enforcement we'll speak with
the property managers to try to do um
some exploration of what they could do
in terms of uh them monitoring it better
maybe it's a case uh we've had
situations where it's just simple
littering we've had other and that may
be Sol by simply just putting up garbage
cans or something like that um in some
other situations we've had large piles
of debris constantly being piled we do
have the ability to enforce our clean
yards bylaw our littering bylaw these
types of things the threshold uh to hold
those accountable um have to be met in
order to do that um but in addition to
that when you reference staff time going
into these things we also have a fees
and charges bylaw whereby we can invoice
uh for our time if if we're constantly
running into these issues uh but we try
to hold off on that to ensure that
that's used in appropriate situations
whereby perhaps there's some neglect
happening if we have a a property
management um or or sorry a property
owner not taking it serious or not
taking the necessary steps then we'll
look at what tools in the tool belt we
have but we do our best to kind of look
at the situation specifically and come
up with a strategy trying to work
together with the community uh the
message we would give to the community
is that we all have a part to play it's
100% uh unsightly unacceptable that
people feel emboldened to deposit
garbage where they do not have
permission to do so I think it's a
matter of convenience if I'm being
honest uh so education it it plays a
large part it's something that we've
talked about in a lot of things that we
do with enforcement um so our department
will continue to try to work with the
community in order to affect change but
we all have a part to play in order to
achieve
that and also I see here 51 noise and
Nance related service calls and it was
35 34% decreased I don't know how do you
come up with these data because almost
not every weekend but majority of the
weekends I do get emails with um
residents complaining about noise and
sound but I'm seeing here it's been a
decrease even in my w one meeting this
was one of the big topic as well right
people riding their bikes and they're
just doing their thing right how did we
come up with this data stating that it's
34% decrease when almost every single
day I'm hearing that noise is a problem
in our
community thank you through you your
worship to councelor Dany so with
respect to service requests being
reported for noise um these numbers
reflect what our byw division received
um in the event that there are
complaints being made after hours it's
likely that those complaints are being
being submitted directly to the ssco
police uh as they are also empowered
with the enforcement of that so in
addition
to overnight noise associated with uh
Amplified music that the traditional
noise complaint uh we do have commercial
regulations construction regulations the
noise bylaw speaks to a number of
different types of noise the tradition
do fall onto by law enforcement but if
if what you're hearing from your
constituents are the types that would be
overnight type complaints those are
typically resourced by the cmco police
often times you know alcohol may be
involved in these types of things and
they're better uh resourced in order to
address those types of concerns so what
you see here is uh the service requests
that were asked of by law enforcement
division of Bradford thank
you okay thank you thank you for those
questions oh further the comments
councelor dky I just want to thank you
for the report uh you know I know and I
can see just by this this uh list of uh
increases um you know from where we
started and where we are now as we grow
there's no doubt this this this
department is very busy when it comes to
Property Standards uh you know we have a
lot of
tenants we have a lot of absentees
landlords and uh that doesn't help the
situation so so I know you got to send
letters and you got to have this staff
but it's it's important that you know
that we continue to stay on on on these
property matters and noise and and I
just want to commend your your
department doing the best you can to
stand off as we grow through the sou
through the
community all right thank you further
comments or
questions all right seeing none all in
favor
carried okay we are on to 11.3 noise
exemption application I have a
recommendation that efn
20246 titled noise exemption application
2771 line1 be received for information
and that the request for exemption under
noise control bylaw 2008 083 as amended
for amplification of sound music between
11:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on August 18
2024 for the private event be approved
or denied so move by councelor Scott
second by councel Harper can you put the
approval or Denial on okay approved it
is okay uh questions or concerns go
ahead
I will fulfill my tradition of saying I
would love a delegation of authority
bylaw given that tonight 30% of our
staff reports are things that I think
staff could approve through a process
rather than us sitting as a Village
Council of Elders and snoops approving
people's
parties further
comments seeing none all in favor
carried thank you moving on to se 11.4
uh Street party closure and Noise by
exemption recommendation the report
tr224 d8 titled Street party road
closure and Noise by exemption number
two be received and that Council
authorize in principle the road closure
of bartum Crescent at uh on August 31st
2024 from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. as
outlin in report t uh tr224 d8 subject
to the applicant completing all Street
party terms and conditions to the
satisfaction of town staff and that
Council authoriz an exemption for the
noise control bylaw 20833 083 as amended
for the application of sound music and
noise caused by the private event on
Bartram Crescent between 1 p.m. and 8:00
p.m. on Saturday August 31st 2024 move
by councelor jordano second by Deputy
Mayor Sandu question concerns counc
councelor so this gets me super excited
because I'm not a I'm not shy to uh
throw the street party now and then but
uh this this this group on bardrum
they're they're fantastic uh you know uh
residents they've they've all moved into
this area they've got young families the
idea is that they've had Barbecues in
the past but the road closure is very
beneficial to the young children having
a safe place where they can hang out and
not have to worry about maybe a car
coming around the corner really quickly
or something like that so of course I'm
going to support this I I love the fact
that there's another area in my War
that's also doing a street party I think
these things are fantastic they're great
Community Builders the police love them
it's just it's is great to have
everybody come together so I fully
support this and I hope everybody else
does
too K I got coun
D yeah I'm in support of this as well
just a question if someone who lives on
that street needs to go to work that
night or come home from work do they
have still have access to their
driveway who would answer
that anybody on staff
no no no no no it's staff
Joe through you mayor um as far as I
know that there's the the road is closed
um
there's no access um but I'm sure
they're neighborly and uh there won't be
any arguments with uh getting in and out
of their
houses yeah the report the report
indicates that everybody signed but one
I think and they have a fire route in
there so I'm assuming that fire R's
access for them to get in out so I
assume that will be taken care of but I
I think we would have heard from many
residents prior to that so councelor dky
well I I what I hear and that last year
they did have a barbecue the
neighborhood all got together and had a
barbecue but now you know this is
structural you know they have a they
have the fire route and uh and every all
the nice to see a young younger family
subdivision working together and um you
know promoting you know and promoting a
event but neighbors getting together and
getting along and that you know can
provide you know a different uh venue
for the children safe environment for
the kids and and and all the neighbors
um coming together and get to know each
other at the end of the day you know a
lot of people dver has been always a
bedroom community and it's nice to see
people get together and and and get
along and and do events like this like
Joe did and these residents and
hopefully we can have more in the future
uh in different areas of
town okay thank you any further comments
or questions seeing none all in
favor approved thank you
and 11.5 the building permit activity
report April 1st to June 30th
recommendation that the building the
report BL 20243 title building per
activity report April 1st to June 30th
2024 be received for information moved
by councelor Dy second by councel Harper
question concerns councelor dyy just a
few comments I know um our chief um
building official under will e Wong uh
he has put together quite a great uh
team that I have seen over the years
and I've get a lot of calls from
different residents that walk into the
building department and they need
assistant or help or and we have a great
staff in in that in the building
department that assists a lot of local
residents it's one thing to have a big
Corporation or or a big Builder to have
all these plans but when it's the little
mom and pop that has a home and they
have to come in to put on a deck or or
finish their basement that we have great
staff that walks uh walks the local
residents through it so it's very
important
you know that we have a great uh
communication with the building and and
the people that take out the permits so
just wanted to throw that out for our
building all right thank you for that
further comments or questions Council
Harper thanks mayor this is actually
just a comment out to the building
department as well it's been a summer of
redesigning your garage in w six and uh
Billy Wong and his team have been really
helpful along with the deputy C AO so
just to say thank you very much
residents appreciate working with them
it's not easy especially trying to get a
lot of those permits and stuff that uh
you know from other thirdparty utilities
which seems to be a huge problem so
thanks for working with them especially
all the way to the planning at Thomas
daer as well so great work working
together in collaboration and I
appreciate all the the help for the
residents this
summer hey thank you for those comments
any further comments or questions
really go ahead through you Mr Mayor
thank you uh both councelor I know try
to enforce the building C requirement
not a popular job but I always told my
staff try to find some alternative
solution try to help that's what I've
been here for the last few year thank
you yes thank you so much you appreciate
that effort trying to find Solutions
councel
jordano hey and team I don't take this
as a negative but I don't want to pump
the tires of the staff on this one
because the time is money and so however
good you guys are doing we need better
and so we need faster we need we need
you know this this is this is a lot of
issues that when people come forward and
and you know and they're trying to do
whether it's a somebody trying to build
a custom home um you know or a larger
developer you know every day matters and
so we can't Pat ourselves on the back
all the time and say yeah we're doing a
great job we need to do better we need
to keep doing doing better and and these
permits you know we need to we need to
crank them out right so I just want to
throw that out there through you Mr
Mayor you know since I become a CBO I
initiate what they call conditional
permit so I know sometime San take a bit
longer to process but try to help the
developer to start the foundation s
servic that's what you look at the all
the past six year we've been using a
number of a conditional permit look at
the employment land and so on and the
hotel you okay thank you
yeah will we we appreciate that you have
moved into conditional permits you have
taken some changes to the department
look forward to Future changes even we
get into e filing in the future let's
try and do e filing things like that I
mean we we've made improvements let's
carry on you've done a great job so
carry on with those improvements if you
can thank you thank you further comments
and questions seeing none all in
favor carried thank you we're on to 11.6
proposed uh General housekeeping zoning
bylaw updates so recommendation that
report pln 2024 -36 titled proposed
General housekeeping uh zoning bylaw
updates be received for information and
that Council directs staff to proceed
with proposed Town initiated zoning
bylaw
2010-05 updates as amended as outlined
with within report pln 2024 36 and to
proceed with public consultation on the
proposed updates move by De mayor
seconded by councelor Dey okay questions
or concerns with this
one I've got deputy mayor first then
Council far Genie thank you your worship
just a quick question maybe for Alan
or or the author of the report um would
this be the appropriate time um or the
right uh Avenue I I know there are some
outstanding matters that we were going
to look at about the home
businesses um that were not part of the
zoning bylaw but we wanted to look at it
when this opportunity came is this also
that time or that's going to come at a
separate time because there's residents
that are waiting for that decision from
us uh so subject to Allen's thoughts um
that is a separate review from this
process um once Council does make the
decision on a home occupation review
that future bylaw would be con into
brought in forward into a Consolidated
zoning bylaw so these four items that
we've identified are separate from uh
home occupations
thank you we're Shi through you to
Deputy Mayor Sandu uh yes so the home
occupation zoning review is currently in
its third uh iteration of consultation
and refinement uh we've been uh very
thankful for the additional feedback
received for members of Council of
council and the community uh in the
recent past uh we feel that the third
iteration uh of the draft Amendment
reflects those uh points of feedback as
well and we'll be looking forward to
bringing a recommendation report to
council on that in the near future thank
you excellent thank you I had councelor
FG
next thank you um so in regards to I
have two questions
here the heights for the detached
accessory buildings I know that we were
you're doing some housekeeping here and
you want to keep it similar to what our
neighboring uh municipalities are doing
however we're sitting at three mirror
height when you're talking about a lot
of urban development that we have
because lots are so small right now and
and um when they build an accessory
dwelling unit in the back or a shed or
whatever the case may be right now
they're maxed out at about 10 feet and
then we're going to up that which makes
it that could be affecting neighbors
views and their their quality of life
and the things that we constantly hear
all the time um do we have a lot of
people who come in always asking for
exemptions on the height when it comes
to accessory dwelling units or uh
garages or sheds or whatever the case
may be because I'm not entirely sure if
that's something that we should up based
on the density of our urban areas and
the second point was in regards to the
residential permissions in the
agricultural
zoning
um you know what answer the first
question first and I'll think of my
second
question so under the current zoning
bylaw um detached accessory structures
are subject to a 0.6 M height if they go
to over 3 m they're subject to a greater
setback from the side yard as part of
the review that we would undertake here
um we would look at those setbacks as
well so whether or not if we go to a 4
meter height do we then need to apply a
1.2 met setback to all accessory
structures so so there those are some of
the things we'd be looking
at set facts pay possibly be increased
if you want to go with a further height
okay and then in regards to the
residential I know that with the
permissions in
agricultural we've had issues
with back in the day of everybody
separating 100 Acre Parcels so they
broke them into 10 acre parcels and then
that's why they put a ban on putting
houses on there so it is what it is
those have already been severed this
does not affect the severance of
agricultural land correct that would
still say the same they have to have
over 200 acres to split into 100 Acre
Parcels correct so those um Provisions
we're looking at to already existing
Lots provincial and County policy uh
restrict consents and agricultural
areas okay further counc
jordano so I'm not going to reiterate
what councelor FG said I I have concerns
with the the 3 meter increase in height
someone who lives in a modern
subdivision um yeah it would be very
problematic in my opinion um the other
thing too is I'm not a big fan of the
the headline called proposed General
housekeeping I think a lot of members of
the public will not identify that and
there's a there's a couple of nuggets of
really important information in here
that I think needs to be called out
properly so that's just my comment on
that I I think we you know this should
be either separate or I I don't see this
jammed as a as a as a just a
housekeeping I would like that actually
you know called out because I think a
lot of people would actually have
attention on this knowing that they can
read and understand
it okay thank you for those comments uh
councilor for
Kik yeah I'd like to just say I'm a
report of us reviewing all these things
because like with the heights
it's we they keep having to go to
counsel or to the committee of
adjustment to get an adjustment and it
gets approved so we're just wasting
everyone's time so we should be just
consistent that's that's what we're
trying to do is is make and then people
don't have to waste their
time yeah you're you're right it's a
it's timec consuming because it goes to
the committee of adjustments and it's
it's costly it's costly these are things
that and we're only talking about going
to public consultation we have made a
decision we're just asking to say do we
want to go to public consultation for
these issues so uh the public Will Made
fully aware of these issues and they'll
be able to deal with it at that public
consultation process so I have no
problem with the way it's done and I uh
look forward to that public meeting one
additional on one additional okay and I
also like the the repeal of this
1967 bylaw zoning thing because there's
so many other restrictions now the pro
provincial and County and official
plants things have changed so much in
the past almost 50 years this is a a
good
idea I'm I'm again I'm going to say I'm
appreciative of this coming forward
because we we want to clean up these
zoning issues get some consistency out
there and make it a lot easier for
people to do their their business when
it comes to things whether we're in
favor or not not to not to be decided
tonight we're just uh looking forward to
making this a public meeting so okay
further comments or questions on this
okay seeing none and I do have a move in
a second correct I did yeah oh Char
thank you mayor so I was actually going
to hold my commment because from what I
read it said it's for informational
purposes only but um because I do have
few concerns but again it's only for
information right and it's basically um
asking Council permission to do the
consultation I just want to make sure
that there was no decision made in here
with the language that was used so that
moving forward we're like oh well
council did you know make cuz to how it
sound it sound as if decisions were made
it kind of confusing a little bit right
so I just want to make sure that this is
just for information purpose only for it
to go to the public for consultation and
then when it comes back we can have a a
good debate or more comments so I'll
save it for them
correct uh just to confir firm council
is not making a decision this evening
it's just for staff
Direction okay is good further comments
or
questions all right seeing none all in
favor carried thank
you on to 11.7 I have a recommendation
report uh application for official plan
Amendment and Zoning bylaw Amendment
file number d920 d214 and D14 d2101
applicants
uh 2462 Ontario
limited uh Santelli Pro development and
Engineering Services
so uh recommendation and I have an
amended recommendation correct so we
amended it a little bit can we got it
ready for I'll read the recommendation
folks so we can have it on the on the
floor and then we'll put it up for
discussion there is a small a small
Amendment
here
so the pln report pln can you uh can
somebody up up the size that there we go
thanks my glasses are good but all right
that's perfect report pln
224-3824 final decision that pursuant to
section 3417 of the planning act no
further public notification is required
that the requested site specific
official plan Amendment D
09-21 4 be adopted and that the
requested site specific zoning bylaw
Amendment D14
d211 be approved in principle for lands
must be known as 5650 5618 and 5584
Highway 9 with modifications as
recommended in report pln -22
24-38 and that the official plan
Amendment Amendment bylaw be presented
to council for enactment and that the
zoning bylaw Amendment be presented to
council for enactment on September 3rd
2024 and that Council passed up bylaw to
remove the holding H1 provision at such
time that the appropriate development
agreements uh re-executed including both
subdivision agreement and site plan for
the development of each individual ual
block so folks the changes in there are
that it's uh approved in principal and
that the amending bot be presented later
on on September 3rd okay move by mayor
seconded by councelor
deaney uh we're up for questions on this
one is everybody clear with the
amendment you're okay with it counc Dy
I'm okay with want to say um just just
to give you an update you know when we
seen that presentation by The Mills
family I we got an email from I guess um
all the many years of trian's
construction and I I must say that uh
you know with over 500 employees and all
the municipalities we we I think we all
got this email but I I found it on my
phone but at the end of the day you know
this application hasn't been easy
because you're dealing with King
Township York Region Bradford and I
think this has going on for many years
so I fully support and it's very
difficult for their planning team and
and them to put this together they're on
the outskirts the the the the south end
of our municipality and and there's a
lot of hurdles to overcome this project
so I'm in support of
it thank you for those comments I've got
dep mayor
next thank you worship just a quick
comment I'm happy to see this come
forward this property as it mentioned in
the report spans over two minut alties
and next week I think new tech is
dealing with this matter at their
council meeting and I'm happy to sported
and I think this is going to clean it up
thanks thank you for those comments coun
server
yeah I'm in support of it as well I
think it's uh we have very little
Frontage on Highway 9 and it's it's
already a commercial area there's a
factory across the road of Auto Parts
Plant uh there's a restaurant and gas
station next to the property in new tech
um it's just a it's just a way to clean
the whole area up up and take advantage
of
it further comments or
questions all right oh counc
Dany uh my question is given that it
crosses Municipal boundaries how will
the proposed development impact the
infrastructure and the services in that
area sure
thing thank you through your ship to
councelor duany um certainly the
question of providing services to the
proposed development uh is something
that has been uh significant focus in
reviewing the
applications um this report this evening
focuses on the applications for official
plan Amendment and Zoning byw Amendment
which is essentially to establish the
principle of the land use um the
question of servicing details uh will be
addressed in a future staff report
subject to council's determination this
evening would be addressed in a future
staff report on the application for
draft plan of vacant land condominium
and that would deal with the overall uh
servicing details essentially through
the proposed subdivision of the land uh
Trion has proposed to provide a communal
storm Water Management Facility uh which
would be part of the condominium uh
Corporation elements uh that same block
would provide a communal uh wastewater
treatment facility and then the
individual blocks would be proposed to
be serviced by individual on-site
Wells uh so all those matters would be
dealt with as conditions of uh of draft
plan of condominium approval uh
presented to Council in a future
report so those weren't looked into as
of
yet what if for example their barriers
when it comes on to services and
infrastructure how do we plan on dealing
with
that certainly thank you through your
worship to councelor
duany uh yes those have been reviewed uh
through the applicant submission
materials
um the ultimate servicing scheme that
the applicant will be responsible to
design for would be made conditions of
the draft plan of conduit approval uh
Town staff and uh reviewing agencies are
satisfied that the uh serviceability of
the lands uh is is uh feasible at a
functional level um the ultimate details
of of how large the pipes will be where
they will go what the design of the
wastewater treatment plant will be in
the storm water facility uh the ultimate
design of those items would be made
condition conditions of approval of uh
the future uh draft plan of vacant land
condo uh and again that those conditions
are are under development V mment at the
moment uh and those would be the subject
of a future staff report so will there
be another um public meeting to have um
the public in the planning process at
the in that next stage will there be
another one I know that there was
already one in the past but now that
we're talking about a different stage
will there be another one now in the
planning process I believe um residents
should actually be a part of that
process just to ensure transparency and
also trust so I would like to know will
there be another one cuz it's a
different process now dealing with that
so uh certainly through your worship uh
to you councelor danany um point taken
in that respect uh the applications uh
that were filed by on behalf of triand
included for official plan Amendment
zoning Amendment and draft plan of
vacant land condo all three of those
applications have undergone public
consultation through a statutory public
meeting
um and so to proceed to a recommendation
on a uh the draft plan of vacant land
condo at a future date um Council would
be within its authority to make a
decision on that application separately
uh as the stat consultation requirement
uh has
occurred yeah so they've had their
public meeting in November of 2021 this
has been three years ongoing and so uh
look forward to seeing this come forward
I thank uh Mr selli and his team for
being patient with us and and moving
forward this this is a tough one like I
think uh councelor Dei had mentioned
we're talking about multiple
jurisdictions when it comes to that uh
that area it's difficult but it is
absolutely a perfect spot for commercial
uh industry in that area it's a highway
it's a major highway it's a perfect spot
for it so uh I can't see why we would
never support that I think it's a
absolute good one for us and good for Mr
sandelli I think like Mr D yet said uh a
businessman that's been doing a lot of
business I think way back I don't want
to say it sir but quite quite a very
expensive uh business that he runs so he
he does quite a few dollars in business
so great for a lot of his employees
living in our community working near
home just purchased another uh business
to bring to Bradford so we look forward
to that so anyways I I'm in full support
of this and look forward to seeing that
site plan come through in the very near
future further comments or questions
councilor
jordano just one quick question question
um you said commercial but this is
commercial industrial right the property
is there any actual plans for commercial
retail in this
area uh through you Mr Mayor to
councelor jodano uh the applicant has
indicated potential for a motor vehicle
gas bar as well as a Lumberyard Home
Hardware type
store okay yeah I drive past that quite
often on the way to work and that would
be very beneficial to the uh to the
surrounding area like uh there's a lot
of homes that are developing special in
that little shamber kind of corner um
and yeah there's definitely a lot of
commercial industrial that happens in
that space so I I support both uh but I
I definitely would love to see some of
that retail commercial brought in thank
you all right thank you very
much see no further
comments all right all in favor as
amended carried thank you we are on to
11.8 request for hold removal Bradford
Capital holding Inc recommendation that
report pln 202442 title request for hold
removal D14
d247 Bradford Capital Holdings Inc block
404 plan 51 m1063 be receive for
information and the council adopt a
bylaw to remove the hold H1 symbol from
the lands legally described as block 404
plan M51 or 51m uh 1063 such that the
removal of the hold H1 provision takes
effect upon the execution of the site
plan agreement for proposed development
of lands move by C second by councelor
Harper question concerns with this one
just remove the hold counc
f um so in the report I see that it says
to remove the hold based on the
execution of the site plan approval so
are there
still are there still options to change
the site plan is that what the town's
going to be working with the developer
because the one concern I have is I know
we've been wanting you units like this
having commercial on the bottom and
having upstairs having the units um but
based on the location and the way that
it's all set up in the report it
actually says
uh six commercial units on the first
floor but if you actually look at the
site plan there's 12 they're split right
down the middle of the building there's
12 units and they're only about 700
Square ft each so what type of
businesses are we expecting like the
local residents would like to have you
know something that's easy to walk to
that's convenient but if you got 700 F
feet what are you putting in there are
we basically having like accountants uh
one chair hair salon a nail place maybe
is that is that kind of what we're
looking at are you going to be able to
put restaurants in this place where
somebody can go um I just feel that with
how small the retail units are it's
almost setting it up for either tight
tight office spaces or
basically failure for any kind
of uh you know any space that needs more
room than that are there options to
actually open up a couple of the units
because it looks like the separations
are concrete so I don't know if if you
were able to break a wall or something
where they could actually make it 1300
squ F feet and it's a usable space for
1300 F feet makes a lot more sense so I
don't know if maybe it's something that
you can still have a discussion before
approving the site plan um before
executing it
certainly thank you through your worship
to council for aie from a planning
perspective uh the zoning bylaw and the
site plan control agreement would not uh
be as focused on the number of
commercial units per se but rather the
amount of commercial gross floor area if
in the and and this is quite uh common
to see in site plan applications where
an architectural site plan drawing May
refer to a specific number of commercial
units um certainly having seen uh
different commercial developments uh
proceed uh my inference or understanding
is that that is a reflection of what is
possible uh and may not reflect uh how
the units are actually how the space is
actually parceled out uh when when
occupants would be
uh taking up the
space uh but certainly the uh the site
plan uh approval drawings are uh nearing
the finish line so to speak and so this
report is being presented to council um
with the recommendation that the bylaw
be passed and that the holding provision
take effect on execution of the
agreement such that in the event that
that were to occur sometime between
today and September 3rd it wouldn't
delay the issuance of full building
permit such that the development could
proceed more
expeditiously yeah so is answer your
question Council verini like the
structures there they're not changing
that it's basically it's like Alan said
the square footage and if they work out
to be for commercial spaces 6 12
whatever it works out to be based on I
think rentals uh in the end it's what
whatever they can get in there so it
bring any closure no I well I understand
that it's just the way that okay so it
could potentially change because the way
that it's laid out it doesn't look like
it can just because it's all all
structural it's all concrete walls and
stuff and even the way that they have
the loading area set up who's going to
be able to use that so I just wanted to
make I want to make it successful that's
what I want I want to see it become a
successful
space thank you we all do okay councelor
jordano yeah so alen I heard your answer
but I'm a little disappointed because I
was I was actually hoping and I think
when when they came last time and we
talked about this project I was pretty
pretty excited about the fact that this
could be you can have long double double
long units or double wide units and all
that stuff and if that's not necessarily
to to councel Fair genus point if you
got concrete walls and everything else
that are structural to deal with I you
know I'm going to have a problem with
this project because again we we're
looking for success and we want to set
benchmarks for projects for people to
model after and I can't I can't get
excited about this knowing that we're
going to have these these micro retail
units I I I need them to be able to
expand and to you know to have it in a
way where you can have a a restaurant
that needs two or three wide in order to
accommodate you know their their their
you know their demographic or you know
double like double length if they want
to have uh two two sets of um you know
store frontages right so this is this is
where when I saw this now I I started
having reservations about it so I'm I'm
really leaning on you guys to help you
know push that agenda forward to make
sure that this this does have that
ability without it being a uh you know
just a hole through a concrete wall you
can't just be a doorway cut that's not
going to that's not going to be
beneficial to to people opening it up
and and and uh you know basically having
quality retail in
there
Helen certainly thank you through your
worship to councel Jordan
uh and my apologies perhaps I should
have unpacked this as well in the
previous uh response um certainly do see
uh a couple of notations within the
first few pages of the architectural
drawings which um may be open to some
interpretation for instance one of the
pages refers to 12 commercial units uh
going on to the next couple of pages
there are um firewalls dividing six
spaces uh and so ultimately how that
space would be uh capable of being
divided uh would need to defer to the
applicant uh I do know that um a
representative on behalf of the property
owner is here however uh not familiar
with their specific involvement in this
project in particular in the event that
Council uh may wish to look to them for
comments as
well okay I've got Council for kite next
and then if the applicant wants to uh
talk it
over yeah I I would Echo what uh Peter
and Joseph are saying it doesn't look
like a great design but I think we're
talking about the I think there was a
lot of manipulation to get the number of
parking spaces reduced to fit on a tiny
parcel of land so they made uh I think
they're 1400 square foot Apartments so
so so you only need 1 point something
parking spots per those 12 apartments
and then the retail commercial was based
on square footage so I then all of a
sudden you start changing these things
now do the parking requirements change
Allan certainly thank you through your
SHP to cver Kik uh the parking
requirements would not differ based on
the number of commercial units it would
be influenced by the commercial gross
floor
area okay great conversation we look
forward to this getting through CC
Dy
clarification these units are going to
be condos as sold or or this is going to
be built by um by the the applicant to
rent totally or are these are even the
commercial and the upstairs can be all
can be sold as condos
like like just a quick
question certainly through your worship
to councelor um Dy uh the town is not
yet in reced of of an application for uh
condominium draft plan of condominium
condominium exemption uh and so
therefore whether or not the residential
units would be condominium ised so to
speak uh rests with the applicant based
on their determination of whether or not
to
apply
okay all right fa comments or
questions counc deaney um thank you
mayor I know this is um I even know what
to vote on is the applicant here can
they explain more on the spaces what are
their intent for those spaces how do
they Vision the spaces what will be
there so that um we can make conscious
decision sorry good evening Neil Palmer
I'm with the applicant at least most of
you know me
um so to answer a few of the questions I
believe there's an error in the staff
report about the number of commercial
units it should be 12 not six uh but I
saw that wasn't in the recommendation so
I didn't think it was a a big concern
we've already been before you for the uh
zoning so the zoning is in place is
approved um we're very close to
finalizing the uh site updated site plan
drawings to respond to all of the
comments we received from staff very
close is in we might it might be in this
week uh Our intention is to file a
condominium application so the tenure
would be condominium so the units would
be sold so there is opportunity there if
someone bought two units that uh I guess
they buy them prior to us
constructing we could probably eliminate
some of the the uh closures the wall
closures to allow opening of the units
subject to fire regulations and whatnot
but that's our intention is to uh file a
condominium application sell the units
so 12 residential and 12 commercial and
I think that answered most of the
questions did did I miss anything from
any of the counselors oh I think you
grabbed it pretty good there it's it's
good I any business can get in there
right it could it could be a bookkeeper
could be an accountant we don't know I
mean it doesn't have to be a restaurant
it could be separate it its services we
have a lot of homebased businesses are
trying to get out of their home and get
into an actual structure so whether it's
a 700 foot or, 1400 foot residential
build it's it or a commercial space it's
a commercial space so I think it's uh
it's there there's 12 of them and like
Neil said if they somebody wants two of
them they can expand their business or
three of them or whatever it takes so
this just to remove the hold so okay
Council
jordano so I've purchased something like
this in the past where I've I purchased
a ground floor commercial residential
above and the the issue is the the
building structure itself had more of a
column system for the for the the
commercial ground floor therefore I was
able to On Assignment sell my commercial
unit to the dentist that needed four
units but that that took place after
construction so the point is is that if
if you're going to say oh yeah maybe we
can change the walls post construction
that's that's you know like businesses
turn over you have new people coming in
and out I I just feel like having a
different design for the commercial that
allows for that expansion you can you
can build firewalls out of anything it
doesn't have to be concrete right so
again the disappointment is is that
you're basically saying well come early
buy them early and decide what you're
doing up this point but in 5 years 10
years from now what we stuck with right
whatever somebody purchased and whatever
you designed around so I like the
flexibility so somebody can eventually
expand their business not maybe they
only need one or two units in the
beginning and in the future they want a
third or fourth but with this design
they may not allow for that to take
place so that that's my
concern okay thank you for that further
comments or
questions okay seeing none all in
favor how many hands up please I need to
see Hands please one two three four 5
six7 thank you in favor passed thank
you on to 11.9 recommendation for
application of official plan Amendment
uh for zoning bylaw Amendment file
number d1420 uh- 23-16 draft plan of
subdivision file D12 23-12 for lands
must be known as 53 39 31 and 23 Danel
Blaine and 735 and 743 Simco Road
recommendation that the report pln
224-353-2455
53 39 31 and 23 danu Lane and 735 and
743 simple Road be received that the
official plan Amendment file D
09-23-19 hectares of land located within
the eastern boundary of lot 15 in
concession 5 be adopted as recommended
herein that proposed zoning bylaw
Amendment application file D1
14-236 for the lands located in blocks
101 103 and 112 in registered plan 51
m-1 1138 and part of lot 15 concession 5
be approved as recommended herein and
that the proos the proposed draft plan
of subdivision application file d122
3-12 be given draft approval subject to
the conditions included in attachments
5.8 of report pn-20 202
24-35 including that draft approval laps
after 3 years if a subdivision agreement
is not executed and final approval is
was not achieved within the time period
that pursuant to section 3417 of the
planning act Council adopt adopts that
no further public notification related
to this zoning bylaw amendment is
required that's
it all right move a second put us on the
floor please move by councelor Scott
second by councelor dyy questions or
concerns with this
report seeing none all in
favor all in favor sorry I got to see
again one two three okay carried thank
you all
right
11.10 special occasions permit
application Bradford Greenhouse Gallery
Garden Gallery recommendation that
report
clk-2 24-9 titled special occasion
permit application Bradford Greenhouse
Garden Gallery be received and a council
designate Fashions fashion and Bloom as
a mpal significant event for the
purposes of obtaining a special OCC
permit sop from the alcohol and gaming
Commission of Ontario move by counc Dy
second by councel Scott question
concerns with this one look forward to
this event happening all in favor
carried thank
you okay 12 staff
reports seeing none okay moving into uh
13 committee minuts and recommendations
that the following committee minutes and
recommendations items from the advisory
committees be received and improved and
may be considered so would any member
like any of them pulled we have uh
13122 we have 132 and
133 anybody like yeah go ahead thanks
your worship I'd like to pull
13.3.3 please
okay that's it okay
so may I ask that the committee minutes
and recommendations in item
13.1 to 13.
13.3 save and accept
13.33 be
approved you want to pull that
one all right
right okay so
yeah let's go back then I'll just read
it again so save and accept so uh uh
that the committee minutes and
recommendations items 13.1 to 13.3
inclusive be received and approved save
and accept 13.33 and
13.35 all right so we have two of them
that were pulled for further discussion
and do I have move to second or for this
move by councelor D second by councelor
Scott all in favor carried okay let's go
to
13.33 Scott
thanks Mr Mayor I I'd like to propose an
amendment to this uh I'm very happy
thank you to the traffic and Community
Safety Committee for dealing with The
Pedestrian Crossing at St Maria of the
Incarnation Catholic school I think
these are really good options uh I I
thought a raised crosswalk could work
here but this is the simpler more
cost-effective solution and I think it
will make a real difference uh curn
Street has a couple of traffic safety
issues and this deals with one of the
two the other is speeding particularly
north of Britannia up towards theet and
curn like some of the older roads
bretania or Fletcher nearby are wider so
on street parking doesn't really provide
any sort of natural speed deterrent so
what I would like to do is use the uh
the idea that we're adding ballards to
the uh pedestrian Crossing at the school
to add up to three more ballards for
Speed mitigation along the stretch of
curn from britania to deset most of that
area is a community safety zone between
the school and lines Park anyway uh and
the residents have made clear on this
street that they really want to tackle
speeding as well as the the crosswalk
safety so I see this in line with what
we've talked about in the past in terms
of tackling things holistically even in
advance of the TMS and and I'm hoping I
think it's about $1,500 that this would
cost to do and
and it's one nice clean intervention to
do both the crosswalk and the speeding
at the same time so I I hope Council
will support it and I I think the clerk
has the wording of the amendment as
well further comments or discussion on
this councelor jordano and then
councelor
F so you know in the in the past when we
had this this committee it was uh
considered a uh you know a committee
that was based on data but I've said it
and you repeated it a lot of people have
talked about it the holistic approach is
you cannot you cannot Overlook and the
fact that you went and spoke to the
residents similar to what Harper did
with Northgate similar to what I did
with blue Dasher before was on Council
that really matters because you're
you're you're literally getting the
insight to match with the data and so
those ballards are very coste effective
and will will have a you know an impact
I'm on cobber quite often and so
anything I can do to help support that
area um and you know again I I'm glad
that you you brought that forward
because you know it is a community
safety zone both where the school is and
then just down the street with Lions
Park so it makes perfect sense and you
know sometimes uh it's just right on the
cups of the data and you have permanent
or semi-permanent kind of speed
mitigations in place currently the
ballards are more of a physical one that
people will see so I totally support
it thank you Council
forini um unfortunately I wasn't at the
last traffic meeting I wasn't able to
attend however from my understanding
this wasn't actually discussed this part
of curn so the updated numbers
um when we talk about data and
everything that we do as a committee the
discussions that happen as a committee
those recommendations come to council so
when when something is added after at
Council I'm not a big fan of that I
think it should be discussed at the
committee level and that's when the
recommendations come forward so because
of that reason I can't support this um
don't I don't like it when it's dropped
last minute kind of thing I think it
should have been discussed at the
committee
level okay thank you for those comments
councelor Harper and councelor
dky uh just to be fair and um to the
point we did discuss the north end of
that at the committee um but we were
held off because there was
semi permanent kind of like uh speed
measuring devices or um that were put
there but there was a recommendation
that if those did move Ballard should go
in place there so we did have good
discussion the numbers were presented to
us uh I'm sorry that um that wasn't
communicated to you so it was discussed
it was actually uh discussed throughout
the committee um so I'm happy with this
recommendation as
Welly I see I see uh sherff F's uh point
of view but but um looking saying that
um you know I can see we all don't like
to see things drop La last minute but
but my concerns I'm going to support it
um because there's no doubt you know we
talk to Residents and no better um any
situation the residents living there uh
that communicate with us know the best
at the end of the day they see it they
live it every day they see the cars
speeding and and and all the traffic uh
situations my question here is with this
new Committee of of council disbanding
that how or my question to our mayor is
where do we where we we going to go with
this uh dealing with the small issues
the council with this new committee like
U that's my my concern we had a
subcommittee that dealt with a lot of
people that came to the meeting they
spoke on it we we listened we put the
data together my concern is as a group
is this how's this going to together in
the future that's my my concern because
there's still a lot of streets that
haven't been addressed in word one word
7even word six there's still more
streets to be done and I just want I I
want to make sure our residents have
that opportunity at this new community
on the 4th of the month that that we can
still deliver what we need to for our
for the people elected
us yeah so thank you for the question
it's a strategic initi committee and it
has it combines the projects committee
and the sa traffic and Safety Committee
so it's going to come to the same
committee it'll come uh the same way so
no issue there uh councelor deaney thank
you mayor so I'm going to support this
reason being Community safety is our
number one priority and anything that we
can do to help to mitigate some of the
issues that we're having in our
community so I definitely support
it thank you councelor Scott well thank
youone I just wanted to reply to
councelor far gen's comments I first
and the notion that this is adding
something in last minute I I first
raised this concern the week I was
elected in 2020 with Gary lamb when he
was in your chair as or in your former
chair as chair of the Traffic Safety
Committee and that's where we came with
the digital radar sign extending the
community safety zone uh hiring a new
crossing guard at The Pedestrian
Crossing at Marie of the Incarnation
when I I think and correct me if I'm
wrong but I think corre councelor G
orano had asked to look at the in or the
uh crosswalk I had email committee
members of the former Traffic Safety
Committee to say can we also look at the
entire Street and I had suggested that
the residents and I'll give a shout out
to Katherine booth in particular were
asking for Speed bumps at the North End
of the Street so I did that in advance
of the committee meeting as councelor
Harper says there was some discussion
there and both the residents in the
committee had said maybe if not speed
bumps at least ballards could be looked
at I
when I saw the recommendation that it
wasn't in there I figured I would reach
out to the committee ask why it wasn't
in there basically everyone said
actually I think it could go in there so
I'm moving in as Amendment today but uh
in in response to the notion that it's a
last minute addition to my mind it's
something I've been asking for for four
years every step of the
way okay thank you for the comer of
questions all right so we have an
amended recommendation here and I'll
read it that the council approve the
impation the implementation of the
U-turn restriction uh restrictions
between scanland Avenue and Porter
Street and Nataly Court the installation
of pedestrian related signage uh on
approaches to pedestrian Crossings
option three use LINE markings and
bullers to create a pinch point and
daylight triangle a daylight Zone around
the existing pox and the council request
staff to investigate cost associated
with remove the sidewalk on the west
side of curn street north of scanland
Avenue and that Council request staff
install up to three Bullards from
batania Avenue to intersections of deset
Street along curn Street to mitigate
speeding
concerns all it's
a one question go
ahead do we need to say and to relocate
the digital signage but that will get
moved right we're not going to keep both
right so make
sure yeah that'll get they'll relocate
somewhere okay all in
favor carried thank
you okay we are on to uh 13 uh 13
1335 recommendation that Council approve
the following so Council
Harper thanks mayor when I this report
came to traffic committee last the last
and final traffic committee um it was
actually um one of the rep that was said
that would come to us after installing
and approving the West um speed humps um
I was quite shocked to see that all the
work that uh definitely needed to be
here something that has been reiterated
by hundreds of parents and especially
regarding the school at this three-way
intersection and off leer as well
there's still some work to be done when
I read the recommendations here I'd like
to take out the red curb painted part
um with my extensive conversations with
bylaw in regards to this and it's not a
because one resident talks about their
property being devalued or anything like
that I just don't think that if we put
it in right now with this the signage
going in there the signage itself will
give authorization for bylaw enough to
actually enforce it whether there's a
red curb or not so I'd like to maybe
just leave the red curb out and in case
that the signage doesn't work we do have
that extra step in case we need to use
that for a pilot uh somewhere down the
line so that's what I'd like to strike
that from this
amendment and if anybody like to Second
so who would like to second that but
councel jordano second that so it's just
removing the curbing the third bullet
point that the curbing be painted red on
North Gate to denote locations of
parking and no parking so that's just to
remove that whole statement so I will
read the recommendation any further
comments or questions about this counc
jordano I was actually looking forward
to the red curve
just because we really don't have that
but I definitely appreciate the concept
of you know instead of going all in
let's let's do this and if it works then
we don't need to go to that extreme
measure but knowing that we have that in
our back pocket it's actually a smart
idea and then that way you know uh we
don't have to execute it unless it's
absolutely needed
so excellent okay further comments your
questions so that Council proved the
following that the parking be permitted
on the West Side Northgate Drive from
March Avenue to North to Noble Drive
currently alternating uh that no parking
no stopping be designated on the east
side of Northgate Drive from Archer
Avenue to Noble Drive the installation
of no parking signs 15 meters from the
intersection of noble drive and
Northgate Drive on Noble Drive uh as
well as 15 meters from the intersection
of Archer Avenue and Northgate Drive on
Archer Avenue the installation of no
u-turn signage between Archer Avenue and
ruley Street on Northgate Drive and the
installation of Center only 40 km per
hour Bullards near near the pathway
entrance on Fletcher
Street okay all in favor carried thank
you okay that's that we're on to no new
business
bylaws so I have because we amended the
uh the
report 11 uh seven or eight I think it
was 11.7 I have uh the recommendation
that the bylaws 2024 55 20 24
62 2463
24 66 be passed save and accept 20
2465 all right so that's
15.4 so it is uh that bylaws 2024 55 62
63 and 66 so 55 is traffic bylaw
Amendment 5 62 is Bradford Capital
Holdings Inc remove the bylaw
and 63 is Canada community building fund
Municipal funding agreement bylaw and 66
is the official plan amendment number
four bylaw okay and we were moved to
15.4 move
by Deputy Mayor Sandu seconded by
councel
jordano bylaws
bylaws 15.4 is removed we won't be by we
won't be passing it tonight because of
what we did early because of what we did
early it that's where and the
recommendation said will come back
September 3rd okay so they've got some
adjustments to do that so councelor
jordano I asked if you second the bylaws
save and accept 15.4 Okay all in favor
carried thank
you okay any notice a motion nothing
none okay we're on to 17 announcements
General announcements
okay uh
on uh basically on I think it was July
27th we had uh the Fior simple pride
flag raising was held at the courthouse
on on
Tuesday the and coming up we have uh
well actually earlier today we just did
the uh national peacekeepers day it's
actually August 9th but we did it today
in Bradford there's a big celebration at
Angus uh peacekeepers Park in Angus
Ontario uh the Indi the Indian
independence day is August 15th we'll
have a flag r at the courthouse at 3 at
5:30 we have Ukrainian Independence Day
on August 24th and the reason why we
have these going out is we don't have
another council meeting till September
so we just wanted to promote these
already no y uh on August 24th the flag
raising ceremony for uh it will be at
the courthouse sorry for uh Ukrainian
Independence Day at 11:00 a.m. and the
international overdose awareness day is
octo August 31st sorry August 31st next
slide uh upcoming events we have outdoor
movies so we have the Tuesday tonight
Kung Fu Panda we're missing a good
one all right let's get there is it
still going on maybe oh it's probably
over right kids are already gone and
then we have Tuesday August 20th we have
Lorax I think that's Lorax uh Tuesday
August 27th the Big Hero 6 Thursday
August 8th we have the Guardians of the
Galaxy volume 3 uh Thursday August 22nd
Hunger Games and then Thursday August
29th Little Mermaid lots of good ones so
hopefully the kids have a great time
that's at the District of Memorial
Community Center down on 125 Simco Road
it's down there now so uh come on out
and see the movies out there carrot Fest
we have our big carrot Fest celebration
on August uh 16th and 17th so the Friday
night from 4:00 to 10: p.m. come on out
and enjoy some entertainment and then
Saturday uh August 17th 9:00 a.m. to 6:
p.m. vendors are at both sessions on
carfest so we look forward to some great
and a lot of fun and uh it's in the top
100 celebrations of festivals so
hopefully we have a great turnout that
day also on Friday September 6th we have
our mayor and Council uh tournament we
have our golf tournament so all funds
raised are for our community it's for
the 100th rcaf uh parade that we had we
have a shotgun start at 9:00 a.m. on
September 6 so if you're uh not signed
up yet for that golf tournament please
come out and uh support the uh Council
and mayor for our golf
tournament next slide
other events and campaign so uh right
now we still have our automated speed
enforcement our second rotation of
cameras is is coming soon uh they will
be installed uh September 1st 2024 we
have four new locations West Park AV
Fletcher Street Miller Park a and Simco
road so those cameras will be moving the
four that are in locations now will move
to other locations so look uh keep an
eye out for that the coming soon signs
are up they've been they have to be up
for 90 days so they are there and
September 1st they will move those
cameras move to those coming soon
locations and you'll see new signage we
also have uh share your feedback on
Accessory dwelling units we have a
zoning bylaw Amendment so Adu open house
and public meetings come and join us on
open house on August 28th uh from 5: to
6: and from 7 to 8 we also have another
public meeting hel uh being held on
September 10th at 7 p.m uh and both of
them were at the zema room uh in the
library so right here right in our
council chambers right now so come out
and give us your feedback on uh adus
which is uh additional dwelling units so
for your properties and then we have the
private tree protection survey so please
fill out that survey share your thoughts
on our draft private tree protection
bylaw by taking our online survey now
through September 5th 2024 go to
www.town of bradf uh town of Bradford
West GL town of bw.com
privat trees so uh fill out that survey
and help us out with that we'd like to
to uh produce a bylaw that works for
everyone and then uh our last one is uh
our connected Edition uh we have our
summer edition out 2024 Edition is now
available so uh stay connected with bwg
our summer 24 edition of connected is
now available offering res a unique and
interactive in-depth look into
everything bwg so in this addition we
have more W updates for everybody
accessibility advisory committee update
we have project updates upcoming events
and more it is also uh there's hard
copies here at the library a few areas
have hard copies but you can actually uh
read this Edition it's a digital Edition
also so you can find it at
www.town of bwg
domcom connected to learn more and read
our latest edition so thank you to our
staff for getting that done and one last
announcement we want to welcome Mr Tony
do ro as our new director of
infrastructure he has taken the job of
the new director of infrastructure so
thank you so much Tony
thank you so much to our staff for uh
applying for these positions and uh we
have a great staff so thank you so much
for for doing
that okay County Council update we don't
have a County Council update because
County Council is also off for the month
and we haven't had a County council
meeting yet so we have no update at that
point right now so we move on to
confirming proceedings recommendation
that bylaw 2024 64 byot confirm
proceedings uh the r council meeting
dated August 6 2024 be enacted
moved by councelor Dy seconded by
councelor Scott all in favor carried
thank you we have anjer recommendation
that the meeting is hereby adjourned at
what time is it folks
9:15 yeah 9:15 moved by counc FG second
by councelor deey all in favor carried
thank you thank you everyone for coming
appreciate have a have a great rest of
the summer we'll see you in September