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A Wellington West restaurant has finally found an opening at City Hall to get an outdoor patio approved after 20 years of battles with neighbours.
The Wellington Diner at 1385 Wellington St. W. has won the planning department’s support to set up a patio outside the restaurant, along the corner of Western Avenue.
Now it’s up to politicians.
The planning committee on Tuesday will decide if the restaurant should be allowed to have a patio before sending a recommendation to council in July.
The restaurant needs council’s permission to have a patio, even though there’s a natural patio carved into the property footprint. The zoning bylaw doesn’t allow a commercial patio within 30 metres of a residential area. The proposed patio would be about 19 metres from homes.
If the Wellington Diner is going to be allowed to have a 20-square-metre patio, the city wants it to be temporary. Planning staff want an expiry date of Nov. 1, 2018.
Opponents have been worried about noise from the small patio bothering the neighbourhood, with one resident even getting another planning analysis disagreeing with the city’s opinion.
The Wellington Village Community Association is taking a neutral position, lamenting the inability of the restaurant and homeowners to reach a compromise.
Some opponents baffled that the city would consider approving a patio when applications have failed twice already.
It turns out, this might be one of the longest patio wars in the city’s history.
The restaurant first filed an application for a patio in 1997, only to be denied by the committee of adjustment. The Ontario Municipal Board upheld the decision after an appeal, even dismissing the idea of allowing the patio for a one-year trial.
Another application landed at the committee of adjustment in 2009, but the committee didn’t see much of a difference from the 1997 application and refused the request. By that time, the city’s planning department was on board with the patio proposal since the there was a new traditional mainstreet designation for Wellington West.
The designation makes mixed property uses more flexible, since the city wants to animate these types of roads.
The appetite for restaurant patios has only grown stronger over the past eight years. There’s a new patio-friendly attitude at City Hall, where politicians have tried to balance neighbours’ concerns about noise while trying to shed Ottawa’s perception as a staid capital city.
In recent months, the Wellington Diner used social media, and some famous customers, to help push the patio issue.
Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper is in favour of the patio.
It appears Mayor Jim Watson wants the diner to finally get its patio, too.
Whatever the planning committee decides on Tuesday, council will need to confirm the decision on July 12.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
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The Wellington Diner at 1385 Wellington St. W. has won the planning department’s support to set up a patio outside the restaurant, along the corner of Western Avenue.
Now it’s up to politicians.
The planning committee on Tuesday will decide if the restaurant should be allowed to have a patio before sending a recommendation to council in July.
The restaurant needs council’s permission to have a patio, even though there’s a natural patio carved into the property footprint. The zoning bylaw doesn’t allow a commercial patio within 30 metres of a residential area. The proposed patio would be about 19 metres from homes.
If the Wellington Diner is going to be allowed to have a 20-square-metre patio, the city wants it to be temporary. Planning staff want an expiry date of Nov. 1, 2018.
Opponents have been worried about noise from the small patio bothering the neighbourhood, with one resident even getting another planning analysis disagreeing with the city’s opinion.
The Wellington Village Community Association is taking a neutral position, lamenting the inability of the restaurant and homeowners to reach a compromise.
Some opponents baffled that the city would consider approving a patio when applications have failed twice already.
It turns out, this might be one of the longest patio wars in the city’s history.
The restaurant first filed an application for a patio in 1997, only to be denied by the committee of adjustment. The Ontario Municipal Board upheld the decision after an appeal, even dismissing the idea of allowing the patio for a one-year trial.
Another application landed at the committee of adjustment in 2009, but the committee didn’t see much of a difference from the 1997 application and refused the request. By that time, the city’s planning department was on board with the patio proposal since the there was a new traditional mainstreet designation for Wellington West.
The designation makes mixed property uses more flexible, since the city wants to animate these types of roads.
The appetite for restaurant patios has only grown stronger over the past eight years. There’s a new patio-friendly attitude at City Hall, where politicians have tried to balance neighbours’ concerns about noise while trying to shed Ottawa’s perception as a staid capital city.
In recent months, the Wellington Diner used social media, and some famous customers, to help push the patio issue.
Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper is in favour of the patio.
It appears Mayor Jim Watson wants the diner to finally get its patio, too.
Whatever the planning committee decides on Tuesday, council will need to confirm the decision on July 12.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
查看原文...
