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City council’s planning committee meets on Tuesday for the first time in 2018 with some hot files on the agenda.
Four of the more interesting applications involve a property on Hunt Club Road and lands in Westboro, Kanata and Barrhaven.
Proposed retirement home and hotel have Hunt Club councillors worried about traffic
Claridge Homes wants to build a retirement home and hotel, both eight storeys, on Hunt Club Road at the Airport Parkway.
The proposed development, a combination of five properties southwest of that intersection, needs changes to the land-use rules to allow the hotel and taller buildings. The addresses are 1026, 1038, 1040, 1050 and 1054 Hunt Club Rd.
River Coun. Riley Brockington and Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans are concerned about the impact of the proposed development on the already-busy Hunt Club Road.
Since the development would only allow right turns into the property and right turns out of the property on Hunt Club Road, the councillors are worried about collisions if motorists have to make u-turns on that stretch.
Revised Rochester Field plan would allow development along Richmond Road
A new proposal for Rochester Field — the big green space connecting Richmond Road with the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway — calls for buildings along the edge of Westboro’s main street.
The revised plan is rooted in a deal struck between the city and the National Capital Commission, which owns Rochester Field, as part of the western LRT extension. However, the draft deal talked about allowing development in the northeast section of Rochester Field, not along Richmond Road.
The NCC now wants to use two parcels along Richmond Road for development, while keeping an access point for the park.
According to the city, the new draft deal dedicates more of the property — at least 80 per cent of it — to park space. City staff recommend council members approve the revised land-use plan.
Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper, sensing concern in the community, is skeptical about the proposal and wants to pause the process.
Protection for overpass not needed at little-used railway, Kanata councillor says
The city says it needs to protect land for a future overpass at a railway in Kanata. The councillor doesn’t think so.
KNL Developments is planning a subdivision east of Goulbourn Forced Road and south of a freight rail line, which is only used one day each week.
The urban road network in the official plan considers extending Solandt Road another 850 metres to the new subdivision, but it would require crossing the railway to meet up with Walden Drive. The city says it has no plans to extend the road.
KNL is researching if the road extension is necessary.
But if it is necessary, the city says it’s “imperative” to protect property for a grade-separated road. The Railway Association of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities published a report discouraging future at-grade rail crossings, the city says.
Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson doesn’t think the city needs to protect land for an overpass since the railway is hardly used. If the developer needs to give up land for a future overpass, it might not build at all, she said.
Wilkinson wants the planning committee to make a decision, rather than leaving it up to staff.
Barrhaven industrial landowner wants drinking water outside municipal service area
A developer wants to bring city drinking water to prime land near Highway 416 and Fallowfield Road, even though the property is outside the municipal service area.
What’s most interesting is Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder’s reaction to the application, contained in the staff report to the committee.
“I find it unfortunate actually that the developer if given access to the public water system will continue with their current approved design,” Harder wrote in the report, which recommends approving drinking water for 4497 O’Keefe Court.
O’Keefe Court Properties wants to build a light-industrial complex. The landowner currently only has city permission to use a water connection for fire service, but not drinking water. City staff are okay with the drinking water use since the pipes are already at the property and a neighbouring subdivision will need water service.
Harder wrote it’s too bad a “prestige” development, like a hotel, wasn’t previously possible because the land would be serviced by well and septic systems. If council approves the water connection, Harder hopes the developer will reconsider what to do with the land.
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Four of the more interesting applications involve a property on Hunt Club Road and lands in Westboro, Kanata and Barrhaven.
Proposed retirement home and hotel have Hunt Club councillors worried about traffic
Claridge Homes wants to build a retirement home and hotel, both eight storeys, on Hunt Club Road at the Airport Parkway.
The proposed development, a combination of five properties southwest of that intersection, needs changes to the land-use rules to allow the hotel and taller buildings. The addresses are 1026, 1038, 1040, 1050 and 1054 Hunt Club Rd.
River Coun. Riley Brockington and Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans are concerned about the impact of the proposed development on the already-busy Hunt Club Road.
Since the development would only allow right turns into the property and right turns out of the property on Hunt Club Road, the councillors are worried about collisions if motorists have to make u-turns on that stretch.
Revised Rochester Field plan would allow development along Richmond Road
A new proposal for Rochester Field — the big green space connecting Richmond Road with the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway — calls for buildings along the edge of Westboro’s main street.
The revised plan is rooted in a deal struck between the city and the National Capital Commission, which owns Rochester Field, as part of the western LRT extension. However, the draft deal talked about allowing development in the northeast section of Rochester Field, not along Richmond Road.
The NCC now wants to use two parcels along Richmond Road for development, while keeping an access point for the park.
According to the city, the new draft deal dedicates more of the property — at least 80 per cent of it — to park space. City staff recommend council members approve the revised land-use plan.
Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper, sensing concern in the community, is skeptical about the proposal and wants to pause the process.
Protection for overpass not needed at little-used railway, Kanata councillor says
The city says it needs to protect land for a future overpass at a railway in Kanata. The councillor doesn’t think so.
KNL Developments is planning a subdivision east of Goulbourn Forced Road and south of a freight rail line, which is only used one day each week.
The urban road network in the official plan considers extending Solandt Road another 850 metres to the new subdivision, but it would require crossing the railway to meet up with Walden Drive. The city says it has no plans to extend the road.
KNL is researching if the road extension is necessary.
But if it is necessary, the city says it’s “imperative” to protect property for a grade-separated road. The Railway Association of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities published a report discouraging future at-grade rail crossings, the city says.
Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson doesn’t think the city needs to protect land for an overpass since the railway is hardly used. If the developer needs to give up land for a future overpass, it might not build at all, she said.
Wilkinson wants the planning committee to make a decision, rather than leaving it up to staff.
Barrhaven industrial landowner wants drinking water outside municipal service area
A developer wants to bring city drinking water to prime land near Highway 416 and Fallowfield Road, even though the property is outside the municipal service area.
What’s most interesting is Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder’s reaction to the application, contained in the staff report to the committee.
“I find it unfortunate actually that the developer if given access to the public water system will continue with their current approved design,” Harder wrote in the report, which recommends approving drinking water for 4497 O’Keefe Court.
O’Keefe Court Properties wants to build a light-industrial complex. The landowner currently only has city permission to use a water connection for fire service, but not drinking water. City staff are okay with the drinking water use since the pipes are already at the property and a neighbouring subdivision will need water service.
Harder wrote it’s too bad a “prestige” development, like a hotel, wasn’t previously possible because the land would be serviced by well and septic systems. If council approves the water connection, Harder hopes the developer will reconsider what to do with the land.
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