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Circulation List for June 18, 2025

Updated: 13 hours ago

Pollinator Week, Curbside Giveaway Day, Women of Ontario Say No, Provincial Bill 17




📑📊 Staff Memos


🐝🦋 Pollinator Week


🗺️🧐 Employment Area Consultation for Official Plan Amendment


🏗️🏘️ Community Planning Permit System

  • Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14288101&GUID=380CEB87-3CED-4467-9FD4-EFC7340AF90E from S. White, RPP, Supervisor of Growth Management (Housing)

  • The CPPS is a key initiative under the City's Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) Action Plan, and will streamline development approvals and support growth in the Urban Growth Centre and Allandale Major Transit Station Area to accelerate housing delivery

  • To meet the City's commitment to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the City aims to adopt an Official Plan Amendment and the CPPS Bylaw by April 26

  • For more information and project updates, visit www.buildingbarrie.ca/cpps


📰➡️ This Week in Barrie Pilot Extension

  • Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14288102&GUID=F3DBB7CF-FF36-444F-A5F0-ABC70D11BEF6 from C. Harris, Associate Director Communications and Customer Service

  • The pilot is being expanded, with the Barrie Compass now giving the City a dedicated two-page spread at no additional cost, and actively expanding its distribution network, including grocery stores, convenience stores and apartment buildings with high concentrations of senior residents

  • Staff recommend continuing the pilot through the end of 2026 (there are no budget implications in doing so)


📐👷 Engineering Conditions, 970 Mapleview Drive East Subdivision


🍻🍷 Liquor Licence Application Review - Campbells British Tearoom - 274 Burton Avenue, Unit 18


🍻🍷 Liquor Licence Application Review - Luca - 55 Mulcaster Street, Unit 1-3



👥📃 Committee Agendas


💸🤷 Affordability Committee


👑🏆  Order of the Spirit Catcher Committee 


🏙️🎓 Town and Gown Committee



✍️📨 Correspondence


⚖️🦹 Accountability for Elected Representatives

  • Correspondence from Emily McIntosh, The Women of Ontario Say No, June 9: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14288109&GUID=3CE666E7-1C91-46C1-B671-AA272CAD200D

  • Asking Council to advocate with the Province to have Councillor's "egregious acts causing harm to others" cases adjudicated through a panel of Integrity Commissioners at the Provincial level, instead of requiring unanimous Council approval - or if unwilling for this, then to at least reduce the threshold from unanimous to 2/3 of Council

  • Asking Council to support the legislative addition:

    • Any councillor charged with assault while in public office will be placed on automatic leave until resolved in the courts. If convicted, automatic removal will be applied.


🎁🛣️ Curbside Giveaway Day


🐝🦋 Pollinator Week


🪴🎍 Grand Opening of New Greenhouse



⏳➕ Late Additions


📑📊 Staff Memos

🏗️🧾 Status of Bill 17 - Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025

  • Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14298961&GUID=ACAE28A4-B1B3-49A5-B310-7C71A1E475A4 from C. Kitsemetry, RPP, Supervisor of Growth Management

  • The Bill received Royal Assent on June 5, and is aimed at accelerating the development of housing, infrastructure, and transit-oriented communities across the province

  • Overview of changes:

    • Schedule 1 prevents a municipality to pass bylaws re: the construction or demolition of buildings (the City does not have any that exceed the requirements of the Ontario Building Code)

    • Schedule 2 adds a definition of a "provincial transit project" with related changes

    • Schedule 3 relates to the City of Toronto Act, so does not apply

    • Schedule 4 makes multiple amendments to the Development Charges Act, including:

      • Long-Term Care homes are exempt from development charges

      • The City can no longer require a Background Study, doesn't need to hold a Public Meeting or be subject to the DC Appeal process if an amendment to a development charge bylaw is to:

        • repeal the expiry date of the bylaw or provide for a later expiry date

        • repeal a provision for indexing of development charges

        • decrease the amount of a development charge that is payable for one or more types of developments

      • Passed but not yet in force:

        • regulations (to be created) will determine which land acquisition costs will be eligible to be included in a DC Background Study

        • deferral of DCs until occupancy for residential developments that are not rental housing developments

        • prescribed circumstances (to be created) that a municipality may require securities for DCs due at occupancy

        • interest will no longer be charged on any deferral of DCs

        • occupancy permits can be withheld under payment of DCs

        • a change in use from rental housing to something else will no longer require any outstanding DCs to be paid immediately, and will continue with instalment payments

        • DCs payable can be paid prior to when they are due without a Section 27 agreement

        • regulations (to be created) will determine what is a local service

    • Schedule 5 amends the Metrolinx Act:

      • the Minister may direct a municipalitiy or its municipal agencies to provide the Minister with information and data that may be required to support the development of a provincial transit project or transit-oriented community project

    • Schedule 6 amends the Ministry of Infrastructure Act

      • repealing certain sections and adding that the Minister may direct a municipality to provide certain information, data and documents

    • Schedule 7 makes multiple amendments to the Planning Act, including:

      • no Official Plan may contain any policy that prohibits the use of a parcel of urban residential land for an elementary school or secondary school of a school board, or any ancillary uses to such schools, including the use of a childcare centre located in the school

      • expanded permission to grant portables 'as of right' on all school sites

      • changing the definition of a minimum setback distance to be the prescribed percentage of the setback distance, if applying to a building or structure located on a parcel of urban residential land

      • Minister can impose conditions on municipalities or proponents that must be met before a use permitted by a Minister's Zoning Order comes into effect

      • Minister approval is requied before adopting an amendment to an Official Plan that adds, amends or revokes any of the provisions re: the information or material that can be required for a complete application

      • material submitted in support of a development is now deemed to meet the applicable requirement if it is prepared by a person authorized to practice a prescribed profession

      • Passed, but more detail needed:

        • setback requirements to provide flexibility have been potentially identified as 10%, but that has not been verified

        • formal confirmation is needed for what can be required as part of a complete application (may include removal of shadow, wind, urban design, and lightning studies !!! )

        • formal description of certified professionals for submitting supporting materials is required to better implement this provision

    • Schedule 8 amends the Transit-Oriented Communities Act

      • expanded list of projects included in the definition of "priority transit project"

      • approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council is not needed in certain circumstances

      • adding the Ontario Infrastructure and Lands Corporation to the list of entities the Minister may delegate certain powers

  • Staff will be investigating the impact each amendment has on the City's process and municipal legislation, and provide detail to Council as soon as available

🎪📑 Kempenfest Consultation Report Update

  • Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14300881&GUID=72B7F16C-B756-46E7-ABD0-467C204A2A64 from K. Datema, Director of Recreation and Culture Services

  • A draft report has been received by staff and the consultant will present a summary presentation to the Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee in the fall -- staff will align the timing with the Culture Plan update, and further coordinate with the Kempenfest Board if they wish to delegate at the same meeting


✍️📨 Correspondence

🐝🦋 Pollinator Week

🏗️😡 Review of Development Charge Incentives

  • Letter from Mattamy Homes Canada, June 13: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14299549&GUID=F36B2379-93E4-4487-8C15-AF87283CA0FE

  • Expressing appreciation for the Mayoral Direction to review DC incentives

  • Asking staff to explore reducing DC rates or other charges for sites ready to proceed with development at this time (including, presumably, their own)

  • Asking staff to explore the impact and feasibility of various development charge incentives, including the above proposal, and report on their findings to Council at the August Council meeting

  • It is very disturbing that a developer feels entitled to direct City Staff what to investigate and when to report to Council - City Staff work for the PUBLIC GOOD, not a developer's private interests.

🪖💵 Advocacy for Increased Income Support Thresholds for Canadian Veterans

  • Resolution from the Town of Bradford West Guillimbury, June 17: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14299802&GUID=68968AAC-21F1-42F5-9F7B-12B9D6DA234E

  • Calling on the Federal government to increase the eligibility threshold for the Income Replacement Benefit (IRB) program from $20,000 to no less than $40,000 annually for a single-person household

  • Urging Veterans Affairs Canada to review all income support programs with the intent to modernize eligibility criteria in line with the current cost of living across Canada






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