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City Council - Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 7pm

approving the 2025-29 Community Safety and Well-Being Plan, asking the province for ice storm clean-up funds, a (problematic) presentation from Tourism Barrie


Minutes: not yet available

Watch Online:   https://www.youtube.com/citybarrie [direct link not yet available]

Meeting Location:  Council Chambers or online



🧑‍⚖️🫅 Student Mayor(s)


🫅👋 Comments from Outgoing Student Mayors

  • Lincoln Holland, Urban Village Academy

  • Stroud MacGregor, St. Monica's Catholic Elementary School



📜📜 Confirmation of the Minutes



🏆🏅 Awards and Recognitions


🤝🫂 Presentation of the CAMA Collaboration Award of Excellence

  • Town of Innisfil, County of Simcoe and City of Barrie, for the Growing & Leading Together Program


🦺🛟 Recognition of the National Canada Safest Employer Award

  • We believe this is Barrie's SafeStart Award from 2024, as "Safest Employer for Young People"



🗣🎙 Deputations

  • Nil



📝📄 General Committee Report


Section A (reports received)

🚸🚨 Community Safety Committee

🏛️🫂 Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee

🛟🫂  Community Safety and Well-Being Plan Committee


Section B (consent items)

🚫🅿️ No Parking Signs on Greer Street

  • Refer the matter of no parking on Greer Street to the Parking Ad-hoc Advisory Committee

  • Installation of bike lanes and enforcement of no parking on Greer Street will not begin until the Parking Ad-hoc Advisory Committee has made a recommendation on this matter

🎭📋 Culture Plan Update

🏛️📋 2025 Asset Management Plan

🏘️🏘️ Zoning Bylaw Amendment - 830, 864, 894 & 912 Lockhart Road (Ward 10)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14233099&GUID=BE048F5A-6E95-491E-AE08-4CA9F960B69B 

  • Rezone from Agricultural General (AG), Environmental Protection (EP) and Rural Residential (RR) in Innisfil Zoning to Neighbourhood Residential (R5), Neighbourhood Residential Multiple (RM3), Neighbourhood Residential Multiple with Special Provisions (RM3 SP-XX), Neighbourhood Mixed Use with Special Provisions (NMU SP-XX), Environmental Protection (EP) and Open Space (OS)

  • Special Provisions for RM3 SP-XXX zone:

    • reduce parking ratio from 1.5 to 1.2 spaces per dwelling unit

    • assign front yard lot lines:

      • Block 74: Terry Fox Drive

      • Block 75: Street 'C'

      • Block 76: Terry Fox Drive and Prince William Way

    • these special provisions will apply even if future severance, partition or division of the lands

  • Special Provisions for NMU SP-XXX:

    • Front Yard Setback not required to be fully paved and seamlessly connected with the abutting sidewalk

🚗🏷️ Official Plan & Zoning Bylaw Amendment - 112 King Street, Formerly 1 Hollyholme Farm Road (Ward 7)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14227660&GUID=8CD76A2C-4C64-4215-A8C6-898668884659 

  • Approve the Official Plan Amendment application submitted, with the following amendments:

    • Amend Map 2 - Land Use by adding "See Policy 2.8.X" to the lands

    • Add text to Section 2.8 - Defined Policy Area of the Official Plan as follows:

      • Section 2.8.X 112 King Street

        • "Notwithstanding Section 2.6.9.2 (f)(i) & (ii) of this Plan, the lands known municipally as 112 King Street are permitted to have retail and office uses occupy 100% of the gross floor area of the building/structure from which it exists"

  • Rezone from Light Industrial (LI) to Light Industrial with Special Provisions (LI SP-XXX)

  • Special Provisions:

    • permit an automotive sales establishment and automotive leasing establishment

  • Amend Site Plan Control Bylaw 99-312 to include the subject lands as an additional area subject to Site Plan Control

🤐🧾 Confidential Trade Secret or Scientific, Technical, Commercial, Financial or Labour Relations Information Supplied in Confidence - Procurement Services

  • Confidential direction to staff

🏎️📸 Automated Speed Enforcement Update

💰📊 2024 Budget and Business Plan Year-End Report

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14227672&GUID=1D8730BE-60EF-407A-A060-AD73EB4495B1

  • Allocate the $5,121,197 Tax Rate operating surplus as follows:

    • $169,337 to the Fleet Management Reserve

    • $4,951,860 to the Tax Rate Stabilization Reserve

  • Allocate the 2024 Water Rate operating surplus of $558,532 to the Water Rate Capital Reserve

  • Fund the 2024 Wastewater Rate operating deficit of $1,162,142 from the Wastewater Rate Stabilization Reserve

  • Allocate the 2024 Parking Rate operating surplus of $839,463 to the Parking Rate Capital Reserve

  • Fund an accounting adjustment of $736,059 (re: sale of 23 Collier Street in 2020) from the Parking Rate Capital Reserve

  • Recover $1,945,267 in discretional Development Charge discounts and exemptions granted during the year as follows:

    • $1,368,149 from the 2024 Tax Rate unadjusted operating results

    • $251,006 from the 2024 Water Rate unadjusted operating results

    • $326,112 from the 2024 Wastewater Rate unadjusted operating results

  • Allocate $6,628,679 of investment revenue surplus to the non-obligatory reserve balances that contributed to the generation of the revenue, prorated by the average annual balance of each reserve


Section C

🛟🫂 2025-29 Community Safety and Well-Being Plan


Section D

🛟🫂 City of Barrie's Community Safety and Well-Being Plan 2025-2029, "Working Together for a Safer Community"


Section E

🎨♟️ Public Art Strategy

  • Memorandum:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14158723&GUID=51CF3BF8-9F39-441F-982F-F43FFD9551D3 from Carol-Ann Ryan, MA, Hons.BA, Public Art Coordinator, Economic & Creative Development, and C. Pollard, Manager, Small Business and Creative Sector

  • Receive the Public Art Strategy and approve it in principle to guide the future planning and development of the cultural sector

  • Use the Implementation Guide and Actions identified in Appendix A to guide the development of the 2026-2035 Public Art Program operating budgets and future Capital Plans for Council consideration as part of the Business Plan approval process.

  • Include these implementation items in the 2026 Budget (with a net-zero impact on tax base):

    • Fully operationalize the annual Public Art Reserve allocation of $60,408.76 to support temporary art projects on an annual basis, including the Traffic Cabinet program and Brightening Barriers, with any unused funds allocated to the Public Art Reserve

  • Direct the Economic and Creative Development Department to report back to General Committee on the progress of the plan's implementation as part of the department's Performance and Budget Reporting

  • Direct the Economic and Creative Development Department to complete a feasibility/revenue tool assessment to identify revenue and sustainable funding opportunities to be included as part of the strategy and report back to General Committee in Fall of 2025


Section F

🏘️🏘️ Zoning Bylaw Amendment - 127 & 131 Ardagh Road (Ward 6)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14227670&GUID=DD1B5133-E606-460A-BF88-1DD3294829C4 

  • Rezone from Residential Single Detached Dwelling First Density (R1) to Residential Multiple Dwelling Second Density with Special Provisions (RM2 SP-XXX)

  • Special Provisions:

    • reduce Minimum Front Yard Setback from 7m to 5m

    • reduce Minimum Rear Yard Setback from 7m to 5m

    • increase Maximum Gross Floor Area from 60% to 73T

    • increase Maximum Density from 40 to 45 units per net hectare

    • reduce Minimum Secondary Means of Egress from 7m to 5m

    • reduce parking spaces from 1.5 to 1.25 spaces per dwelling unit (total of 24 spaces)


Section G (confidential reports received)

🤐🧑‍💻 Confidential Trade Secret or Scientific, Technical, Commercial, Financial or Labour Relations Information Supplied in Confidence - Consulting Services

  • Receive the confidential notes

🤐🏷️ Confidential Potential Sale of Property - Status Update, City-Owned Properties

  • Receive the Confidential Notes


Section H

🤐🧑‍💻 Confidential Trade Secret or Scientific, Technical, Commercial, Financial or Labour Relations Information Supplied in Confidence - Consulting Services

  • Motion Lost: Confidential direction to staff


Section I

🤐🏷️ Confidential Potential Sale of Property - Status Update, City-Owned Properties

  • Confidential direction to staff



➡️📜 Direct Motions


🥶💸 Operating and Capital Costs - 2025 Ice Storm

  • MOTION by: Thomson / Kungl

  • MOTION: Ask the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing to activate the Municipal Disaster Recovery Assistance Program to allow for the City of Barrie to submit a claim for costs associated with the ice storm, and authorize the Interim Director of Finance to verify and attest to the accuracy of the claim



🧑‍🏫📑 Presentations


🎪🎡 Tourism Assessment Analysis of Barrie's Top 14 Festivals and Events in 2024

  • Presentation: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14256746&GUID=64748DB4-28F4-4963-A82D-0ECD8612401E by Tourism Barrie

  • This presentation includes a HIGHLY problematic "Ethnic Diversity of the Attendees" statistic, breaking ethnicity down into "Canadian" (not an ethnicity) and "Diversity" (including Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Latin American, Russian, and South Asian) - seemingly implying that "Canadian" refers to white English-speakers, and those with other backgrounds are not considered to be Canadian



📜📜 Bylaws


🚰🛣️ Bill 43 - Yonge-GO Village Acceptance of Municipal Services, Phase 2 - Fairlane Avenue, Gateland Drive, Haven Lane, Turnberry Lane, Evergreen Terrace, and Westwood Avenue


🏘️🏘️ Bill 44 - Zoning Bylaw Amendment: 830, 864, 894 & 912 Lockhart Road


🚗🏷️ Bill 45 - Official Plan Amendment: 112 King Street


🚗🏷️ Bill 46 - Zoning Bylaw Amendment: 112 King Street


🏘️🏘️ Bill 47 - Zoning Bylaw Amendment: 127 & 131 Ardagh Road


🏘️🗺️ Bill 48 - Part Lot Control Exemption Bylaw: 330-332 Madelaine Drive


🏘️🗺️ Bill 49 - Part Lot Control Exemption Bylaw: 7-17 Vinewood Crescent, odd numbers


🏘️🗺️ Bill 50 - Part Lot Control Exemption Bylaw: 19-31 Vinewood Crescent, odd numbers


🏘️🗺️ Bill 51 - Part Lot Control Exemption: 81-93 Vinewood Crescent, odd numbers, and 98-110 Yorkshire Drive, even numbers


🏘️🗺️ Bill 52 - Part Lot Control Exemption Bylaw: 224-334 Greer Street, even numbers


🏘️🗺️ Bill 53 - Part Lot Control Bylaw: 12-24 Ivory Road, even numbers


🏘️🗺️ Bill 54 - Part Lot Control Bylaw: 26-36 Ivory Road, even numbers

🛣️🗺️ Bill 55 - Establish land as public highway - Mapleview Drive West


👥👥 Bill 56 - Youth Council Quorum


👥👥 Bill 57 - Committee Appointments: Seniors and Accessibility Advisory Committee, Youth Council, Parking Ad-hoc Advisory Committee


📜✅ Bill 58 - Confirmation Bylaw





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