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City Council - Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 7pm

Updated: Mar 6

the 2024 Heritage Barrie Awards, deputations on the Old Fairgrounds CIHA Order, no public consultation on residential fireworks, and a presentation on Carnival Barrie's 2023 Latin Festival Celebration


Meeting Location: Council Chambers



🧑‍⚖️🫅 Student Mayor(s)


📜🫅 Swearing In of New Student Mayor

  • Emma Miller, St. Joseph's Catholic High School



📜📜 Confirmation of the Minutes



🏆🏅 Awards and Recognitions

🏆🏰 Heritage Barrie Awards

  • Recognition of the recipients of the 2024 Heritage Barrie Awards



🗣🎙 Deputations


🏘️🏢 Community Infrastructure and Housing Accelerator (CIHA) Order for 175 & 199 Essa Road and 50 Wood Street (Ward 8)



💸⚖️ Tax Applications

  • Nil



📝📄 Second General Committee Report, February 28


Section A (Receipt of Reports)

🚸🚨 Community Safety Committee

💵🧑‍⚖️ Finance and Responsible Governance Committee


Section B (Items Approved on Consent)

🚗⚠️ Implementation of Roadside Safety Measures Along Hurst Drive - Vicinity of 42 Gables Way (Ward 8)

🚸🚶 Investigation of Installing a Crosswalk - Toronto and Park Streets (Ward 2)

🏊⛔️ Pool Enclosure Fence

🏡🎧 Short Term Rentals

  • Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12635223&GUID=29F84F79-CCD2-4A49-AC13-4DAA7F53BC3D

  • direct Legislative and Court Services, in consultation with Economic and Creative Development, to investigate options to further regulate and enforce Short Term Rentals in order to reduce issues such as noise, waste and other concerns and report back to Community Safety

  • ask Police Services Board to provide correspondence concerning options for a tiered response by Barrie Police Service to address complaints concerning Air BnB's, especially if there are multiple complaints about an individual property

🔍🪧 Review of Sign Bylaw 2018-029 Provisions

💌🤝 Establishing Consistent Stakeholder Invites

  • Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12635167&GUID=3EA293A4-3D9C-4551-8CA7-17DA3251A36A

  • invite staff in the Development Services Department related to traffic calming, school zone cameras, etc., and the Barrie Police Service to provide two presentations a year to the Community Safety Committee on the same evening

  • invite the Downtown Barrie BIA to provide two presentations a year to the Community Safety Committee

  • invite the school boards to provide a presentation three times per term of Council to the Communitiy Safety Committee

💰🧹 Community Project Fund Submission - Unity Community Clean-Up

💰🏟️ Sadlon Arena Expansion

  • Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12695214&GUID=6B070151-90EF-48A3-B6AB-81DB2576877F

  • increase the Municipal Accommodation Tax (MAT) from 4% to 6%, effective April 1, and direct the increase percentage to the future expansion of the Sadlon Arena

  • direct the Finance Department to create a Sadlon Arena Expansion Reserve to hold these funds

  • establish an agreement between the City and Tourism Barrie to determine the contributions from Tourism Barrie to the Sadlon Arena Expansion Reserve on an annual basis and report back to General Committee with the results of those negotiations

🏘️🏢 Zoning Bylaw Amendment - 290 Cundles Road East (Ward 3)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12695154&GUID=AA1138DA-5C8C-4BAC-8E12-D08A2B7F9B03

  • Rezone from "Institutional" (I) to "Residential Multiple Dwelling Second Density with Site-specific Provision" (RM2 SP-XXX)

  • Special Provisions:

  • minimum front yard setback reduced to 3m (currently 7m)

  • maximum encroachment into front yard setback for awnings and canopies increased to 1.65m (currently 0.6m)

  • minimum rear yard setback reduced to 2.7m (currently 7m)

  • minimum south side yard setback reduced to 1.2m (currently 1.8m)

  • maximum building height increased to 12m for traditional block/cluster townhouse units (currently 10m)

  • maximum building height increased to 14.5m for stacked back-to-back townhouse units (currently 10m)

  • maximum gross floor area (GFA) increased to 105% (currently 60%)

  • maximum lot coverage increased to 40% (currently 35%)

  • minimum landscaped open space reduced to 31% (currently 35%)

  • maximum residential density increased to 79 units/ha for traditional and back-to-back block/cluster townhouse units (currently 40 u/ha)

  • minimum landscape buffer strip reduced to 1m width where a parking area with more than 4 parking spaces abuts the southern interior side lot line (currently 3m)

  • develop the lands according to the Conceptual Site Plan submitted

🛑🚗 Innisfil St. & Marshall St. All-Way Stop (Ward 8)

🛑🚗 All-Way Stop Cardinal Street and Hadden Crescent (Easterly Intersection) (Ward 3)

💰🏘️ Redwood Park Communities Inc. Interim Construction Financing

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12695279&GUID=BE4DAF1A-1E73-4ECD-9540-4B5A2B51CE8F

  • Release the final $1M out of the $3M interest-free loan commitment, for a supportive housing project at 151/153 Lillian Crescent, with full repayment of t loan being the earlier of the completion of Redwood's capital contribution campaign or December 31, 2025

  • Require Redwood to continue to provide a monthly report to the City, outlining the construction schedule, costs, and documentation to support all draws being made for construction expenditures associated with the project

🚍🤝 Durham Region Transit Bus Trade


Section C

🚌📸 School Bus Arm Cameras


Section D

🚫🎆 Public Consultation - Firework Restrictions in Residential Areas

  • Proposal by Kungl:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12635227&GUID=316EE3A2-1EAA-4623-A6FE-7BBF6ABA4ABC

  • Direct Access Barrie in consultation with Legislative and Court Services to conduct public consultations to obtain feedback on the restriction of fireworks in residential areas and report back to Finance and Responsible Governance, with up to $5000 being allocated from the Council Strategic Priorities Reserve to enable the design of an online and phone poll engagement

  • This item failed in General Committee, so tonight's vote will be on whether to accept the item being voted down (i.e, there will be no public consultation on the restriction of fireworks in residential areas)


Section E

🚗🏎️ Mapleview Drive East Speed Limit Review (Wards 9 & 10)


Section F

🏘️🏢 Community Infrastructure and Housing Accelerator (CIHA) Order for 175 & 199 Essa Road and 50 Wood Street (Ward 8)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12706191&GUID=B921A9B6-44FB-45CA-BE1C-A3744FAE17B4

  • Correspondence from Barrie Curling Club: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12711679&GUID=0CF76760-758B-4953-A955-6A31E33CEAE0

  • Receive the report for information purposes

  • In order to gain direction from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Transportation, direct Development Services to forward the required information to support the CIHA Order, the Draft Order to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing to facilitate the zoning permissions needed for the future development of the property, and the Master Plan Zoning Statistics, with the following revisions:

  • land for a school(s) be identified on the Zoning schedule

  • if neither the Simcoe County District School Board nor the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board exercises the option to construct a school in this development, the land to be given to the City (at no cost) for parkland as part of the parkland dedication requirements

  • ask that the Province send the plans back to the City for Draft Plan and Site Plan approval

  • Direct staff to investigate the use of the rail spur extending from the Allandale Transit Hub to the subject property for use by Barrie Transit for public transit purposes


Section G

🚰📑 Water Operations Branch 2023 Drinking Water System Reports


Section H

🪧✅ Request for Exemption from Sign Bylaw - 60 Mapleview Drive (Ward 7)


Section I (Circulation List Referrals)

📋✅ Strategic Plan KPIs

🚍🧓 Barrie Transit - Free Seniors Service Update



⏸️⏯️ Deferred Business

  • Nil



➡️📜 Direct Motions

  • Nil



🧑‍🏫📑 Presentations


Carnival Barrie



📜📜 Bylaws


Bill 019 - Zoning Bylaw Amendment, 290 Cundles Road East (Ward 3)


Bill 020 - Confirmation Bylaw













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