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City Council - Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 7pm

Updated: Jan 6

Youth Exchanges, and a potential Arts & Culture partnership on the waterfront




🧑‍⚖️🤴 Student Mayor(s)

  • Nil


📜📜 Confirmation of the Minutes


🏆🏅 Awards and Recognitions


🧑‍🎓🇩🇪 Student Delegation from Zweibrucken, Germany

  • Welcoming the students to Barrie


🗣🎙 Deputations

  • Nil


💸⚖️ Tax Applications

  • Nil


📝📄 General Committee Report

Section A (Reports to be Received)

💰🤷 Affordability Committee

🏛️🛝 Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee

Section B (Consent Agenda)

🏰🗿 Report of the Heritage Barrie Committee

  • Report, June 27: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12275747&GUID=F72DCD2C-A4EA-4B25-90B0-88B67912F1FD

  • Refer this report to the Mayor's Priority and Planning Task Force

  • As noted in our Council follow-up from the Affordability Committee meeting, this referral raises a number of questions, considering there is no public accountability for this Task Force (no notices of meetings, agendas or minutes available) – how does the public now know the "fate" of this report, and the decisions made by this committee? Is less than half of our elected Council able to terminate a City Committee's initiative, without being accountable to or transparent with the public?

🏰📜 Municipal Heritage Register - 96 Clapperton Street

  • That 96 Clapperton Street be added to the Municipal Heritage Registry as a listed property.

📰📢 2024 Doors Open Event - Marketing and Communication

  • That staff in Access Barrie provide communication and marketing support to the Heritage Barrie Committee for the 2024 Doors Open Simcoe County event, including media and print.

🚲♻️ Landfill Bike Diversion Project

  • Direct staff to apply the learnings from the Landfill Bike Diversion Pilot Program and formalize a program to which local non-profit organizations can enter into a relationship with the City to divert items such as bicycles, as long as the items do not create landfill revenue loss, or result in an increase in expenditures associated with the Landfill

🚫🚗 Summerset Drive and Wright Drive No Parking and Stopping Prohibited (Ward 6)

  • Staff Report: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12314437&GUID=1B28C92E-6C86-4619-B556-7F3FEABC921F

  • Add "No Parking Anytime on both sides of Summerset Drive from Wright Drive to 45m west, and on the south side from 50m west of Kierland Road to 108m east

  • Add "No Parking" September 1 - July 1 M-T on the east side of Wright Drive from Auburn Court to Summerset Drive, and on the south side of Summerset Drive from Wright Drive to 145m east

  • Add "Stopping Prohibited" to the north side of Summerset Drive from 50m west of Kierland Road to 108m east, the north side of Summerset Drive from Wright Drive to 145m east 8am-5pm M-F September 1 - July 1, and the west side of Wright Drive from Summerset Drive to Auburn Court 8am-5pm M-F September 1 - July 1

🚫🚗 No Parking Anytime - Mapleton Avenue (Ward 6)

📇📑 Municipal Names Registry - Additional Names

📊📋 Business Plan Status as of June 30, 2023

Section C

⛵️🧑‍✈️ Sea Cadets Facility Relocation Options and Youth Sport Consultation

  • Staff Memo: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12296399&GUID=4F2A0AE8-EDC1-412D-8F4F-C592451418B5

  • Endorse in principle a building east of Military Heritage Park as the future location of the Sea Cadets facility

  • Direct Corporate Facilities to develop a plan in consultation with the Sea Cadets and Navy League of Canada to relocate the Navy cadets to a new building east of Military Heritage Park including a parade ground and multi-use outdoor space and report back to the Infrastructure and Community Investment Committe

  • Add a budget for the Sea Cadets alternative study to the 2023 Capital Plan, with $200,000 of budget approval ($50,000 in 2023 and $150,000 in 2024) to be funded by the Tax Capital Reserve

  • Direct staff to amend the Waterfront Strategic Plan Update Final Report to remove any references to other proposed locations

Section D

🌊⛱️ Waterfront Strategic Plan Update

Section E

🚫🚗 Parking Control for New Subdivisions (Secondary Plan and Built Boundary) (Wards 7-10)

Section F

🛣️📇 Municipal Street Naming for Streets in Ballymore Draft Plan of Subdivision - 750 Lockhart Road (Ward 10)

  • Staff Report: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12314436&GUID=23BF65D9-A136-4D41-A687-A760979FE325

  • Name Street 4 Dainty Crescent

  • Confirm the street names Kneeshaw Drive, Gouda Lane (Street 2) and Flan Boulevard (Street 3

  • Re-establish the policy of naming streets after elected members of Council, and automatically add the title and name of elected members as of the 2022-26 term of Council and onwards to the registry if they don't already have a park, bridge or facility named after them

  • Review the existing list of names for originality, appropriateness, and representation of our community and its residents

  • Enact a policy that any Barrie resident who served in the Canadian Armed Forces and are killed in action, or served on a fire, paramedic or police department and are killed in the line of duty have their last name added automatically to the registry if they don't already have a park, bridge or facility named after them

Section G

🚴🛣️ Grove and Duckworth Streets Separated Cycling Facility Implementation (Wards 1 & 2)

Section H

🚫🚗 Geddes Crescent No Parking Anytime Restrictions (Ward 4)

  • Staff Report: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12314440&GUID=4FB5B984-9F4E-41A7-A48F-EFA05F1E0A94

  • Add "No Parking Anytime" to the north side of Geddes Crescent from the westerly intersection of Leacock Drive to the easterly intersection of Leacock Drive, and to the east side of Geddes Crescent from 70m north of the westerly intersection of Leacock Drive to 30m east, and to the west side of Geddes Crescent from 57m north of the easterly intersection of Leacock Drive to 30m west

💰🏢 Community Infrastructure and Housing Accelerator (CIHA) Order for Schlegel Villages - 800 Yonge Street (Ward 9)

🚌📸 School Bus Arm Cameras

  • Correspondence from Municipality of Grey Highlands, June 21: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12314631&GUID=AC66837D-3ED5-4E12-9DFD-F4310770200A

  • Refer this correspondence to the Community Safety Committee for further consideration

  • The Municipality of Grey Highlands urges the Province to require all school buses to have stop arm cameras installed and paid for by the Province for the start of the 2023-24 school year, and underwrite the costs for the implementation and ongoing annual costs for Administrative Monetary Penalties in small and rural municipalities

Section I

🤐🏷️ Confidential Proposed Disposition of Land Matter - Bayview Drive

  • To receive the motion contained within the confidential notes

Section J

🤝🏢 Lease of a Portion of 555 Bayview Drive to the YMCA of Simcoe/Muskoka (Ward 8)

  • Complete and execute a lease with the YMCA of Simcoe/Muskoka for this parcel of land, and have the YMCA name the City as a recipient and provide copies of any reports or studies arising from any site investigations undertaken on City property


⏸️⏯️ Deferred Business

  • Nil


Direct Motions

Authorization to Release Addresses / Legal Description Identified in Motion 23-G-179

  • Mover: Thomson / Nixon

  • Authorize the Mayor and CAO to release the addresses / legal descriptions of the properties identified by City Council though motion 23-G-179 (Confidential Potential Disposition of Land Matter – City Properties), as deemed appropriate


🧑‍🏫📑 Presentations


🧒🇺🇳 Youth Exchanges

  • Presentation: not yet available

  • The Global Perspectives and Youth Ambassador Programs give an update on the Youth Exchanges

🎭⛵️ Art and Water


📜📜 Bylaws


Bill 103 - Site Plan Control, 410 Yonge St and 343 Little Ave

Bill 104 - Part Lot Control Exemption, 1-42 Cherry Hill Lane

Bill 105 - Part Lot Control Exemption, 11-37 (odd) and 28-38 (even) Blue Bird Lane, and 94-156 (even) Turnberry Lane

Bill 106 - Part Lot Control Exemption, 63 & 65 Sagewood Ave

Bill 107 - Part Lot Control Exemption, 1 & 3 Sagewood Ave

Bill 108 - Part Lot Control Exemption, 67 & 69 Sagewood Ave

Bill 109 - Part Lot Control Exemption, 53-57 (odd) Kirkwood Way, and 111 & 113 Sagewood Ave

Bill 110 - Part Lot Control Exemption, 56-62 & 68-94 (even) West Oak Trail

Bill 111 – Confirmation Bylaw













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