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General Committee – Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 7pm

Updated: May 28

new Community Safety and Well-Being Plan, 2025 Asset Management Plan, zoning amendments in Wards 6, 7 & 10, speed cameras made permanent, 2024 Budget and Business Plan Year-End Report


Minutes: not yet available

Meeting Location: Council Chambers or online


PRESENT: Nuttall, Thomson, Riepma, Nixon, Courser, Nigussie, Harvey, Harris, Morales, Hamilton

ABSENT: Kungl


🧑‍🏫📑 Presentations


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



📝📑 Reports of Reference, Advisory or Special Committees


🚸🚨 Community Safety Committee

🚫🅿️ 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

  • APPROVED on Consent


🏛️🫂 Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee

🎭📋 Culture Plan Update

🎨♟️ 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

  • HELD by Riepma


🛟🫂  Community Safety and Well-Being Plan Committee

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

  • Plan: not yet available

  • Approve the draft Community Safety and Well-Being Plan, subject to minor revisions discussed at the meeting

  • APPROVED on Consent (after presentation completed)



📑🗂 Staff Reports


🏛️📋 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

    • APPROVED on Consent


🚗🏷️ 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 Sit Plan Control

  • APPROVED on Consent


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

  • HELD by Thomson

  • This matter was moved in camera after the rest of the meeting was complete


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

  • APPROVED on Consent


🏘️🏘️ 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)

  • HELD by Nigussie

  • Nigussie had questions of staff, no amendment

  • CARRIED, unanimously


🏎️📸 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

  • APPROVED on Consent


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

  • HELD by Nigussie

  • This matter was moved in camera after the rest of the meeting was complete




📥🔄 Circulation List Referrals

  • Nil




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