This afternoon's special Development Services Committee meeting concerns several City of Oshawa and Region of Durham Official Plan changes. However, included in the Agenda material is a Report requesting for approval of the developer Minto's plan of subdivision where the long planned for 28 acre Community Park was to be located. http://app.oshawa.ca/.../AGENDA_2020-12-10_DSC_Special.pdf
Imo the process proposed with report DS-20-150 is unacceptable. It is framed with this line: "A recommendation on the Community Park does not form part of this report."
Imo Council should approve Minto's plan WITH the Community Park, NOT without it. But as I've written before, the developer and City show their preference to breach the City's northern urban boundary and redesignate prime agricultural land, which will fast track an increase in Minto's number of housing units where the park was to go.
Dangling a promise that in the future there will be a Community Park to the north, at this stage, imo is not only irregular but inappropriate. Even if one corner of Minto's lands outside Oshawa's urban boundary were to be pushed ahead with a 'notwithstanding' process for a special resignation from agricultural, it is NOT GOOD PLANNING.
Over time when the balance of the developer Minto's lands along Harmony Rd. N. north of the City's urban boundary eventually might be redesignated from agricultural to urban, more parkland will need to be included there. Decreasing the parkland needs for south of the current urban boundary is a loss of parkland no matter what way you cut it. The location of this Community Park in the City of Oshawa does not need to be changed. Ask who benefits. Who actually is looking out for the 20,000+ residents expected within this vast Kedron Part II development area?
Kedron Part II is comprised of 10 massive plans of subdivision, the majority of which already have received plan approval. If the 28 acre park planned is taken out, and replaced with a 4 acre park at this late stage, no matter how much some may want to pitch and twist the change as not problematic, in my opinion IT HUGELY IS!
Picture 1 below: lands being prepped for the massive Kedron Part II new residential development from Ritson Rd. to Townline Rd. north of Conlin Rd. 4 months ago. Picture 2, This is a page from the June 2020 Region of Durham Water and Pumping Station needs study where I placed a Diamond Mark where the 28 Community Park has been planned for the past decade, and a Star Mark in the area north of Oshawa's Urban Boundary where staff and the developer want to convince City Council to move the Community Park.
Imo the process proposed with report DS-20-150 is unacceptable. It is framed with this line: "A recommendation on the Community Park does not form part of this report."
Imo Council should approve Minto's plan WITH the Community Park, NOT without it. But as I've written before, the developer and City show their preference to breach the City's northern urban boundary and redesignate prime agricultural land, which will fast track an increase in Minto's number of housing units where the park was to go.
Dangling a promise that in the future there will be a Community Park to the north, at this stage, imo is not only irregular but inappropriate. Even if one corner of Minto's lands outside Oshawa's urban boundary were to be pushed ahead with a 'notwithstanding' process for a special resignation from agricultural, it is NOT GOOD PLANNING.
Over time when the balance of the developer Minto's lands along Harmony Rd. N. north of the City's urban boundary eventually might be redesignated from agricultural to urban, more parkland will need to be included there. Decreasing the parkland needs for south of the current urban boundary is a loss of parkland no matter what way you cut it. The location of this Community Park in the City of Oshawa does not need to be changed. Ask who benefits. Who actually is looking out for the 20,000+ residents expected within this vast Kedron Part II development area?
Kedron Part II is comprised of 10 massive plans of subdivision, the majority of which already have received plan approval. If the 28 acre park planned is taken out, and replaced with a 4 acre park at this late stage, no matter how much some may want to pitch and twist the change as not problematic, in my opinion IT HUGELY IS!
Picture 1 below: lands being prepped for the massive Kedron Part II new residential development from Ritson Rd. to Townline Rd. north of Conlin Rd. 4 months ago. Picture 2, This is a page from the June 2020 Region of Durham Water and Pumping Station needs study where I placed a Diamond Mark where the 28 Community Park has been planned for the past decade, and a Star Mark in the area north of Oshawa's Urban Boundary where staff and the developer want to convince City Council to move the Community Park.
