The 1st 2 of Monday's 3 committee meetings saw some noteworthy motions passed.
At the 9:30-11:00 a.m. Corporate Services Committee meeting, Report CORP-21-43 on the Agenda, concerning Municipal Law Enforcement Operational Review, generated most of the morning discussion.
The 7 Staff operational changes that the Report recommended were amended with several changes - among which were: 1) extending the prohibition of on-street parking from the current 3:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. and hiring two new enforcement officers.
The afternoon Development Services Committee (DSC) meeting began with a delegation by Matthew Somerville. Mr. Somerville is a former Richmond Hill Planner and owner/operator of the Two Paddles Cidery in Port Perry. He spoke concerning the 79 page Columbus Part II Planning Study Report DS-155 indicating he was representing the Columbus area residents who are concerned about the rushed report with no public meetings since 2019.
Here is a link to the webstream of the DSC meeting Mr. Somerville's delegation is near the start and then the actual discussion about Report 155 starts at approx. 1:38 http://video.isilive.ca/oshawa/DSC_2021-09-13.mp4.html
Although there are many steps before water/sewer services and new street shovels are in the ground, and the time-line for the planned dwelling units and population (a maximum of 11,345 residential dwelling units and an estimated maximum population of approximately 29,243) in the 1,248 acre developable area in the Columbus Part II Planning Area Study is still years away, as a friend recently said on social media "Developers will do nothing unless Council and the Administration hold them accountable to building the right housing in our City with the right standards".
Motions passed at both meetings considered:
At the evening DSC Planning Act Public Meeting there were 3 presentations, which I will publish in a separate post.
Meanwhile, here are the 5 motions referred to above, all are pictures taken when they were on my computer screen. The City does not publish motions when they are approved during the meetings, only after, in the minutes, which can take days. Time to step up and be with the times and publish them on-line when they happen. I'm not sure why the City hasn't embraced this. For instance the City does not have PowerPoints available for the public to follow presentations. Imo this needs to change too. I moved a motion for this once already but was not successful obtaining the 6 votes needed. So I have had to wait for the 12 months required under the Council Procedural Rules before re-introducing the motion.
At the 9:30-11:00 a.m. Corporate Services Committee meeting, Report CORP-21-43 on the Agenda, concerning Municipal Law Enforcement Operational Review, generated most of the morning discussion.
The 7 Staff operational changes that the Report recommended were amended with several changes - among which were: 1) extending the prohibition of on-street parking from the current 3:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. and hiring two new enforcement officers.
The afternoon Development Services Committee (DSC) meeting began with a delegation by Matthew Somerville. Mr. Somerville is a former Richmond Hill Planner and owner/operator of the Two Paddles Cidery in Port Perry. He spoke concerning the 79 page Columbus Part II Planning Study Report DS-155 indicating he was representing the Columbus area residents who are concerned about the rushed report with no public meetings since 2019.
Here is a link to the webstream of the DSC meeting Mr. Somerville's delegation is near the start and then the actual discussion about Report 155 starts at approx. 1:38 http://video.isilive.ca/oshawa/DSC_2021-09-13.mp4.html
Although there are many steps before water/sewer services and new street shovels are in the ground, and the time-line for the planned dwelling units and population (a maximum of 11,345 residential dwelling units and an estimated maximum population of approximately 29,243) in the 1,248 acre developable area in the Columbus Part II Planning Area Study is still years away, as a friend recently said on social media "Developers will do nothing unless Council and the Administration hold them accountable to building the right housing in our City with the right standards".
Motions passed at both meetings considered:
- coyote problems (Councillor Hurst);
- vehicles with noisy mufflers (Councillor Neal);
- reducing enforcement costs by increasing offender fines (Councillor Nicholson)
- supporting Greenhill residents and not Committee of Adjustment decision approving developer's minor variances (Mayor Carter)
- wider streets in new plans of subdivision (Councillor McConkey)
At the evening DSC Planning Act Public Meeting there were 3 presentations, which I will publish in a separate post.
Meanwhile, here are the 5 motions referred to above, all are pictures taken when they were on my computer screen. The City does not publish motions when they are approved during the meetings, only after, in the minutes, which can take days. Time to step up and be with the times and publish them on-line when they happen. I'm not sure why the City hasn't embraced this. For instance the City does not have PowerPoints available for the public to follow presentations. Imo this needs to change too. I moved a motion for this once already but was not successful obtaining the 6 votes needed. So I have had to wait for the 12 months required under the Council Procedural Rules before re-introducing the motion.