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KBCA’s Planner’s Professional opinion on the current 1131 Teron Rd. proposal.

Summary: KBCA’s Professional Planner recommends the city refuse the Nov 8 2013 version of the 1131 Teron Proposal

KBCA presentation on 1131 Teron from the Dec 17, 2013 public meeting

Summary: KBCA position – Too High & Too Close

 

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Tuesday December 17, 2013 Kanata United Church 33 Leacock Drive 7 pm – 9pm

Tell City staff your reasoned views on this proposed development.  How will it affect you, your property values and the character of Beaverbrook? 

7 Key Questions 

At the meeting, please speak directly on the following questions about the proposal for 1131 Teron Road.  Follow up with your written comments directly to City Planner, Louise Sweet-Lindsay Planning and Growth Management , City of Ottawa, 110 Laurier Avenue West, 4th Floor, Ottawa, K1P 1J1 (613-580-2424, ext. 27586) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  please copy to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

1. Compatible development must enhance and coexist with existing development without undue adverse impacts.  It is development that “fits well” and “works well” with its surroundings.  Tell the City: is this condition met (y)  (n) Why?

2. When reviewing infill development within the General Urban Area, it must recognize the importance of new development relating to existing community character so that it enhances and builds upon desirable established patterns and built form.  Tell the City: is this condition met (y)  (n) Why?

3. New developments must reflect a thorough and sensitive understanding of place, context and setting.  Tell the City: is this condition met (y)  (n) Why?

4. The City will specifically assess Zoning By-law Amendment applications in terms of building height, massing and scale, rear and side yard setbacks and landscaped open space permitted by the zoning of adjacent residential properties as well as the prevailing patterns established in the immediate area.  Tell the City: is this condition met (y)  (n) Why?

5. In considering a Zoning By-law Amendment of additional height, the City will seek to protect and enhance existing patterns of development, built form and open spaces.  Tell the City: is this condition met (y)  (n) Why?

6. Interior portions of stable, low-rise residential neighbourhoods will continue to be characterized by low-rise buildings.  New development, including redevelopment, proposed within the interior of established neighbourhoods will be designed to complement the area’s pattern of built form and open spaces.  Tell the City: is this condition met (y)  (n) Why?

7. The City has a new transport oriented development policy.  There is the possibility of post-2031 funding for a rapid transit site on March Road.  Do these conditions justify permitting a big development here -- and now? (y) (n) Why?

Tips for your letter and comment to the City

It’s not enough to say simply you disagree with the proposal, if you do.  For instance, comments on traffic are rarely enough to turn down a proposal.

Take care to reflect in your letter or email some of the above official zoning policy aspects guaranteed by City official by-laws.  These are the main questions which the City Planner will formally investigate as she evaluates the proposal. Make her job easy!  Use your own words to say whether the proposal meets them?  Be specific, with examples, and clearly answer the question, “why?”

More info?  Gary 613 270 1119

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See full story at the Kanata Kourier Standard.

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A second public consultation meeting concerning the revised proposal for the re-zoning of 1131 Teron Road will be held:

Tuesday December 17, 2013, 7 pm – 9 pm

Kanata United Church 33 Leacock Drive, Kanata

Background

Developer Phil Bottriell has very recently, after a 5 month long hiatus, submitted a REVISED proposal for the re-zoning of 1131 Teron Road, Kanata to allow a nine and three storey condominium on approximately 1.6 hectres of land.  This development will be less than 15m from Teron Road.  It will hugely compromise the privacy of a number of adjacent homes on Bethune Court, Gingras Court, Jackson Court and Varley Lane. 

Details of the revised plans to the city under application #D02-02-12-0041 can be viewed by the public here: D02-02-12-0041.

We encourage you to go to this link and see the details of this revised proposal as soon as possible.

From feedback already received the majority of Beaverbrook residents are opposed to this application because it does not fit the character, height or size appropriate to Beaverbrook.  Instead it belongs in the Town Centre lands between Campeau Drive and the 417 which is the city designated location for this type of building (as originally planned by Bill Teron).
 
Your help is needed and there are two simple actions you can take:
 
  • Show up for this meeting on December 17th and let your views be known.   Our councillor, Marianne Wilkinson, will be there and she knows how many people are in the room and even from which neighbourhood (from the sign-up sheets).  We need to make sure the meeting is well represented.  Numbers here are highly visible.  Sign up for email notification of meetings at http://mariannewilkinson.com/.  
  • Write your comments directly to the City Planner in charge of this application, Louise Sweet-Lindsay, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Comments must be submitted no later than about one week following the public meeting on December 17th.   You can also indicate at this link if you would like to be notified on future meetings and decisions of the Planning Committee regarding this application.
 
These two simple steps, taken by hundreds of people rather than dozens, will have a significant impact on perception at city hall.  It is essential for people to come forward. As an individual citizen your input does make a difference.  It does have an impact on the City.  And we especially need to know how this proposal will affect those who live in its direct proximity. Your voice does matter!
 
When writing or e-mailing the City consider any of the following zoning aspects from the City by-laws in your letter or email.  Where possible, be specific, with examples.
 
  1. Compatible development must enhance and coexist with existing development without undue adverse impacts.  It is development that “fits well” and “works well” with its surroundings.
  2. When reviewing infill development within the General Urban Area, it must recognize the importance of new development relating to existing community character so that it enhances and builds upon desirable established patterns and built form.
  3. New developments must reflect a thorough and sensitive understanding of place, context and setting.
  4. The City will specifically assess Zoning By-law Amendment applications in terms of building height, massing and scale, rear and side yard setbacks and landscaped open space permitted by the zoning of adjacent residential properties as well as the prevailing patterns established in the immediate area.
  5. In considering a Zoning By-law Amendment of additional height, the City will seek to protect and enhance existing patterns of development, built form and open spaces.
  6. Interior portions of stable, low-rise residential neighbourhoods will continue to be characterized by low-rise buildings.  New development, including redevelopment, proposed within the interior of established neighbourhoods will be designed to complement the area’s pattern of built form and open spaces.

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Ottawa City Council took its first step to designating Beaverbrook as a conservation district, when it approved a Motion November 26 by City Planning Chair Peter Hume, to undertake the preliminary studies required by the Province of Ontario.

"This initiative which we recommended to Councilor Wilkinson and Planning Committee after extensive public consultation", said Gary Sealey President of Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association and Vice President of Federation of Citizens Associations, " will help guide evolution of  Beaverbrook consistent with its character as a Garden City".  

"We want to guide evolution of Beaverbrook based on its based on its established character", said Gary Sealey.  "The idea is not to fossiilize the community but to be true to its valued principles.  Much documentation has already been carefully collected. Given the support we got from City Council, we will ask residents, enlightened businesses and experts to help  the City make sure the designation-project  is accurate and complete.    With good field work, consultations and expertise this project will become a valuable precedent for all neighbourhoods in Ottawa."

About 400 residents asked KBCA to petition City Hall to protect the Beaverbrook character.   A cross-section of others including real estate leaders indicated their support for the project.  

Beaverbrook is the oldest residential part of the original City of Kanata, soon to celebrate its fiftieth birthday.  Now amalgamated into the City of Ottawa Beaverbrook is encircled by some of Canada's most valuable employment lands exporting products from a busy hi-tech business park and served by a growing Town Centre.

Bill Teron who conceived Kanata and developed its first main stages, has continued to reflect and inform others on its values.  Mr Teron is highly regarded for his achievement and has been awarded both the Jane Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award and the Order of Canada.  Councilor Wilkinson, first Mayor of Kanata, strongly supported the Motion to launch the designation-project.

More info?  Download Bill Teron On Kanata Values and Heritage.pdf

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Please join KBCA reps at a City consultation on a the Zoning Study on building heights in the Kanata Town Centre and key intersections throughout Kanata.  City Planners will be showing new provisions for buildings heights for mid-rises and intersections.

City staff will present and you will be asked to join an interactive discussion that will identify areas where additional building height may be appropriate.

Mon Nov 18 7 to 9pm at the Kanata Recreation Complex 100 Walter Baker Place on Terry Fox Drive near Hazeldean

Your participation is important.  Come, meet your neighbours, get an update on what's being proposed.  Have your say!  Give City and KBCA your views.

KBCA reps and networks have been active in a federation of community associations trying to fix and improve Ottawa's Official Plan and Transportation Master Plan.  We asked for improved transit, recognition of the special character of Beaverbrook, need for improved paths, complete sidewalks in some dangerous areas, better landscaping and controls along specific roads, intensification of townsite areas, more weight for Kanata-Stittsville and Southern reps in plans for outside Greenbelt.  Some of our requests hit receptive targets.  Our councilor is supportive.  At City Hall 15 November Mr Hubley also joined our request to Councilors to form a Councilors task group on transportation and appropriate development, for Kanata-Stittsville, and possibly other Western and Southern Wards.

More info? http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public-consultations/planning-and-infrastructure/public-meeting-november-18-2013

Gary Sealey, President 613 791 6729

cc Neil Thomson, KBCA Planning-Legal

cc Volunteer Researcher/Analyst, Faith Blacquiere

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