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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPD-96-95!j THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLARINGTON DN: SENIOR.GPA REPORT Meeting: General Purpose and Administration Committee File # Date: Tuesday, September 5, 1995 Res. #���� Report #: PD -96 -95 File #: By -law # Subject: SENIOR'S COMMUNITY CENTRE 63 TEMPERANCE STREETS BOWMANVILLE Recommendations: It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration Committee recommend to Council the following: 1. THAT Report PD -96 -95 be received for information and direction. REPORT: 1. Attached to this Report is a letter from Mr. S. Singh of 1100719 Ontario Limited, owner of the vacant property at 63 Temperance Street, Bowmanville (former piano factory site). 2. The letter is self - explanatory. In essence, Mr. Singh is requesting Council to continue its commitment to locate the Seniors' Centre in its housing project despite the fact that the Durham Region Non - Profit Housing Corporation is no longer involved. 3. Mr. Singh will be addressing Committee as a delegation and will further elaborate on his plan and request. 4. Should Council decide to continue its commitment, a resolution 4 to confirm will suffice. In the event Council determines otherwise, staff respectfully request Council to provide specific directions so that staff can proceed accordingly. W ...2 REPORT NO.: PD -96 -95 PAGE 2 Respectfully submitted, Franklin Wu, M.C.I.P., R.P.P. Director of Planning and Development FW *jip 20 June 1995 Reviewed by, W.H. Stockwell' Chief Administrative Officer �J�it��AN August 28th, 1995 Mr. Franklin Wu Planning Director Municipality of Clarington 40 Temperance Street Bowmanville, ON I.1C 3A6 Attention: Mr. Franklin Wu RE : 63 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, ON Thank you for meeting with me on such short notice to discuss the future of the above noted site. As you are now aware, Durham Region Non -Profit Housing Corporation is no longer involved with the site due to cutbacks from the Ministry of Housing and our intention is to now forge ahead with a condominium development on the lands. We have proceeded in good faith throughout the planning stages of this projcet and we plan on continuing along the same path. The issue that we would like to address in the immediate future is that of the senior's community centre. We need to know if the Municipality is still interested in locating the senior's centre on the site in a senior's condominium with similar physical attributes as the previous design. It is our intention to accommodate the senior's centre into our new development with all of the required amenities, but given the fact that we have owned the site for almost one full year and sat on a zoned site for the past 6 months we cannot wait indefinitely before we design, sell and build out the project. Therefore, we respectfully request that Council continues with its commitment to locating the senior's centre in our building. We shall be commencing a redesign of the building within the zoned envelope forthwith upon us carefully examining the housing market in the immediate and outer lying area. Hopefully the Municipality will conclude that a our senior's condominium can meet and exceed the senior's communities' required criteria. _2_ Notwithstanding the net benefit of having the senior's centre in a condominium, our research concludes that we have several options for the site and they include the following: 1. Should the community centre stay on this site we feel very strongly that there is a significant senior's market for this type of mixed use project in this location and we would gear all of our marketing to this sector of the population; 2. Without the community centre we feel that the attractiveness of this location would diminish for senior's, but we would still review the senior's tenure for the building, and 3. The obvious and most likely marketing approach for the site, should the community centre not locate there, would be for us to increase the size of the units in the building and adjust our finishes and amenities in the project to attract the enormous untapped market that feel they would never be able to own property because of cost. Our marketing campaign would be geared towards the rental community in Durham Region and we would offer many flexible financing terms that would assist this sector of the population in raising deposit monies and reducing carrying costs. Timing of this project is critical for us and given that design will dictate the market that we attract, we must establish our design criteria and forge ahead. Our architect's are currenity sketching different options and we plan on committing significant resources to our marketing campaign later this fall. This means that we must formulate our direction for the project sometime in mid September. We respectfully request that you forward this request to Council and register us as �I delegates at the next Committee meeting. We look forward to completing a very successful project jointly with the Municipality and should the Municipality be unable to join us, we are committed to developing a first class project for whatever sector of the population we end up building for. Sincerely, 1100719 ONTARIO INC. Suresh Singh Vice President ca Mr. Bill Stockwell - Chief Administrative Officer 561 Unfinished Business DN: DEV90071.DjE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CLAR INGTON REPORT Meeting: Date: General Purpose and Administration Committee File #'TJi_. I�9C)e Monday, September 18 ADDENDUM TQ , 1995 Res, #-��' Report #: nn_g�_g� File #: �F�"'— 9�- -071 (X -REF 18T- 90032) By-law At Subject: REZONING APPLICATION PART LOT 17, CONCESSION WILLFORMER TOWNSSEBAOSTIAN CORBO FILE: 18T-90032 OF HIGHWAY NO. 2 ON GREEN ROAD LINGTON 18T -90032 (X -REF DEV 90 -071) Recommendations: It is recommended to Council the following: 1• THAT Addendum to Report PD -97 -95 be received; 2. THAT Report PD -97 -95 be lifted from the table; 7 3. THAT the recommendation contained APPROVED subject to condition In Report PD -97 -95 #21 be amended as follows: be 21a That 0.3 m reserves on Green Road development, except for the common entrance bdrivewa s be transferred to the Municipality or that other alternate g this measures be p y put in lace satisfactory to the Directors of Public Works and the Development, for the Director of Planning and Purpose of controlling access. 21b That the common entrance driveway align with the access proposed for the commercial development on the east side Of Green Road. 1 BACKGROUND 1.1 At the meeting of September 51 1995, Committee co Report PD- 97 -95. Kelvin Whalen representing the applicant appeared as a delegation with respect to said report and requested an amendment to condition number 21. 1.2 Condition number 21 prohibits individual lot access onto Green Road which is an arterial road in the Durham Region Official ....2 1201