HomeMy WebLinkAbout74-11Report No. 7,
New Official ®Plait for the City Oshawa
The Town of Newcastle has Leen asked by the Ministry of Housing to
comment on the proposed new Official Plan for the City of Oshawa,
I have reviewed this proposed plan and identified three issues which
I felt were of concer+i to this municipality. These proposed comments
are attached hereto and I am requ6sting their approval by this
Conmittee and Council
Respectfully submitted,
7'
George F. Howden9
Planning Director.
Comment op Pro used New Official Plan for the
City®of_U haw& Planning Area
The Town of Newcastle has not attempted to review this Plan in detail
because it has neither the title nor the resources to do so, and because
most of the matters covered in this Plan are the internal concerns of the
City of Oshawa and do not affect in any way the planning and development
of the Town of Newcastle. These comments are restricted to three aspects
of the Plan which do have a direct effect on the Town of Newcastle.
1, Staging of Services:
The Plan does not contain a schedule showing the staging of municipal
water and sewer services, but Section 4,2 does state that all undevel-
oped land within the planning area will be provided with sanitary
trunk sewer service within the next five years. We wish to point out
that the Official Plan for Darlington Township has shoran since 1960
an area immediately east of Oshawa (known as the Courtice Commiu -1ity)
for development on the basis of water and sewer services to be extended
from the City. It is now the responsibility of the Region to determine
priorities for the extension of water and sewer services, and in the
present situation of housing; shortRge9 we feel that such extensions
should be designed to create the greatest supply of serviced land
most quickly and at the least cost. This may or may not mean that
areas lying outside the city boundaries should have greater priority
for servicing than some lands within Oshawa itself.
2_ S o )pint Centres
The Plan shows n proposed shopping centre to be located at the inter-
section of King Street and Townline Road, In Table II of the Appendix
this centre is indicated as a District Shopping Centre to serve areas
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in the east end of Oshawa and adjacent parts of Darlington Township,
Since this centre could be up to 200,000 sq,ft, in gross leasable
area, it should be considered a project of Regional significance,
There will undoubtedly be sufficient demand in future for a shopping
centre to serve: the east Oshawa - Darlington area, but the best location
for such a centre should be determined by the hegion in consultation
with the two local iilunicipalities in the area,
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Second Marsh Areae
This area has been designated industrial, apparently on the assumption
that the federal crown lands in the area will be developed for harbour
purposes. We must express some reservations about this designation
fop two reasons. Pirst_ly, if harbour facilities in Oshawa are to be
expanded, it may be more economical to create an artificial harbo,,.,
in the open lake rather than to dredge the Second Narsh, especially
in view of the size of ships plying the Great Lakes today. SeconcIl;
the marsh constitutes a unique natural and ecological asset close co
the urban area, and in combination with thE. adjacent Darlington
Provincial Park, it could be used for recreational and conservation
purposes, 6'e understand that the Region will be producing a water-
front plan as a part of its overall Regional Official Plan, and we
feel it may to adviseable not to commit this area to industrial
development until such time as this waterfront plan has been produc-�,,