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Home My WebLink AboutPD-57-88 DN: 57-88 UNFINISHED BUSINESS TOWN OF NEWCASTLE Yl REPORT File # ' Res. # By-Law # MEETING: General Purpose and Administration Committee DATE: Monday, March 7, 1988 REPORT #: PD-57-88 FILE #:OP 2.2.2(7) SU&JECT: AMENDMENT TO COURTICE NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN - DR. A. E. KING PART LOT 33, CONCESSION 2, FORMER TWP. OF DARLINGTON (LOT 1 AND BLOCK 159, 1OM-797) RECOMMENDATIONS: It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration Committee recommend to Council the following: 1. THAT Report PD-57-88 be received; and 2. THAT one of the following recommendations be approved: a) THAT the application submitted by Dr. A. E. King to amend the Courtice South Neighbourhood Development Plan, to delete a local road in order to permit the construction of two (2) single family dwellings be denied; or b) THAT the application, submitted by Dr. A. E. King to amend the Courtice South Neighbourhood Development Plan, to delete a local road in order to permit the construction of two (2) single family dwellings be approved conditional upon the applicant constructing a permanent road connection, to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, over the presently existing temporary emergency access. 3. THAT the applicant be advised so. . . .2 i REPORT NO.: PD-57-88 PAGE 2 BACKGROUND AND COMMENT: On December 16, 1987, the Town of Newcastle Planning Department received an application submitted by Dr. A. E. King to amend the Courtice South Neighbourhood Development Plan. The subject application would seek to develop Lot 1 and Block 159, Plan 1OM-797 being in Part of Lot 33, Concession 2 in Courtice. The subject lands are currently designated as a local road in the Courtice South Neighbourhood Development Plan. The local road would provide an east-west link between Robert Adams Drive, designated as a collector and Prestonvale Road, a local road. The application seeks to delete said link and permit the construction of two (2) single family dwellings. The subject lands are currently zoned as "Urban Residential Type One" in the Town of Newcastle Comprehensive Zoning By-law 84-63 as amended. Both Lot 1 and Block 159 have sufficient frontage and lot area to develop single family dwellings on municipal services. In accordance with departmental procedures, the subject application was circulated to obtain comments from other departments and agencies. The following is a summary of the comments received: t The Town of Newcastle Eire Department "This department has no objection to the above-noted application". The Town of Newcastle Public Works We have reviewed the above-mentioned proposed amendment and submit the following comments: 1. In principle from an engineering and operations perspective, we find that the deletion of this road in its proposed location (Lot 1, & Block 159, Plan 1OM-797) would not adversely affect the function of this subdivision. It is imperative that should this road be deleted from this plan, the 'temporary road' at the south limit of this plan should be constructed to a standard that can accommodate the proposed traffic volumes. .. .3 UIV REPORT NO.: PD-57-88 PAGE 3 2. in addition should this amendment be approved we require that; a) a lot grading and drainage plan be prepared by the developer's engineer that addresses the current drainage concerns related to Lot 1 and Block 159. (existing drainage course) b) that individual lot grading plans be prepared for Lot 1 and Block 159 for the purposes of house sitings. c) that the developer contribute 500 of the costs of reconstructing Prestonvale Road for a frontage width of 20.12 metres. d) That the developer is responsible for the extension of any services required. Regional Planning and Regional Works Further to your letter dated December 17, 1987, received by this Department on December 21, 1987, we have reviewed this matter and have no comments to make. Full municipal services are available to Lot 1 of the subject land through the existing sanitary and watermain on Renwick Road. Municipal water service is also available to Block 159 of the subject land through the abutting watermain on Prestonvale Road. However, sanitary sewers are not available to the frontage of Block 159, and provision of sanitary service to this site requires an extension of approximately 90m of sanitary sewer on Prestonvale Road at the full cost of the development. In addition, the agreement between B.J. King and A.E. King and the Region on the Whitecliffe Subdivision stipulates that Block 159 cannot be developed until the Region's requirements, financial and otherwise, for servicing have been satisfied and all applicable development charge levies have been paid to the Region. Inasmuch as Staff acknowledges that the circulated agencies offered no objection to the deletion of the local road, Staff would note that the subject road would provide a link between a collector being Robert Adams Drive and a local road, being Prestonvale Road with the intent that Prestonvale Road be closed at the intersection with Phair Avenue and Robert Adams Drive. In that regard, Council in the past, have supported this closure, by approval of the DEV-Plan, so that Prestonvale Road would only be accessible through the subject road and from Robert Adams Drive, thus rerouting traffic away from Prestonvale Road. Accordingly, Whitecliffe Subdivision (10M-797) was designed with Robert Adams Drive designated as the collector and subsequently was constructed to the standards of a collector. Furthermore, Staff would note that the transportation network in the Neighbourhood Development Plan extends Robert Adams Drive to an east-west collector road system, Glen Abbey Drive. This road system would serve the Courtice South area and better facilitate connection between the future GO station in east Oshawa and the Community ...4 REPORT NO. : PD-57-88 PAGE 4 Central Area. In addition the road patterns would improve circulation and benefit the neighbourhood as a whole, in the event that the applications to the south of Whitecliffe Subdivision are approved. Staff would note that there is currently a subdivision application south of the Whitecliffe Subdivision, north of Glen Abbey Drive, 18T-874134 (Akal) as well as two applications south of Glen Abbey which are outside the Courtice Urban Area. Given the expectation of development taking place to the south, Staff is of the opinion that if Prestonvale Road were to remain open, traffic will proceed along Prestonvale and not along the designated collector thus impacting existing residentis contrary to the original intent of the Development Plan. Without the connecting link Prestonvale, if closed to through traffic, would become a long cul-de-sac with only an indirect vehicular connection to Highway Two. Regardless of whether or not Prestonvale is closed at Phair additional traffic will be routed onto Prestonvale from the Courtice Heights South Development. Should the request be approved it is recommended that an alternate road connection be provided, in the vicinity of the present temporary road, to connect Prestonvale directly to Robert Adams Drive. This assumes closure of the north access and a desire to maintain Prestonvale as a Local Road. In consideration of the above-noted comments, Staff would respectively recommend that the application to delete the local road in the Neighbourhood Development Plan be denied, and that Prestonvale Road be closed at Phair Avenue and retained as a local road at such time as this connecting road is constructed and assumed by the Town. Alternatively, the request can be approved if the developer constructs a permanent road in the vicinity of the present emergency access. Respectfully submitted, Recommended for presentation to the Committee � P"wrenj4ej/E.T. T. Edwards, M.C.I.P. Kotsef.f Director of Planning nistrative Officer CV*TTE*bb *Attach. 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