It’s time for the July planning meeting, and this month, like last month, there are a number of heritage projects and designations for council’s consideration. Aside from heritage, there’s also future on the agenda, a new housing project from an area not-for-profit and a decision on a previously presented project in the south end. So let’s talk about the best laid planning before summer vacation.
NOTE #1: Delegates will be able to appear at this meeting in-person or via tele-presense but you do have to register with the clerks office before 10 am on Friday July 5. You can also submit written delegations and correspondences for agenda items.
NOTE #2: In addition to meeting in-person, this meeting will also be live-streamed on the City of Guelph’s website here.
12 Eramosa Road: Notice of Intention to Designate – Now a storefront at the bottom of Eramosa hill, this 150-year-old building meets six out of nine prescribed criteria for determining cultural heritage value or interest under Ontario Regulation 569/22. Heritage Guelph approved the designation on their end at a meeting this past November.
220 Gordon Street: Notice of Intention to Designate – At the bottom of another hill, this one on Gordon Street, is an apartment building, which has almost as long a history as the building at 12 Eramosa Road, and like that one, Heritage Guelph approved sending the designation to council last November. The property meets five of the nine prescribed criteria.
28 Norfolk Street (St Agnes School): Notice of Intention to Designate – Situated on the Cork Street side of Catholic Hill, this building used to be a girls school until it, and its boys school companion St. Stanislaus, were closed after St. John Bosco Secondary School opened in 1986. St. Stanislaus is gone, but St. Agnes is still there, and it meets seven out of nine of the criteria for determining cultural heritage value or interest.
331 Clair Road East: Heritage Permit Application – Back in June, Heritage Guelph heard this application to move the old Hanlon farmhouse to it’s new location on the property in advance of a redevelopment project. Heritage Guelph approved the move, so now it’s council’s turn.
303-317 Speedvale Avenue East Proposed Official Plan and Zoning Bylaw Amendments File OZS24-010 Ward 2 – This project proposes a six-storey residential apartment building with a total of 48 units in the east end, a new effort by Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington. Presently, there are two different properties that are home to a single-detached dwelling and a commercial building, which will obviously be replaced by the new residential development. This is the statutory planning meeting for this project, no final decision will be made at this meeting, and council will only vote to receive the application.
Decision Report 1166-1204 Gordon Street Proposed OP and Zoning By-law Amendments OZS22-007 Ward 5 – It was about this time last year that council received this proposal for 2 six-storey apartment buildings with a total of 134 units and 22 three-storey on-street townhouse units at this property between Gordon and Landsdown. Between then and now the developer has shaved off a dozen apartments and two town houses from the project. Staff are recommending that council approved this amended version of the development.
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