By Pepper Parr
October 29th, 2020
BURLINGTON, ON
The city has a boundary that is referred to as the Urban Growth Centre. It was put in place back in 2006 and has been the subject of much debate.
The developers were comfortable with the boundary but when the city put in an Interim Control Bylaw that froze everything for a year those same developers were very unhappy.
When the developers took their case to the Local Planning Act Tribunal (LPAT) that put any discussion over development plans on hold until LPAT has finished with them.
The city has put a proposal before Regional Council asking that the boundaries of the Urban growth Centre be re-drawn, arguing that the boundaries put in place way back in 2006 have served their purpose and it is time to reshape them.
In a lengthy report to the public the Region is asking for input – we will share the coordinates to get the documents below.
Our question is this – just what are the proposed new boundaries?
We asked the people at the Planning department – they don’t appear to be picking up the phones these days.
Here is what we have at this point – the graphics are not as clear as they should be.
The blue boundary line is what was approved by the City Council in place in 2017 The red boundary is what the current city council has in the adopted but not yet approved or in force Official Plan
What is understood to be the UGC boundary the city wants the Region to approve. The lower point appears to be at Prospect.
The existing makes far more sense and is closer to reality though it does need to be made largher. The new looks like designed byu nimby’s shifting something they don’t want onto other areas. Just my observation.