May 15, 2018 Halifax and West Community Council

Agenda

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – April 17, 2018

3. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS

4. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES
5. CALL FOR DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
6. MOTIONS OF RECONSIDERATION – NONE
7. MOTIONS OF RESCISSION – NONE
8. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS – NONE
9. NOTICES OF TABLED MATTERS – NONE

10. HEARINGS 
10.1 PUBLIC HEARINGS
10.1.1  Case 21618: Substantive Amendments to an Existing Development Agreement for 5511 Bloomfield Street, Halifax [PDF]
i) Memorandum from the Halifax Peninsula Planning Advisory Committee dated March 26, 2018 [PDF]
-Presentation [PDF]

Motion:
That Halifax and West Community Council:
1. Approve the proposed amending development agreement, which shall be substantially of the
same form as set out in Attachment A of the report dated March 28, 2018; and
2. Require the amending development agreement be signed by the property owner within 120 days, or any extension thereof granted by Council on request of the property owner, from the date of final approval by Council and any other bodies as necessary, including applicable appeal periods, whichever is later; otherwise this approval will be void and obligations arising hereunder shall be at an end.

10.1.2 Case 21076: Halifax Peninsula LUB Amendment (Rezoning) for 3834 Robie Street, Halifax, Peninsula [PDF]
i) Memorandum from the Halifax Peninsula Planning Advisory Committee dated January 22, 2018 [PDF]
-Presentation [PDF]

Motion: 
That Halifax and West Community Council adopt the amendment to Map ZM-1 of the Land Use By-law for Halifax Mainland, as set out in Attachment A of the staff report dated March 7, 2018.

10.2 VARIANCE APPEAL HEARINGS – NONE 

11. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
11.1 Correspondence - 
11.2 Petitions
11.3 Presentations - None

12. INFORMATION ITEMS BROUGHT FORWARD – NONE

13. REPORTS
13.1 STAFF 

13.1.1  Case H00445: Schmidtville Heritage Conservation District Plan, Bylaw, and Amendments to the Halifax Municipal Planning Strategy and the Land Use Bylaw for Halifax Peninsula [PDF]
i) Memorandum from the Halifax Peninsula Planning Advisory Committee dated April 23, 2018 [PDF] 
Motion: 
That Halifax and West Community Council recommend that Halifax Regional Council:
1. Give First Reading to consider the amendments to the Municipal Planning Strategy for Halifax and the amendments to the Land Use By-law for Halifax Peninsula as contained in Attachments C and D of the staff report dated March 6, 2018, and schedule a joint public hearing.
2. Give First Reading to consider the Schmidtville Heritage Conservation District Plan and the Schmidtville Heritage Conservation District Bylaw as contained in Attachments A and B of the staff report dated March 6, 2018, and schedule a public hearing; and
3. Adopt the amendments to the Municipal Planning Strategy for Halifax, the Land Use By-law for Halifax Peninsula, the Schmidtville Heritage Conservation District Plan, and the Schmidtville Heritage Conservation District Bylaw, as set out in Attachments A, B, C, and D of the staff report dated March 6, 2018.

14. COMMITTEES:
14.1 HERITAGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
14.1.1  Case 20923 – Application for a Development Agreement, 2720 Gottingen Street, Halifax. [PDF]
i) Memorandum from the Halifax Peninsula Planning Advisory Committee dated September 12, 2017 [PDF]
Motion: 
That Halifax and West Community Council:
1. Give notice of motion to consider the proposed development agreement, as set out in Attachment A of the staff report dated March 16, 2018, to allow a restaurant, pub and residential units within the existing building located at 2720 Gottingen Street and schedule a public hearing.
 
14.2 WESTERN COMMON ADVISORY COMMITTEE
14.2.1  Further Ecological Testing on the Groundwater at the Ragged Lake Composting Facility [PDF]
Motion: 
That Halifax and West Community Council request a staff report on further ecological testing being performed on the groundwater at the Ragged Lake Composting Facility site, in concurrence with the recommendation put forward in the Stantec report, as outlined in the correspondence from Peter Lund dated March 23, 2018.

14. MOTIONS - NONE

15. IN CAMERA (IN PRIVATE) - NONE

16. ADDED ITEMS

16.1 Case 20151: Amendments to the Halifax MPS and associated development agreement for 31 and 33 Brewer Court, Halifax [PDF]

16.2 Councillor Cleary – Internal Conversion [PDF]

17. NOTICES OF MOTION

18. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

19. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – June 12, 2018

20. ADJOURNMENT

INFORMATION ITEMS

1. Memorandum from the Legislative Assistant dated May 9, 2018 re Presentation Requests [PDF]