DSD-2021-92 - OPA19/004/COK/TMW - ZBA19/010/COK/TMW - Neighbourhood Specific Urban Design Guidelines

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recommendations on Official Plan Amendment OPA19/004/COK/TMW and Zoning By- law Amendment ZBA19/010/COK/TMW are considered at Council. REPORT HIGHLIGHTS: • The purpose of this report is to: o Provide an update on the Neighbourhood Planning Review (NPR) Project since the December 9t", 2019 Statutory Public Meeting, which includes the `Staff Responses' to the over 200 oral and written submissions that were received and discuss next steps. o Present new Neighbourhood Specific Urban Design Guidelines for approval and inclusion into the City's Urban Design Manual. • The Neighbourhood Planning Review Project has had to adjust timelines to consider final approval of the Secondary Plans and zoning given the requirement that Major Transit Station Area (MTSA) boundaries need to first be delineated in the Region of Waterloo's Official Plan (ROP). In advance of this, those properties not located within the Region's Major Transit Station Areas, may be zoned as part of Stage 2b of Zoning By-law 2019-051, and new Neighbourhood Specific Guidelines for the Secondary Plans can be approved and included in the City's Urban Design Manual. • There are currently no financial implications resulting from this report. • Community engagement included the `PARTS Central, Rockway and Midtown Plans', the `Residential Intensification in Established Neighbourhood Study (RIENS)', the `Kitchener's Cultural Heritage Landscape Study (CHLS)', a number of Open Houses on the proposed new Secondary Plans and Zoning, Urban Design Charrettes, and a Statutory Public Meeting on December 9, 2019 and will include future engagement and consultation before final documents are brought to Council for approvals. • This report supports the delivery of core services. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In response to the Notice of the December 9, 2019 Public Meeting for the Neighbourhood Planning Review Project, Planning staff received just over 200 oral and written submissions. Due to changes in the Growth Plan, the timeline for consideration of the Secondary Plans has changed, and the earliest that Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments could be considered is early 2023. In the interim, Planning staff have prepared a `Response Document' with 240 written responses to the oral and written submissions. Also, the Neighbourhood Specific Urban Design Guidelines, that were considered as part of the December 9t", 2019 public meeting, are recommended for approval and inclusion in the City's Urban Design Manual to guide redevelopment happening in the Secondary Plan areas. And lastly, those properties not proposed to be within the Major Transit Station Areas, as determined by the Region, are recommended to proceed to be zoned as part of Stage 2b of new Zoning By-law 2019-051. BACKGROUND: The City's ten (10) Secondary Plans, the majority being 25-30 years old, were not included and reviewed as part of the adoption and approval of the City's 2014 Official Plan. The reasons for this were that one of the Secondary Plans had received a recent approval by the Ontario Municipal Board and eight of the ten Secondary Plans were located within Major Transit Station Areas and were proposed to be reviewed as part of the City's Planning Around Station Area (PARTS) planning exercise. It was anticipated that through the PARTS exercise, there would be changes to the existing Secondary Plans to implement the