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REPORT TO: Planning & Strategic Initiatives Committee
DATE OF MEETING: August 9, 2021
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PREPARED BY: Donegani, Tim, Senior Planner, 519-741-2200 ext. 7067
WARD(S) INVOLVED: All Wards
DATE OF REPORT: July 28, 2021
REPORT NO.: DSD -2021-127
SUBJECT: Regional Official Plan Review: Growth Scenarios
RECOMMENDATION:
THAT the comments included in Staff Report DSD -2021-127 (Regional Official Plan
Review: Growth Scenarios) be endorsed; and further,
THAT staff be directed to forward this Staff Report DSD -2021-127 and Council's
comments to the Region of Waterloo for their consideration in the update to the
Region's Official Plan.
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS:
The purpose of this report is to:
• Present Regional growth scenarios for greenfield development and intensification to
the year2051, and their implications on the need for new Designated Greenfield Area
(DGA) for suburban Community and Employment Area development;
• Present proposed regional criteria for evaluating new candidate Designated
Greenfield Areas (DGA);
• Seek Council endorsement of staff comments on the Regional Official Plan (ROP)
review growth scenarios and evaluation criteria;
• Outline next steps in the Regional Official Plan review process and subsequent
implications for the City's Official Plan;
• Community engagement has been led by the Region and is being conducted
primarily online at engagewr.ca/req ional-off icial-pIan ; and,
• This report supports the delivery of core services.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
• The Region is planning for 366,000 more residents and 194,000 more jobs by 2051,
as per provincial growth projections and this growth will be allocated to the City and
other area municipalities through the ROP review.
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• The Region is evaluating four scenarios that vary the residential intensification rate
and greenfield density to accommodate growth. Depending on which scenario is
selected, urban boundary expansions ranging between 530-1,510 hectares would be
required across the Region.
• Staff are in preliminary support of Scenario 3 (65 residents and jobs per hectare for
the Designated Greenfield Area and a residential intensification target of 60%) that
would result in no urban boundary expansion for Community Areas, but more
information from the Region is required prior to providing final comments.
• All scenarios include a 680 ha urban boundary expansion for Employment Areas.
• Staff support Scenario 3 because it is reasonable given current and emerging trends;
supports higher order transit and active transportation needed to address climate
change; makes financially beneficial use of existing infrastructure; protects
agricultural land; and contributes to complete communities.
• Staff suggest that the Region further quantify criteria to evaluate growth scenarios
and potential locations for urban boundary expansion to allow for more transparent
decision making.
BACKGROUND:
The Waterloo Region Official Plan (ROP) is an important planning document that guides
decisions related to growth, development, and community investment across the Region. It
must be updated periodically in accordance with key Provincial planning documents such
as A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2019) and the
Provincial Policy Statement (2020). It outlines key planning ideas and policies including the
Countryside Line, the LRT central transit corridor, regional groundwater recharge area, and
intensification targets. Regional Council initiated a Review of the current ROP (2009) in
August 2018.
The Region is updating its Official Plan to accommodate 366,000 more residents and
194,000 more jobs by 2051. The ROP will continue to have a significant impact on planning
in Kitchener by establishing key policies which include defining the countryside line to limit
sprawl and identifying areas for growth and intensification.
The ROP review will:
• distribute forecasted growth by providing population and employment allocations to
the City and other area municipalities;
• set minimum density targets for the Downtown Kitchener Urban Growth Centre
(UGC), Major Transit Station Areas (MTSAs) along the LRT corridor, Employment
Areas and other Strategic Growth Areas; and
• set minimum residential intensification targets for area municipalities (the percentage
of residential development that is to occur annually within Built -Up Areas).
Depending on whether there is sufficient capacity within the built-up areas and existing
Designated Greenfield Areas (DGAs) to accommodate the growth forecast, the ROP may
identify new DGAs via urban boundary expansions along with minimum density targets for
their growth and development.
Following the approval of the Region's Official Plan, the City will be required to update its
Official Plan to provide more detailed policies to accommodate these population and
employment allocations and targets.
Figure 1 — Conceptual Illustration of the City's Urban Area and Countryside
CITY
URBAN
AREA
COUNTRYSIDE
Built -Up Area
Designate(# Greenfield Area
Protected Countryside
Built Batindary
Urban Area Boundary]
Countryside Line
The City's role in the Region's Official Plan Review project is to provide the Region with City
comments, concerns, and opportunities throughout their process, recognizing that the City's
Official Plan will need to be amended following approval of the ROP update. The ROP
update will be adopted by Regional Council and eventually approved by the Province in mid -
2022. Staff will keep City Council apprised of this project at key milestones.
In March 2021, through report DSD -2021-5, City Council provided comments to the Region
including:
• support for the proposed Major Transit Station Area boundaries based on the
consistent application of criteria in the new Growth Plan;
• support for the alternative density target for the Block Line Station Area;
• support for the proposed Regional Employment Areas and preliminary Regional
responses to employment conversion requests;
• the ROP can and should do more to support housing affordability, for example by
strengthening condominium conversion policies, encouraging rental replacement,
and enabling the Cities to implement Inclusionary Zoning;
• Newly proposed Major Intensification Corridors are supported in principle, but
additional analysis and consultation with a broad range of city -building stakeholders
is required;
• the Region should further consider the role of and opportunity for local intensification
and its implications on the need for additional Designated Greenfield Area (DGA);
• the ROP review should focus on tangible and implementable climate change policies
to make a meaningful impact; and
• the Region should analyse a 100% intensification scenario through the Land Needs
Assessment in the that would require no Urban Area Boundary expansion.
Comments in report DSD -2021-127 are in addition to those provided at a staff level since
2019 and by Council through report DSD -2021-5. These comments will influence the growth
scenario selected by the Region and ultimately the amount of new Designated Greenfield
Area land identified for urban development. The City will provide additional comments on
the draft ROP policies expected to be released this fall.
REPORT:
1. Growth Scenarios
The Region is undertaking a land needs assessment to understand the ability of the region
to accommodate population and employment growth to 2051. This must follow the provincial
land needs assessment methodology (LNA). A key step in the LNA is the development and
analysis of growth scenarios with varying assumptions regarding intensification and
greenfield growth. The land needs assessment process differs for Community Areas and
Employment Areas.
1.1 Community Areas
Community Areas accommodate all forms of housing and most population -related jobs and
office jobs. The Region has outlined a base case and three alternative scenarios. These
vary the rate of residential intensification and density of Community Areas in the DGA. The
higher the intensification rate and the higher the DGA density, the lower the quantity of new
DGA required to accommodate the growth forecast. The scenarios drive a need for an
expansion of the Urban Area Boundary and additional DGA for Community Areas ranging
from a need for an additional 828 hectares in the base case, down to a small surplus of
Community Area DGA in Scenario 3 as indicated in the last column of Figure 2.
In March 2021 (report number DSD -2021-5), City council requested that the Region
evaluate a 100% intensification scenario with no Urban Area Boundary expansion. Scenario
3 evaluates a 60% rate of intensification and a DGA density target of 65 people and jobs
per hectare across the entire DGA (both new and existing). This would mean that, going
forward, newly developed DGA would need to achieve a density of 71 residents and jobs
per hectare as shown in Figure 2. Even though the density target is 60% (not 100% as
requested by the City), this scenario meets the intent of the City's request with respect to
community areas in that there would be no Urban Area Boundary expansion.
Figure 2: Community Area DGA 2019-2051
City Comments:
The City appreciates the inclusion of scenario 3 that would result in no additional DGA for
Community Areas.
The City has not yet received the updated intensification strategy that addresses previous
city comments, DGA analysis nor the financial impact analysis required to provide detailed
comments. However, staff offer the following preliminary comments and observations in
support of scenario 3 for the Region's consideration.
• Assuming a 60% average residential intensification rate over the next 30 years is
likely reasonable considering historic trends in the rate of intensification. According
to the Region's Draft Intensification Strategy "Intensification has historically
accounted for approximately 50% of Region -wide growth from 2006 to 2019 with
the Region -wide share increasing from 44% over the 2006 to 2011 period to 52%
from 2011 to 2019." Increases in the rate of intensification are similar in Kitchener
increasing from 41 % in 2006-2011 up to 47% in 2011-2019.
• Market and policy shifts towards medium and high density housing forms lend
themselves to intensification. Furthermore, a shift to autonomous vehicles, active
transportation and increased transit ridership are likely to unlock substantial
opportunities for intensification of existing underutilized areas, including parking lots,
before 2051.
• Intensification helps make efficient use of land and leverage investment in existing
and planned infrastructure including dedicated rapid transit and pedestrian and
cycling infrastructure. A higher intensification rate will assist in the development of
complete communities that are compact and pedestrian, cycling and transit -oriented.
• The scenario 3 assumption of 71 residents and jobs per hectare in new DGA
Community Area seems reasonable considering that the current DGA is already
developed at 54 residents and jobs per hectare with 96% of housing being grade
related. Modest increases in the share of high and medium density housing in the
DGA should make the scenario 3 DGA density achievable considering policy and
market shifts towards higher density that are already underway.
• Frequent, and higher order transit will be required in many parts of the Region,
including within new community areas to achieve climate and transportation goals. A
density of 80 residents and jobs per hectare is required to achieve frequent (10-15
minute) bus service as shown in Figure 3. Densities in new DGA should be transit -
supportive. Ideally, achieving people and job densities of 100/hectare would allow for
5 minute bus service and set the stage for future LRT or BRT connections and would
help achieve the Region's goals of an 80 per cent greenhouse gas reduction by 2050.
Currently transportation accounts for 49% of the Waterloo Region communities
greenhouse gas emissions. While 100 people and jobs per hectare is an ambitious
goal for new greenfield development it would lead to a much more sustainable form
of urban development. The Region of Waterloo should also ensure that transit service
is provided to communities when residents begin moving in so that transit and active
transportation forms as a new habit on day one.
Figure 3 - Minimum Transit Supportive Densities
Basic Transit Service
(One bus every 20-30 minutes)
Frequent Transit Service
(One Bus every 10-15 minutes)
Very Frequent Bus Service
(One bus every 5 minutes with
potential for LRT or BRT)
Dedicated Rapid Transit
(LRT/BRT)
Subway
22 units per ha; 50 residents & jobs Combined
37 units per ha / 80 residents & jobs Combined
45 units per ha / 100 residents & jobs Combined
72 units per ha / 160 residents & jobs Combined
90 units per ha / 200 residents & jobs Combined
Source: Ministry of Transportation, Transit Supportive Guidelines (2012)
The required 30 -year planning horizon (as compared to the typical 20 -year horizon)
introduces additional uncertainty to the planning process. It is difficult to forecast
development trends so far in the future. The City currently has a designated and
available supply of land within the Built-up Area and existing Designated Greenfield
Area to accommodate significant growth beyond the 15 -year supply requirement of
the Provincial Policy Statement. This is detailed in section 6.3 of the 2020 Annual
Growth Monitoring Report (DSD -20-157). Selecting Scenario 3 and foregoing an
Urban Area Boundary expansion through this ROP review would allow additional time
to monitor the need for additional DGA. This decision will be reconsidered through
the next ROP review in 10 years. Once lands are included in the DGA it would be
extremely difficult to remove these permissions if we find the lands are not needed
based on contemporary trends.
The capital costs of growth are mostly recovered through development charges,
borne by developers and passed on to landowners. However, the maintenance and
replacement costs of this infrastructure are borne by taxpayers and ratepayers. While
intensification primarily makes use of existing infrastructure, greenfield development
requires the extension of new services including roads, water, sanitary sewers,
stormwater management, sanitary pumping stations, etc. — all City responsibilities.
Staff are currently analysing the relationship between the cost of development and
tax and rate revenues and how this varies across the City. Our preliminary findings
are that the City budgets $5,000 per linear metre to reconstruct this infrastructure at
the end of its lifecycle (approx. 60 years). Annual City maintenance costs for roads,
street lighting, sanitary sewers, water and stormwater are approximately $36 per
linear metre. Accordingly, the City prefers scenario 3 with its higher density and
intensification from a financial perspective. The financial implications for the City need
to be considered through the evaluation of growth scenarios and greenfield candidate
areas.
1.2 Employment Areas
Employment Areas accommodate Employment in industrial -type buildings, and some office
and population -related jobs.
All growth scenarios use the same assumptions requiring 680 additional hectares of DGA
for Employment Lands region -wide. In this analysis the forecasted increase in jobs are
allocated between employment lands and community areas according to the industrial
forecasting done as part of the Region's Employment Strategy Technical Brief. This takes
into consideration existing vacant employment lands, intensification and employment
density forecasts. None of these scenarios address the intent of the City's request that a
scenario be evaluated that includes no Urban Area Boundary expansion.
It has yet to be determined if any additional DGA for Employment Lands would be located
in Kitchener. Notably, none of the requested Urban Area Boundary expansions for
Employment Areas are located in Kitchener (See Attachment B to the Regional Report).
City comments:
• All of the scenarios currently contemplate urban expansion for employment areas.
The City understands and appreciates the need to designate new DGA Employment
Areas to accommodate employment growth, especially to attract industrial uses that
require separation from sensitive uses or have low employment densities.
• While important for growth in manufacturing and planning for low employment density
uses like warehousing and logistics, new DGA Employment Areas planned at 35
employees per hectare will not be transit supportive and necessitate an auto- oriented
approach to transportation. The employment strategy and land needs assessment
should consider a variety of assumptions regarding employment densities, and what
share and what type of employment will be accommodated within Community Areas
vs. Employment Areas. Planning for a higher share of jobs within Community areas
would provide more opportunities for transit supportive employment development and
complete communities. Additionally, the Region should consider policy direction that
requires and supports net zero development and other sustainability initiatives when
DGA employment areas are contemplated.
2. Growth Scenario Evaluation Criteria
The Evaluation Criteria for Proposed Growth Scenarios included, as Attachment A, to the
Regional Report (included as Attachment A to report DSD -2021-127) are intended to inform
the selection of a preferred growth Scenario. These include nine objectives and multiple
evaluation criteria under three themes of:
• Growth Management;
• Transportation, Infrastructure and Financing; and
• Agricultural and Mineral Aggregate Resources.
3. Candidate Urban Areas
The Region received 55 requests for Urban Area Boundary expansions from landowners
and some area municipalities. Two of these areas are located in Kitchener as shown on
Attachment C of the Regional report (Attachment A). If the land needs assessment identifies
a need for new DGA to accommodate growth, Regional staff will assess the merits of new
DGA candidate areas included in Attachment D of the Regional report (Attachment A) and
will consult with the public, stakeholders, landowners and the area municipalities to
determine the most appropriate locations for any required Urban Area Boundary
expansions. As set out in the ROP, any future urban expansions must be considered on
lands within the Countryside Line. Where the Countryside Line coincides with the Protected
Countryside designation in the ROP, the Countryside Line is to be considered a permanent
boundary (see Figure 1 in this report and Attachment C to the Regional Report).
The Evaluation Criteria for Candidate Urban Expansion Areas are categorized in the
following themes:
• Growth Management
• Transportation, Infrastructure and Financing
• Agricultural and Mineral Aggregate Resources
• Natural Heritage and Sourcewater Protection
• Livability; and
• Economic Growth.
City comments:
The City generally supports the themes, objectives, and evaluation criteria for both the
growth scenarios and candidate urban boundary expansions. However, we suggest
quantifying and weighting these criteria to assist in more principled and transparent decision
making. Complete, pedestrian and transit -oriented communities; climate change; protecting
agricultural land; housing choice and affordability; and financial criteria should be weighted
heavily. Analysing climate and financial impacts would benefit substantially from
quantification.
4. Timing and Next Steps
Region consults on Growth Scenarios, Boundary Expansion and
Summer 2021
Evaluation Criteria
Draft Land Needs Assessment released including population and
September 2021
employment allocations to area municipalities
Draft ROP amendment presented to Regional council
Late 2021
Statutory public meeting to consider adopting growth related
Q1 2022
components of ROP review
Draft Amendment for non -growth related components of ROP
Fall 2021 -Winter
presented to council (natural heritage and water resources systems
2022
mapping, mineral aggregates, source water protection and
agricultural system)
Statuary Public Meeting to consider adopting non -Growth -Related
Q2 2022
components of ROP review
Province approvesgrowth-related ROP amendment
July 2022
Province approves nongrowth-related ROP amendment
Fall 2022
City OP update to conform with ROP amendment
2023+
STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT:
This report supports the delivery of core services.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
Capital Budget — The recommendation has no immediate impact on the Capital Budget.
Operating Budget — The recommendation has no immediate impact on the Operating
Budget.
How and where the City of Kitchener grows has significant financial implications on the
capital, lifecycle and operational costs of providing infrastructure and community services
for future generations. Additional details regarding the financial implications for various
growth scenarios will be detailed in the Region's Fiscal Impact Assessment of the Growth
Scenarios. In addition, low density and sprawling communities can contribute to social and
environmental issues like climate change, loss of prime agricultural land, noise pollution and
public health impacts which are difficult to quantify but are important to consider.
Work to update the City's Official Plan to conform with the ROP must be completed within
one year of the ROP update's approval by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
There is currently a budget of $12,500 in 2022 to complete this work. The adequacy of this
budget will be reviewed once the extent of the conformity work has been scoped.
Any new Urban Expansion Area within the City would require resource -intensive
secondary planning. These areas would not be priority locations for growth within the next
10 years but would compete for limited planning resources in the short term.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
INFORM/CONSULT —
This report has been posted to the City's website with the agenda in advance of the
Council / Committee meeting.
The Region is leading the consultation on this project. Engagement is primarily virtual
and centred on www.engagewr.ca/regional-official-plan. In addition to asynchronous
engagement, live engagement events included:
o A Public Information Meeting of Regional Council
o Kick-off open houses, including one at the Kitchener Public Library, Fall 2019;
o Ask a Planner webinars held June 2020 and June 2021; and
o COVID-19 symposium held jointly with the University of Waterloo, August
2020.
PREVIOUS REPORTS/AUTHORITIES:
DSD -2021-5 Regional Official Plan Review
APPROVED BY: Justin Readman, General Manager, Development Services
ATTACHMENTS:
Attachment A Region of Waterloo Report PDL -CPL -21-29 Regional Official
Plan Review - Preliminary Growth Scenarios and Evaluation
Criteria
Report: PDL -CPL -21-29
Region of Waterloo
Planning, Development and Legislative Services
Community Planning
To: Planning and Works Committee
Meeting Date: June 10, 2021
Report Title: Regional Official Plan Review Update — Preliminary Growth
Scenarios and Evaluation Criteria
1. Recommendation:
For information.
2. Purpose/issue:
The purpose of this report is to identify preliminary growth scenarios, including a base
case scenario that will be considered as part of the Regional Official Plan (ROP)
Review. Each scenario tests progressively denser development assumptions to assess
the amount of land needed to accommodate the Region's population and employment
forecasts to 2051. This report also outlines the preliminary criteria for evaluating the
growth scenarios, and any required urban expansion areas
3. Strategic Plan:
The growth scenario analysis will establish the long-term framework for where and how
Waterloo Region will grow and aligns with the following strategic focus areas: Thriving
Economy; Sustainable Transportation; Environment and Climate Action; and Health,
Safe and Inclusive Communities. As well, it responds directly to Action 3.5.1, Promote
efficient urban land use through greenfield and intensification policies while conserving
natural heritage and agricultural areas.
4. Key Considerations:
Waterloo Region is anticipating significant population and employment growth by
2051.
The Provincial Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (Growth Plan) forecasts
a population of 923,000 and 470,000 jobs for Waterloo Region by 2051. This represents
growth of approximately 324,600 people and 177,000 jobs between 2021 and 2051.
Under the Growth Plan, the Region must amend the ROP to accommodate these
forecasts.
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The Region must use the Provincial Land Needs Assessment Methodology to
determine its land needs to 2051.
The Province's Land Needs Assessment Methodology sets out certain requirements
municipalities must follow to determine how much land is needed to accommodate their
forecasted growth to 2051, including the need for any urban expansions. Among the key
requirements is the need to achieve the Growth Plan's minimum intensification and
designated greenfield area (DGA) density targets. The overall objective is to provide a
balanced supply of land that reflects market demand, avoids shortages that could
increase land costs for both housing and employment uses, and addresses other
Regional policy objectives.
The land needs assessment is carried out in two parts. The first considers the
Community Area that will accommodate future residential growth. The second part
considers employment growth in the Employment Area.
Community Area
The Growth Plan specifies that a minimum of 50 percent of all residential development
occurring annually must occur through intensification (i.e., constructed within the built-
up area). The Region must also plan to achieve a minimum DGA density target of 50
residents and jobs per hectare, measured across both the existing and any new DGA
(i.e., any new area added to the DGA).
Employment Area
Employment growth is divided into four categories: population -based employment,
major office, employment land employment, and rural employment. Generally speaking,
population -based employment and major office will be accommodated within the
Community Area. Employment land employment is dealt with separately. Once the
existing employment land supply is determined, the amount of new employment land
area within the DGA is determined.
The base case and preliminary growth scenarios suggest Waterloo Region will
need additional land to accommodate its forecasted growth.
The Region retained Dillon Consulting and Watson and Associates Economists Ltd. to
assess the Region's land needs to 2051. Although this work is still ongoing, the
consulting team has run a base case and three preliminary growth scenarios to test the
impact of progressively higher intensification and DGA density targets on the Region's
total land needs.
Table 1 summarizes the results of the base case and the three preliminary growth
scenarios.
Table 1: Results of Base Case and Preliminary Growth Scenarios
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To accommodate the Region's forecasted employment growth, the Region will need to
add approximately 680 hectares of new DGA for employment land. This estimate
considers the region's existing supply of employment land, and assumes a gross
density of 35 jobs per hectare. The 680 hectares employment land need remains
constant across each scenario.
The base case scenario generally reflects what the housing market has been delivering
on an average basis over the past few years. The base case aligns with the Growth
Plan's minimum intensification target of 50 percent. However, the minimum DGA
density target of 60 people and jobs per hectare is slightly above to better support
transit ridership. Given Council's significant investments in the ION light rail transit
system, and its commitment to extend the system to Cambridge, the base case
scenario underestimates Waterloo Region's potential and capacity to accommodate
higher levels of intensification over the next 30 years.
In general, the higher the intensification and DGA density targets, the lower the quantity
of new DGA needed to accommodate the Region's forecasted growth. To varying
degrees, these scenarios support the achievement of Council's strategic objectives,
such as protecting farmland, offering more travel choices, and reducing greenhouse gas
emissions. However, each of the growth scenarios still project a region -wide deficit of
DGA lands to 2051, ranging from approximately 530 hectares to 1,200 hectares. This
deficit is driven in part by the projected need for new employment lands (i.e., 680
hectares), which as noted earlier remains constant across each scenario.
The preferred growth scenario must balance several Provincial and Regional
planning objectives.
The growth scenarios will be evaluated against a series of criteria focusing on six
themes: Growth Management; Transportation, Infrastructure and Financing; Agricultural
and Mineral Aggregate Resources; Natural Environment and Source Water Protection;
Livability; and Economic Growth. Each theme includes a set of criteria or questions to
allow for a broad comparison among the growth scenarios. The evaluation criteria also
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incorporate a "climate change lens" to identify growth scenarios that help reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, and support stronger and more resilient communities.
Attachment A contains a list of the evaluation criteria for the growth scenarios.
The preferred growth scenario will also be informed by five key background studies:
Long -Term Population and Housing Growth Analysis, 2051; Intensification Strategy;
Employment Strategy, Financial Impact Analysis; and Climate Change Policy Direction
Paper. The draft Employment Strategy and Financial Impact Analysis will be available
for pubic review and comment in the coming weeks. Early drafts of the other three
studies were posted on the Region's online engagement site last year and early 2021,
and will be finalized over the summer.
The Region has received 55 requests for an urban expansion/designation from
landowners and some area municipalities.
Forty of the requests (approximately 1,505 hectares) seek to expand an Urban Area, or
a Township Urban Area. Two requests (approximately 66 hectares) propose to
redesignate lands within the countryside for urban development. The remaining 13
requests (approximately 95 hectares) relate to a Rural Settlement Area, or a Rural
Employment Area in one of the four townships. The rural -related requests will not be
reviewed as part of the growth scenarios and land needs assessment work. Instead,
they will be reviewed as part of the refinement of the Province's agricultural land base,
which provides an opportunity to more accurately delineate the Rural Settlement Areas
and Rural Employment Areas in the ROP. Attachment B includes a list of the requests
for urban expansion/designation received to date. Attachment C contains a map
showing the approximate locations of the urban expansion requests for each
municipality.
Staff will review the expansion requests as part of the broader evaluation process of the
candidate urban expansion areas shown on Maps 3a to 3e of the ROP. These areas
are located between the existing Urban Area/Township Urban Area boundary and the
Countryside Line. As set out in the ROP, any future urban expansions must be
considered on lands within the Countryside Line. Where the Countryside Line coincides
with the Protected Countryside designation in the ROP, the Countryside Line is to be
considered a permanent boundary.
Depending on the results of the land needs assessment, staff will assess the feasibility
of any required urban expansions using an evaluation framework similar to one
described above for the growth scenarios (see Attachment D for criteria). Staff will
consult with the public, stakeholders, landowners and the area municipalities to
determine the most appropriate locations for any required urban expansions.
Background:
Since the approval of the ROP in 2015, several significant changes have occurred in the
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Province's land use planning policies, including an updated Growth Plan. Among other
matters, the updated Growth Plan increased Waterloo Region's growth forecasts, and
also extended the time horizon of the ROP from 2041 to 2051. The current ROP review
will bring the ROP into conformity with the updated Growth Plan. It will also ensure the
Region has a sufficient land supply to accommodate its forecasted growth.
5. Area Municipality Communication and Public/Stakeholder Engagement:
Consultation and engagement with the various ROP Review Committees, including the
Steering Committee, Stakeholder Committee, Technical Team and Area Municipal
Working Group, as well as Indigenous engagement and public consultation is
continuous throughout the project. Staff are planning to host a public webinar in late
June to obtain additional feedback from the community on the preliminary growth
scenarios and evaluation criteria.
6. Financial Implications:
The ROP review will include a Financial Impact Analysis to provide Council with the
estimated financial impacts of servicing any proposed urban area expansions.
7. Conclusion / Next Steps:
Over the coming months, staff will continue consulting on the preliminary growth
scenarios to identify a recommend preferred scenario. This work will provide a key input
into the land needs assessment, which will be released later this summer. Depending
on the outcome of the land needs assessment, staff will evaluate the candidate urban
expansions areas identified in the ROP, and the site-specific expansion requests, to
determine the most appropriate locations for growth. The evaluation process will include
further engagement with the public and stakeholders over the summer and early fall,
and culminate in a recommended draft ROP amendment anticipated later this year.
Attachments / Links:
Attachment A — Evaluation Criteria for Growth Scenarios
Attachment B — List of Requests for Urban Expansion/Designation Received to Date
Attachment C — Location Maps of Urban Expansion Requests
Attachment D — Evaluation Criteria for Candidate Urban Expansion Areas
Prepared By: John Lubczynski, Principal Planner
Brenna MacKinnon, Manager, Development Planning
Reviewed By: Michelle Sergi, Director, Community Planning
Approved By: Rod Regier, Commissioner, Planning Development and Legislative
Services
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Attachment A
Evaluation Criteria for Proposed Growth Scenarios
Theme
Objective
Evaluation Criteria
• Does the scenario allocate growth in a way that
supports the long-term viability of the Planned
Support Planned
Regional Structure?
Regional
Structure
. How well does the scenario support intensification
within existing or planned new Strategic Growth
Areas?
• How well does the scenario support complete
communities within the built-up area and in
designated greenfield areas?
Foster
development of
. How well does the scenario promote a more compact
complete and
built urban form?
compact
communities
. How well does the scenario help to reduce the growth
of greenhouse gas emissions through intensification,
and support for a wider variety of built forms and land
uses?
a�
• How well does the scenario support multi -modal
access to the GRT transit network, and facilitate
other sustainable and active modes of travel, such as
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walking, cycling and travel with the use of mobility
o
aids, including motorized wheelchairs?
Build a
sustainable and
• How well does the scenario support minimizing
active
vehicle miles traveled and the growth of greenhouse
transportation
gas emissions?
system
• How well does the scenario support a low emissions
transportation system?
• How well does the scenario support the existing and
future expansion of the ION rapid transit network?
• How well can the scenario adapt to
unknowns/uncertainties such as shifts in
Provide flexibility
demographics, economic conditions, extreme
weather events and advances in technology (e.g.
transportation technology, work from home
technology)?
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Is there sufficient capacity in existing or planned
U
Optimize use of
municipal infrastructure (e.g., roads, transit, water,
C
existing or
wastewater, stormwater management) and public
=
U_
planned
service facilities (e.g., hospitals, long-term care
infrastructure and
facilities, libraries and schools) to support the growth
=
cc
public service
scenario?
facilities
• How well does the scenario optimize the use of
existing infrastructure and public service facilities?
N
How well does the scenario ensure that growth is
Ensure cost
financially viable over the long term through
c
effective/
optimization of existing regional and area municipal
c
financially
infrastructure and public service facilities, and
0
viability
minimization of long-term operations and
maintenance costs?
L
Facilitate green
How well does the scenario enable opportunities for
N
=
infrastructure and
energy, resource and water conservation, and
reduce risks
promotion of green infrastructure to support climate
change mitigation and adaptation?
• Does the scenario minimize the need for conversion
of prime agricultural land and provide for continued
investment in the agricultural food network?
L
• How well does the scenario help the agricultural
system become more resilient to outside shocks,
Protect prime
such as extreme weather events destroying crops
agricultural land
elsewhere in the world?
L
How well does the scenario support local food
a
production, processing and distribution to decrease
energy use and emissions by reducing the length of
trips between farms, processing facilities, and
grocery stores, or selling directly to homes and
businesses?
ca
Protect mineral
Does the proposed expansion area contain any
aggregate
deposits of mineral aggregate resources?
resources and
existing
• Would development within the proposed expansion
Q
aggregate
area preclude or hinder the expansion or continued
operations
use of any existing mineral aggregate operations?
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Landowner and Area Municipal Requests for Urban Expansion/Designation
(submitted to date)
City of Cambridge
#
Address or
Location
Landowner or Applicant
Nature of Request
Size
(ha.)
1
0 Old Mill Rd.
Roger Roedding
Request to be added to
3.0
3
2118 New Dundee
Branthaven Homes
Urban Area for residential
60.6
Rd.
or employment land uses.
2
850, 1000, and 1010
Joseph Puopolo
Request to be added to
41.9
4
Riverbank Dr.
Schlegel Urban
the Urban Area for
57.7
Southwest Kitchener
Developments
residential land uses.
City of Kitchener
#
Address or
Owner/Applicant
Requested Land Use
Size
Location
(ha.)
3
2118 New Dundee
Branthaven Homes
Request to be added to
60.6
Rd.
the Urban Are for
residential land uses.
4
236 Gehl Place,
Schlegel Urban
Request to be added to
57.7
Southwest Kitchener
Developments
the Urban Area for
residential land uses.
5
271 Reidel Drive
Grambrian Investments
Request to be added to
23.0
the Urban Area for
residential land uses.
6
Southwest Kitchener
Activa
Request to be added to
54.7
the Urban Area for
residential land uses.
7
Southwest Kitchener
Schlegel Urban
Request to be added to
59.2
Developments
the Urban Area for
residential land uses.
8
SW of Bleams Rd.
Mattamy Homes
Request to be added to
12.6
and Fischer -Hallman
the Urban Area for
Rd.
residential land uses.
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Township of North Dumfries
#
Address or
Owner/Applicant
Requested Land Use
Size
19
Location
Jim Flynn
Request to be added to
(ha.)
9
1410 Wrigley Rd.
Andy MacDonald
Request to add land to the
14.2
Wrigley Rural Settlement
20
East side of
Township of Wellesley
Area for residential land
8.2
Wellesley
uses.
10
2772 Greenfield
Hardy Bromberg
Request to be added to Ayr
52.1
Rd., Ayr
for residential land uses.
11
Brant -Waterloo Rd.
D. & K. Elliott
Request to be added to Ayr
40.4
and Nith Rd., Ayr
for residential land uses.
12
Brant -Waterloo Rd.
1054455 Ontario Ltd.
Request to be added to Ayr
41.4
and Swan Rd., Ayr
for residential land uses.
13
East side of Ayr
Township of North
Request to be added to Ayr
80.0
Dumfries
for residential land uses.
14
West side of
Silvestri Investments Ltd.
Request to be added to Ayr
23.3
Branchton Rd. North
for residential land uses.
of East Boundary
Rd.
15
Northumberland and
Terry Ballantyne
Request to be added to Ayr
20.7
Alps Rd.
for employment land uses.
16
1203
Rick Elliott
Request to be added to Ayr
9.2
Northumberland St.,
for employment land uses.
Ayr
17
1591
Seema Gupta
Request to redesignate the
41.6
Northumberland St.
property for employment
land uses.
18
Northumberland
Township of North
Request to be added to Ayr
90.8
Corridor
Dumfries
for employment land uses.
Township of Wellesley
#
Address or
Location
Owner/Applicant
Requested Land Use
Size
(ha.)
19
1309 Greenwood
Jim Flynn
Request to be added to
3.9
Hill Rd., Wellesley
Village of Wellesley for
residential land uses.
20
East side of
Township of Wellesley
Request to be added to
8.2
Wellesley
Village of Wellesley for
residential/commercial land
uses.
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Part of 4200 Manser
Todd Cressman
Request to be added to the
0.1
29
Rd.
Snyder's Rd. (Baden) GP
Linwood Rural Settlement
116.1
Snyder's Rd. and
Inc.
Area for a new residential
1455 Nafziger Rd.,
Stremma Developments
lot.
22
South of
Township of Wellesley
Request to be added as a
0.4
Wallenstein
Stremma Developments
lot addition to an existing
(Baden Southeast) Inc.
residential property in the
Wallenstein Rural
Settlement Area.
23
West side of Village
Strohvest Ontario Inc.
Request to be added to the
6.3
of Wellesley
Village of Wellesley for
residential land uses.
24
Hawkesville
Township of Wellesley
Request to be added to the
2.5
Hawkesville Rural
Settlement Area for
employment land uses.
25
Geddes St.,
Chervin Custom
Request to be added to the
2.1
Hawkesville
Woodworks
Hawkesville Rural
Settlement Area for
employment land uses.
26
Linwood
Township of Wellesley
Request to be added to the
18.5
Linwood Rural Settlement
Area for employment land
uses.
27
Wellesley
Township of Wellesley
Request to be added to the
8.5
Wellesley Rural
Employment Area for
employment land uses.
28
Hawkesville
Township of Wellesley
Request to be added to the
23.8
Hawkesville Rural
Settlement Area for
employment land uses.
Township of Wilmot
#
Address or
Location
Owner/Applicant
Requested Land Use
Size
(ha.)
29
1056 & 1149
Snyder's Rd. (Baden) GP
Request to be added to
116.1
Snyder's Rd. and
Inc.
Baden for residential land
1455 Nafziger Rd.,
Stremma Developments
uses.
Baden
(Baden Southeast) Inc.
Stremma Developments
(Baden Southeast) Inc.
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1145 Christner Rd.
Carey Homes
Request to be added to
16.2
New Hamburg
New Hamburg for
(ha.)
34
165 Bloomingdale
John Mesina
residential land uses.
0.9
31
1265 & 1299
Cachet Development
Request to be added to
59.9
Waterloo St., New
Partners Inc.
New Hamburg for
35
Hamburg
Lion's Mane Ministry
residential land uses.
13.7
32
Area between
Township of Wilmot
Request to be added to
109.6
Baden and New
Baden for employment land
36
Hamburg
Ken Leppard
uses.
0.9
33
2320 Snyder's Road
809721 Ontario Ltd
Employment Area
68.7
W
land uses.
Township of Woolwich
#
Address or
Owner/Applicant
Requested Land Use
Size
Location
(ha.)
34
165 Bloomingdale
John Mesina
Request to be added to the
0.9
Rd.
Urban Area for residential
land uses.
35
1700 Kramp Rd.
Lion's Mane Ministry
Request to be added to the
13.7
Kunle Oluwojure
Urban Area for residential
land uses.
36
208 Bloomingdale
Ken Leppard
Request to be added to the
0.9
Rd.
Urban Area for residential
land uses.
37
44 St. Charles St.
Karen Martin
Request to be added to the
7.8
E., Maryhill
Maryhill Rural Settlement
Area for residential land
uses.
38
52 Hawkesville
1604964 Ontario Ltd.
Request to be added to St.
28.1
Rd.
650207 Ontario Ltd.
Jacobs for residential land
uses.
39
55 Spring St., St.
Don Kenesky
Request to be added to St.
5.9
Jacobs
Jacobs for urban land uses.
40
6430 Line 86,
Westgate Farms. Ltd.
Request to be added to the
8.4
West Montrose
West Montrose Rural
Settlement Area for
residential land uses.
41
Highway 7 and
Thomasfield Homes
Request to be added to the
15.2
Greenfield Rd
Urban Area for residential
land uses.
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Southeast corner
957859 Ontario Ltd/Forwell
Request to be added to the
88.3
of Ottawa St.
lands
Urban Area (Breslau) for
extension and the
urban land uses.
Grand River
43
Sunset Hills Cres.,
Sunset Hills Estates Corp.
Request to be added to the
1.2
Maryhill
Maryhill Rural Settlement
Area for residential land
uses.
44
2177 Lonsdale
House of Walker
Request the lands be
24.0
Rd., Breslau
redesignated for
employment uses as a
potential lot addition to
Conestoga Meat Packers.
45
East Elmira
Township of Woolwich
Request to be added to
89.9
Elmira for employment land
uses.
46
South Elmira
Township of Woolwich
Request to be added to
72.9
Elmira for employment land
uses.
47
St. Jacobs
Township of Woolwich
Request to be added to St.
2.1
Jacobs for employment
land uses.
48
Fountain St &
Township of Woolwich
Request to be added to the
31.5
Woolwich St
Urban Area for employment
Breslau
land uses.
49
285 Woolwich St.
Anchor Properties
Request to be added to the
7.8
S., Breslau
Urban Area for employment
land uses.
50
5185 Fountain St.
Breadner Trailers
Request to be added to the
3.3
N., Breslau
Urban Area for employment
land uses.
51
985-999 Bridge St.
Cooks Lands Group
Request to be added to the
43.3
W.
Urban Area for employment
land uses.
52
West of Fountain
Breslau Properties Limited
Request to be added to
27.4
St. at Dolman St.
Urban Area for residential
Extension, Breslau
land uses.
53
Southwest of
Breslau Properties Limited
Request to be added to the
14.3
Fountain St. and
Urban Area for residential
Township Rd. 80
land uses.
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2000 Shantz
2716501 Ontario Inc.
Request to be redesignated
6.7
Station Road
for employment and
commercial land uses.
55
5009 Crowsfoot
Bill Southern
Request to be added to the
1.2
Road.
Crowsfoot Rural Settlement
Area for residential land
uses.
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Southwest Kitchener
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Urban Area Boundary
Protected Countryside
Southwest Kitchener Policy Area
Urban Expansion Requests
Built Up Area
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N
Prime Agricultural Area
Designated Greenfield Area
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Urban Expansion Requests
Built Up Area
Y Rural Areas
N
Prime Agricultural Area
Designated Greenfield Area
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Urban Expansion Requests
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Township
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Prime Agricultural Area
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McQueen Shaver Boulevard - North Dumfries Township
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Wrigley Rural Settlement Area - North Dumfries Township
- Wrigley
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Village of Wellesley — Wellesley Township
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Linwood and Hawkesville Rural Settlement Areas - Wellesley Township
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Baden and New Hamburg — Wilmot Township
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Attachment D
Evaluation Criteria for Candidate Urban Expansion Areas
Theme
Objective
Evaluation Criteria
Consider local
development
Are there any known cross -jurisdictional issues that may
conditions
impact the viability of the land to be developed?
• Does the candidate expansion area represent logical
Wise use and
and orderly progression of growth?
management
of lands
Would the timing of the proposed expansion adversely
affect achievement of minimum density and
intensification targets?
E
Is the anticipated density for the proposed expansion
area transit -supportive? Would it support frequent transit
M
service and multi -modal access to the transit network?
M
�
Sustainable
Would the proposed expansion area support other
3
and active
sustainable and active modes of travel, such as walking,
L
transportation
cycling, and travel with the use of mobility aids, including
system
motorized wheelchairs?
• Would it support minimized vehicle kilometres travelled
and help reduce the growth of greenhouse gas
emissions?
• Can the expansion area function as a standalone
Complete
complete community or provide for the completion of an
communities
existing community including an appropriate mix of jobs,
stores, services, housing, transportation options, and
public service facilities for all ages and abilities?
• Is there sufficient capacity in existing or planned
o =
Optimize use of
municipal infrastructure (including road, transit, water
'U
existing or
and wastewater) and public service facilities to
a
planned
accommodate the expansion area?
N LL
infrastructure
,�
and public
• Is there opportunity to effectively expand on existing and
S
service facilities
planned infrastructure established through approved
master plans and related studies?
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• Would the water/ wastewater/ transportation
infrastructure needed be financially viable over the full
life cycle of the assets?
Cost effective/
financially
. What are the order of magnitude costs associated with
viable
servicing the settlement expansion area?
• Are the public service facilities needed financially viable
over the full life cycle of the assets?
Facilitate green
infrastructure
* Would expansion enable opportunities for energy,
and reduce
resource and water conservation and promotion of
risks
green infrastructure to support climate change mitigation
and adaptation?
• Where prime agricultural areas cannot be avoided, does
the proposed expansion area contain lower priority
Protect prime
agricultural lands?
agricultural
. Would the proposed expansion area impact the
areas
resiliency of the agricultural system to outside shocks,
such as extreme weather events destroying crops
elsewhere in the world?
Minimize
. Is fragmentation of prime agricultural lands avoided/
fragmentation
minimized; and, are contiguous agricultural lands
retained?
Compliance
o
with minimum
. Are there existing livestock operations in proximity to the
distance
candidate area? Does the proposed expansion area
a
separation
comply with the minimum distance separation formulae?
formulae
5
Minimize
• Does the candidate expansion area avoid/ minimize/
a�
a�
impact on the
mitigate any adverse impacts on the agri-food network,
Q Q
agri-food
including agricultural operations?
network
including
. Would the proposed expansion area negatively impact
agricultural
local food production, processing and distribution by
operations
increasing the length of trips (and greenhouse gas
emissions) between farms, processing facilities, and
grocery stores?
• Does the proposed expansion area contain any deposits
Protect mineral
of mineral aggregate resources?
aggregate
. Would development within the proposed expansion area
resources
preclude or hinder the expansion or continued use of
any existing mineral aggregate o erations?
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• Would the proposed expansion area minimize any
potential impacts on watershed conditions and the water
resource system?
m
• What is the potential for impacts on key hydrologic
0Enhance/
U) asupport
areas? Are key hydrologic areas protected?
m
Natural
Does the expansion area avoid and protect the Natural
4.0Heritage
Heritage System and/or maintain, restore or improve the
p
aSystem
functions of the area?
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Does the proposed expansion area support nature -
based solutions to climate change mitigation and
adaptation (e.g., prevent flooding, provide shade, and
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sequester carbon)?
Source water
Would the proposed expansion area meet any
protection
applicable requirements of the Region's source
protection plan?
Improve
Will the proposed expansion area be served by and
linkages and
connected to/ integrated with an existing or planned
increase travel
transportation network (e.g. roads, rail, transit corridors
choices
and bike lanes and multi -use trails) to increase travel
choices?
• How well does the proposed expansion area provide
Support
opportunities to align with the target housing demand
housing choice
and market pressures for the Region?
and
affordability
How well does the potential expansion area support the
housing affordability objectives and targets of the
Region?
c�a
• Would the proposed expansion area affect any
significant built heritage resources or significant cultural
Support/
heritage landscapes?
protect culture
• What is the archaeological potential of the candidate
expansion area?
• Would the proposed expansion area provide residents
Access and
easy access and connectivity to food, shelter, education,
connectivity
health care, arts and recreation, and information
technology?
Provide open
• Would the proposed expansion area be integrated with
space and
existing, or planned open spaces, parks, trails, and other
parks
recreational facilities?
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• Can emergency services be efficiently delivered to the
settlement expansion area?
Support public
' Would the proposed expansion area contribute to a
health, active
pattern of development that supports healthy and active
living, and
living and mitigates public health risks?
personal safety
• Would the proposed expansion area help to minimize
the health effects of climate change, such as illnesses
related to extreme cold or heat events, or increased
exposure to air pollution?
• Is there potential for the candidate area to erode or
enhance protection of existing employment areas,
corridors, rail corridors and transit?
• Would the proposed expansion area protect or enhance
employment areas in proximity to major goods
Protect or
movement facilities and corridors for employment uses
3
o
enhance
that require those locations?
employment
areas, highway
Would the proposed expansion area help provide
corridors, rail
sufficient land, in appropriate locations, to accommodate
o
o
corridors and
the Region's Io growth?
gions em p yment
U
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transit
Would the proposed expansion area help strengthen the
economic diversity of the region?
• Would the proposed expansion area support a better
balance of jobs and housing in communities across the
region to reduce the need for long distance commuting
and greenhouse gas emissions?
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