May 8, 2019 Community Design Advisory Committee

Date:

Time: 11:30 a.m.

Location: Harbour East-Marine Drive Community Council Meeting Room, Main Floor 60 Alderney Drive, Dartmouth

Agenda

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 

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. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS – NONE

7. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS

8. REPORTS/DISCUSSION

8.1 Regional Centre Secondary Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law (Package A)
– continued from April 10, 2019 [PDF]

Attachment A: Proposed Regional Centre Secondary Municipal Planning Strategy (Package A) [PDF]
Map 1: Urban Structure [PDF]
Map 2: Maximum Floor Area Ratio (D, CEN-2 and CEN-1 Zones) [PDF]
Map 3: Maximum Height (CEN-2, COR, HR-1 and HR-2 Zones) [PDF]
Map 4: Downtown Dartmouth Precincts [PDF]
Map 5: Lake Banook Canoe Course Maximum Height Precinct [PDF]
Map 6: Dartmouth View Planes [PDF]
Map 7: Halifax Citadel View Planes [PDF]
Map 8: Halifax Citadel Ramparts [PDF]
Map 9: Downtown Dartmouth View Corridors [PDF]
Map 10: Proposed Heritage Conservation District Study Areas [PDF]
Map 11: Future Growth Node Land Use Concept - Shannon Park [PDF]
Map 12: Future Growth Node Land Use Concept – Penhorn Lands [PDF]
Map 13: Future Growth Node Land Use Concept – Young Street Lands [PDF]
Map 14 Future Growth Node Land Use Concept – Dartmouth Cove [PDF]
Map 15: Dartmouth Cove Dundas Street Extension Transportation Reserve [PDF]

Attachment B: Proposed Regional Centre Land Use By-law (Package A) [PDF] 
Schedule 1 - Regional Centre Land Use By-law Boundary [PDF]
Schedule 2 - Site Plan Approval Area [PDF]
Schedule 3 - Zone Boundaries [PDF]
Schedule 4 - Special Area Boundaries [PDF]
Schedule 5 - View Terminus Sites [PDF]
Schedule 6 - Pedestrian-Oriented Commercial Streets [PDF]
Schedule 7 - Maximum Building Heights [PDF]
Schedule 8 - Maximum Floor Area Ratios [PDF]
Schedule 9 - Minimum Front and Flanking Yards [PDF]
Schedule 10 - Maximum Front and Flanking Yards [PDF]
Schedule 11 - Halifax Citadel View Planes [PDF]
Schedule 12 - Halifax Citadel Ramparts [PDF]
Schedule 13 - Dartmouth View Planes [PDF]
Schedule 14 - Church Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Schedule 15 - North Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Schedule 16 - Ochterloney Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Schedule 17 - Queen Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Schedule 18 - Portland Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Schedule 19 - Prince Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Schedule 20 - Kings Wharf Place Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Schedule 21 - Canal Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Schedule 22 - Maitland Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Schedule 23 - Parker Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Schedule 24 - Bonus Rate Districts [PDF]
Schedule 25 - Wind Energy Overlay Zone Boundaries [PDF]
Schedule 26 - Transition Lines [PDF]
Schedule 27 - Shadow Impact Assessment Protocol [PDF]
Schedule 28 - Dundas Street Transportation Reserve [PDF]

Attachment C: Proposed Amendments to the Regional Municipal Planning Strategy [PDF]
Attachment D: Proposed Amendments to the Regional Subdivision By-law [PDF]
Attachment E: Proposed Amendments to the Dartmouth Municipal Planning Strategy [PDF]
Attachment F: Proposed Amendments to the Dartmouth Land Use By-law [PDF]
Attachment G: Proposed Amendments to the Downtown Dartmouth Municipal Planning Strategy [PDF]
Attachment H: Proposed Amendments to the Downtown Dartmouth Land Use By-law [PDF]
Attachment H-1 Schedule C1A – Dartmouth View Planes [PDF]
Attachment H-2 Schedule C3A - Best Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Attachment H-3 Schedule C3B - Mott Street Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Attachment H-4 Schedule C3C - Old Ferry Road Waterfront View Corridor [PDF]
Attachment I: Proposed Amendments to the Halifax Municipal Planning Strategy [PDF]
Attachment J: Proposed Amendments to the Halifax Peninsula Land Use By-law [PDF]
Attachment J-1 Map ZM-25 - Halifax Citadel View Planes [PDF]
Attachment J-2 Map ZM-26 - Citadel Ramparts [PDF] 
Attachment K: Proposed Amendments to the Downtown Halifax Land Use By-law [PDF]
Attachment L: Regional Plan Objectives [PDF]
Attachment M: Summary of Research – Selected Research Reports Informing the Centre Plan [PDF]
Attachment N: Centre Plan Community Engagement Timeline and Summaries [PDF]
Attachment O: Summary of Centre Plan Designations [PDF]
Attachment P: Density Bonusing Examples [PDF]
Attachment Q: Jurisdictional Authority of Community Council Scenarios for Package A Lands within the Regional Centre Plan Area [PDF]
Attachment R: Regional Centre Plan Area (Package A) Map [PDF]  

Motion:
That the Community Design Advisory Committee recommend that the Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee recommend that Halifax Regional Council:

1. Give First Reading and schedule a public hearing to consider the Regional Centre Secondary Municipal Planning Strategy, and the Regional Centre Land Use By-law, as contained in Attachments A and B of the April 3, 2019 staff report.
2. Give First Reading and schedule a public hearing to consider the proposed amendments to the Regional Municipal Planning Strategy, the Regional Subdivision By-law, the Dartmouth Municipal Planning Strategy, the Dartmouth Land Use By-law, the Downtown Dartmouth Municipal Planning Strategy, the Downtown Dartmouth Land Use By-law, the Halifax Municipal Planning Strategy, and the Halifax Peninsula Land Use By-law, as contained in Attachments C to K of April 3, 2019 staff report.
3. Adopt the Regional Centre Secondary Municipal Planning Strategy, and the Regional Centre Land Use By-law as contained in Attachments A and B of April 3, 2019 staff report.
4. Adopt the proposed amendments to the Regional Municipal Planning Strategy, the Regional Subdivision By-law, the Dartmouth Municipal Planning Strategy, the Dartmouth Land Use By-law, the Downtown Dartmouth Secondary Municipal Planning Strategy, the Downtown Dartmouth Land Use By-law, the Halifax Municipal Planning Strategy, and the Halifax Peninsula Land Use By-law, as contained in Attachments C to K of April 3, 2019 staff report.


9. ADDED ITEMS

10. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – Wednesday, May 22, 2019, Halifax Hall

11. ADJOURNMENT    


INFORMATION ITEMS – NONE