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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMay 26, 2008 - Special Council SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES THE CORPORATION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF BAYHAM P.O.Box 160, 9344 Plank Road STRAFFORDVILLE, ONTARIO Monday,May 26,2008 7:00 p.m. The Council of the Municipality of Bayham met at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, May 26, 2008 in the Committee Room. Present were Mayor Lynn Acre, Councillors Wayne Casier and Ed Ketchabaw,Administrator Kyle Kruger and Planning Co-ordinator/Deputy Clerk Margaret Underhill. Also present was the Municipal Planning Consultant, Derek Dudek of IBI Group. Public Attendees: David Roe, Brent Stewart, Paul Dzambas, Honor Wassing 1. CALL TO ORDER Mayor Acre called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. 2. DISCLOSURE OF PECUNIARY INTEREST &THE GENERAL NATURE THEREOF None 3. PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT, RECREATION & TOURISM 1. Official Plan Review Discussions Derek Dudek referred to our previous meeting of May 15, 2008 regarding soil mapping discussions and informed Council of his recent discussions with OMAFRA. He prepared a revised Bayham soil classification map, excluding tobacco lands from the specialty crop lands classification. He explained that the new mapping shows that half the municipality is non-prime agricultural lands, which he considered to be quite significant. He mentioned the LEAR(Land Evaluation and Area Review) Study to OMAFRA and if they confirm that tobacco lands can be excluded from the specialty crop lands classification, it may not be advantageous to do a study. D. Dudek is expecting OMAFRA to send confirmed updated soil classifications to him shortly. D. Dudek continued with Discussion Paper#2 Growth Study beginning at page 11 Qualitative Analysis 5.8 Port Burwell. He pointed out that there could be some minor revisions to the number of potential building lots across the whole municipality based upon the information expected from OMAFRA regarding the soil classifications. He stated that the Ministry might be supportive of removing some of our undeveloped interior residential lands from urban boundaries and returning them to agricultural use in exchange for adding properties along the main roads and streets to extend urban boundaries. D. Dudek calculated that by exchanging lands the acreage would be added to the agricultural designation,which is positive in the Ministry's opinion. SPECIAL, COUNCIL MINUTES - 151 - May 26, 2008 K. Kruger circulated to Council an email dated May 25, 2008 received from Paul Hinde, Consultant for Brian Graydon, regarding the individual Graydon properties that the owner requested to be included in the OP Review. D. Dudek explained that three of the properties are included in Discussion Paper#2 and two properties, being industrial/commercial, are included in Discussion Paper#3, which Mr. Hinde and Mr. Graydon have not seen yet. D. Dudek recommended that minor revisions be made to Discussion#2 before sending it to the Ministry for consultation. K. Kruger suggested that before the Study is submitted to the Ministry that an Open House be scheduled to provide an informal forum for concerned parties to attend and discuss the changes. He recommended that the individual landowners, whose lands could be considered for re-designation,be contacted directly and invited to attend. He added that following the Open House, recommended changes would be made, discussion papers would be sent to the Ministry for consultation and then a formal Public Meeting could be scheduled. D. Dudek continued with Discussion Paper#3 Other Policy Issues. Regarding supplementary farm dwellings, Derek explained that there are no policies in the OP and currently Bayham considers them through the zoning by-law with temporary zoning policies. He pointed out that Oxford County uses a site-specific minor variance through the Committee of Adjustment to deal with supplementary farm dwelling requests. D. Dudek will look at Norfolk County's policies, as well, for comparison. Councillor Casier expressed concern for the farmers with a justifiable need and that those accommodations are getting harder to secure. He suggested that justification for a supplementary farm dwelling would be the provision of the farm registration number assigned to a registered farm operation. He feels that this would help reduce the potential misuse of the supplementary farm dwelling. D. Dudek suggested that site-specific policies can be formulated similar to Oxford County and include such items as type, location and permitted time frame. The discussion moved on to industrial lands. D. Dudek pointed out that adding more industrial lands may not be warranted and that the Ministry would not see the benefit to adding more when the current industrial lands are not fully developed. Mayor Acre asked about lands in Vienna and the potential to be designated industrial. K. Kruger responded by saying that past requests moved lands away from industrial to residential use in the villages. When asked about renewable resources policies, D. Dudek responded by saying that Discussion Paper# 1 touched on renewable resources and suggested that more policies could be added to deal with other energy resources, such as solar. As per discussion,D. Dudek will make the minor revisions to Discussion#2 and#3 and plan an Open House for approximately late June, draft the new policies in July and send to the Ministry for preconsultation and plan a Public Meeting for September. SPECIAL COUNCIL MINUTES - 152 - May 26,2008 4. ADJOURNMENT 2008-307 Moved by E. Ketchabaw Seconded by W. Casier "THAT the Council meeting be adjourned at 8:37 p.m." Disposition: Motion Carried Unanimously ry ./L) .�/ R PU Y CLER Date approved: