1. Development and Infrastructure Committee Public Meeting – December 3, 2012 City-initiated General Amendments to Zoning By-law 2020

2. Report PB 56/12 is a report recommending approval of various city-initiated general amendments to the Zoning By- law. Staff periodically bring forward amendments to Zoning By- law 2020 which require modification or clarification to ensure the document is accurate, clear and up to date. All of the identified modifications are of a housekeeping nature..

3. We note that the process for city-initiated amendments is different than for applicant-initiated amendments. The City prepared a 30 day notice outlining the proposed general amendments which was circulated to technical agencies as well as a newspaper notice with the same information which was published 30 days in advance of this public meeting.

4. Appendix lI Illustrations to be included in the Zoning By-law for reference

5. 976 Shadeland The zoning by-law regulations are taken from a lot line not from the boundary of the individual units. The proposed zoning amendment allows the residents to have an accessory building and/or structure in the rear or side yard and staff can use the unit boundaries to apply accessory building and structure regulations.

6. Exception 382 Staff have had inquiries about using the lower level for commercial uses therefore staff reviewed the site and the rationale for restriction. The zoning at the time of development did not prevent lower level from being used for commercial purposes it was only due to parking that it was limited to the ground floor only. Now that the lands are within the Downtown parking exemption area, that restriction is not necessary. This site was built as a mixed use development not a live/work therefore there are no building code restrictions with respect to limitations of use or employees.

7. 1135 King Road In 2007 the land was conveyed to the City and rezoned from GE1 to O2. Since the rezoning the land owner working with Conservation Halton and City Engineering to redesign flood control pond reducing the amount of land needed in O2, therefore this is a map change.

8. Staff did not receive any correspondence from agencies or the public regarding the general amendments Staff is therefore requesting Committee to: Approve the city-initiated general amendments to the Zoning By-law 2020 and enact By-law 2020.321.