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City Council - Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 7pm

Updated: Mar 24

2024 Heritage Barrie Awards, Bayview Park Reservoir decommissioning, zoning amendment for 334 & 340 Ardagh Road


Meeting Location:  Council Chambers or online



All members of Council present


🧑‍⚖️🫅 Student Mayor(s)


📜✋ Swearing In of New Student Mayors

  • Daniella Falconer Graham, Innisdale Secondary School



📜📜 Confirmation of the Minutes



🏆🏅 Awards and Recognitions


🏰🏘️ 2024 Heritage Barrie Awards

  • Recognizing the recipients of these annual awards, given in the following categories:

    • Residential buildings

    • Commercial / Adaptive Reuse (e.g. office, restaurant or store)

    • Institutional Buildings (e.g. a church, school, or public facility

    • Community, Group or Individual (those who stand out in terms of their heritage contribution to the community)



📑🗂 Reports from Officers

  • Nil



🗣🎙 Deputations

  • Nil



💸⚖️ Tax Applications

  • Nil



📝📄 General Committee Report


Section A (reports received)

🏛️🫂 Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee


Section B (consent items)

  • APPROVED (vote not shown)

🛣️📛 Renaming of Army, Navy and Air Force Drive to Vespra Street (Ward 2)

🚫🅿️ Subdivision Parking Control - 225 Prince William Way, BEMP II/Great Gulf (9 Mile), Hewitt's Gate East, Hewitt's Gate West, Yonge GO Village Phase 1 & 2 (Wards 9 & 10)

🚰📑 Water Operations Branch 2024 Drinking Water System Report

🎒🏙️ Tourism Barrie


Section C

  • APPROVED (vote not shown)

💰🚧 Funding Request for Bayview Park Reservoir Decommissioning and Removal (Ward 2)

  • Staff Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13692310&GUID=1AC3DFAE-85F7-4F91-9497-278DCCA9B391 

  • Refer this item to a future Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee meeting, and invite the public to provide open delegations concerning the feasibility of establishing parkland from Mulcaster Street to the eastern border of Sam Cancilla Park at the same time, including a legal review

  • Approve a new capital project to decommission the Bayview Park Reservoir and remove its associated Booster Pumping Station at Sam Cancilla Park, with a budget of $2,565,000 to be funded from the Water Capital Reserve, subject to the return of the same amount from other Water Capital Reserve funded projects in the 2025 Capital Status Report


Section D

  • APPROVED (vote not shown)

📇📛 Municipal Names Registry - Additional Names


Section E

  • Nuttall declared conflict of interest and left Thomson to Chair for this item

  • APPROVED (vote not shown)

🏘️🏘️ Zoning Bylaw Amendment - 334 & 340 Ardagh Road (Ward 6)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13774746&GUID=96D7EF56-21E9-44F2-8BD5-3CB8971039BB

  • Approve the application submitted by Groundswell Urban Planners, on behalf of King Rich Homes Group

  • Rezone from 'Residential Single Detached Dwelling First Density' (R1) to 'Residential Multiple Dwelling Second Density - Townhouse with Special Provisions' (RM2-TH)(SP-XXX)

  • Special Provisions:

    • reduce Minimum Lot Area from 200sq.m to 134sq.m

    • reduce Minimum Lot Frontage from 6m to 5.5m

    • reduce Front Yard Setback to 1.2m to a daylighting triangle (currently min. 4.5m required)

    • reduce Rear Yard Setback from 7m to 6.5m

    • reduce Front Yard Setback to attached garage from 7m to 6m

    • reduce Minimum Driveway Length from 11m to 6m on one side of Neva Road and to 7m on the other side

    • reduce Minimum Interior Side Yard Setback from 1.8m to 1.2m

    • reduce Minimum Exterior Side Yard Setback from 3m to 2.5m

    • reduce Minimum Setback to the daylighting triangle for a porch of 1.2m (currently min. 1.5 required)

    • increase Maximum Lot Coverage from 45% to 55%

    • increase Maximum Gross Floor Area from 60% to 134%

    • reduce Minimum Landscaped Open Space Area from 35% to 30%


Section F

  • APPROVED (vote not shown)

🤐🏷️ Confidential Proposed or Pending Disposition of Land Matter - City Property

  • Have staff take the confidential direction identified in the report, concerning the proposed confidential disposition of City-owned property, and agree that the City will not consider any other offers or proposals to purchase the City Lands during this 1 year period


Section G (referrals from Circulation List)

  • APPROVED (vote not shown)

🏘️💰 CIP Grant - 151 Lillian Crescent

  • Refer this letter to the Finance and Responsible Governance Committee for further consideration

  • Letter from Redwood Park Communities, January 28:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13809537&GUID=26F827E4-12A3-4CFC-B72C-2A8552949F5C

    • Redwood Park Communities received their Occupancy Certificate for 153 Lillian Crescent on January 31, and can now begin moving 12 families currently experiencing homelessness into housing

    • Redwood is asking to have development charges and permit fees removed in accordance with Ontario Bill 134

🏘️💰 Redwood Park Communities CIP Funding Request

  • Refer this memo to the Finance and Responsible Governance Committee for further consideration

  • Memorandum:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13809538&GUID=81786DF6-CF5F-474D-B6EB-0DC7B7D4259C from M. Banfield, RPP, Executive Director of Development Services

    • Redwood Park Communities has submitted a request for additional CIP funding in support of their family transitional housing project at 151 Lillian Crescent

    • The project is not eligible for additional CIP funding through the Housing CIP, but there are two other options that could provide assistance:

      • Council could consider forgiving a portion of the $3M interest-free construction loan

      • Council could consider awarding Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) funding



⏸️⏯️ Deferred Business

  • Nil



➡️📜 Direct Motions


🍻☀️ Direct Motion Without Notice: Pilot Patio Program

  • INTRODUCED BY: Nixon / Thomson

    • Introduction APPROVED (requires 2/3 in favour, but vote not shown)

  • MOTION: That further to Council motion 24-A-118 regarding Pilot Patio Program, Flying Monkeys Brewery Restaurant and notwithstanding Business Licensing Bylaw 2006-266, as amended, that the pilot program to provide provide two additional right-of-way permits to support additional patios to open between March 15, 2025 to April 14, 2025 at a reduced allowance of eight feet from the building be increased to a maximum of five right-of-way permits for a maximum of five additional patios, inclusive of Flying Monkeys, subject to an assessment of each proposed location by operations staff to confirm the proposed patios are feasible

    • Essentially, bringing the total number of patios in this pilot project to eight - the original participant, Flying Monkeys, two others that have been specifically requested, and five other permits available for request. This is at the BIA's request. The BIA will be asked to provide a list of participants, and they will be subject to inspection.

  • APPROVED (vote not shown)


👥🗳️ Direct Motion Without Notice: Sandbox Interim Board - Economic and Creative Development Director Voting Status

  • INTRODUCED BY: Morales / Thomson

    • Introduction APPROVED (requires 2/3 in favour, but vote not shown)

  • MOTION: That the Director of Economic and Creative Development be appointed as a voting member to the transitional Board of the Regional Innovation Centre for the purposes of new Board member recruitment and governance. Once the Regional Innovation Centre is established, the director of Economic and Creative Development report back to General Committee to advise of any further commitment required from the City, including Board membership

  • APPROVED, unanimously (according to Nuttall, vote not shown)



🧑‍🏫📑 Presentations

  • Nil



📜📜 Bylaws


🏘️🗺️ Bill 017 - Part Lot Control Exemption - 38-52 Foxley Heights


🏘️🗺️  Bill 018 - Part Lot Control Exemption - 54-68 Foxley Heights


🏘️🗺️  Bill 019 - Part Lot Control Exemption - 70-80 Foxley Heights


🏦🧐 Bill 020 - Appointment of Colleen Jane Smith - Treasurer


🏘️🗺️  Bill 021 - Part Lot Control Exemption - Sunrise Acquisitions (former Patterson Road)


🏘️🏘️ Bill 022 - Zoning Bylaw Amendment - 334 and 340 Ardagh Road (Ward 6)


📜✅ Bill 023 - Confirmation Bylaw





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