Finance and Economic Development Committee

W HEREAS on March 28, 2019 Planning Committee approved, as part of the Planning, Infrastructure and Economic Development Department 2019 Work Plan , the completion of the Orleans Town Center Secondary Plan as one of the new Secondary Plans related to the implementation of Stage 2 of the Light Rail Transit; and WHEREAS the General Manager, Planning, Infrastructure and Economic Development has recommended that affordable housing in that secondary planning area be looked at holistically with other planning issues such as transportation & transit requirements, community amenities, economic development and land parcel rationalization; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Finance and Economic Development Committee recommends to Council that Recommendation 2 be approved except for sites Site 12 (1490 Youville Drive, long-term) and Site 13 (900 Champlain Street identified as a medium-term priority), and that consideration of these sites as part of the sites identified in Document 1 of the report, be

W HEREAS the report ACS2019-PIE-GEN-0001, Interdepartmental Task Force on Affordable Housing Near Transit Stations, details 20 sites as identified by the working group as short, medium and long-term opportunities for affordable housing ; and WHEREAS there are two inconsistencies in the report between information in the report itself and content in Document 1; WHEREAS in the main report, under under “Ranking of Candidate Sites with Development Potential”, site 4 was incorrectly listed as a medium–term site but was identified as a short-term site by the working group and listed as a short-term site in Document 1; and WHEREAS in Document 1, Site 15 is listed as having a “Development Horizon” of long-term but was identified by the working group and in the main body of the report as being medium-term; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Finance and Economic Development Committee amend the staff report, before it rises to Council to correct the consistencies - 1. On page 10 under “Ranking of Candidate Sites with Development Potential”, replace bullets 2 and 3: · Seven sites (Document 1 – Sites 3, 4, 8, 9, 13,15, 16) are categorized as medium-term opportunities. These properties are somewhat more challenging in forecasting the timing of development. Staff will monitor their development attributes on a regular basis. Changes in market conditions (availability of land) as well as in City program delivery may impact the development horizon. The development of the 100 Constellation (Site 9) i