LAND USE AND PLANNING COMMITTEE
AGENDA

Monday, March 28, 2022 at 1:00 P.m. - 3:00 P.m.

Meeting held electronically and open to public attendance

Council Chamber, City Hall

We recognize and respect that New Westminster is on the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Halkomelem speaking peoples. We acknowledge that colonialism has made invisible their histories and connections to the land. As a City, we are learning and building relationships with the people whose lands we are on.

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1.

CALL TO ORDER AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Chair will open the meeting and provide a land acknowledgement.

2.

MOTION TO MOVE THE MEETING INTO A CLOSED MEETING

THAT the Land Use and Planning Committee will now go into a meeting which is closed to the public in accordance with Section 90 (1)(K) of the Community Charter: 

(1)(k) negotiations and related discussions respecting the proposed provision of a municipal service that are at their preliminary stages and that, in the view of the council, could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality if they were held in public.

3.

ADDITIONS / DELETIONS TO THE AGENDA

The Committee will consider additions and deletions to the agenda, and remove items from the consent agenda, if needed.

4.

ADOPTION OF MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS

4.1

January 31, 2022

5.

CONSENT AGENDA

If the Land Use and Planning Committee decides, all the recommendations in the "Recommendation" section of the reports on the Consent Agenda can be approved in one motion, without discussion. If the Committee wishes to discuss a report, that report is removed from the Consent Agenda. A report may be removed in order to discuss it, because someone wants to vote against the report’s recommendation, or because someone has a conflict of interest with the report. Any reports not removed from the Consent Agenda are passed without discussion.

5.1

Rezoning and Development Permit: 222 Ash Street – Preliminary Report

The purpose of this report is to request feedback and instructions from the Land Use and Planning Committee regarding an application to add 37 rental units (including 10 affordable units) in a three-storey addition to an existing rental building, which would require the existing 50 rental units be vacated for construction, 58% of which pay below market rent.

• Recommended Motion:

  THAT the Land Use and Planning Committee instruct staff regarding the optional approaches, and endorse staff’s other recommendations in Section 8 of this report, and provide staff with any other feedback; and,

  THAT the Land Use and Planning Committee endorse the review process included in the Review Process and Next Steps Section of this report, and instruct staff to proceed with next steps once feedback provided by the Committee has been addressed.

5.2

Proposed Six Storey Residential Building: 53 Fourth Street – Preliminary Application Review

To elicit preliminary feedback from the Land Use and Planning Committee regarding the redevelopment proposal.

• Recommended Motion:

  THAT the Land Use and Planning Committee endorse the recommendations summarized in Section 8 of this report, and instruct staff to include the recommendations and other feedback from the Land Use and Planning Committee in the preliminary application review letter to the applicant.

5.3

Rezoning and Development Permit (616 - 640 6th Street) – Preliminary Report

This report is intended to provide Council with preliminary information on the proposed rezoning of the properties at 616 and 640 Sixth Street, to seek direction on key optional approaches for the application which are not consistent with approaches previously negotiated and to outline the application review process for endorsement.

• Recommended Motion:

  THAT the Land Use and Planning Committee instruct staff regarding the optional approaches summarized in Section 8 of this report, and provide staff with any other feedback; and,

  THAT the Land Use and Planning Committee endorse the review process included in the Application Review Process and Next Steps Section of this report, and instruct staff to proceed with next steps once feedback provided by the Committee has been addressed.

6.

NEW BUSINESS

7.

END OF THE MEETING