Item - 2015.PG5.9

The Planning and Growth Management Committee recommends that:

1.  City Council request the Director, Urban Design, City Planning in consultation with Transportation Services, Parks, Forestry and Recreation and Economic Development and Culture, to develop an implementation plan for streetscape and other public space improvements identified through the O'Connor Drive Avenue Study and contained in the O'Connor Drive Avenue Study Urban Design Guidelines adopted by Council on November 27, 28 and 29, 2012, for consideration in the 2016- 20 capital plan.

At its meeting on November 8, 2012, the Planning and Growth Management Committee submitted recommendations to City Council regarding the O'Connor Drive Avenue Study (Item PG19.2).  The recommendations included amendments regarding the Official Plan, the O'Connor Drive Avenue Study Urban Design Guidelines, street parking, sanitary sewer flow and storm-water runoff impacts, and the possibility of establishing a Business Improvement Area.

City Council made further amendments and adopted the Item, as amended, at its meeting on November 27, 28 and 29, 2012.  

It has recently come to my attention that the City Clerk, in transmitting the Planning and Growth Management Committee recommendations to City Council, omitted the following recommendation relating to an Implementation Plan for streetscape and other public space improvements for inclusion in the City's future capital plans:

"City Council request that the Director, Urban Design, City Planning,  in consultation with Transportation Services, Parks, Forestry and Recreation and Economic Development and Culture, develop an implementation plan for streetscape and other public space improvements identified through the Avenue study and contained in the Urban Design Guidelines for consideration in future capital plans."

The City Clerk has confirmed that the recommendation, although adopted by Committee for submission to Council, was omitted in error and, as a result, was not before City Council when it considered the item.

In order to correct the error expeditiously and to ensure the inclusion of the Implementation Plan in the City's future capital plans as soon as possible, I am asking Planning and Growth Management Committee to adopt the following:

"That City Council request the Director, Urban Design, in consultation with Transportation Services, Parks, Forestry and Recreation and Economic Development and Culture, to develop an implementation plan for streetscape and other public space improvements identified through the O'Connor Drive Avenue Study and contained in the O'Connor Drive Avenue Study Urban Design Guidelines adopted by Council on November 27, 28 and 29, 2012, for consideration in the 2016- 20 capital plan."