Council Highlights – March 23, 2022
Council Highlights – March 23, 2022
Council highlights provide an update of important information discussed at the previous council meeting. Full agendas and minutes are available at tay.ca/calendar
2023 Fire apparatus purchase and delivery
Council approved the purchase and delivery of a pumper apparatus from, Fort Garry Fire Trucks in the amount of $537,395. The Tay Fire & Emergency Services frontline fire apparatus replacement cycle is 20 years. The new apparatus being purchased is designed to better manage our levels of service by integrating the adopted recommendations in our fire master plan related to apparatus and equipment. In the 20 years since this existing apparatus was purchased many safety features have been developed and are now standard features on today’s fire apparatus.
Recreational trailer park 3282 Ogden’s Beach Road
Council approved Zoning By-Law and Official Plan Amendments for 3282 Ogden’s Beach Road to facilitate the development of a recreational trailer park as an accessory use to the existing marina. The amendments permit 74 park model/motorhome sites that will be used for seasonal recreational use, with a portion of the site to be used for boat storage.
3-Story 12 Unit Stacked Townhouse building
Council approved an application to rezone lands at 793 & 795 Fifth Avenue in Port McNicoll to construct a three-story 12-unit stacked townhouse development. This land is currently vacant, and the development meets consistency and conformity with applicable Provincial, County and Municipal planning policies and principals.
Process for Partial Release of Development Freeze – Grandview Beach and Paradise Point
Council’s intent is to partially release the development freeze on up to 20 vacant lots within the Grandview Beach and Paradise Point area. Using key findings from the 2021 Hydrogeological Study of the area, and with year round municipal water servicing now in place, development of vacant lots should be able to proceed without an adverse effect on the two area aquifers of Severn Sound. However, due to uncertainty about nitrate attenuating processes of the aquifers a staged approach is recommended and that upon buildout of 20 vacant lots, the area be monitored for 3 years before determining if additional lots should be built out. To facilitate the selection of the first 20 lots to be developed, in a fair process, the Township will conduct a randomized selection process to select 20 lots for development. Release of lots will require the Township to initiate Official Plan and Zoning By-law amendments that can be undertaken concurrently with the randomized selection process to release vacant lots. Construction on vacant lots could start as early as the fall of 2022. Letters will be sent out to all vacant land owners within the subject area advising them of the randomized selection process, the details of the process and the requirement to register their interest in developing a vacant lot and sign a release/waiver in order for their property to be considered. The target date to send these letters is April 1, 2022.
Tay Township meets for regular council meetings on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m.