General Suburban Updates and Rumours

[Markster]

Run, there is an invasion on the horizon!!!


http://m.therecord.com/news-story/709789...ghbourhood

[EDIT] oops, I'm looking at a different zoning application. The article is about a different development serving housing near Conestoga College. Same deal: housing bad, students bad.

Looks like this is going to be rejected.
See the agenda for tonight's meeting:
https://www.kitchener.ca/en/Calendar/Cou...76116dfc5c

That Official Plan Amendment Application OP15/01/A/GS for Owl Properties Inc. and the City
of Kitchener requesting a change in designation from Low Rise Residential with Specific Policy
Area 16 to Low Rise Residential with Specific Policy Area 36 to permit a 47 unit stacked
townhouse development comprising of 40 individual lodging houses (four bedroom units), 6
two bedroom dwelling units, as well as 1 three-bedroom supervisor dwelling unit on the parcel
of land specified and illustrated on Schedule ‘A’ of Community Services Department report
CSD-17-026, be refused; and further,
That Zone Change Application ZC15/01A/GS for Owl Properties Inc. and the City of Kitchener
requesting a change from Residential Three (R-3) with Special Use Provision 319U to
Residential Six (R-6) with Special Use Provision 460U and Special Regulation provision 694R
on the parcel of land specified and illustrated on Map No. 1, be refused.

Here's the latest information on the development on the Zoning applications page:
https://www.kitchener.ca/en/insidecityha...mherst.pdf