General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[BruceAshe]

I live very close to these properties and have not received any sort of notice regarding them. The last I heard about them was at the meeting when the church was rezoned and the plan was to convert it to 10 units. I'd love to know what's happening.

There was a community circulation letter early last year, and the zoning was subsequently changed:
https://app2.kitchener.ca/AppDocs/OpenDa...Letter.pdf

Address: 206 DUKE ST E
Application Number: ZBA20/001/D/GS
Application Type: Zoning By-Law Amendment
Application Summary: This application changed the zoning of 206 Duke Street E from an institutional zone to Residential Seven R-7 (a mid-rise residential zone) and changed the zoning of 210 Duke Street East to add some site specific regulations.
Applicant: MHBC PLANNING
Property Owner: TRUSTEES PILGRIM EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN
Status Update: This Zoning By-law Amendment was approved on August 24, 2020 by Kitchener City Council. That application changed the zoning of 206 Duke Street East from Neighbourhood Institutional Zone (I-1) to Residential Seven (R-7) with Special Regulation Provision 755R and Special Use Regulation 480U and changed the zoning of 210 Duke Street East from Residential Seven (R-7) to Residential Seven (R-7) with Special Regulation Provision 755R and Special Use Regulation 480U.
Committee Meeting Date: Aug 10, 2020
City Planning Contact: Garett Stevenson, MCIP, RPP 
Contact Email: planning@kitchener.ca
Contact Phone Number: 519-741-2426 
Contact TTY: 

That's the meeting I'm talking about. I received that letter and watched the meeting. During it they they mentioned that the current plan was to convert the church and leave the house beside it as is but there wasn't even any official plans. The two properties on Madison weren't even mentioned. I actually emailed Sarah Marsh at the time to ask about the houses on Madison and she had not heard anything about them being part of it. 

So since last August until now there hasn't been any mention of what's going on and then this weekend they put up fencing around all these properties including ones that weren't even part of the rezoning. It just seems like it might be bigger than the conversion to 10 units that was originally mentioned.