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Kincardine council has granted zoning approval for the second stage
housing unit east of the Women's House Serving Bruce and Grey in
Kincardine.
In planning advisory committee Oct. 8, Bruce County planner Bruce
Stickney explained that the rezoning to Residential 1 Special Provision
from Institutional, will accommodate the family resource centre
designation, allowing for construction of a four-unit transitional
housing complex. "It will be for women and children who have left an
abusive situation and need long-term residential assistance beyond the
temporary women's shelter," he said.
The application, brought forward by the South Bruce Grey Health Centre,
will facilitate the severance of the residential lot for the second
stage housing, said Stickney. "The 34,995-square-foot building will be
located off Mount Forest Avenue which serves the current facility," he
said. "The road will have to be brought up to urban road standard and
developed past the new structure," noting that the developer must
prepare a stormwater management plan and that the municipality has asked
that the project be subject to site plan control.
Walter Yewchyn, Vice-President of Corporate Services for the health
centre, said the project is merely an expansion of existing usage and
will accommodate the volumes of women in crisis that this area is
encountering.
"Who pays for the upgrade of the roadway to urban road standard?" asked
councillor Ron Hewitt. (next column)
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Chief Building Official, Michele Barr, said the existing
road will be the municipality's cost and will be included in the 2009
budget. However, the new roadway past the second stage housing will be
cost-shared with the developer. "That will be discussed by the public
works committee," she said.
Deputy Mayor, Laura Haight, asked why the property is being rezoned to
residential, rather than an institutional zone with residential use
"The original Women's House is in a residential zone," said Stickney.
"An institutional zone has provisions for larger setbacks that would
apply to the new building so we are going with the residential zone."
Councillor Guy Anderson objected to approving the zone change when costs
aren't nailed down concerning the new stretch of road. "I'd rather we
said up front we can't afford the road and go from there," he said.
"The group (developer) is aware there is a cost for the road whether
it's paid 100 per cent or whether they get some relief from the cost,"
said Barr.
"Mount Forest Avenue is one of the worst sections of roads in the
municipality," said Councillor Gordon Campbell, "we should be fixing it
anyway."
Planning advisory committee approved the zoning change, and council
approved the bylaw later during the meeting.
 
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