16728 Highway 12 OPA-02-24 and ZBA-02-24

Summary of Proposal

The proposed Official Plan Amendment is to redesignate these lands from ‘Greenlands’ and ‘Natural Heritage’ designations to more appropriate designations that would permit the development of a self-storage and truck rental facility.

The proposed Zoning By-law Amendment is to rezone these lands to permit a ‘Self-Storage Facility, add a definition for ‘Automobile Rental Agency’ to allow truck rentals, and to increase the Maximum Height of a building to 12.5 metres.

Technical Proposal 

Official Plan Amendment

The effect of the Official Plan Amendment is to:

• Amend Schedule A – Growth Areas to redesignate the property from ‘Greenlands’ to ‘Strategic Growth Area II’ 
• Amend Schedule B – Urban Structure to redesignate the property from ‘Greenlands’ to ‘Mixed Use Districts’
• Amend Schedule “C” – Land Use to redesignate the property from ‘Natural Heritage’ and ‘Commercial Corridor’ designation to site-specific ‘Commercial Corridor’
• To add ‘self storage’ as a site-specific permitted use within the Commercial Corridor designation

Zoning By-law Amendment

The effect of the Zoning By-law Amendment is to re-zone the subject lands from Highway Commercial (HC) zone to Highway Commercial Exception (HC-XX) zone in accordance with the following:

• Permit the use of a 'Self-Storage Facility'
• Add a definition of ‘Automobile Rental Agency’ to recognize a truck rental use
• Increase the Maximum Height of a building to 12.5 metres

The applications would provide policy approvals for future use as the U-Haul self-storage and truck rental site.

Supporting Documents 

• Concept Plan
• Planning Justification Report
• Renderings and Signage