SEEKING YOUR ADVICE
As a member of Woodstock City Council, you may email me (mschadenberg@cityofwoodstock.ca) or call (519-532-2068) with your thoughts or ideas on any subject anytime. City Council does have ears.
Today, I'm posting about the newest plan for the corner of Devonshire and Lansdowne as it's on the agenda for the Public Planning meeting on Monday, March 14 at 7 p.m., and could certainly be approved on Thursday, March 17 at the next City Council meeting -- scheduled that day for 1:30.Keeping in mind, this is vacant land and there are certainly pressures to utilize all lands within the city -- with or without a possible future residential municipal boundary adjustment. Also, the Provincial Property Statement, Ontario's More Homes More Choices Act, and the County's Official Plan set out guidelines to approve or not approve developments.
The builders certainly suggest maximum use of land -- in this case 27 townhouse units proposed, which would be somewhat similar to 1023 Devonshire townhouses, and the two complexes at the corner of Devonshire and Falcon.
Previous proposals for this parcel have included a plaza with a medical clinic, and also a pharmacy, but obviously neither of those drawings were ever constructed, so it's back to the 'old drawing board' with this new idea.
I'm passing along info here and a couple renderings, but I do respect your comments on intensification, respecting farmland (Not adjusting the boundaries), developing all vacant land (brownfields especially), building up versus building out, parking constraints, and understanding the needs for lower residential costs.
Woodstock is growing and the population signs will soon have a number larger than 46,000. Every community has deliberations on intensification and in-fill, just Google a community name along with proposed planning projects.
I will also add that Woodstock has many approved projects which have yet to break ground, including the former peace lighthouse on Ferguson, the corner of Adelaide and Victoria, the corner of Oxford and Hunter, and the continuation of a Garden Court street.
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