Council to discuss PMC study

City council may order a moredetailed report on Monday describing how a new sports and entertainment facility could potentially look, right down to details such as seating capacity and food concessions.

The report would also identify an ideal location in Peterborough for such a facility, which would replace the 61-year-old Memorial Centre.

Councillors have already heard from their consultant, Sierra Planning and Management in Toronto, that it would be wise to consider replacing the Memorial Centre.

They’ve also already given preliminary approval to ask Sierra to now write a more-detailed report that would describe the new facility that Peterborough might build – and also recommend where to build it.

Council will vote a final time on Monday to have Sierra write this report, with a due date of

May 18.

A presentation from Sierra was one of several items on a heavy agenda for councillors’ meeting on March 26.

The agenda was so long that councillors opted to defer some items until a later date.

Those items included a discussion on the collapse of the prospective deal to sell Peterborough Distribution Inc. (PDI) to Hydro One, and a plan to forego doing a more-detailed environmental assessment of The Parkway in favour of a series of smaller transportation studies.

But those discussions aren’t on Monday’s agenda: they will be scheduled for a general committee meeting on April 16.

Water St. apartments

Council will vote a final time to allow three new apartments buildings across Water St. from the zoo.

On March 26, councillors gave preliminary approval to allow construction — even though some neighbors said they had concerns about increased noise and traffic along Water St..

Local developer Triple T Holdings is proposing to build the four-storey buildings on a piece of vacant land at 1341 Water St. (just east of Carnegie Ave). There will be 96 apartments in total.

The new development would be built beside another existing townhouse community and just east of new a newer condominium complex that’s accessed from Centre Line.