Draft subdivision plan released for Ashborough Village

City staff seek $70,000 in the 2019 budget and $480,000 more in the 2020 budget to install traffic signals on Television Road at Paul Rexe Boulevard to advance construction of the Ashborough Village development.

Several road improvements are needed for full build-out of the proposed plan for Ashborough and the Lift Lock Secondary Plan area, according to a staff report on the draft plan of subdivision application for the 707home subdivision released Thursday.

Many of them are not included in the city’s current city-wide engineering services develop-

ment charge bylaw that expires on Jan. 1, 2020, staff wrote.

They include traffic signals and turn lanes at the intersections of Television and Parkhill Road, Old Norwood Road, Paul Rexe Boulevard and Maniece Avenue, as well as a continuous two-way turning lane on Television and urbanization of Old Norwood.

The city has $120,000 from the developer of the Burnham Meadows subdivision toward the work and the developer of Ashborough Village will be required to reimburse the city 50 per cent of the project cost once the proposed plan gets final approval.

In the report, staff recommended pre-committing $250,000 for the East Side Transportation Study – a complete transportation review of the area east of the Trent-Severn Waterway north of Lansdowne Street.

The review, which would take about a year to complete, would address broader issues including movement across the TrentSevern Waterway.

It won’t be done before the 2019 city-wide development charge bylaw expires, so a subsequent update to the bylaw will be needed to include any projects that may be recommended by the study, staff wrote.

Residents will have a chance to speak to city councillors regarding the plan during a public meeting in council chambers at City Hall at 5:30 p.m. Monday. Councillors will then consider the item at a regular meeting Sept. 10.

The plans for Ashborough Village include 501 houses, 56 townhouses and 150 apartments, as well as commercial space.

YiZheng Ltd. is the Chinabased applicant. The developer is from Shanghai, but has been living in Canada for about five years and is proposing a similar development in Welland known as Hunters Pointe – where links are in the mix.

Hundreds of residents of the community east of Highway 406 in Welland were upset to learn earlier this year that a 83.6-hectare golf course may be lost to a nearly 1,200 unit mixed new residential neighbourhood, according to the Welland Tribune.

The first phase of the Peterborough project will be developed on 107 acres bounded by Old Norwood to the north, city limits and Television to the east, rural properties to the south and the Liftlock Golf Club to the west.

Melinda Holland, planner for Biglieri Group, told a crowd of more than 110 people at an Aug. 2 meeting that ideally, construction could potentially begin in 2019 or 2020.

The second phase of the development will come later and will likely include 150 more houses, she said. At that time, the golf course’s northern portion would be developed, while the southern portion would remain and be converted into a nine-hole course, she said.