Committee of Adjustment Notice of Public Hearing Concerning Applications for Minor Variance, Permission and Consent
Planning Act, Chapter P.13, Sections 45(1), 45(2) and 53, R.S.O. 1990
1 FILE NO. B007-2024WELL
Owner: 2722692 Ontario Inc.
Location: 88-90 First Street
Purpose: Application is made for consent to convey 226 square metres of land containing a semi-detached dwelling unit, shown as Part 1 on the sketch attached to the application, for continued residential use of the semi-detached dwelling unit known as 88 First Street.
Part 3, being 1,095 square metres of land containing a garage and sheds (all to be removed), will be retained for future residential use.
The subject land is also subject to Consent File No. B008-2024WELL and Minor Variance File No. A112024.
Please note: This hearing has been revised to reflect a new hearing date.
2 FILE NO. B008-2024WELL
Owner: 2722692 Ontario Inc.
Location: 88-90 First Street
Purpose: Application is made for consent to convey 221 square metres of land containing a semidetached dwelling unit, shown as Part 2 on the sketch attached to the application, for continued residential use of the semi-detached dwelling unit known as 90 First Street.
Part 3, being 1,095 square metres of land containing a garage and sheds (all to be removed), will be retained for future residential use.
The subject land is also subject to Consent File No. B007-2024WELL and Minor Variance File No. A122024.
Please note: This hearing has been revised to reflect a new hearing date.
3 FILE NO. B009-2024WELL
Owner: Oslach
Location: 302 Aqueduct Street
Purpose: Application is made for consent to convey approximately 1,672 square metres of vacant land, shown as Part 3 on Reference Plan 59R1256 attached to the application, for future commercial and residential use.
The retained parcel shown as Part 1 on 59R1256 except Part 1 on 59R9097, and being approximately 1,052 square metres of land, will continue the commercial and residential use of the existing building now known as 302 Aqueduct Street.
4 FILE NO. B010-2024WELL
Owner: 2722692 Ontario Inc.
Location: 16 Chaffey Street
Purpose: Application is made for consent to convey 357.7 square metres of vacant land, shown as
Part 1 on the sketch attached to the application, for future residential use. Part 2, being 314.8 square metres of land, will be retained for continued residential use of the existing dwelling and shed known as 16 Chaffey Street.
The subject land is also subject to concurrent Minor Variance File No. A16-2024.
5 FILE NO. A11-2024
Owner: 2722692 Ontario Inc.
Location: 88 First Street
Purpose: Variances requested from Zoning By-law 2017-117 as follows: Table 11.2.1 - INSH Zone - Column
3 - The request is to permit a Semi-Detached Dwelling in addition to the uses permitted in the Health and Wellness Zone with applicable Semi-Detached Dwelling regulations in Residential Low Density 2 - RL2 Zone, Table 7.3.1. Table 7.3.1 - RL2 Zone - Semi-Detached Dwelling - Column 7 - To permit a minimum rear yard of 4.8 metres instead of the required 6 metres.
The subject land shown as Part 1 on the sketch is also subject to Consent File No. B007-2024WELL.
Please note: This notice has been revised to reflect a new hearing date.
Explanatory note: Relief is requested to add a semi-detached dwelling as a permitted use with associated regulations, and to reduce the rear yard for the existing semi-detached dwelling unit on a proposed lot (Part 1 on sketch).
6 FILE NO. A12-2024
Owner: 2722692 Ontario Inc.
Location: 90 First Street
Purpose: Variances requested from Zoning By-law 2017-117 as follows: Table 11.2.1 - INSH Zone - Column
3 - The request is to permit a Semi-Detached Dwelling in addition to the uses permitted in the Health and Wellness Zone with applicable Semi-Detached Dwelling regulations in Residential Low Density 2 - RL2 Zone, Table 7.3.1. Table 7.3.1 - RL2 Zone - Semi-Detached Dwelling - Column 7 - To permit a minimum rear yard of 4.8 metres instead of the required 6 metres.
Section 6.1.6 b) - Parking Space Dimensions - To permit the minimum width of the required parking space abutting walls or obstructions (dwelling) to be 2.8 metres in width instead of the required 3.05 metres.
The subject land shown as Part 2 on the sketch is also subject to Consent File No. B008-2024WELL.
Please note: This notice has been revised to reflect a new hearing date.
Explanatory note: Relief is requested to add a semi-detached dwelling as a permitted use with associated regulations, and to reduce the rear yard for the existing semi-detached dwelling unit on a proposed lot (Part 2 on sketch) and to reduce the width of the required space.
7 FILE NO. A13-2024
Owner: 2722692 Ontario Inc.
Location: North side First Street, west of Plymouth Rd
Purpose: Variance requested from Zoning By-law 2017-117 as follows: Table 11.3.1 - INSH Zone - Column 3 - To permit a minimum lot frontage of 6.1 metres instead of the required 12 metres for a proposed retained lot (Part 3 on sketch).
The subject land shown as Part 3 on the sketch is also subject to Consent File Nos. B007-2024WELL and B008-2024WELL.
Please note: This notice has been revised to reflect a new hearing date.
Explanatory note: Relief is requested to permit the creation of a retained lot (Part 3 on sketch) with reduced lot frontage for future residential use. The existing garage and 2 sheds will be removed.
8 FILE NO. A15-2024
Owner: Fullbright Group Inc.
Location: 738 Lyons Creek Road
Purpose: Permission is requested to enlarge the existing legal nonconforming private school building to allow a 1 storey addition, being approximately 180 square metres in size, onto the west side of the building, and to allow a 1 storey addition, being approximately 20 square metres in size, onto the front of the building, both proposed additions as shown on the attached site plan dated April 10, 2024.
Explanatory note: The subject land is zoned Agricultural (A1) Zone with Environmental Conservation (EC) Overlay Zone and Environmental Protection (EP) Overlay Zone.
There is an existing private school building on the property. Permission is requested to allow 2 separate additions onto the building.
9 FILE NO. A16-2024
Owner: 2722692 Ontario Inc.
Location: 16 Chaffey Street
Purpose: Variance requested from Zoning By-law 2017-117 as follows: Table 7.3.1 - RL2 Zone - Column 3 - To permit a minimum lot frontage of 8 metres instead of the required 9 metres for a proposed lot (Part 1 on sketch).
The subject land shown as Part 1 on the sketch is also subject to Consent File No. B010-2024WELL.
Explanatory note: Relief is requested to permit the creation of a new lot with reduced lot frontage for future residential use (Part 1 on sketch).
10 FILE NO. A17-2024 Owner: Williams
Location: 25 Fifth Street
Purpose: Variance requested from Zoning By-law 2017-117 as follows: Table 6.17.1 - Landscape Buffer of a Parking Lot - Column 2 - To permit the landscape buffer between the perimeter of the parking lot and the lot lines abutting a residential or institutional zone to be a minimum of 0.86 metres instead of the required 1.5 metres.
Explanatory note: Relief is requested to reduce the width of the landscape buffer between the proposed parking lot and the side lot lines.
11 FILE NO. A18-2024
Owner: Plymouth Rd, Welland Developments Inc.
Location: 141 Plymouth Road (aka 108 MacLean Place)
Purpose: Variances requested from Zoning By-law 2017-117 as follows: Table 6.4.1 - Apartment Dwelling To permit a reduction in the number of required parking spaces from
103 to 55 for a proposed 10 storey apartment building.
Section 6.6 a) - To permit 0 offstreet loading spaces instead of the 1 required loading space for a proposed apartment building.
Table 11.3.1 - INSH Zone - To permit a maximum building height of 32.2 metres and 10 storeys, instead of the maximum 24 metres and 8 storeys for a proposed apartment building.
Explanatory note: Relief is requested to permit an apartment building with reduced parking, no loading space, increased height and increased number of storeys. All existing buildings will be demolished. Key maps identifying the location of the subject lands for each application are shown.
A virtual / in-person public hearing will be held by the Committee to consider these applications at 5 p.m., Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at the Civic Square, Council Chambers, 60 East Main Street, Welland.
You are entitled to attend this hearing virtually or in-person to express your views orally in favour of, or in opposition to, this application. If you wish to participate virtually, please advise the Secretary-Treasurer at cofa@welland.ca at least 1 day in advance of the hearing date in order to receive the zoom link.
You may make written comments in favour of, or in opposition to, this application, to be considered by the Committee at the hearing. Please submit written comments to the Secretary-Treasurer at the address or email shown below by Thursday, May 23, 2024. All comments received will form part of the public record.
If you do not participate in this hearing, it may proceed in your absence and except as otherwise provided in the Planning Act, you will not be entitled to any further notice in the proceedings. The applicant or their agent must participate in the hearing.
If a specified person or public body that files an appeal of a decision of the City of Welland Committee of Adjustment in respect of the proposed consents does not make written submissions to the City of Welland Committee of Adjustment before it gives or refuses to give a provisional consent, the Ontario Land Tribunal may dismiss the appeal. If you wish to be notified of the decision of the City of Welland Committee of Adjustment in respect of the proposed Consents and Variances, you must make a written request to the Secretary-Treasurer at the address or email shown below. This will also entitle you to be advised of a possible Ontario Land Tribunal Hearing should the decision be appealed by the applicant, the Minister or a specified person or public body that has an interest in the matter. This hearing can be viewed at: welland.ca/Council/LiveStream.asp. Additional information regarding the applications will be available to the public for inspection in Planning and Development Services - Planning Division weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
For more information, contact: Christine Rossetto Secretary-Treasurer, City of Welland Committee of Adjustment
60 East Main Street
Welland, Ontario L3B 3X4 905-735-1700 x2258 cofa@welland.ca
Dated: May 10, 2024