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Port Dalhousie Secondary Plan & Heritage District Guidelines Update Studies Public Workshop #2, September 21, 2016

Macaulay Shiomi Howson Ltd. Brook McIlroy Inc. Catherine Nasmith Architect BA Consulting Group Ltd

Meeting Agenda

• Purpose of Study and

Meeting

• Presentation of

Alternatives Report

• Working group

session and reporting back

• Next Steps

Study Area

Purpose of the Study

Products and Outcomes of the Study

• Prepare a Secondary Plan for the

commercial core and harbour areas

• Prepare an update/new Heritage

Conservation District for the non- residential portion of the Port Dalhousie community

• Prepare Urban Design parameters

that help to identify and shape the character of the area

• Address parking and transportation

issues

Study Work Program

May – June July – Sept Oct – Nov Dec – Feb

Purpose of the Meeting

• The summarize the feedback

received at the public workshop held in June

• To outline the alternatives that

have been prepared to address the study requirements.

• To seek input and feedback on the

alternatives presented.

• Note that these alternatives are

presented for discussion purposes

• nly and no decisions have been

made.

Visioning Workshop

• Built Form

– Sensitive to the scale and design of existing built form – Does not block existing views – Prefer infill development or adaptive reuse

• f heritage buildings.

– Built form ranging from 3 to 6 storeys with some saying up to 8 storeys

• Land Uses

– Generally like existing land uses but need for increased number commercial – Desire areas that support social interaction – Attract more tourism businesses

Visioning Workshop

• Parks & Open Space

– Sufficient parks and open spaces and well connected. – Support improvements to existing parks and winter and winter use of parks

• Parking

– Mixed opinion about parking - some want more parking and others do not want to lose green space – Prefer above or underground structured parking but recognize the costs – Options such as shuttle bus, water taxi or bridge to connect east side to the west side of the harbour

Visioning Workshop

• Walking & Cycling
• on-street cycling conditions are

unsafe - improve bike parking facilities and connections

• good walking trails
• sidewalks in commercial core

too narrow

• Tourism
• Primary tourist draws are built

form and natural heritage

• desire for more public events

Visioning Workshop

• Harbour Activities
• Piers are key because they reflect the

heritage, provide extensive waterfront access and provide cross-lake tourism

• Boating is a main amenity in Harbour

and boating amenities could be improved

• Other
• City should support businesses willing

to renovate heritage buildings

• Use jail for public information centre
• New public washrooms near Lockport

Park

SWOC - Constraints

• Parts of harbour are privately
• perated limiting public access.
• Development needs to respect the

historic massing and scale (while recognizing previous approvals).

• Building heights and massing need to

limit shadows impacts.

• Proximity to the lake and large areas
• f fill limit ability to viably create

underground parking in some locations.

• Structured above ground parking

should be appropriately screened from the public realm.

SWOC - Constraints

• Lakeport Road is an arterial road under regional control.
• The boundaries of Heritage Conservation District and the

Study Area do not coincide.

• Some lands in Study Area are federally owned & not

subject to Ontario Heritage Act (OHA).

SWOC - Opportunities

• Development of vacant parcels would

increase activity & remove gaps.

• Enhance tourist role including new

retail, hospitality, & cultural uses.

• Provide meeting places that support

social interaction.

• Redevelopment of existing sites can

improve relationship to street, open up access to the water & provide new

• pen space areas.
• Updates are planned for the Lakeside

Park facilities

• Opportunities for more community

events such as a farmers’ market.

SWOC - Opportunities

• Provide infrastructure and/or programs

(such as bike parking/valet signage, bike maintenance facilities) to encourage active transportation when parking demands reach their peak

• Provide shuttle service, ferry service or

pedestrian bridge from existing parking facilities on east side of the harbour to the west side.

• Create stronger protection for the

commercial and harbour area under the 2005 Ontario Heritage Act.

• Ability to now designate under Part IV

properties that are in the HCD.

Land Use Alternatives

Issue/Objective: Ensure that the size of new commercial uses is in keeping with the fine grained character of the village.

• Restrict the ground floor size of commercial floor

plates to approximately 400 sq metres (4305 sq ft) in

• rder to prohibit large format retail uses, and/or
• Provide urban design policies and guidelines to

provide guidance for commercial unit size and massing.

Land Use Alternatives

Issue/Objective: Maintain an active and interesting streetscape by directing uses (such as retail) that provide an engaging front façade to the street level.

• Require new development to provide

ground floor non-residential uses adjacent to Locke Street, Lakeport Road and Hogan’s Alley (except for a ground floor residential lobby) or

• Maintain the existing policies which

restrict residential units from the ground floor but do not restrict other residential related components of the building (such as common rooms).

Land Use Alternatives

Issue/Objective: Animate publicly accessible spaces that are not immediately adjacent to public streets.

• Require a minimum percentage of

ground floor non-residential uses for new development that is not immediately adjacent to Locke Street, Lakeport Road or Hogan’s Alley or

• Require appropriate landscaping

and building glazing treatments (ie windows, doors) rather than restricting ground floor uses.

Land Use Alternatives

Issue/ Objective: Facilitate year round activity in the Harbour Area as recommended by Harbour Urban Design Study.

• Require the provision of publicly

accessible open space areas within the western harbour area and encourage indoor uses which interact with outdoor spaces or

• Acquire public parkland within the

harbour area and encourage appropriate glazing and landscaping treatments on adjacent private property facing parkland and trails.

Land Use Alternatives

Issue/ Objective: Enhance the tourist /recreational draw of the area.

• Utilize section 37 bonus options to

facilitate the provision of cultural, hospitality, educational, artisanal or institutional uses or public structured parking in new development or improvements to public parking facilities such as Lakeside Park.

• Utilize public investment and/or

federal/provincial grants to attract or create desired tourist and recreational facilities.

• Consider increasing commercial boat

traffic, such as re-instating a cross lake ferry between Toronto, and Port Dalhousie, perhaps with other shore communities.

Built Form Alternatives

Issue/Objective: Ensure the height of new buildings is in keeping with the character of the area, while recognizing previous permissions have granted for certain sites within the Study Area and that additional analysis has been undertaken in the western harbour area since the Official Plan was adopted.

Built Form Alternatives

Built Form Alternatives

• Port Place/ Union Waterfront site

has zoning permission for 17 storeys containing numerous community benefits including hotel, theatre and improvements to Lakeside Park parking. Heights shown for the Port Place/ Union Waterfront site reflects the understanding a new proposal is planned for the site. A maximum height of 8 storeys (with appropriate massing) is recommended for the site with the ability to increase to 12 storeys through Section 37 benefits.

Built Form Alternatives

• Require new buildings on Lock

Street to frame the edge of the street with minimum 2 storey height at the street and setbacks beyond the street wall to reduce massing at the street.

• Heights for Harbour Area are in

keeping with Harbour Urban Design Study considerations.

• Require new buildings on

Lakeport Road south of Lock St to provide appropriate setbacks to promote wider sidewalks and street boulevards.

Built Form Alternatives

Issue/Objective: Maintain the heritage character of the streetscape by ensuring that massing and scale of new development respects the historic fine grained nature of commercial uses.

• Restrict the width of new individual retail

commercial units on the street to a maximum of 12 metres to reflect the historic scale of commercial units and/or

• Provide urban design policies to identify

the built form parameters which will reflect and reinforce the fine grained form of historical commercial development.

Built Form Alternatives

Issue/Objective: Ensure an appropriate transition between the commercial areas and the residential and open space areas

• f Port Dalhousie.
• Require setbacks or stepping down of

heights between commercial areas and adjacent residential and open space areas, and/or

• Identify the need for greater rear/side

yard commercial building setbacks from residential and open space property lines.

Built Form Alternatives

Issue/Objective: Minimize the impact of parking on the streetscape in order to help ensure that the streetscape is engaging, pedestrian friendly and in keeping with the character of the community.

• Where feasible require below grade

parking or above grade parking structures to be screened by appropriate at-grade uses for new development or ensure these parking facilities are not visible from the public realm.

• Permit off-site parking.
• Permit reductions in parking standards.

Built Form Alternatives

Issue/Objective: Provide appropriate access to sunlight particularly on public spaces, and maintain views and vistas to the water and other important community elements.

• Require urban design briefs in

support of redevelopment applications that provide a shadow study and view corridor analysis.

• Maintain public ownership of, and

view corridors through, Hogan’s Alley to Lakeside Park and the waterfront.

Study Area Boundaries

Parking Alternatives

• Provide additional on-street

parking, where possible, on Lakeport Road, recognizing there will be challenges in providing this in conjunction with the bike lanes and restrictions posed by Regional roadway approvals.

• Provide additional parking,

where possible, through reconfiguration or restriping within the parking areas on the west side of the Port Dalhousie Harbour.

Parking Alternatives

• Provide a convenient link between the east

and west harbour parking areas, by way of a water taxi, shuttle bus, or a pedestrian/multi- use bridge. This service could be provided in conjunction with charging for parking on the west side of the harbour.

• Encourage active transportation during peak

parking demand periods and events by providing infrastructure, programs and/or incentives such as, but not limited to: additional bike parking, bike valet and bike maintenance services, public transit incentives

• r increased and/or more direct service,

improved lighting and wayfinding along multi- use facilities.

Parking Alternatives

• For new development, seek a mix of

land uses that can effectively share parking resources, and implement parking maximums and shared parking in the zoning by-law.

• Recognize public parking supply is

limited and land development and increased attendance at, and frequency of, events may result in increased parking demands, consider paid parking at prime locations, in conjunction with a resident parking permit program and available unpaid peripheral parking

Heritage Alternatives

• 1. Addendum” to the Existing Plan, ie

amending existing Guidelines.

• 2. Amend the District Boundaries to Split the

District into two, retain the existing Guidelines for the residential area, and pass a New Plan under OHA Section 41.1 for the Commercial and Harbour Areas

Amend District Boundaries to include lands east of the Harbour

• 3. Amend the Boundaries to Remove the

Commercial and Harbour Area from the existing HCD, and strengthen protection for the remaining heritage resources in the Commercial Area using Part IV designations.

Heritage Alternatives

• Recommended Approach is

variation of Alternative 2

• Create a new HCD Plan for the

commercial core and harbour area under the current Ontario Heritage Act.

• Leave the existing HCD Plan in

place to continue to cover the residential area.

• Policies in new HCD identify that

the new HCD Plan supersedes any commercial guidelines in the existing HCD Plan.

Next Steps

• Finalize Alternatives Report
• Prepare draft Secondary Plan
• Prepare draft Heritage Conservation District

Plan for commercial and harbour area

• Public meeting in November