To: Mayor & Members of Council

From: Biju Karumanchery, Senior Development Manager, Planning and Urban Design Department

Date: May 11, 2010

Subject : Authorization to call Public Meetings for applications involving the Wykland Estates subdivision in Cornell, for a proposed daycare/pre-school at 50 Anderson Avenue (N/E corner of Hwy. 48 & Bur Oak Avenue) and for Sunrise Montessori school at 180 Amber Street (14^th and Denison).

RECOMMENDATION

That Public Meetings be scheduled for June 1, 2010 for the subdivision and rezoning applications by Wykland Estates to permit a residential subdivision in Cornell, west of Cornell Centre Blvd., south of 16^th Avenue, and for the rezoning application by Kimberly Balouchi to permit a daycare/pre-school at 50 Anderson Avenue at the northeast corner of Hwy. 48 & Bur Oak Avenue; and

That a Public Meeting be scheduled for June 15, 2010 for the rezoning application by Sunrise Montessori to permit a Montessori school at 180 Amber Street (14^th and Denison).

BACKGROUND

The purpose of this memo is to seek authorization to hold statutory Public Meetings for three applications involving rezoning and/or subdivision approval prior to the preliminary report on these applications being prepared.

Staff is currently scheduling Public Meetings for June 1^st and June 15^th, the last two dates for Public Meetings prior to the summer break. To date only one non controversial item involving an amendment to the Municipal Services By-law has been scheduled for the June 1^st meeting whereas five items are already known for the June 15^th meeting and that number could increase.

Staff is seeking to move two of the five known items from June 15^th to June 1^st in order to more or less balance the number of items on each of the two dates. The last date for mailing the notice for the meeting on June 1^st is Wednesday May 12^th. The two items proposed to be moved to June 1^st include subdivision and rezoning applications by Wykland Estates in Cornell to permit a residential subdivision, west of Cornell Centre Blvd., south of 16^th Avenue, as well as a rezoning application by Kimberly Balouchi to permit a daycare /pre-school at 50 Anderson Avenue located at the northeast corner of Highway 48 and Bur Oak Avenue. Preliminary / information reports on both these items will be brought forward to Committee at the Development Services Committee meeting of either May 18^th or June 1^st.

In addition, staff is also seeking authorization to hold a statutory Public Meeting on June 15^th for the rezoning application by Sunrise Montessori to permit a Montessori school at 180 Amber Street (14^th and Denison). There is insufficient time to seek authorization to hold a Public Meeting for this item prior to the summer break through the normal process. An information report for this application will be available for the Development Services Committee meeting of June 15^th.