Online Open House Notice - 70 Eastchester

The Planning and Building Services Department is hosting an Online Open House to provide information and receive public input regarding an application for a Zoning By-law Amendment. The application is to rezone the lands known municipally as 70 Eastchester Avenue. The complete application was received on Dec. 21, 2022 and deemed complete by the City on Dec. 31, 2022.

The applicant proposes to rezone the lands from Medium Density Mixed Use (M1) to Medium/High Density Mixed Use with special provision 172 (M2-172). The applicant is requesting to rezone the lands to facilitate a proposed 10-storey mixed use building containing 92 apartment dwelling units with ground-floor commercial units. The proposal includes 187 parking spaces with 40 at surface-level and 147 underground.

The proposed zoning by-law amendment will also include a special provision to address zoning deficiencies regarding setbacks and landscape buffers.

The City is seeking comments on this application before staff recommendation is finalized and a decision is made by Council at a later date.

Details of Online Open House

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: To be held electronically via Zoom 

Members of the public will be able to watch proceedings through the City’s YouTube Channel.

Residents can participate in three different ways:

1. By mailing your comments/questions or by e-mailing to Evan Acs (eacs@stcatharines.ca) by no later than Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. All written submissions will become part of the public record for this application.
2. By registering to participate electronically via Zoom by no later than Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, at the following link: stcatharines.ca/PlanningOpenHouse
3. By registering to participate by telephone by no later than Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. Please call 905.688.5601, Ext. 1724 and leave a message with the Planner including your name and phone number. Staff will respond to your voicemail prior to the Online Open House to provide you with the call-in number for the event and additional information about the process.

To participate in the Online Open House via Zoom or by telephone, please read the following information:

• All requests must be received in advance of the meeting as noted above.
• The Online Open House will be held using Zoom (Zoom is a free online meeting tool).
• Visit www.zoom.us to learn more about Zoom.

1. To participate, you are responsible for accessing Zoom on your device (i.e. laptop, PC, mobile phone, tablet) and ensuring that your device meets the minimum technical requirements needed to run Zoom.
2. The Online Open House will be broadcast live on YouTube (www.stcatharines.ca/YouTube) and an archived recording of the meeting will be available on the City's website.
3. To ensure optimal audio and visual representation, participants will be limited to one individual speaking at a time.
4. If participants want to share any visual material, graphics, power points etc., the materials must be submitted to Evan Acs at (eacs@stcatharines.ca) by no later than Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023.
5. Participants must take part in a brief test session with City staff in advance of the Open House. This test session is to ensure everyone is able to successfully participate in the meeting using the Zoom platform.

Copies of all submitted plans and documents may be viewed by contacting Evan Acs at eacs@stcatharines.ca or at the Online Open House or by navigating to https://www.stcatharines.ca/development. Please note that the information submitted with this application is preliminary. Additional, revised, or further refined information will be uploaded to the City’s website via the link above as it becomes available. Please check the website for updates.

The Online Open House is an initial opportunity for public input prior to a formal Legislative Public Meeting on the matter at which time City Council will consider a staff report, recommendation and a decision. The formal Legislative Public Meeting will be held at a later date with notice of that meeting provided approximately thirty days prior.
Further information about the Zoning By-law Amendment application may be obtained by contacting Evan Acs, Planner I, in the Planning and Building Services Department at 905.688.5601, Ext. 1724, or the City’s TTY number (text telephone) 905.688.4TTY (4889), or by email: eacs@stcatharines.ca.

This notice has been revised to add the following two paragraphs:

 If a person or public body would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of the City of St Catharines to the Ontario Land Tribunal but the person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to City of St Catharines before the by-law is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision.

 If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting, or make written submissions to City of St Catharines before the by-law is passed, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Land Tribunal unless, in the opinion of the Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to do so.