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Recommendation: That, on the recommendation
of the Managing Director, Corporate Services and City Treasurer, Chief
Financial Officer, with the concurrence of the Managing Director,
Environmental and Engineering Services and City Engineer and the Managing
Director, Development and Compliance Services and Chief Building Official,
the following actions be taken:
a) the
following policies with respect to the retirement of the Urban Works Reserve
Fund BE APPROVED; it being noted that a number of the recommendations in the
May 13, 2013 report have been refined or redesigned in comparison to the May
13, 2013 report, based on discussions with the London Development Institute,
the London Home Builders' Association and the Urban League:
i) funding
of all Urban Works Reserve Fund works be consolidated under the City Services
Reserve Fund (CSRF); it being noted that suitable transitional provisions
with respect to works currently included in draft plan conditions or under
agreements will be addressed in the draft 2014 Development Charges(DC)
By-law and Background Study;
ii) the
enhancements to the Growth Management Implementation Strategy Update Process
as generally summarized in Appendix ‘A’ to the staff report dated July 29,
2013 be endorsed;
iii) the
new processes for Design and Construction of Storm Water Management
Facilities (SWMF’s), as amended, and as generally summarized in Appendix ‘B’
to the staff report dated July 29, 2013 be endorsed;
iv) the
Municipal Service and Financing Agreements Policy as outlined in Appendix “D”
to the staff report dated July 29, 2013 to be enacted as part of the 2014
Development Charges By-law be endorsed for accepting, assessing and
administering applications for the acceleration of DC-funded works through
Front-Ending Agreements under the Development Charges Act following the
adoption of the 2014 Development Charges By-law;
v) the
draft front-ending agreement prepared by external legal counsel as outlined
in Appendix “E” to the staff report dated July 29, 2013 be received for
information, it being noted that final agreements will be prepared at the
time of Council approval of an application for a Municipal Service and
Financing Agreement based on issues specific to the subject infrastructure
project;
vi) the
Civic Administration be directed to further develop the procedures governing
construction of infrastructure undertaken by developers through development
agreements; and
vii) the
Civic Administration be directed to prepare by-law amendments and further
refine administrative processes necessary to effect the above-noted changes
coincident with the effective date of the 2014 DC By-law;
b) comments
from the London Development Institute and the Urban League of London,
included in Appendix ‘F’: “Stakeholder Comments” of the staff report dated
July 29, 2013, as well as the attached submission from L. Langdon,
Executive Officer, London Home Builders’ Association, with respect to the
above-noted policy, BE RECEIVED for information; and
c) the following changes to the
City’s “local service” definitions BE APPROVED:
i) Watermain oversizing be a
claimable work;
ii) Stormwater Open Channel
Oversizing be a claimable work;
iii) the definition of Sanitary
Sewer Oversizing be redefined subject to information to be provided by the
Master Servicing Study consultants; and
iv) the definition of storm water
management works be more broadly defined as all works required to provide
stormwater management servicing that satisfy the requirements of a Class Environmental
Assessment process;
it being
noted that the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee heard the attached
presentation from L. Townsend with respect to this matter.
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