Developers granted extensions

Clearview Township council has granted a one-year extension to a Draft Plan of Subdivision for Clearview Park. The original plan, approved in November 2013 called for 244 single detached homes, 60 semis and 100 medium density units on a 25.6 hectare parcelfronting on County Road 7 in northeast Stayner.

Since then, the lands were placed in receivership and sold to R.W.A. Acquisitions Inc.

Derek Abbotts, Clearview Director of Planning and Building, told council the one-year extension was requested by the applicant.

“This will facilitate additional time to work through the proposed Red Line (alterations to an approved site plan that do not substantively impact the visual appearance of a development) request and zoning amendment applications,” he said. “It is anticipated that should those applications be approved that a new lapse date would form as a result.”

Mayor Doug Measures noted that the request was unusual, in that developers typically ask for multi-year extensions.

Meanwhile, a five-year extension was granted to the developers of Georgian Communities, a proposed development at Country Road 124 and Blackburn Avenue in the Nottawa area. Plans call for the creation of 500 residential units including 192 single family homes on an 89-hectare parcel.

At a public information session in June, residents expressed concerns about the potential impact of the new subdivision on existing wells in the area. Engineering studies will include monitoring wells within 500 metres of the site, but Measures cautioned residents that they must allow monitoring on their wells in order to be part of the study.