TO: Mayor and Council DATE: March 21, 1

FROM: Planning and Zoning Committee

The Planning and Zoning Committee met on Wednesday, March 20, 1974. Present were
Chairman Alderman Ranger, Alderman Mabbett, V.G. Borch, P.Eng., N. Chernoff and
L.D. Pollock. The following items were discussed:

1. Nu West Developments Ltd.

The above mentioned firm has applied for rezoning of approximately 38 acres of land
on Cedar Drive to permit subdivision for residential purposes. The, development
would vitimately consist of a total of 212 units and the company plans to phase
these over the next three years in order to lessen the impact on school construction
aud servicing etc.

The Committee has dealt extensively with this development in trying to encourage
the developer to provide something a little different in subdivision and housing
design. The developer has co-operated fully and the proposal that is now ready

for submission to Council is the result of several months work.

‘Representatives of Nu West Developments will attend the Council meeting and will
outline their proposal in detaii, however, a description of the project is attached
for the . formation of Council.

The Committee is prepared to recommend the rezoning as there are a number of
advantages in dealing with it on the basis proposed.

(1) As there are six parcels of land involved the City would be able to deal with
one developer for an integrated development rather than with six individual
owners.

(2) The City will be able to obtain approximately 1.8 acres of the land area which
is required to complete a portion of our Nature Area. The developer has agreed
to dedicate this land.

(3) The development will be phased. If approval is granted and the rezoning pro-~
cessed phasing of construction would be as follows:

Start Construction Number of Units Occupancy Date

Phase I Start engineering now units May 1975

Phase II August 1975 units January 1976
Phase IIT January 1976 units August 1976
Phase IV August 1976 units January 1977

The phasing would give an opportunity for the School Board to make provision for
school accommodation and in addition the phasing permits the City to monitor the
type of housing being dneluded, for example, if the zero lot line housing does
not prove to be popular it can be modified and conventional housing provided in a
subsequent phase, .

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