Notice of Application and Public Meeting for a Zoning By-law Amendment D14-25-02

Notice of Complete Application and Public Meeting for a Zoning By-law Amendment, File Number D14-25-02

Take notice that the City of Kenora Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) will hold a regular meeting on February 19, 2025, at 6 p.m. As part of the meeting, PAC will hold an open house to consider a recommendation on a proposed Zoning By-law Amendment as it pertains to the City of Kenora Zoning By-law 101-2015, as described below.

File: D14-25-02

Location: All lands within the City of Kenora

To learn more about the application and provide comment, you are invited to attend the regular meeting of PAC commencing at the following time and location:

PAC meeting

When: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. (CST)

Location: Training Room, Operations Centre, 60 Fourteenth Street North, 2nd Floor, Kenora, ON

Members of the public interested in attending the meeting may attend in person, or via Zoom Meeting. For the link to join the meeting please access the agenda under the Agenda and Minutes section on our Planning Advisory Committee page.

Take notice that Council of the Corporation of the City of Kenora will hold a Statutory Public Meeting to consider the proposed application.

Statutory public meeting

When: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. (CST)

Location: Council Chambers, City Hall, 1 Main Street South, Kenora, ON.

Members of the public interested in attending the public meeting, may attend in person, or watch the livestream meeting on our Agenda and Minutes page. For access to speak at the public meeting virtually, please contact the City Clerk. If you attend in person, there is no need to register to attend. The Council of the Corporation of the City of Kenora will consider a decision regarding the application during their meeting on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. Access to that livestream meeting may be viewed on our Agenda and Minutes page.

Be advised that the Corporation of the City of Kenora is proposing amendments to Zoning By-law 101-2015.

Purpose

To update section 3.23.5 Barrier-Free Parking Spaces to align with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

Effect

Off-street parking facilities must provide the following two types of parking spaces for the use of persons with disabilities:

Type A has a minimum width of 3.4 m and has signage that identifies the space as “van accessible”.
Type B, which has a minimum width of 2.4 m.

Access aisles may be shared by two parking spaces for the use of persons with disabilities in an off-street parking facility and must meet the following requirements:

They must have a minimum width of 1.5 m.
They must extend the full length of the parking space.
They must be marked with high tonal contrast diagonal lines where the surface is asphalt, concrete or some other hard surface.

The minimum number of barrier-free parking spaces required will use the calculations as outlined in the table below. All calculated minimum barrier-free parking spaces must be rounded up to the nearest whole number.

Required barrier-free parking spaces

Required Parking Spaces
Required number of parking spaces	Minimum number of barrier-free parking spaces
1 to 25	One
26 to 100	Four percent of the total required
101 to 200	One plus three percent of total required
201 to 1,000	Two plus two percent of total required
more than 1,000	11 plus one percent of total required

Public meeting

Input on the proposed application is encouraged. You can provide input by speaking at the PAC open house and/or Statutory Public Meeting. You may also provide your comments in writing as follows:

Submit comments in writing

Persons wishing to provide comments for consideration at the Statutory Public Meeting may submit such comments in writing no later than Tuesday, February 28, 2025, by email to planning@kenora.ca or by regular mail to Ms. Tara Vader, Associate Planner, 60 Fourteenth Street North, 2nd Floor, Kenora, ON P9N 3X2, quoting File Number: D14-25-02.

Failure to make oral or written submission

If a person or public body would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of The Council of the Corporation of the City of Kenora 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 The Corporation of the City of Kenora 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 the Corporation of the City of Kenora 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.

Notice of decision

If you wish to be notified of the decision of the Council of The Corporation of the City of Kenora in respect of the application for zoning by-law amendment, you must make a written request to Heather Pihulak, Clerk of The Corporation of the City of Kenora at 1 Main Street South, Kenora, ON P9N 3X2.

Additional information

Additional information relating to the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment application is available electronically through the Planning Department. For further information, please contact Tara Vader, Associate Planner, at 807-467-2152 or planning@kenora.ca.

Personal information that accompanies a submission will be collected under the authority of the Planning Act and may form part of the public record which may be released to the public.

Dated at the City of Kenora this 20th day of January, 2025.