05/12/2015 ADDITIONS TO COUNCIL, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015
Reports
1. FS-2015-02 - Open Fire Burning
a) Request to speak from Al Oleksuik
b) Request to speak from Barbara Carr
Planning
1. PBD-2015-06, AM-21014-004, 5971 Dorchester Road
a) Related correspondence
Communications
1. SIDS Awareness Day - Request that May 23rd be recognized in Memory of those
children lost to SIDS and SUDC, as SIDS Awareness Memorial Day.
RECOMMENDATION: For the Approval of Council
Dean Iorfida
From: Cathy Crabbe
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 2:24 PM
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To: Dean Iorfida
Subject: FW: Open Air Burning At City Council - Tuesday, May 12, 2015
From: Barb Carr [mailto
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 1:45 PM
To: Cathy Crabbe; diorfidae@niagarafalls.ca
Subject: RE: Open Air Burning At City Council -Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Barbara Carr would like to speak at the City Council MEETING Tue. May 12th
From: ccrabbe@niagarafalls.ca
To:
Subject: Open Air Burning At City Council -Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 15:39:51 +0000
Hello Barb:
It was very nice speaking with you this morning.
The matter of Open Fire Burning is a report going to City Council at tomorrow's meeting (May 12). The meeting begins at
5:00 p.m.
I have attached a copy of the report going to Council tomorrow evening so that you can read it in advance.
If you would like to speak to the matter, you need to advise our City Clerk, Mr. Dean lorfida of your request.
Please send Dean an email later today or early tomorrow with your request to speak at the Council
meeting: diorfidaniagarafalls.ca
Cadltiy Crab
Executive Secretary to Mayor Diodati
City of Niagara Falls
4310 Queen Street
Niagara Falls,ON L2E 6X5
T: 905-356-7521 - Ext.4202
F: 905-374-3557
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Dean Iorfida
From: Al <
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 3:46 PM
To: Dean Iorfida
Subject: Re: Open Burning Report
Hi Dean: Thanks for the info. Yes, I would like to address council regarding this issue. I will, as always, sort of,
be brief.
Al Oleksuik
From: Dean Iorfida
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 12:11 PM
To: mailto:
Cc: Carey Campbell ; Lee Smith
Subject: Open Burning Report
Hi Al:
Hope all is well.
Attached is the Order of Business and report on Tuesday's Council agenda regarding the matter noted above. As you
were involved at the outset, I am passing this on.
If you wish to speak to the report,feel free to send me a quick email.
As you will note,the matter is in the early part of the agenda, so I would suggest you be in attendance by 5:30.
Thanks
Dean
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City of Niagara Falls
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Planning
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Director of Planning, Buildings and Development March 07, 2015
City Hall, 4310 Queens Street planninq(a niagarafalls.ca
Niagara Falls, Ontario call: 1 905 356-7521
L2E 6X5 fax: 1 905 356-2354
Dear Mr. Herlovitch MCIP RPP
Re: 5971 Dorchester Road: Bylaw Amendment
I recently received your NOTICE OF APPLICATION for this redevelopment project for reply prior to May
12.2015.
My observation of this project, now in its second revision is that it is still very unimaginative, too much
density is still being applied for which makes it out of scale as an appropriate development adjacent to the
single family homes bordering the existing Diamond Jubilee School site.
Given the provided two page description of the project there is nothing within the description to indicate
that the project merits from a design or other point of view the increase in additional density of 9 units per
hectare that it seeks. There appears to be no amenities provided to either the development outright or to
the adjacent neighborhood to warrant any increase in density.
A proposal that seeks approval to construct 154 units of high density space adjacent to an established
thriving single family neighborhood is simply too great an increase in scale of redevelopment. While this
development has been scaled back marginally from the previous application it still has some way to go
before the proposed design reaches a level of compatibility with the existing neighborhood to warrant
approval.
The current proposal could be described as two slab blocks placed in a sea of parking with the sea of
parking still creating major problems of far too much site coverage. From the description of the project
provided it appears that the basement of each building contains suites not parking. These suites will have
no view other than that of cars and cannot even open their windows for fresh air as there will be none;
only automobile exhaust from cars entering and leaving the site.Would you be happy living in this
environment? I can say that I would not. Given this I believe it would be much better to replace all suites
below ground with parking and simply increase the building height marginally to accommodate these
units. This simple change alone would decrease the site coverage of parking by approximately 100 cars
(50 per building)and free up the remaining site for park type amenities that could be shared with the
community such as the previous school yard has provides for some 60 years. It would also decrease site
surface parking to about 50 which could be managed in a number of ways, all better than currently
proposed.
I still believe that a more appropriate solution would be to redevelop the majority of the existing school
green space as single family, duplex or row housing to complement those adjacent on Barker and
Brookfield Streets and add a small amount of higher density with underground parking along the
Dorchester St. and Lundy's lane face, however if the developer has his mind set on two flat roofed
apartment buildings similar to those planned in the 1960's along lower Dorchester and Drummond roads
he should demonstrate how this project has significantly advanced in design from those previous out of
date project built some 60 years ago because at this stage with the information provided little is different.
This schemes biggest problem is converting the existing green field to a characterless sea of surface
parking. Can you imagine the negative impact that this will have on all the residents' back yards along
Barker and Brookfield streets at adjacent property lines?At the least the project design should propose a
significant heavily landscaped landscape buffer, build up to provide noise and visual separation from the
surface parking. This essential feature is currently missing in the plan.
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Unfortunately the current proposal has not addressed problems identified in the last proposal; that of too
much density and surface parking site coverage. Its current state still does not appear to meet current
urban planning objectives. I urge you to reject it outright for a better solution that will interface responsibly
with the existing neighborhood.
RECEIVED
Thank you for the opportunity of reply MAY 0 8 206
PLANNING
& DEVELOPMENT_ _
Teresa Fabbro
From: Jim Diodati
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 7:39 AM
To: 'Rob Trainor'; Dean Iorfida;Teresa Fabbro
Cc: Kristine Elia
Subject: RE: SIDS Awareness Day
Rob:
Thank you for your heartfelt and thorough email. I have included our City Clerk and key staff on this email in order to
review your request and be in touch with you, in response. Thank you for taking the time to work to raise
awareness. We appreciate you reaching out.
Best,
Jim
JIM DIODATI
Mayor
City of Niagara Falls
905 356 7521 x 4201
jdiodati@niagarafalls.ca
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Original Message
From: Rob Trainor [mailto
Sent:Thursday, May 07, 2015 11:20 PM
To:Jim Diodati
Subject: SIDS Awareness Day
Dear Mr. Mayor,
My name is Rob Trainor and I have a story for you and a request for a declaration of a day in memory. Mr. Mayor, my
nephew Nathan Inglehart, a resident of Martensville, SK passed away suddenly on June 13, 2014 at the age of 12.5
months. (This is the link to his obituary that ran in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestarphoenix/obituary.aspx?pid=171397100)
The cause of death was ruled to be Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, commonly known as crib death. It was a tragedy to
my family and especially to my sister and brother-in-law, Erin and Colton Inglehart.
Thankfully, my now three year old nephew Carter, their son, was blissfully too young to be aware of what was going on.
However, my family is not the only one who has been terribly touched by this awful, unpreventable condition.There is
also a similar condition known as Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood, that afflicts some children over the age of
one year. (Here is an article about this:
http://www.babble.com/mom/sudc-the-lesser-known-cousin-of-sids-about-which-more-parents-desperately-need-to-
know/)
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As many Niagara Falls parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents, have been struck by these tragic conditions, I was hoping
(unless one has already been declared)that you would declare May 23rd (Nathan's birthday) to be the annual Day in
Memory for those children lost to SIDS and SUDC. I am requesting this on my own, with the blessing of my sister or
brother-in-law. However as tragic as this date is, I am sure they would be honoured that Nathan's memory would be
commemorated by the City of Niagara Falls as a Day of Memory,for not just him but all children lost to these two
horrible and untreatable tragic conditions. I have not reached out to you, in the hopes of any sympathy or anything, but
the article from babble.com mentioned that New York had declared such a day, so I was hoping that Niagara Falls would
do the same. I have already had the Province of Saskatchewan declare May 23rd SIDS/SUDC Awareness and Memorial
Day,the Province of British Columbia and the State of Maine, have declared May 23rd SIDS Awareness and Memorial
Day. I hope to get all 10 provinces and 3 territories (and hopefully the Federal Government too to do so), as well as
many municipalities on board with this and eventually make this an international day.
If you would like to reach out to an organization in relation to this for more information or other facts about SIDS and
SUDC, Baby's Breath (formerly known as the Canadian Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, of which I have no
affiliation) has a website at:
http://www.babysbreathcanada.ca/ Please seriously consider doing this and perhaps having an annual memorial balloon
release (as is the typical way of honouring these types of death) at the City Hall each May 23rd. I am asking as a grieving
Uncle, who is a Lloydminster resident and despite my nephew not being a Niagara Falls resident, this is a tragedy that
happens in every municipality in the world.This would be very important to me and to every family who has lost a child
to this tragic condition to have a day of memory declared.
If you wish to contact me, feel free to do so.
Thank you for your consideration
Rob Trainor
33-5723 41 Street
Lloydminster,AB
T9V 2A4
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