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Essa Road and Bradford Street have been identified as an intensification area, meaning they can help Barrie achieve medium and high-density mixed-use development to meet the directions provided by the Province of Ontario.
Overview of the Essa & Bradford Corridor Study
As part of the Essa Corridor Study, the City is proposing to amend the current zoning of selected properties along Essa Road to permit mixed use development. These locations (see proposed zoning maps) include:
Feedback collection is now closed. Please refer to the project's Life Cycle for next steps.
Essa Road and Bradford Street have been identified as an intensification area, meaning they can help Barrie achieve medium and high-density mixed-use development to meet the directions provided by the Province of Ontario.
Overview of the Essa & Bradford Corridor Study
As part of the Essa Corridor Study, the City is proposing to amend the current zoning of selected properties along Essa Road to permit mixed use development. These locations (see proposed zoning maps) include:
Feedback collection is now closed. Please refer to the project's Life Cycle for next steps.
Hi Cathy, thank you for your question.
Maintaining the integrity of the City’s heritage buildings is important
to us. The City is preparing a Heritage
Strategy to focus on conserving, protecting, enhancing and celebrating Barrie’s
cultural heritage resources. For more
information please visit: www.barrie.ca/heritage
Thanks for the important question, Udrinkwedrive! Fire and Emergency Services are critical to the health and safety of our community. Growth and intensification can pose challenges for response times, so our emergency service providers will be an important partner moving forward. As with other infrastructure, planning for enhanced services arising from growth and development can be more easily accommodated in the context of master planning initiatives. Fire and Emergency Services already work with the Planning Department to understand where new development is occurring and where new routing, capital improvements and/or new services will be needed. Moving forward, there are also best practices and "lessons learned" from other municipalities that the City of Barrie can leverage as a way to improve response times, accessibility, and operating costs & procedures. These could potentially include solutions such as intelligent transportation systems to permit Fire and EMS to pre-empt traffic signals, dispatch software and equipment improvements, or "storefront stations" incorporated into mixed-use developments.
Hi Rowzay, thanks for the question! Growth and intensification is already occurring - and will be ongoing - in Barrie. The city is expected to grow from 147,000 people and 73,000 jobs today, to 253,000 people and 129,000 jobs by 2041! Based on community feedback from engagement events and buildingbarrie.ca, as well as through study & analysis of the Essa & Bradford corridor, City Staff will present short- to long-term recommendations to Council in early 2019 to kick-start and guide mixed use development and intensification. As the City grows over time, these standards and guidelines will be implemented and monitored through the City's Development Review Process.
May 2018
June 11 2018
Summer + Fall 2018
June 11, 2019
Public Meeting to collect feedback on the proposed recommendation to Council.
September 23, 2019
TBD
TBD
Senior Urban Design Planner
Jordan.Lambie@barrie.ca |
Planner
Edward.Terry@barrie.ca |