On Council 5/30 agenda there is a Staff report on the Warren Road severance application.    The technical assessment made by Planning Staff is thorough.  As I personally wrestle with this application I keep coming back to two philosophical points.  i)  Our villages are comprised of mature neighbourhoods and new subdivisions in locations defined in the community plans.  The “look” of the mature and the new is very different.  The former are not meant to be frozen in time; they will get new housing stock in time.  But, the latter needs to occur in a manner which supports the principles behind the original plans.  ii)  I have concerns with an amendment to an Official Plan providing  improvement/benefit to only the proponent (i.e. the individual property owner) and not the community at large.

To confirm process at Council on Monday:  if you want to make a deputation on this report (i.e. to express your point of view) you need to sign in.  (As you enter the Council Chambers you can sign in on the left.) As the report is first on the agenda it will be considered soon after 6 PM.