Chapter A - Introduction - City of Pickering

• Provision for a range and variety of housing types, etc.
Approved Neighbourhood Plans will provide the detailed policy basis for the approval,
under the Planning Act, of Draft Plans of Subdivision and zoning by-laws permitting
development.
On April 26, 2011, the City of Pickering Council endorsed an Amendment to the
Pickering Official Plan (the Conformity OPA). The Conformity OPA will implement the
Seaton Urban Area portion of the provincially approved Central Pickering Development
Plan (CPDP). Neighbourhood Plans (NP) for a portion of the area and Sustainable
Placemaking Guidelines for all of the urban area will also be prepared to comply with the
Conformity OPA.
The MESPA was therefore intended to be one of a number of higher order “bridges”
between the CPDP and Neighbourhood Plans. Together with the Highway 407
Economic Development Study (completed), a Seaton Retail Market Analysis Study,
Natural Heritage System Management Plan (completed), and the Environmental
Assessments for Regional Services (ongoing), the MESPA addresses matters on a
comprehensive, Seaton-wide basis to inform the Neighbourhood Plan Review Study.
Further, the MESPA includes recommendations that provide direction to the completion
of Neighbourhood Functional Stormwater and Servicing Reports (NFSSRs) to be
completed in support of draft plans of subdivision.
Notwithstanding the original intent to complete the MESPA prior to the completion of
Neighbourhood Plans, the Neighbourhood planning process was accelerated at the City
of Pickering while the extensive study and review process for the MESPA was ongoing.
Consequently, Neighbourhood Plans for Seaton were endorsed by the City of Pickering
on April 26, 2011 and September 19, 2011. These Neighbourhood Plans, together,
cover all of the Seaton Urban area and at the time of this MESPA are were currently
before the Ontario Municipal Board awaiting approval. As a result, the MESPA was able
to be informed by the Neighbourhood Plans prior to its completion with regard to such
matters as transportation, municipal servicing and major community facilities.
However, with regard to the MESPA For the purposes of this MESPA2, a land use
concept is necessary as input to impact assessment work. This largely relates to land
use assumptions for surface water and groundwater modeling analyses, it was
necessary to establish a land use concept that would not be changed throughout the
MESPA study and review process. The land use plan used for these assessments is
presented on Figure A8.1. This plan reflects the CPDP plan modified based on
landowner submitted Neighbourhood Plans and development concept plans as of June
2011. Information on this land use plan was compiled from:
• Proposed neighbourhood plans prepared by the private developers and one
neighbourhood plan prepared by OILC and submitted to the City of Pickering under
the Planning Act;
• Concept plans prepared as informational documents for ORC OILC on its Living
Area lands; and,
• The concept plan of subdivision prepared for Phase 1 of the ORC OILC Employment
Lands. by Hemson in its study for those lands.
The Sernas Group Inc., Stonybrook Consulting Inc. December 2011, Revised February 2013 Master Environmental Servicing Plan Amendment
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