City of Pickering Official Plan- Edition 6

CITY POLICY
Bay Ridges Neighbourhood
Policies (cont'd)
(b) promote the Waterfront Node as a boating,
tourism and recreational area;
(c) require that future development within the
Waterfront Node capitalize upon these
unique attributes, which include
Frenchman’s Bay, Lake Ontario, the
Hydro Marsh, City parks, Millennium
Square, marine activities, and the historic
Village of Fairport;
(d) for lands within the Waterfront Node,
require building forms and public space to
be of high quality design with a Great Lakes
Nautical Village theme as detailed in the
Council-adopted Liverpool Road Waterfront
Node Development Guidelines, to create a
vibrant pedestrian environment;
(e) for lands within the Waterfront Node,
further identify, as Marina Mixed Use Area,
those lands that,
(i) constitute the primary marina precinct
within the Waterfront Node;
(ii) are located as follows: the northern twothirds
of the former ‘Coolwater Farms’
property, extending west across
Liverpool Road to Frenchman’s Bay,
and stretching north to Annland Street
excluding the Liverpool Road frontage;
and
(iii) are illustrated for reference on the
Tertiary Plan contained within the
Council-adopted Liverpool Road
Waterfront Node Development
Guidelines;
(f) for lands identified as the Marina Mixed
Use Area, and despite Table 3 of Chapter
Three,
(i) restrict the variety of permissible uses to
those that strengthen and complement
the existing working marinas and cater
to the Pickering community and
boating public, as follows: marinas,
yacht clubs, and mooring facilities;
marina supportive uses; restaurants;
limited retail and office uses; and those
uses permissible in Open Space System
– Natural Areas and Recreational Areas;
(ii) further identify a sub-area of land
located south of Wharf Street, 31 metres
from the edge of Frenchman's Bay,
wherein despite (i) above, residential
uses, up to a maximum density of
55 units per net hectare, are permitted
provided that,
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