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Public Meeting of CouncilThursday, August 11, 2005Page 2room at the end. First of all, my name is Wayne Hambly of Hambly Enterprises. We’re …we operate a company in Charlottetown called PEI Home and RV Centre located on theKensington Road. We’ve been in business there for some 42 years. We operate a numberof divisions – one is the Manufactured Housing Division, Sales and Service. Anotherdivision is Recreation Vehicles, Home Furnishing and Appliances and Residential Rental.Along with the manufactured housing business, we developed over the years a number ofland leased communities. We have … the first one we developed was Parkwood Estates,developed in 1968; Chateau Estates developed in 1973, which is in the community now ofCornwall; the third one that we developed in 1987 was Riverview Estates which is locatedin the Community of Hillsborough; the fourth land lease community that we presently aredeveloping is River Ridge Estates just off Acadian Drive, also in the Community ofHillsborough. This is about a 65 acre piece of land and we’ve developed now about …well, we’re into our second phase of development, but along with our own particular localcompany, we seen in our manufactured housing business, we’ve represented a company inSussex, New Brunswick called Prestige Homes. We’ve been with that company for some35 years. That company has recently been purchased, oh about six years ago, purchased bythe Shaw Brick Group of Companies in Halifax and it comes under the control of ___ of thedivision of Clayton Developments. Clayton Developments, a lot of you may be aware, havedeveloped a number of properties in the Halifax area. Some better known – Clayton Park,Colby Village, ___ Hills and also_____ - a highly respected land development company.Because we’re connected with the Shaw Group, they have partnered with us in the design ofa section of the River Ridge development that we’re doing, we call it phase III, and that isthe design and engineering of phase III, which would be for mini homes. That’s what bringsme … brings us here tonight to talk to you … to ask you to consider that particular phase III.But a little bit about River Ridge … River Ridge was designed to be a distinct, affordableand attractive housing community, a community that would offer affordable housing toresidents of Charlottetown. We want to really emphasize the fact that this is a plannedcommunity, that its … there are conditions in that community dealing with landscaping,with control of the way the community operates and we are developing … I think we’vebeen successful in developing a place that people can call home in a very positive way. So,one of the goals, of course, in developing these communities is to have it fit in with the planof the City Plan and we are committed to reinforcing the values established by the City intheir Official Plan and I’d like to point out just one paragraph: “One of the fundamentalaims of good community management is to ensure that there is an adequate supply andvariety of affordable houses” - an adequate supply and variety of affordable housing for allsectors of the population and I’ll give you just a rundown of what River Ridge Developmentis. The cornerstone is a 56-unit high end apartment complex featuring apartments that startat 1000 square feet and go as high as 1500 square feet, heated underground parking, elevatorservice, all the rest of it. Probably the most advanced residential rental property in the Citytoday of any of the residential rental properties in the City. That is the cornerstone of RiverRidge Estates Development as we speak. Flowing from that we have development, Phase I,a modular-owned land leased community made up of modular homes. The first phase hadsome 24 homes in it. The second phase, I believe, started … now I think roughly about 6homes, we just opened it this spring and if you take a look at the footprint that we see here,both the yellow and the orange, or the darker yellow, presently make up River Ridge Estates
Public Meeting of CouncilThursday, August 11, 2005Page 3and that is presently zoned as R1S, both colours presently zoning in place as R1S. Kevin,could you take me to the phase section right here. Phase 1 you’ll see down on the bottomcorner in blue, that was the first phase of River Ridge Estates in our land lease community.Phase 2 is the one that’s presently being developed, as I say, 6 or 7 homes in there as wespeak, and what I want to talk to you today about is Phase 3, which you see there outlined inred. Now, what I would like to ask you to consider is moving the darker yellow from R1Sto MH and if we could just take a look at the MH … R1S is single, detached, residentialzone, which will allow single detached dwellings in mostly modular dwellings, communityuses and parks. We want to ask you to consider rezoning to MH, which will allow, again,modular dwelling but the big difference is mini homes, community uses and parks. So if wecould go back, Kevin, just for a minute to the portion that you see in the dark yellow. That’sthe portion that we’re asking to be considered for rezoning to MH from R1S. Let’s justmove ahead a couple of slides there Kevin to …. Now, this is what a typical site plan wouldlook like in MH. You have a double paved parking lot, walkways, you see your mini homeand then you see the landscaping, what have you, that’s on the lot. Now it’s interesting …the only difference between that structure right there and the modular structures that are inR1, in Phase 1 and Phase 2, the only difference is that 16 x 72 is cut in half and the twopieces are put together. It comes off the same assembly line, of the same factory, of thesame plant as the other property. The only difference is the shape. Now, the advantage ofthis over the other is strictly a budgetary advantage. This, because it can come in one unit,allows us to be able to sell it to our client at a lower price than the modular because themodular, of course, is … there’s double frame and there’s more installation charges andwhat have you, but it’s exactly the same home as the other unit. The only difference is theshape of it. So if you took that unit, cut it in half and put it together, you’d have the modularback in Phase 1 and Phase 2. So what we’re asking is to have a portion … and let’s go backagain Kevin to this portion right here, down on the right hand corner rezoned from R1S toMH to allow that style of housing versus the modular style of housing and that’s the crux ofit right there - that style of housing versus the other style of housing. Now Kevin, just takeus through to the ones with the overview of the whole property right here. This red here isthe 65 or so acres that we’re talking about. Now, just where you see this arrow, down in thatarea right there, in that bottom corner, that’s the area that we’re talking about. Now thereason we’re asking for this rezoning in this portion is because right across the road now isour present Riverview Estates made up of exactly the same type of housing. The one on theright has 159 units in it of mini homes. We’re asking to go across the road in that woodedarea there, that bottom right hand corner – so 15 acres, and that’s going to allow us to putabout 50 mini homes in there over time if the zoning changes from R1S to MH. So ladiesand gentlemen, to cut to the chase, that’s the presentation, that’s what we’re here to askCouncil to consider – changing the zoning to allow us to do that. I could respond toquestions Mayor Lee.Mayor Lee: We’ll go to the audience first. Is there anybody in the audience that wants tospeak to the application to rezone the property or ask any questions of Mr. Hambly?Brenda MacNeill: Where are we supposed to stand?
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