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Welcome to theBrandon and AreaPlanning DistrictDevelopment Plan Review

District-wide Open House and Roundtable Discussions

November 17, 2010 – Keystone Centre, Brandon Manitoba

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What is a Development Plan? A Development Plan is a statement of

policies that help guide future development. Development Plan policies provide direction on how development should occur and maps that identify the location of future land uses, transportation routes and municipal services.

A Development Plan helps to ensure:

— compatibility of neighbouring land uses;

— effective management of natural resources;

— preservation of heritage resources;

— establishment of the appropriate mix of development;

— protection of surface and groundwater resources; and

— sustainability of economic and community growth.

Why is the Development Plan being reviewed? The Province requires that a Development

Plan be reviewed regularly to incorporate any legislative changes and consider any changes to land uses or policies that are desired.

Development Plan andPlanning Framework

Development Plan Framework

Authority Documents

ProvincialLegislation

The Planning Act(Provincial Land Use Policies Regulation)

Planning District By-law Development Plan

Municipal By-laws Secondary Plans

Municipal By-laws Zoning By-laws

Planning DistrictApproving Authority

Subdivisions

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Why Get Involved? Land use decisions affect the way people live, work and

play and it is important for you to provide input because these decisions may affect you. This is your opportunity to let us know your concerns and ideas about how your community should grow.

When land is properly planned, there is more predictability about what land uses can take place on a property next door or down the road.

We want to ensure that uses are compatible, potential confl icts are minimized, dangers from hazards are mitigated, the environment is protected and development does not create undue costs to the public.

How Can I Participate? We encourage you to participate in any of the following

ways:

— provide input at this open house

— complete a comment sheet at each of the topic stations

— visit www.ebrandon.ca and join the public forum planning discussions

— complete the on-line survey available at www.brandonareaplanning.mb.ca; and

— participate in the follow-up open house after the draft plan is completed

Please leave your contact information at today’s open house if you would like further notifi cation about upcoming events.

Review Process

Sept/Oct 2010

BackgroundResearch

Formal Plan Adoption Process

and Public Hearing

Public Open Houses and Roundtable

Sessions

Nov 2010

Follow-up Consultation

Open House 2 (Report Back)

Spring 2011 Summer/Fall 2011Dec 2010/Jan 2011

Draftingthe Plan

General Process & TimelineQuestions What is your vision for your

community?

What do you want to stay the same and what types of changes would you like to see in your community?

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The Brandon and Area Planning District Board (BAPD) is made up of members of three municipal governments: the City of Brandon, and the Rural Municipalities of Cornwallis and Elton. Council members from each municipality are appointed to the Planning District Board, which meets regularly.

The purpose of the Brandon and Area Planning District Board is to better coordinate land use and land development issues between the three partners.

The Brandon and Area Planning District Board adopts, administers and enforces the Development Plan for the entire District.

The Brandon and Area Planning District also has the authority to consider and approve land subdivisions that are consistent with the Development Plan.

Brandon and Area Planning District Board

5City of BrandonCurrent Land Use Map

6Current Rural Land Use Map

7Brandon StatisticsPopulation & Dwelling Units

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The land use inventory maps identify available land that is located in existing Settlement Centres and designated Rural Residential Areas.

Questions Where should the RM of

Cornwallis direct future growth?

What type of growth would you like to see? For example, single-family dwellings, multiple-family units, commercial units, and greenspaces, etc.

Cornwallis Land Inventory Map

11Elton Land Inventory Map

The land use inventory maps identify available land that is located in existing Settlement Centres and designated Rural Residential Areas.

Questions Where should the RM

of Elton direct future growth?

What type of growth would you like to see? For example, single-family dwellings, multiple-family units, commercial units, and greenspaces, etc.

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A logical and well-planned transportation system in the District is necessary to move people and goods safely and effi ciently between locations. This includes a variety of transportation modes including vehicular transportation, railways, public transit, pedestrian and cycling pathways.

Current Policies & Trends

The Development Plan includes policies that emphasize:

— energy effi ciency in all modes of transportation;

— a logical hierarchy of streets throughout the District;

— development that does not adversely affect the safe and effi cient movement of traffi c; and

— appropriate locations for truck routes and dangerous goods routes.

Current trends include:

— incorporating pedestrian and cycling pathways within new and existing neighbourhoods;

— extending and enhancing existing transit routes within new and existing neighbourhoods; and

— ensuring that the District’s streets are complete streets.

A complete streets policy ensures that the streets within a community are for everyone, including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.

Questions

What mode of transportation do you use most often?

Do you think development along transit routes would increase ridership?

Do you think Brandon has adequate walkways and bicycle paths?

Transportation

photo from www.completestreets.org

Photo from www.completestreets.org

photo from www.completestreets.orgphoto from www.completestreets.org

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Institutions and cultural facilities not only increase the quality of life for District residents, but they also provide for a large employment base. The Development Plan provides support for the maintenance of existing institutions as well as associated expansions and the development of additional facilities.


The Development Plan identifi es several “Special Development Sites” including:

— Assiniboine Community College;

— Brandon Mental Health Centre;

— Brandon Regional Health Centre;

— Brandon University; and

— Keystone Centre.

— These sites require a coordinated planning scheme to address transportation, access, parking, compatibility with adjacent uses and long-term expansion.


— The Assiniboine Community College is in its third year of relocation to the former Brandon Mental Health

Centre grounds. The fi rst phase was completed in 2007, with the opening of the Manitoba Institute of Culinary Arts. Phase II is currently under construction as the Len Evans Centre of Trades & Technology takes shape. Phase III will see the remainder of the college’s Brandon-based programming moved to the site.

— The Brandon Regional Health Authority has development plans set in place for land east of the Brandon General Hospital. This includes an eight-bed facility for cancer care patients; an eight-bed facility for mental health clients; and an eight-bed crisis stabilization facility that will replace the existing facility.

Questions

Do you think the City of Brandon’s major institutions (e.g., Assiniboine Community College, Brandon Mental Health Centre and Brandon University) are adequately connected to the rest of the city via transit?

Do you have concern with the development or expansion of institutions in the City?

Institutional Development

Photograph By: Sandy BlackPhoto courtesy of the City of Brandon

Photograph By: Sandy BlackPhoto courtesy of Economic Development Brandon

Special Development Sites

City Boundary

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The District is home to a wide variety of natural resources including the Assiniboine River, the Assiniboine-Delta aquifer that provides drinking water to a number of residents, wildlife and wildlife habitat, the Brandon Hills Wildlife Management Area and aggregate resources. The protection and sustainable use of these resources will ensure that they remain available and undamaged for future use.


The Development Plan includes policies that:

— ensure high water quality within the District;

— preserve and enhance the diversity of natural systems, including fi sh and wildlife and wildlife habitat;

— preserve important aggregate deposits for future extraction; and

— encourage extraction of aggregate resources in an environmentally sound manner.


— The City of Brandon’s Environmental Strategic Plan (2007) (ESP) provides a framework in moving towards a more

sustainable future. The ESP outlines a series of actions for the municipality to take, over the short and long-term, which will reduce the city’s negative impact on the environment and set precedent for the rest of the District.

— Some of the ESP’s goals include: improving air quality; reducing land contamination; reducing consumption of treated water; reducing pollution levels in wastewater prior to treatment; reducing energy consumption; improving sustainable development practices; and leading by example to promote environmental awareness and measure progress.

Questions

Are there specifi c areas within the BAPD where development should be restricted to enhance environmental protection?

Which environmental initiatives have had the biggest impact on the City of Brandon and the District as a whole?

How can development pressures and environmental protection be balanced within the BAPD?

Environment

Brandon’s Environmental Strategic Plan Operational Services Division – Community Services

October 2007

Photograph By: Sandy Trudel

Photograph By: Economic Development Brandon

Photograph By: Economic Development Brandon

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The provision of parks and recreation amenities is fundamental to ensuring a high quality of life for District residents. In addition, maintaining a contiguous network of natural areas and open spaces is necessary to providing adequate habitat diversity in order for ecosystems to thrive. The Plan seeks to balance the human uses of greenspaces with their natural functions as habitat.


The Development Plan includes policies that emphasize:

— developing and maintaining a broad array of parks, recreational facilities and open space areas; and

— using open space and landscaped buffers to protect residential and other areas from the undesirable effects of incompatible land uses.


— The City of Brandon’s Greenspace Master Plan (2002) (GMP) guides the maintenance, enhancement and development of existing and future greenspaces and recreation facilities within Brandon. The City of Brandon is currently in the process of updating this plan.

— The Recreation Facilities Master Plan (2007) (RFMP) is a companion document to the GMP. It outlines goals and principles to guide future facility development in Brandon as well as the priorities and strategies necessary to meet the changing recreation needs and interests of residents and visitors.

— The RFMP, along with the GMP defi ne physical facilities to be “programmed” by service groups, individuals, private industry and the City, in order to ensure the recreation needs of residents and visitors are met both now and in the future.

Questions

Do you think the BAPD has adequate parks and greenspaces?

Where would you like to see future parks and greenspaces located?

What types of additional parks and greenspaces would you like to see in the District? (For example, pocket parks, playgrounds, open fi elds, golf courses, and community gardens, etc).

Parks and Greenspace

Photograph By: Sandy Black


Parks, Recreation, and Open Space

City Boundary

February 16th, 2007

Submitted By:The City of Brandon

Operational ServicesBrandon, Manitoba

With Assistance From:

The City of BrandonRecreation Facilities

Master PlanCity of Brandon Operational Services

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Within the BAPD there are a wide variety of housing types to meet the needs of local residents. This includes low-density single-family housing, apartments, condominiums, farm dwellings and rural residential acreages.


The Development Plan has policies that emphasize:

— directing residential development to appropriate locations in order to ensure they are located in close proximity to services, infrastructure, transportation routes and are separated from potentially incompatible uses, such as industry and agriculture;

— a mix of housing types;

— housing development in infi ll areas; and

— ensuring that an adequate supply of residential land is available for development to meet the demand for the next fi ve to ten years.


— Due to the steady population growth that has occurred over the last few years, the City of Brandon currently has an extremely low rental vacancy rate, shrinking supply of affordable rental and owned housing, increasing numbers of low to moderate income households and rising prices of available housing stock (Economic Development Brandon 2007).

— Assuming a moderate 1% population increase, using the current City of Brandon population of 46,487, the population will increase by approximately 464 people in the next year.

— With an average household size is 2.3 persons, a population increase of 464 requires 202 dwelling units.

— The average number of dwelling units constructed over the past 5 years (2005-2009) was 358.

Questions

What type of housing development would you like to see in the City of Brandon and where would you like to see it located? (For example, single-family dwellings, duplexes, apartments, condominiums, secondary suites, student housing, seniors housing, etc). Please mark up the maps provided.

What does the term “affordable housing” for the BAPD mean to you in terms of cost and housing design?

Should higher density housing within the City of Brandon be directed downtown and along transit corridors?

Have you or anyone you know ever had a diffi cult time securing an adequate place to live within the BAPD?

Housing

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Legend

Residential Land Inventory

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Market Supply and Demand Statistics (2005-2009)

City of Brandon

RM of Cornwallis RM of Elton

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The RM of Cornwallis surrounds Brandon to the west, south and east. It has a variety of land uses including agricultural, rural residential and small-scale commercial development. In addition, Canadian Forces Base Shilo (CFB Shilo) is located on the eastern boundary of Cornwallis.

The RM of Elton is located north of the City and is predominately agricultural in nature. It also includes three small residential areas: Douglas, Forrest and Justice.

Current Settlement Centre and Rural ResidentialPolicies & Trends

The Development Plan has policies stating that:

— settlement centres are intended to provide areas to cluster a mix of uses including residential, commercial and institutional;

— new residences, including both conventional houses and mobile homes, should be developed within existing rural settlement centres; and

— rural residential development should occur in a cluster pattern.


— the Provincial Land Use Policies emphasize that future development and growth be directed towards existing settlement centres.

Questions

Is it better to cluster rural residential uses together rather than allow residential designations to occur throughout agricultural areas?

Would you like to see other residential uses such as duplexes, secondary suites, or condominium development in the Settlement Centres?

Livestock Policies & Trends

The Development Plan is required to have a Livestock Policy that meets the Province’s regulations.


— Provincial regulations state that any livestock operation 300-animal units or larger must be subject to a conditional use process and subject to a provincial technical review committee.

— the provincial technical review committee includes staff from Manitoba Agriculture, Water Stewardship and Community Planning.

Questions

What measures could be taken to help protect agricultural land from further fragmentation and encroachment of other potential confl icting uses?

Where should future livestock operations be directed within the BAPD?

Should there be a buffer zone adjacent to the City of Brandon and other Rural Settlement Centres restricts livestock operations and other types of Agro-Commercial or Agro-Industrial development?

Rural Development

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The recently completed Vision for Downtown Brandon (2010) states:

“the District will have a reputation of vitality and will be the preferred destination neighbourhood in the region. This vitality will create diversity of experience and people unique to the area”

The vision for the District is a balance of commercial, residential and institutional uses which limit isolated single-use development and increase mixed activity.


The Development Plan has policies that emphasize:

— enhancing economic activity downtown by encouraging a healthy mix of residential development;

— promoting downtown as a multi-functional activity centre; and

— encouraging a high standard of site and building development that enhances the historic character of downtown.

Current trends:

— the City is in the process of re-branding the downtown. The area has recently been dubbed “The Downtown Hub – the place for people”. The branding process includes a new name, slogan, street signs, bright red benches and

bike racks and free Wi-Fi availability for the area. Some of the goals of this initiative include: strengthening and building upon existing and new downtown businesses and restaurants; enabling downtown residents to live in leisure; and creating a pedestrian-friendly and cycling-friendly ‘Destination Neighbourhood’.

— the review and update of the BAPD Development Plan and the Downtown Hub Secondary Plan process will run concurrently.

— the boundaries of the Downtown Policy District and the Downtown Hub boundaries will be harmonized through the Development Plan process.

— the Secondary Plan will be used as a vehicle to help achieve the goals of the Downtown Hub.

Questions

Do you feel safe downtown?

If not, what factors contribute to you feeling unsafe?

Are you generally able to fi nd parking downtown?

Where do you usually park?

What types of commercial businesses, services or amenities would you like to see downtown?

What would attract you to live, work and play downtown?

Downtown


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In order to meet the retail needs of District residents, and to provide for employment opportunities, there should be a diverse range of commercial and business opportunities in the City of Brandon and the RMs of Cornwallis and Elton.


The Development Plan emphasizes that:

— all new commercial development will be directed to appropriately designated Commercial areas of the City of Brandon and also allows for uses such as home-based businesses and small-scale low-impact commercial uses;

— agro-commercial developments may be allowed in designated Agro-Commercial areas or may be allowed as a conditional use adjacent to an existing approved agro-industrial use within the designated Agricultural area; and

— rural highway commercial uses may be allowed in designated Rural Highway Commercial locations in accordance with a set list of criteria.


— encouraging a mix of commercial and residential uses within certain areas.

Questions

What types of future commercial development would you like to see in the District and where would it be located?

Should future housing developments be required to include a commercial component?

What do you envision the popoulation size of the BAPD to be in 20 years?

Local Commerce

Commercial

City Boundary


20Thank You for Your Participation!

Please fi ll out a questionnaire and/or mark up one of our air photos to provide some feedback.

Also visit our on-line survey at:

www.brandonareaplanning.mb.ca