Submitted by Philip Cox
Since our General Meeting (January 15th) we have learned more on where we stand with the City on our land tenure options. Our key contacts there have prepared the report to be presented to Council with their recommendations. Currently the draft is doing the rounds within Real Estate Development Services (REDS) and Affordable Housing before it gets sent onwards to Council. We do not know what lease and sale scenarios are contained within it.
Consistent with standard procedure, the report to Council is confidential, but we are assured that the figures and arguments we have provided over what is nearly four years have been worked in.
Councillor Terry Wong will be sent a copy. We are free to engage him at any time. We briefed Terry last Fall when he presided over our celebration of the blacktopping of Sunnyhill Lane; so he knows the file. His office has also been briefed by Administration on the development of the City’s offer.
Our contacts tell us that they are queuing up to present to Council in Q1, likely in March. P and D is scheduled to have our next and likely final meeting with the City on February 9th. Presumably we will know more by that date, though it is not likely that we will have access to the confidential aspects of the report by then.
To get background info on the project, see this one-pager - https://www.dropbox.com/s/llmpllaqyrbftqa/2023-PD%20blurb%20for%20membership-Jan2023.docx?dl=0 or browse the P&D page on our Sunnyhill website.