PLN24-005 Highway 214, Elmsdale
This application is refused.
Applicant
Riverstone 214 Ltd.
Request
To amend an existing development agreement to allow for: the relocation or commercial activities from the four-storey building to the six-storey building; and the introduction of short-term rentals into the definition of ‘commercial’.
Subject Property
The existing development agreement (DA) is applied to 3 properties along Highway 214 which are identified as 411 & 427 Highway 214 and the property located behind # 427 (PID 45428810). These were originally one property but since the approval of the DA in 2020 the property has been subdivided. The subject site and surrounding properties are zoned Regional Commercial (RC). A small portion of the rear of PID 45428810 is zoned High Risk Floodplain (HF) which is the area of the property over the bank on the rear of the property. The two buildings adjacent to Highway 214 are under construction.
Details
Approval was given in April 2020 by Council for a mixed-use development on the property in the Regional Commercial (RC) Zone. The development agreement requires: - that at least 50% of the total ground floor area of all building be commercial. At no point shall the total residential ground floor area surpass the combined commercial ground floor area for all buildings. - that the single storey building is commercial and that the ground floor of the four-storey building is commercial. This means that the single-storey commercial building and the four-storey mixed-use building have to be constructed before the six-storey residential building is completed. The developer has been constructing the single-storey commercial building and the four-storey mixed-use building as these will provide all the required ground floor commercial for the whole development. The developer has indicated that despite active promotion for over a year they haven’t found tenants for the plaza (commercial floor area of four-storey building) due to low demand for commercial floor area. They suggest that the commercial component is not supported by market need.
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Contact
For further information, please contact Rachel Gilbert, Manager of Planning, at 902-883-3387 or rgilbert@easthants.ca.
