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PLANNING RATIONALE OF THE PROPOSED PLANTAGENET ASPHALT PLANT Township of Alfred & Plantagenet United Counties of Prescott & Russell March 2012 Prepared for: P.B. Paving and Landscaping 3083 Old Highway 17 Rockland, Ontario K4K 1W1 Prepared by: J.L. RICHARDS & ASSOCIATES LIMITED 864 Lady Ellen Place Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 5M2 JLR 24793-01 PLANNING RATIONALE OF A PROPOSED PLANTAGENET ASPHALT PLANT, ONTARIO - TABLE OF CONTENTS - PAGE 1.0 INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................1 1.1 Proposed Development......................................................................................... 2 2.0 APPROVALS REQUIRED................................................................................................ 4 3.0 PLANNING CONTEXT...................................................................................................... 5 3.1 Provincial Policy Statement................................................................................... 5 3.2 United Counties of Prescott & Russell................................................................... 6 3.2.1 Trade and Industry Policy Area ................................................................. 7 3.2.1.1 Location of Existing Trade and Industry Policy Areas ................... 9 3.2.2 Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI) ........................................ 11 3.3 Township of Alfred & Plantagenet Comprehensive Zoning By-law ..................... 12 4.0 PHYSICAL CONTEXT .................................................................................................... 13 4.1 Physiography and Topography ........................................................................... 13 4.2 Area Land Use .................................................................................................... 14 5.0 NATURAL HERITAGE.................................................................................................... 14 5.1 Fish Habitat and Community Assessment........................................................... 15 5.2 Natural Environment Impact Assessment ........................................................... 15 5.2.1 Significant Wetlands................................................................................ 15 5.2.2 Significant Habitat of Endangered and Threatened Species at Risk (SAR) 16 5.2.3 Significant Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI) ..................... 16 5.3 Significant Woodlands......................................................................................... 18 5.4 Significant Valley Lands ...................................................................................... 18 5.5 Fish Habitat......................................................................................................... 19 5.6 Significant Wildlife Habitat................................................................................... 19 6.0 PRELIMINARY EMISSIONS SUMMARY AND DISPERSION MODELLING.................. 19 7.0 ACOUSTIC ASSESSMENT............................................................................................ 20 8.0 TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY ............................................................................................. 21 9.0 PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS.................................................................................... 22 JLR 24793-01 J.L. Richards & Associates Limited March 2012 i PLANNING RATIONALE OF A PROPOSED PLANTAGENET ASPHALT PLANT, ONTARIO - TABLE OF CONTENTS - - LIST OF APPENDICES- APPENDIX ‘A1-A2’ - Conceptual Site Plans APPENDIX ‘B1-B2’ - Proposed Official Plan Amendments APPENDIX ‘C’ - Proposed Zoning By-law Amendment JLR 24793-01 J.L. Richards & Associates Limited March 2012 ii PLANNING RATIONALE OF A PROPOSED PLANTAGENET ASPHALT PLANT, ONTARIO 1.0 INTRODUCTION J.L. Richards & Associates Limited (JLR) was retained by P.B. Paving and Landscaping to provide a Planning Rationale in support of an application to amend the Official Plan of the United Counties of Prescott & Russell (UCPR) as well as an amendment to the Township of Alfred & Plantagenet Zoning By-law to permit the operation of an asphalt plant. The location of the property is on the northern side of County Road 17 approximately 2 km west of Plantagenet. The site is legally described as Part of Lot 18, Concession 2, Township of Alfred and Plantagenet, County of Prescott and Russell. Figure 1: Key Plan JLR 24793-01 J.L. Richards & Associates Limited March 2012 1 P.B. Paving and Landscaping Planning Rationale Proposed Asphalt Plant Township of Alfred & Plantagenet, County of Prescott & Russell The purpose of the Official Plan Amendment (OPA) is to change Schedule A to the UCPR Official Plan to change the land use designation of the subject property from Rural to Trade and Industry Policy Area. The amendment will also propose an adjustment to the Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI). In addition to this OPA, Schedule A (Rural) to the local Comprehensive Zoning By-law (ZBA) will be amended to change the zoning category of the subject lands from Rural Exception 25 Zone - RU-25 to a Mineral Aggregate Resource Zone – MX. The northerly portion of the property (ANSI) plus a 50 metre buffer will not be amended. The intent is to permit P.B. Paving and Landscaping to use a portion of the site for an asphalt plant. The proposed Plantagenet asphalt plant will serve to provide asphalt to Eastern Ontario municipalities. This Planning Rationale will provide an integrated review of all studies and investigations to demonstrate that the proposed Plantagenet asphalt plant is an appropriate land use for this site, based on: . its proximity to County Road 17 (primary artery); . its proximity to resources (sand and gravel resources); . its proximity to growing communities; . size of parcel offering possibilities to avoid or mitigate adverse effects to sensitive receptors; . site which can be developed to have no negative impacts on the natural features or their ecological functions, and; . provides economic development opportunities. 1.1 Proposed Development P.B. Paving and Landscaping proposes to develop an asphalt plant on Part of Lot 18, Concession 2, Township of Alfred and Plantagenet, County of Prescott and Russell. The property has an irregular rectangular shape being approximately 379 m wide (east- west) by 910 m long (north-south) for a total surface area of 32.83 ha (±81.13 acres). The site is partially treed and slightly elevated in relation to the surrounding land. In all directions, the surrounding land is used primarily for agricultural purposes. The proposed location of the plant is shown in Figure 1. Schematic representations of the asphalt processing area and plant are shown in Appendix A. The site is expected to be open and operational by the year 2013. The footprint of the area required to install and operate the permanent asphalt plant is less than 1.5 hectares (ha). The plant will be located in the middle-western portion of the property in open ground. The location was a result of the various reports and JLR 24793-01 J.L. Richards & Associates Limited March 2012 2 P.B. Paving and Landscaping Planning Rationale Proposed Asphalt Plant Township of Alfred & Plantagenet, County of Prescott & Russell investigations. Furthermore, the noise study (Williamson – October 2011) prepared as part of the asphalt plant proposal recommends a noise barrier berm (6.6 m high by 85 m long) be constructed along the western portion of the asphalt plant area. The access road will be +/- 275 m long. The asphalt manufacturing process requires the combination of aggregates, sand and a filler such as stone dust, in specific proportions, heated to a temperature in the range 100 to 200 degrees Celsius, and coated with a binder, usually bitumen. The heater is typically a gas or liquid fired burner. The proposed asphalt plant does not require water as part of the manufacturing process; therefore does not produce any waste water. The operation of the proposed plant, in general terms, can be described as follows. A loader places the raw aggregates into cold feed bins from nearby stockpiles. Input material may include some recycled asphalt pavement (RAP). The raw materials are weighed as they are transferred into a heater drum then heated up to temperature. Hot binder, bitumen, is added at this stage. The blend, hot mix asphalt, HMA, is then transferred to a silo from which it is discharged into trucks for delivery off-site. The capacity of the plant is anticipated to be of the order of 250 tons per hour of asphalt. Power for the plant may come from an on-site diesel generator, or may come from grid electricity supply. Bitumen for making asphalt is held in tanks, shown as A/C Tanks in Appendix A. The tanks are heated to maintain the bitumen in a liquid state on a 24 hour basis. Bitumen will be delivered to the site periodically, e.g. every few days, depending on production demand. The proposed asphalt plant will produce a maximum of 250 tonnes of asphalt per hour. The plant would typically operate five days a week between the hours of 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM, with a season between May and December. The plant is expected to generate a constant volume of trips throughout the day while the plant is operational. The operation of the plant would comprise of raw aggregate material to be trucked to the site, asphalt concrete to be manufactured, and the asphalt material to be shipped off site to a construction project. The site will have one access onto County

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