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LPAT Case Nos. PL171084 PL180158 PL180580 MM180022 MM170004 LOCAL PLANNING APPEAL TRIBUNAL Tribunal d’appel de l’aménagement local PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 22(7) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P. 13, as amended Applicant and Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC and ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: Request to amend the Official Plan - Refusal of request by the Town of Oakville Existing Designation: Private Open Space and Natural Area Proposed Designation: Site Specific (to be determined) – including Residential, Mixed Use and Community Commercial Purpose: To permit the redevelopment of the Subject Lands for a mix of residential, commercial and open space uses Property Address/Description: 1333 Dorval Drive Municipality: Town of Oakville Approval Authority File No.: OPA.1519.09 LPAT Case No.: PL171084 LPAT File No.: PL171084 LPAT Case Name: ClubLink Corporation ULC v. Oakville (Town) PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 34(11) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P. 13, as amended Applicant and Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC and ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: Application to amend Zoning By-law No. 2014-014 - Refusal of Application by the Town of Oakville Existing Zoning: Private Open Space (O2), Private Open Space-Special (O2- Sp. 114), and Natural Area (N) Proposed Zoning: Site Specific (to be determined) Purpose: To permit the redevelopment of the Subject Lands for a mix of residential, commercial and open space uses Property Address/Description: 1333 Dorval Drive Municipality: Town of Oakville Municipality File No.: Z.1519.09 LPAT Case No.: PL171084 LPAT File No.: PL171085 H364638-02-230-0002, Rev. A Page 1 © Hatch 2021 All rights reserved, including all rights relating to the use of this document or its contents. PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 51(34) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P. 13, as amended Applicant and Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC and ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: Proposed Plan of Subdivision - Failure of the Town of Oakville to make a decision Purpose: To permit the redevelopment of the Subject Lands for a mix of residential, commercial and open space uses Property Address/Description: 1333 Dorval Drive Municipality: Town of Oakville Municipality File No.: 24T-17003/1519 LPAT Case No.: PL171084 LPAT File No.: PL171086 PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 51(34) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P. 13, as amended Applicant and Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC and ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: Proposed Plan of Subdivision - Failure of the Town of Oakville to make a decision Purpose: To permit the redevelopment of the Subject Lands for a mix of residential, commercial and open space uses Property Address/Description: 1333 Dorval Drive Municipality: Town of Oakville Municipality File No.: 24T-17003/1519 LPAT Case No.: PL171084 LPAT File No.: PL171167 PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 51(39) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P. 13, as amended Applicant and Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC and ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: Proposed Plan of Subdivision Property Address/Description: 1333 Dorval Drive Municipality: Town of Oakville Municipality File No.: 24T-17003/1519 LPAT Case No.: PL171084 LPAT File No.: PL180034 H364638-02-230-0002, Rev. A Page 2 © Hatch 2021 All rights reserved, including all rights relating to the use of this document or its contents. PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 17(24) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13, as amended Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC & ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: Proposed Official Plan Amendment No. 24 Municipality: Town of Oakville LPAT Case No.: PL180158 LPAT File No.: PL180158 LPAT Case Name: ClubLink Corporation ULC et al. v. Oakville (Town) PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 34(19) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13, as amended Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC & ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: By-law No. 2018-016 Municipality: Town of Oakville LPAT Case No.: PL180158 LPAT File No.: PL180159 PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 17(36) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13, as amended Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC & ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: Proposed Official Plan Amendment No. 15 Municipality: Town of Oakville LPAT Case No.: PL180580 LPAT File No.: PL180580 PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 17(36) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13, as amended Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC & ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: Proposed Official Plan Amendment No. 16 Municipality: Town of Oakville L.P.A.T. Case No.: PL180580 L.P.A.T. File No.: PL180581 H364638-02-230-0002, Rev. A Page 3 © Hatch 2021 All rights reserved, including all rights relating to the use of this document or its contents. PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 34.1(1) of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O.18, as amended Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC & ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: Appeal of a decision of Council on an application to demolish a building or structure Municipality: Town of Oakville LPAT Case No.: MM180022 LPAT File No.: MM180022 PROCEEDING COMMENCED UNDER subsection 69(3) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13, as amended Appellant: ClubLink Corporation ULC & ClubLink Holdings Ltd. Subject: Appeal against the levying of an application fee Municipality: Town of Oakville LPAT Case No.: MM170004 LPAT File No.: MM170004 H364638-02-230-0002, Rev. A Page 4 © Hatch 2021 All rights reserved, including all rights relating to the use of this document or its contents. WITNESS STATEMENT OF JOHN HEMINGWAY, MIRA VERVOORN, AND NANCY HUI PL171084 PL180580 PL180158 A. QUALIFICATIONS 1. John Hemingway is a licensed Professional Engineer with over 40 years of experience in the planning, designing and delivering of transportation infrastructure and services across Canada. He is certified as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer by the Transportation Professional Certification Board of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. 2. Mr. Hemingway’s areas of specialization include conceptual planning, feasibility studies, traffic operations and safety studies and traffic management plan development. He has experience in transit planning including the interconnection of transit services. 3. He is currently a Principal Project Manager at Hatch. 4. Mira Vervoorn is a licensed Professional Engineer with 16 years of experience in transportation planning and traffic engineering. She has undertaken projects involving transportation modelling, corridor assessments and planning, traffic operation assessments, parking operations management studies and transportation impact assessments. She has experience in infrastructure transit and transportation projects specifically related to municipal planning and design work with focus on multi-modal assessments. She has led projects involving major multi-modal transit hubs. 5. She is currently the Regional Lead for Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering at Hatch. 6. Nancy Hui is an engineering analyst with a Masters of Applied Science in Transportation Engineering. She is experienced in the design and evaluation of transit stations and other multimodal facilities. She has developed transit ridership forecasts, conducted analyses of the economic costs and benefits associated with various modes of travel, including travel H364638-02-230-0002, Rev. A Page 5 © Hatch 2021 All rights reserved, including all rights relating to the use of this document or its contents. times savings, greenhouse gas reduction, and health benefits. She is currently a Transportation Analyst at Hatch. 7. Curriculum Vitae and the Acknowledgements of Expert Duty are attached as Appendix A. B. RETAINER 8. John Hemingway, Mira Vervoorn and Nancy Hui were retained in November 2020 to provide expert opinion on transportation planning matters related to the proposed development of the Glen Abbey Golf Course. C. LIST OF MATTERS TO BE ADDRESSED IN EVIDENCE 9. Matters of transportation including traffic and transit planning and forecasting will be addressed. 10. The list of documents reviewed in preparation of this Witness Statement is attached as Appendix B. D. SUMMARY OF OPINIONS 11. Brief Description of the Applications: 11.1 The applicant proposes a mixed-use development to be located at the site of the existing Glen Abbey golf course, with 3,222 new residential units, 5840 m2 retail space, and 5,430 m2 office space (the “Proposed Development”). 11.2 The applicant’s traffic consultant (“BA Group” or “BA”) forecast that the Proposed Development will generate approximately 1,400 to 1,600 peak hour vehicle trips at full build-out. 11.3 Access to the Proposed Development will primarily be provided via “Street A”, a new proposed major collector road that connects Dorval Drive and Upper Middle Road West. 11.4 BA proposes that transit access to the Proposed Development will be provided by basic bus service on a new route with buses running twice an hour during the peak hours mostly through existing low density residential neighbourhoods connecting to Uptown Oakville and Oakville GO Station (the “Proposed Route”). H364638-02-230-0002, Rev. A Page 6 © Hatch 2021 All rights reserved, including all rights relating to the use of this document or its contents. 12. Overall Conclusions: Transit 12.1 The Proposed Development is not transit-supportive because it lacks key transit- supportive characteristics. The Proposed Development will result in a large, highly car-dependent community. 12.2 The transit service recommended by BA on the Proposed Route entails thirty- minute headways in