MEDIA RELEASE: Friday, January 7, 2010, 4:30 p.m. REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF WATERLOO PLANNING AND WORKS COMMITTEE AGENDA Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:30 A.M. Region Council Chamber 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener, Ontario 1. MOTION TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION THAT a closed meeting of the Planning & Works and Administration & Finance Committees be held on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. in the Waterloo County Room in accordance with Section 239 of the Municipal Act, 2001, for the purposes of considering the following subject matters: a) proposed or pending acquisition of land in the City of Kitchener b) proposed or pending acquisition of land in the Township of Wilmot and the City of Kitchener c) proposed or pending acquisition of land in the City of Cambridge d) receiving of legal advice and opinion that is subject to solicitor-client privilege related to a construction project e) potential litigation and receiving of legal advice and opinion that is subject to solicitor-client privilege related to a proceeding before an administrative tribunal f) personal matters about identifiable individuals - committee appointments g) personal matters about identifiable individuals - committee appointments h) personal matters about identifiable individuals – committee appointments i) labour relations related to contract negotiations j) labour relations related to contract negotiations 2. MOTION TO RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION 3. DECLARATIONS OF PECUNIARY INTEREST UNDER THE MUNICIPAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST ACT 4. DELEGATIONS a) Jeff Stager, Waterloo Federation of Agriculture re: Public Relations - To inform public of Federation of Agriculture b) John Shortreed, Resident of Waterloo re: Innovation Corridor c) Hespeler Road/CPR Grade Separation i) Jennifer Malatesta, Tom Moher, and Al Burton representing Mac’s Convenience Stores Inc. ii) Jeffery Grimm and John Doherty iii) Rick Roberts and Geoff McDonald representing Trimac Management Services Limited Partnership PW Agenda - 2 - January 11, 2011 5. PRESENTATIONS a) Planning, Housing and Community Services – Overview of Major Issues and Priorities (Staff Presentation) b) Regional Growth Management Strategy Update (Staff Presentation) 6. REPORTS – PLANNING, HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMUNITY PLANNING a) P-11-001, Monthly Report of Development Activity for November 2010 REPORTS – INTERDEPARTMENTAL b) E-11-009/P-11-002, 2011 Planning and Works Project Team Membership REPORTS – TRANSPORTATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION c) E-11-007, Time Extension for Selected Infrastructure Stimulus Fund Projects d) CR-RS-11-001, Authorization to Expropriate Lands (1st Report) for Road Improvements to Trussler Road (Regional Road 70) New Dundee Road (Regional Road 12) to Bleams Road (Regional Road 56), in the City of Kitchener and Township of Wilmot TRANSPORTATION e) E-11-003, Extension of Existing 50Km/h Maximum Speed on St. Charles Street (Regional Road 26) East of Sawmill Road (Regional Road 17), Township of Woolwich f) E-11-004, Traffic Signal Review at Victoria Street (Regional Road 55) and Stoke Drive/Oprington Drive, Fairway Road (Regional Road 53) and Lackner Boulevard (Regional Road 54) Intersections, City of Kitchener g) E-11-005, Fischer-Hallman Road, Erb Street to Columbia Street, City of Waterloo – Noise Assessment Review WATER SERVICES h) E-11-002, Replacement of Municipal Supply Wells 7. INFORMATION/CORRESPONDENCE a) Memo, Provincial Issuance of a Notice of Decision Regarding the New Region of Waterloo Official Plan 8. OTHER BUSINESS a) D. Craig notice of motion re LRT to be dealt with by Council on January 19, 2011 874118 PW Agenda - 3 - January 11, 2011 b) Council Enquiries and Requests for Information Tracking List 9. NEXT MEETING – January 25, 2011 10. ADJOURN 874118 PW Agenda - 4 - January 11, 2011 NEXT MEETINGS Date Time Description Location Planning and Works Committee January 25, 2011 9:00 A.M. Planning and Works Council Chamber Committee 2nd Floor, Regional Administration Building 150 Frederick Street Kitchener, Ontario February 15, 2011 9:00 A.M. Planning and Works Council Chamber Committee 2nd Floor, Regional Administration Building 150 Frederick Street Kitchener, Ontario Planning, Housing and Community Services TBA TBA Public Meeting for Greenlands TBA Network Implementation Guideline Transportation and Environmental Services January 27, 2011 5:00 P.M. St. Agatha Watermain, Erb St. Agatha Community Road between Wilmot Line Centre, 207 Erb’s Road and Notre Dame Drive, West Information Package in Advance of Public Information Centre 874118 Cens uS bulletin FAST FACTS Agriculture • The term Census in this Statistics from the 2006 Census for Waterloo Region document refers to the Census Farms of Agriculture conducted by Agriculture represents the largest land use activity in the Region of Waterloo. Statistics Canada every five In 2006, over 65% of all land classified by Statistics Canada was farmland, years. The most recent Census representing 226,384 acres (91,614 hectares). Woolwich had the largest share was conducted in May of 2006, of farmland in Waterloo Region, in 2006 reporting over 73,000 acres (29,500 in conjunction with the Census hectares) of land being farmed, and accounting for almost one-third of the of Population. Region’s total farm area. Across the Region, the number of farms between 2001 • The “headquarters rule” assigns and 2006 stabilized after the large decrease in the previous 5-year timeframe. all data collected for an Meanwhile, in 2006 the total area of farmland (acreage) included within farm operations based in Waterloo Region has increased by just over 1,000 acres agricultural operation to the compared to 2001. Over a ten year timeframe, the number of farms decreased geographic area where the by 9% and farm area by just 3% as shown in Table 1. Similarly, trends over a farm headquarters is located, twenty year time period show a decline of about 12% in the number of farms regardless of the actual whereas the area of farmland only decreased by 5%. location of the parcels of land being farmed. As a result, the Table 1: Number of Farms by Municipality, Waterloo Region, 1996-2006 data could include land located # of Farms Total Area of Farms (acres) outside Waterloo Region. 1996 2001 2006 1996 2001 2006 Conversely, land farmed in Region of Waterloo 1,590 1,444 1,444 234,406 225,800 226,384 Waterloo Region may be Cambridge 42 32 31 5,816 5,001 7,836 reported with a farm Kitchener-Waterloo 43 29 35 5,638 4,329 4,802 headquarters outside the North Dumfries 134 117 117 28,706 25,069 27,530 Region. Wellesley 522 501 518 61,867 60,393 64,210 • To ensure confidentiality, data Wilmot 307 271 247 52,784 53,839 48,697 for the City of Waterloo has Woolwich 542 494 496 79,595 77,169 73,309 been included together with data from the City of Kitchener. Source: Statistics Canada, Census 2006 Kitchener had 23 farms while Most farms fall in the size range of between 70 to 129 acres, as shown in Waterloo had 12 farms in 2006. Figure 1. The average size of all farms across the Region was 155 acres • Farm business characteristics (63 hectares), which is much smaller than the provincial average of 234 are collected for the calendar acres (94 hectares) and the national average of 728 acres (295 hectares). year prior to the Census, in this Figure 1: Size of Farms in Waterloo Region, 2006 case, 2005. 600 For more information on s 500 m Census statistics please refer to r a F f 400 Statistics Canada’s website: o r e http://www.statcan.gc.ca b 300 m u N 200 100 0 Under 10 10 to 69 70 to 129 130 to 179 180 to 239 240 to 399 400 to 559 560 acres acres acres acres acres acres acres acres and over Source: Statistics Canada, Census 2006 PLANNING, HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES – 2006 Census Bulletin #12 Farm Operations There were 1,444 farm operations based out of Waterloo Region in 2006, employing approximately 3,510 people and accounting for 1.3% of the total labour force. The total number farm operators across the Region increased from 1,955 reported in 2001 to 2,035 in 2006. The average age for a farm operator in 2006 was 47 years, below both the provincial and national averages. Half (51%) of all farm operators work full-time on their operation, spending on average more than 40 hours per week working on the farm. Of the remaining operators, 23% spend between 20 and 40 hours, while 27% spend less than 20 hours per week. Land In 2006, of the total farm area for all land tenure types, 69% was owned by operators in Waterloo Region, while 31% of the land was leased, rented, crop shared or used through other arrangements. For agricultural land, crop production was the predominant land use in 2006, representing almost 80% of agricultural land. This is down slightly from its share in 2001 as shown in Table 2. The only land use to see an increase between Census years were lands categorized as ‘other.’ Crops and Livestock Livestock farming was the predominant farm type in Table 2: Agricultural Land Use in Waterloo Region, 2001 - 2006 2006, accounting for about 74% of all farms or 1,068 2001 2006 Percent total farms throughout Waterloo Region, as illustrated Agricultural Land Use Acres % Acres % Change in Figure 2. Within livestock farming, beef and dairy Land in crops 180,274 79.8 177,072 78.2 -1.6 farms were the most common, each accounting for Summerfallow land 822 0.4 558 0.2 -0.1 just less than 20% of farms in the Region. Sheep and goat farms experienced the largest percentage Tame or seeded pasture 9,344 4.1 8,249 3.6 -0.5 increase, growing by 144%.