September 28, 1999
To:Scarborough Community Council
From:Ted Tyndorf
Director of Community Planning, East District
Subject:PRELIMINARY EVALUATION REPORT
Official Plan Amendment Application SC-P19990015
Zoning By-law Amendment Application SC-Z19990026
Petro Canada
3270 Kingston Road and 5 Bellamy Road South
Scarborough Village Community
Scarborough Bluffs
Purpose:
This report provides a preliminary evaluation of the applications to amend the Official Plan and Zoning By-law for the
vacant Petro Canada service station and a single-family residential property at the north-east corner of Kingston Road and
Bellamy Road, to permit the development of 34 freehold townhouses with a common elements condominium to provide
for access.
Financial Implications:
None
Recommendations:
That Scarborough Community Council convene a Public Meeting to consider the applications, targeted for the first quarter
of 2000, subject to:
1.Staff convening a Community Information Meeting, in consultation with the Ward Councillors; and
2.Staff providing Notice of said meeting to all properties within 120 metres (400 feet) of the subject property and those
attending the Community Information Meeting.
Background: The O.47 hectare (1.17 acre) property consists of a vacant service station and a single-family dwelling parcel at the
northeast corner of Bellamy Road and Kingston Road. The land is designated Neighbourhood Commercial Uses in the
Scarborough Village Community Secondary Plan. The vacant service station land is zoned Highway Commercial,
permitting Automobile Sales, Service and Maintenance Uses excluding auto body repair and/or auto-wrecking yards,
Funeral Homes, Fraternal Organizations, Hotels and Motels, Places of Worship, Professional and Business Offices,
Recreational Uses, and Specialized Commercial Uses. The residential property at 5 Bellamy Road is zoned Single-Family
Residential and permits one single-family dwelling per parcel of land with a minimum of 13.5 m (45 feet) frontage on a
public street and a minimum area of 464 square metres (5000 square feet).
The property is within the area of the Kingston Road Study. The Vision for the Future Report identifies this site for
residential uses. Both the Layout Plan Options and the Massing Plan Options of the study indicate that block-type
housing-forms such townhouses would be appropriate for this site.
As illustrated on Figure 3, the applicant proposes to provide eighteen two-storey street townhouses fronting on Bellamy
Road and sixteen three-storey townhouse units to the east, abutting the Super 8 Motel. The development is proposed to be
freehold, with a common elements condominium to provide access to the detached garages for the units fronting on
Bellamy Road and to the remaining townhouses.
The residential properties to the north consist of deep lots that may have the potential to redevelop the rear portions in
conjunction with abutting Highway Commercial properties fronting on Kingston Road, as part of a land assembly.
Comments:
The proposed development will provide street-related residential uses on Kingston Road and Bellamy Road, on a site that
has been vacant for many years. The proposed development would address the street frontage of one of the City's major
thoroughfares and provide a link between existing uses. It will also provide for construction employment and additional
assessment to the City. The proposed garages for this development will be located internally, thus providing a vehicle-free
streetscape.
The proposed access to the development would be only from Kingston Road. This proposed driveway might interfere with
the existing bus stop and also with the flow of traffic on Kingston Road which is a divided highway at this location. Also,
the applicant's proposal provides only for in-right-out-right access to the development, with only an emergency access
from Bellamy Road. City staff will work with the applicant to develop optimum access to the development and to better
address the Kingston Road streetscape.
Contact Name:
Aristotle Christou, Senior Planner
Scarborough Civic Centre
Telephone: (416) 396 5228
Fax: (416) 396 4265
E-mail: christou@city.scarborough.on.ca
Ted Tyndorf, MCIP, RPP
Director of Community Planning, East District
ATC/atc
