Council Committee of the Whole Meeting Wednesday September 4, 2024 at 9:30am
Meeting Agenda: View Meeting Agenda
Watch Meeting: Meeting Video (20:54 min)
Council Members attending in person:
West, Davidson, Liu, Cui, Cilevitz, Shiu
Council Members attending remotely:
Chan and DiPaola
Regrets:
Thompson
Recap:
All agenda items were approved by Council and moved to next week's Council Meeting.
Considerable discussion was held where Staff fielded questions from Councillor Davidson and Mayor West regarding Development Charges. (View Video)
Agenda Items Include:
To advise Council of the resignation of Heritage Richmond Hill’s (HRH) Education Community representative, and to recommend that for the remainder of the current Term of Council, the Heritage Richmond Hill Committee be authorized to operate without an Education Community representative.
Provide Council with the staff recommended approach to amend the City’s current Development Charges (“DC”) by-laws, to reflect the legislative changes brought forward by the Province through Bill 185, Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (“Bill 185”).
Amendments to the City’s DC by-laws are required to incorporate the recent legislative changes to the Development Charges Act (“the DCA”) brought through Bill 185.
Bill 185 results in reversals of previously announced changes through Bill 23, More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (“Bill 23”). The amendments to the DC by-laws outlined in this staff report will allow the City to regain its ability to charge DCs and improve DC revenue collections.
Staff are proposing a phased approach with two distinct processes to amend the City’s DC by-laws, as follows:
Phase I – Staff will utilize the streamlined process for minor amendments to DC by-laws for those amendments that are eligible under this process;
Phase II – Formal amendments to the DC by-laws that are not eligible under the above streamlined process for minor amendments.
Staff recommend that Council approve the amended Community Flag Raisings and Flag Protocol Policy, the Customary Flag Configuration Procedure, and the Flying Flags at Half-mast Procedure.
The changes, which are mostly technical in nature, address the addition of a third flagpole as part of the Community Flagpole Display.
Under the proposed changes, so long as the United Nations University - Institute for Water, Environment and Health (‘UNU-IWEH”) is located at the Municipal Offices, the left-hand flagpole of the Community Flagpole Display will be reserved exclusively for the flag of the United Nations.
Public Comments:
The public may submit written correspondence regarding agenda items by email to clerks@richmondhill.ca.
Written correspondence must be submitted by 12 p.m. (noon) one business day before the meeting.
Comments submitted will be provided to all Members of Council, are considered as public information and will be included on the public agenda posted to the City’s website.
Delegations:
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