NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING RE: PROPOSED COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AREA and DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN AMENDMENTS

TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corporation of the City of Timmins will hold a public meeting on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, City of Timmins, 220 Algonquin Boulevard East, Timmins, Ontario, to gather public input concerning an amendment to the City of Timmins Community Improvement Project Area and the Downtown Community Improvement Plan in accordance with Section 28 of the Planning Act, R.S.O 1990, c. P. 13, as amended.

THE PURPOSE of the proposed amendments to the Community Improvement Project Area and the Downtown Community Improvement Plan are as follows:

1.  To amend the Community Improvement Project Area to include the following changes:

• Porcupine – extending westerly along King Street from the Ontario Northland Railway to Coot Lane, and along a section of Highway 101 East to the Crawford Creek;
• South Porcupine – extending along Harold Avenue from Crawford Street westerly;
• Schumacher – extending easterly from McIntyre Road along Father Costello Drive
• Timmins – adding various properties in the Downtown and in close proximity to Algonquin Boulevard; and
• Mountjoy – extending westerly from the Mattagami Bridge to Shirley Street.

2.  To amend the Downtown Community Improvement Plan (CIP) to include the following changes:

• To amend the Community Improvement Project Area noted in the Downtown CIP to include the proposed changed in Item No. 1 (above).
• To remove the boundary area schedules from the Downtown CIP, as they are approved in the Community Improvement Project Area By-law and are separate from the Downtown Community Improvement Plan By-law. This change will allow Council to amend the Community Improvement Project Area By-law without having to amend the Downtown Community Improvement Plan By-law.

To learn more about the proposed changes, please view the proposed Community Improvement Project Area and the proposed Downtown Community Improvement Plan.

ANY PERSON may attend the public meeting and/or make written or verbal representation either in support of or in opposition to the proposed City of Timmins Downtown Community Improvement Project Area and Downtown Community Improvement Plan Amendment.
If a person or public body would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of Council of the City of Timmins to the Ontario Land Tribunal but the person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the City of Timmins before the proposed amendment is adopted, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision.

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting, or make written submissions to the City of Timmins before the proposed amendment is adopted, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Land Tribunal unless, in the opinion of the Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to do so.

If you wish to be notified of the decision of the City of Timmins on the proposed Community Improvement Project Area and the Downtown Community Improvement Plan Amendments you must make a written request to Steph Palmateer, City Clerk, City of Timmins, 220 Algonquin Boulevard East, Timmins, Ontario, P4N 1B3.

For more information about this matter, including information about appeal rights, contact the Planning Division, City of Timmins, 220 Algonquin Boulevard East, Timmins, Ontario, P4N 1B3, telephone number 705-360-2624 or via email at [email protected].

Dated at the City of Timmins this 29th of August, 2024.