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Draft Downtown Community Planning Permit By-law

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  • Section 1.15 Facilities, services and matters for development in the Downtown Permit Area
  • Section 6.1 Residential Precincts (LDR, MDR, HDR)
  • Section 6.3 Downtown precincts (D1, D2, D3, DMTS)
  • Appendix D: Affordable Housing Thresholds and Cash-in-lieu of Affordable Dwelling Unit

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in reply to anonymous's comment

SiteAdmin Mar 5 2026 at 9:25AM on page 1

Agreements will safeguard affordable requirements. These agreements, will be registered on title (CPP By-law Section 1.10.2). The agreements will require that any affordable unit is maintained at the required affordable sale or rental price for the duration of the affordability period in the agreement.
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SiteAdmin Mar 5 2026 at 9:25AM on page 1

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The affordable price or rent is based on the definition of "affordable residential unit" in Province's Affordable Residential Units for the Purposes of the Development Charges Act, 1997 Bulletin which aligns with the City's Housing Affordability Strategy definition. Once the CPP By-law comes into force, the City is planning to develop Guidelines to manage and administer the affordable units.
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SiteAdmin Mar 5 2026 at 9:24AM on page 22

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The CPP By-law will be enforced by Zoning Inspectors, similar to the Zoning By-law. The CPP By-law will replace the Zoning By-law in areas where it is in effect, meaning that additional staff are not required for enforcement of the CPP By-law. Zoning Inspectors will administer the by-law including responding to complaints to ensure that sites are constructed and maintained in compliance with the CPP By-law.
in reply to Duke Street's comment

SiteAdmin Mar 5 2026 at 9:23AM on page 160

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The updated CPP By-law revises the Low Density Residential precinct standards to use the RL.2 Zone standards. The development standards maintain the existing site permissions and better reflect the existing built form in the Downtown's residential neighbourhoods.
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SiteAdmin Mar 5 2026 at 9:22AM on page 33

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The unit mix for affordable units will be negotiated. Staff will have regard to City of Guelph housing needs and advance best practices that encourage a mix of unit sizes (2- and 3-bedroom) and locations within buildings.
in reply to Thomas's comment

SiteAdmin Mar 5 2026 at 9:21AM on page 277

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The view corridors and maximum building heights were updated in OPA 106. OPA Revisions of the maximum heights and/or view corridors is not with in the scope of the project.
in reply to Thomas's comment

SiteAdmin Mar 5 2026 at 9:20AM on page 248

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The proposed Downtown CPP By-law does not have minimum required parking. Section 5 (Parking) has design standards for parking and requirements for bicycle parking. The draft by-law carried forward site specific amendments to the Zoning By-law in Section 7, some of which included Council approved amendments to parking.
in reply to anonymous 1's comment

SiteAdmin Mar 5 2026 at 9:19AM on page 181

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The permissions for Emergency Shelters follow the existing zoning permissions. Revising permissions is not in the scope of the CPPS project.
in reply to anonymous 2's comment

SiteAdmin Mar 5 2026 at 9:18AM on page 120

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The fence height provisions are unchanged from the existing Zoning By-law. In the CPP By-law, staff can approve an increase to height as a Class 2 staff level variation without the need for a report to be considered by Council. In the Downtown CPP By-law, building heights are not determined by precincts.
in reply to anonymous 3's comment

SiteAdmin Jan 29 2026 at 3:41PM on page 152

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Apartment buildings in the LDR are limited to a maximum of three units. Table 6.3 outlines the development standards for apartment buildings with up to three units in all residential precincts, including the LDR.

anonymous 3 Jan 23 2026 at 4:21PM on page 152

Question
Which are we to refer to? 6.1.2 or (Single-detached dwellings/multi-unit buildings; table 6.7), where are the LDR apartment requirements?

anonymous 2 Jan 23 2026 at 4:06PM on page 120

Suggestion
Please consider increasing maximum height of a fence located in the interior side yard to 2.5 meters to match the rear yard. This is in regard to the new maximum building height in LDR precincts of 4 stories.

anonymous 1 Jan 22 2026 at 11:45AM on page 181

Suggestion
Emergency shelters are restricted to D1-only which is the same as nightclubs and distilleries.

This is overly-restrictive on emergency shelters and sends the wrong message. They are not even discretionarily allowed in other city precincts but outright prohibited. Services for the most vulnerable people should be the most accessible.

At minimum, emergency shelters should be discretionarily allowed across all precincts and the ethical thing to do is permit them across all precincts.

Thomas Jan 22 2026 at 10:57AM on page 248

Suggestion
Page 232: Parking minimums should be dropped altogether.
1. Any "free" parking units have their cost hidden in higher prices for housing, goods, and services.
1. Parking minimums result in an oversupply of parking which drives up development costs and rent.
2. It reduces density and makes downtowns less human-scaled and more sprawling.
3. It encourages driving downtown over walking, transit, and biking.

The correct downtown parking minumum is 0. This has been done successfully in Edmonton, Vancouver, Buffalo, London England, Paris France, etc.

Parking minimums are outdated, harmful, and need to be removed.

Thomas Jan 22 2026 at 10:41AM on page 277

Suggestion
Protected views hinder density and urbanization, increase housing costs, and stifle housing supply growth. It is a NIMBY policy which trades the housing secure's enjoyment of minor aesthetic benefits for increased cost of living of the housing insecure. I suggest that protected views be dropped altogether.

Duke Street Jan 19 2026 at 3:26PM on page 160

Suggestion
With respect. If the city plans to establish a single low density zone, shouldn't the requirements meet the original minimums for RL.2? (9m frontage / 275m2 area). Why make them the RL.1 minimums?

Why make it harder for people to develop? A large majority of the homes in this new CPPS area don't have 15 meters of frontage to begin with, and silly enough the majority are already zoned RL.2.

I really hope i missed a piece of information because it seems to me the city is restricting growth and development more then promoting it.

anonymous Jan 19 2026 at 11:20AM on page 33

Suggestion
Is there a way to ensure the units classified as 'affordable ', are not just loft style apartments but at least 1 or 2 bedrooms? A loft style would only benefit a small group of people. Recommend some wording to make this less discretionary

anonymous Jan 19 2026 at 11:16AM on page 22

Question
Who enforces this? By law staff or will their be designated planning staff monitoring this to ensure the area are being used as intended?

anonymous Jan 19 2026 at 11:04AM on page 1

Question
What would be the criteria for someone to qualify for one of the affordable units: rented or purchased? Is it income based or first come first serve system?

anonymous Jan 19 2026 at 10:58AM on page 1

Question
With the plan for affordable units, what would be in place to stop people from buying at the affordable rate and then renting it out to someone else at market value?

SiteAdmin Jan 12 2026 at 11:16AM on page 283

Please review 'Appendix D - Affordable Housing Thresholds and Cash-in-lieu of Affordable Dwelling Unit' and provide your feedback

SiteAdmin Jan 12 2026 at 11:15AM on page 180

Please review 'Section 6.3 Downtown precincts (D1, D2, D3, DMTS)' and provide your feedback

SiteAdmin Jan 12 2026 at 11:14AM on page 152

Please review 'Section 6.1 Residential Precincts (LDR, MDR, HDR),' and provide your feedback

SiteAdmin Jan 12 2026 at 11:14AM on page 42

Please review 'Section 1.15 Facilities, services and matters for development in the Downtown Permit Area' and provide your feedback

SiteAdmin Jan 12 2026 at 10:54AM on page 16

Click on 'Appendix D - Affordable Housing Thresholds and Cash-in-lieu of Affordable Dwelling Unit' to jump to this section and leave your feedback!

SiteAdmin Jan 12 2026 at 10:52AM on page 11

Click on 'Section 6.3 Downtown precincts (D1, D2, D3, DMTS)' to jump to this section and leave your feedback!

SiteAdmin Jan 12 2026 at 10:52AM on page 11

Click on 'Section 6.1 Residential Precincts (LDR, MDR, HDR),' to jump to this section and leave your feedback!

SiteAdmin Jan 12 2026 at 10:50AM on page 5

Click on 'Section 1.15 Facilities, services and matters for development in the Downtown Permit Area' to jump to this section and leave your feedback!

SiteAdmin Jan 12 2026 at 10:48AM on page 1

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