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Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informaon Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
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Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informa!on Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
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EXISTING LAND USE
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Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informaon Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
WHY ARE WE HERE?
What you can expect from tonight’s information session
• Information on the proposed rezoning and associated plan amendment at 16910 – 35 Avenue NW, 16850 & 16880 –
Anthony Henday Drive NW from (A) Metropolitan Recreation Zone to (DC1) Direct Development Control Provision
• Information on the application review process and Public Hearing
• Ways to provide your comments on the proposed application:
• In person by talking to City Staff
• In writing by filling out a comment form
• Sticky notes on the “graffiti wall”
• City staff and representatives from the applicant to answer your questions:
City Staff
Andrew Laycock, EPCOR
Trina Manning, EPCOR
Kristi Deneiko, EPCOR
William Orpen, EPCOR
Craig Bonneville, EPCOR
Carmen Piercey, EPCOR
Audrey Cudrak, EPCOR
Nathaniel Papay, EPCOR
Dawn Schmidt, EPCOR
Laine Watson, EPCOR
Ted Muller, Architecture Works
Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informaon Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
Municipal Development Plan)
objectives (e.g. Winter City
of neighbourhoods will develop
• Includes information on arterial
• Zoning establishes development
roads, etc.)
parks and facilities based on the
Edmonton Zoning Bylaw and the
Alberta Building Code
residential neighbourhood
densities, parks and schools.
WE ARE HERE
Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informaon Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
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Please add your comments and quesons, for City staff, using the supplied post-it notes.
REZONING OVERVIEW
Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informaon Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
CITY OF EDMONTON – City Planning edmonton.ca/rezoning
Existing Zone
Proposed Zone
• To establish a Direct Development Control Provision to
accommodate utility systems of works, including, but not
limited to, a solar farm and future water treatment plant
works.
Smith Water Treatment Plant.
Treatment Plant.
North Saskatchewan River
PLAN AMENDMENT OVERVIEW
Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informaon Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
CITY OF EDMONTON – City Planning
North Saskatchewan River
Anthony Henday Dr
Anthony Henday Dr
Environmental Protection Zone”
• To permit the development of a solar farm as an
expansion of the existing E.L. Smith Water Treatment
Plant. The solar farm will utilize privately owned lands,
produce minimal impact on the natural environment,
and supply a clean source of renewable energy primarily
intended for plant consumption, while serving the public
good.
• Solar farms shall only be developed on privately held
lands, as a expansion of, and primarily to supply power to,
the E.L. Smith Water Treatment Plant. A (DC1) Direct
Development Control Provision may be a applied to these
lands to implement utility systems or works, and shall
permit a solar farm. Location MapLocation Map
Subject Area
PLANNING FRAMEWORK
Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informaon Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
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ZONING
Edmonton Zoning Bylaw
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informaon Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
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Want to learn more about the project?
View the project website at www.edmonton.ca/elsmithsolarfarm
Questions or concerns?
Notice of Public
Stakeholders
Technical Review by City Departments & Agencies
Approximately 2-3 month time frame from today (Dependant on information provided from the applicant and review time by the City)
Applicant Held
Technical Review by City Departments & Agencies
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Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informa!on Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION & INPUT
PROCESS CHART
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Proposed Rezoning and Plan Amendment • Informa!on Session • E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project
Locaon & Size
Impacts on wildlife
Increased the setback to 100m from the river and decreased the overall footprint
Monitoring and Migaon plan added
Revised the applicaon to a (DC1) Direct Development Control Provision
Memo of Understanding for access easement that was added
Allows too wide of a range of uses
Impact on Trails