Agenda
Owen Sound City Council

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City Hall - 808 2nd Avenue East
6:05 p.m. - Closed Session - Council Chambers
7:00 p.m. - Open Session - Council Chambers

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"THAT City Council now move into 'Closed Session' to consider:

  1. Minutes of the Closed Session of the Regular Council meeting held on June 13, 2022; and 
  2. One matter regarding information explicitly supplied in confidence to the municipality by Canada, a province or territory or a Crown agency of any of them respecting a City position."

There are no public meetings.

There are no correspondence items being presented for consideration.

There are no postponed matters.

"WHEREAS Owen Sound currently has no express by-laws for the regulation of short-term rental accommodations (STR);


WHEREAS non-owner occupied STRs are often plagued with capacity issues, noise by-law infractions, trash accumulation, and traffic congestion;


WHEREAS non-owner-occupied STRs comprise the de facto injection of roving motel-like establishments into residential neighbourhoods - bereft of, even minimally, an on-site manager;


WHEREAS as such non-owner occupied STRs are completely incompatible with residential neighbourhoods;


WHEREAS Owen Sound is not primarily a cottage-oriented community;


WHEREAS other communities such as Goderich, Ontario have seen the wisdom in an outright ban on STRs in residential areas save and except for traditional bed and breakfasts; and


WHEREAS notwithstanding this motion City staff and Council can both ban these obvious threats to neighbourhoods today and still proceed in the months ahead with its plans to regulate and tax other kinds and locations of STRs;


NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT City Council:

  1. Cause City staff to enact a by-law effective January 1, 2023, which:
    1. expressly prohibits STRs from areas zoned residential, save and except for traditional bed and breakfast operations where the dwelling is owner occupied at the time of rental and only part of the dwelling, not its entirety, is subject to rental;
    2. provides for substantial penalties for infractions of such by-law;
  2. Cause City staff to widely disseminate and publicize such by-law; and
  3. Cause City staff to use all measures to enforce such by-law once enacted."

21.

"A By-law to confirm the proceedings of the Regular Meeting of the Council of The Corporation of the City of Owen Sound held on the 27th day of June, 2022"

"A By-law to Establish Fees and Charges for The Corporation of the City of Owen Sound and to repeal By-law No. 2021-071"

"A By-law to repeal Policy No. CS85, Municipal Cannabis Policy Statement"

"A By-law to authorize the Mayor and Clerk to execute an agreement with E.C. King Contracting, a Division of Miller Paving Limited, respecting 16th Street East Rehabilitation, Phase 2, in accordance with RFT-22-024"

"A By-law to authorize the Mayor and Clerk to execute a Facility Use Agreement with the Georgian Bay Folk Society for the use of Kelso Beach at Nawash Park (Summerfolk)"

"A By-law to authorize the Mayor and Clerk to execute a Facility Use Agreement with Subaru Triathalon Series for the use of Kelso Beach at Nawash Park"

"A By-law to amend Greenwood Cemetery By-law No. 2014-012 respecting the start date for late storage fees at the mausoleum"

"A By-law to amend Board and Committee By-law No. 2022-010 to appoint Gwynda McKee to the Owen Sound Municipal Non-Profit Housing Corporation and the Owen Sound Housing Company, remove Peter Reid, Waleed Aslam and Robert Walker from various boards and committees and update references to the River District"

"A By-law to require pre-consultation with the City of Owen Sound before submission of applications for Official Plan amendment, Zoning By-law amendment, Site Plan approval or Plan of Subdivision approval and to repeal By-law No. 2007-063"

"A By-law to constitute a Committee of Adjustment and to delegate consent granting authority and to repeal By-law No. 2001-102"

"A By-law to amend Site Plan Control By-law No. 2019-185 to remove staff delegation and to add an approval authority"

"A By-law to amend Delegation of Powers and Duties By-law No. 2014-109 to provide for technical planning delegations and delegations to execute certain agreements"