A contract has been awarded for the secondary plan for the southside of Wallaceburg.
In the consent agenda portion of their meeting on Monday, April 26, 2021, Chatham-Kent Council approved a staff recommendation that the proposal, in the amount of $84,422.30, for consulting services for the secondary plan for the southside of Wallaceburg be awarded to Fotenn Planning + Design.
Ryan Jacques, director of planning in Chatham-Kent, said in a staff report that a secondary plan is a land use plan for a particular area of a municipality that is prepared as an amendment to an official plan.
“Typically, a secondary plan provides detailed policies for the area it covers,” Jacques said in his report.
“Adopting a secondary plan into the official plan is the responsibility of a municipality. A secondary plan happens through a deliberate, collaborative, and transparent public process. This process provides for people to participate through the various milestones from learning and visioning, identification of alternatives, and evaluation of a preferred outcome.”
Jacques said this project in Wallaceburg is comprised of “six defined tasks” and will proceed as follows:
– Task 1: Project start up (May 2021).
– Task 2: Background data collection including public consultation #1 (June
2021).
– Task 3: Technical analysis, development of land use alternatives including public consultation #2 and public meeting and a community development advisory committee workshop (June-September 2021).
– Task 4: Draft secondary plan concept (October 2021).
– Task 5: Final secondary plan concept and draft secondary plan policy and mapping including statutory public meeting (November-December 2021).
– Task 6: Final recommendation and draft official plan amendment (March 2022).
“A secondary plan will encourage incremental and organic transition of new land uses over time through the reinvestment in the neighbourhood by an array of stakeholders from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors,” Jacques said in his report.
“This change will lead to the revitalization of the neighbourhood. Neighbourhood revitalization will benefit adjacent neighbourhoods and the entire community.”
At their October 19, 2020 virtual meeting, Council approved that a request for proposals be issued for the project.
A total of three bids were received for the work, with Fotenn Planning + Design receiving the highest score, ahead of Dillon Consulting Ltd. and Stantec.
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