The Cliff Bungalow-Mission community newspaper typically includes a lot of information of heritage interest. Click here for a pdf of the latest edition:
Here is an article from the May/June edition regarding the ARP:
Area Redevelopment Plan One Step Closer to Approval
by Bob Lang
Many area residents converged on the Community Centre on March 22nd, eager to see and hear details of the new Land Use District that is proposed to replace the existing RM-6 zoning in Mission (the area of the community east of 4th Street SW). A new Direct Control (DC) district is proposed.
Some of the details are:
- The maximum height of new buildings will be capped at five storeys (one storey lower than the current six storey maximum).
- To make up for the reduced height, building setbacks from the property line will also be reduced. This will result in a fatter building that occupies a larger footprint.
- Minimum landscaping requirements will be 30 per cent of the total lot area.
There will also be more development guidelines than now exist, including:
- Street level access for all ground floor dwelling units in new multi-family dwellings.
- Façade articulation.
- Appropriate and respectful massing and building orientation.
- High quality and complementary building materials.
- Adherence to industry best practices for tree planting and tree protection.
Several new provisions are designed to encourage the retention of our character buildings. The following will now be allowed:
- Secondary suites or semi-detached dwellings, townhouses and apartments with a maximum of three storeys in rear yards of existing character homes. An example is a suite above a garage in a rear yard.
- Office conversions in single detached dwellings that are isolated between
two existing apartment buildings. There is a similar provision in the Cliff Bungalow ARP.
- Bed and breakfasts.
- Live-work arrangements of low traffic generator type uses.
The City is drafting the details of this new land use district. It, along with other changes to the draft Mission ARP, will be taken back to City Council for second and third readings. A public hearing may be held on July 17th. Each landowner in Mission will receive notice of this hearing, as their
properties would be automatically re-zoned if the new ARP is approved. Watch for the notice of the public hearing in the Calgary Herald (development-related applications are printed on Thursdays), as well as another update in our July newsletter.