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NOTICES Monday, April 3, 2017 At a time to be determined Council Chambers, City Hall, Waterloo City Centre, 100 Regina St S Take notice that the Council of The Corporation of the City of Waterloo will hold a Formal Public Meeting on Monday, April 3, 2017, at a time to be determined, in the Council Chambers, 3rd Floor, Waterloo City Centre, 100 Regina Street South, Waterloo, to consider the above noted application to amend the Zoning By-law pursuant to Section 34 of the Planning Act. The City of Waterloo is proposing a general amendment to the City's Zoning By-law 1108 to permit additional uses within Commercial and Mixed-Use Zones in Uptown Waterloo. The list of uses being considered includes: • Academic Use • Advanced Tech • Artist Studio (Class A) • Bake Shop • Business Incubator • Educational Institution • Makerspace (Class A) • Microbrewery • Personal Brewing Establishment • Public Market • Temporary Farmers Market The purpose of this amendment is to further increase the economic potential in the Uptown by permitting new uses that are being considered in the new draft Comprehensive Zoning By-law. In addition, as part of this General Amendment, site specific zoning regulations will be proposed to ensure views of 3 & 5 Father David Bauer Drive (Seagram Lofts) from Caroline Street are protected. This meeting shall constitute the formal public meeting required under Section 34 of The Planning Act, R.S.O., 1990, as amended. It is expected that Council will decide whether the application should be approved, denied or amended. A copy of the staff report will be available prior to the Public Meeting. If Council approves the General Amendment, a by-law to amend the Zoning By-law will be passed. For further information regarding the above matter, please contact the City of Waterloo Integrated Planning and Public Works, 2nd Floor, Waterloo City Centre, Waterloo, Ontario, by calling John Vos at 519.514.0225 or email john.vos@waterloo.ca. Any person may attend the Public Meeting and/or make a written or verbal representation either in support of, or in opposition to the proposed General Amendment. If you wish to make a presentation to Council or would like more information about the meeting, please contact Lissy Mackinnon at 519.747.8549 or by email at clerkinfo@waterloo.ca A written summary of the presentation should be filed with the City Clerk prior to the public meeting. We encourage the public to provide input into this important General Amendment. Individuals may submit written/electronic comments. The public is informed and notified that names, addresses and comments may be made public. If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Corporation of the City of Waterloo before the by-law is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of Council to the Ontario Municipal Board. In addition, if a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting, or make written submissions to the Corporation of the City of Waterloo before the by-law is passed, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Municipal Board unless, in the opinion of the Board, there are reasonable grounds to do so. Olga Smith, City Clerk, City of Waterloo. NOTICE OF A FORMAL PUBLIC MEETING Z-16-17 - GENERAL AMENDMENTS TO ZONING BY-LAW NO. 1108, CITY OF WATERLOO - UPTOWN, WARD 7 P. 519.886.1550 TTY. 1.866.786.3941 waterloo.ca/publicnotices 10 • WATERLOO CHRONICLE • Thursday, March 16, 2017 By Lisa Rutlege For the Chronicle V ictims of sexual assault deserve the best possible treatment when reporting an incident to police, and investigations into their complaints should be fair and consis- tent regardless of where they happen. Waterloo regional Police chief Bryan Lar- kin made the statement during an update to the police services board Wednesday (March 1) regarding an upcoming review into how the force has handled sexual assault investigations. "regardless of where you are a vic- tim in Ontario, you should receive the same level of care and the same level of compas- sion in any jurisdiction," he told the board during its monthly meeting. The service, along with many police orga- nizations across Ontario, has vowed to con- duct a review of sexual assault cases ultimately deemed unfounded after a damning report was published by The Globe and Mail. The investigation discovered that one in five sexual assault allegations is dismissed as base- less. Waterloo region's unfounded rate was reported as 27 per cent. Waterloo regional Police, as endorsed by the civilian oversight board, is prepar- ing to re-open a sampling of cases randomly selected from about 500 over the last seven years. a panel, that will include representatives from the crown attorney's office and justice academics, will oversee the case assessments. The chief said many of the 53 police forces across Ontario are taking the issue of unfound- ed rates seriously and Waterloo regional Police are doing the same, but insists the provincial government should play a leadership role to ensure quality standards are implemented and upheld everywhere. In addition to reviewing sexual assault cases, the force is also in the early stages of inviting about 25 to 30 community stakehold- ers, including sexual assault victim advocates, to take part in community roundtable sessions. dates for the stakeholder conversations, which will be open to the public to promote accountability and transparency, will be announced soon. The issue was raised during the police board's February board meeting by board chair Tom Galloway, who urged the board to help shed new light on the issue. Larkin said he couldn't explain the force's unfounded rate and noted that unfounded sta- tistics were not previously on the organiza- tion's radar. "It's not a piece of data that we track," he told the board at the meeting, "but I think it raises a lot of questions, why are we here, how did we get here, what are we doing?" Local groups, including the sexual assault centre of Waterloo region, urged the police force to seize the opportunity to review the way sexual assault victims are treated to ensure they are not revictimized. Waterloo Regional Police to re-open, re-examine sexual assault cases