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w at er lo oc hr on ic le .c a W at er lo o C hr on ic le | T hu rs da y, A ug us t 26 ,2 02 1 | 14 NOTICE OF AN INFORMAL PUBLIC MEETING AND COMPLETE APPLICATION ZONING BY-LAW AMENDMENT APPLICATION Z-21-08 VANLEGEND ERB LP, 310, 312, 314 AND 316 ERB STREET WEST CENTRAL-COLUMBIA - WARD 6 Monday, September 13, 2021, Electronically The applicant is proposing to amend the City's Zoning By-law No. 2018-050 by rezoning the lands from Residential Mixed-Use - 20 (RMU-20) to Residential Mixed-Use - 20 (RMU-20) with site specific regulations. The site specific provisions include: • Reduce the required parking from 113 parking spaces (1.2 spaces/unit) to 84 parking spaces (0.9 spaces/unit). • Reduce the minimum rear yard setback from 7.5 metres to 1.56 metres measured from the exposed wall of the underground parking garage. • Reduce the minimum westerly side yard setback from 3 metre to 1.6 metres to accommodate a retaining wall. • Reduce the minimum Low Rise Residential Lot Line Setback from 10 metres on the east side to 3.0 metres and 1.56 metres on the north side to the exposed wall of the underground parking garage. The proposed apartment building would be 14.71 metres from the rear lot line. • Reduce the minimum northerly Low Rise Residential Landscape Buffer from an average of 3.0 metres to an average of 1.713 metres. This application is being advanced to permit the development of a six (6) storey apartment building with 93 units and 108 bedrooms. The development would also contain 84 vehicular parking spaces, 58 bike parking spaces and 123 square metres of amenity area. HOW TO GET INVOLVED Thepurposeof thepublicmeeting is toshare informationandtohearandconsider public and stakeholder comments regarding the planning application as part of City Council's decision making process. The public is invited to watch and/ or listen to the remote meeting on www.youtube.com/citywaterloo/live and may participate by submitting written comments in advance of the public meeting and/or arranging to speak to the application. TO SUBMIT WRITTEN COMMENTS Writtencommentsreceivedbefore9:00amonWednesday,September1,2021, will be included in the City Council Agenda. Written comments received after 9:00am onWednesday, September 1, 2021, will be provided to City Council for consideration prior to the Informal Public Meeting, but will not be included in the Council Agenda.Written comments can be provided in the following ways: • Via email to Rita Szilock (rita.szilock@waterloo.ca) • By dropping off a hardcopy atWaterloo City Hall, addressed toRita Szilock, Planning Division, 2nd floor, 100 Regina St S, Waterloo, ON • By placing a hardcopy in the Waterloo City Hall after hours mail slot to the left of the side door entrance on William Street All written submissions should clearly state "Informal Public Meeting, 310 -316 Erb Street West, Zoning By-law Amendment Z-21-08" at the top of the letter/correspondence. TO SPEAK TO THE APPLICATION If you wish to speak to the application, please contact the Legislative Services Division no later than 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 13, 2021, by any of the following ways: • By phone at 519-747-8705 • By email to clerkinfo@waterloo.ca When we receive your registration, we will send you a confirmation message and instructions for participating in the remote public meeting. Instructions will also be provided during the meeting to ensure that those watching the remote public meeting will be given the opportunity to speak. We encourage the public to provide input into this important Zoning By-law Amendment application. Individuals may submit written / electronic comments. The public is informed and notified that names, addresses and comments may be made public. Julie Scott, City Clerk, City of Waterloo. 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 Rita Szilock at 519-747-8650 or email rita.szilock@waterloo.ca ER B S T W AMOS AVE KAREN WALK KA RE N P L CU LP EP PE R DR HELENE CRES MCDOUGALL RD MULBERRY LANE P. 519-886-1550 TTY. 1-866-786-3941waterloo.ca down for four months. From there, it's been an emotionally devastating roller- coaster," she said. Potter said he and his wife Emily, who will focus on personal fitness in a front portion of the building along with trainer David Ramirez, are down about $100,000 since making the venture. There have been some drop-in pro- grams running this summer, and kids are signed up for youth ninja programs this fall. The yoshinkan aikido dojo -- the origi- nal impetus that teaches a "pre-war" style of aikido, which Potter says is similar to jiu-jitsu -- hasn't received as much of a re- sponse, but Potter, one of three instructors with a dan rank, is hopeful things will pick up shortly. Aikido, commonly thought of as a mar- tial art focused on self-defence, is mainly about the redirection of energy and joint locks, the owner and dojocho explained. "Like ninja training and obstacle train- ing, so much of it is problem solving and moving your centre of gravity to get the momentum where you need to because you can't always muscle through it," he said. "It's about understanding the physical humanetics of the body and how the joints work and how they lock and where you can move so a person who is attacking you, po- tentially who is a lot stronger than you, is only strong in certain directions." Horsepool refers to KW Aikido Inc. as a "movement collective." In addition to yoga, ninja and obstacle course training, there's a separate unit where Kindred Spirits Pole and Fitness is located, which owner/operator Ellie Grav- itas describes as a great way to build strength, cardio-endurance and flexibility. "Downtown, especially since the Mar- ket Square GoodLife closed, there's not a not a lot of fitness located in the core of Kitchener, so having everything conve- niently located in one building is fantas- tic," said Gravitas, who took out a three- year sublease. "It's hard to persuade some people to do pole, but maybe if their partner is do- ing pole, they can head over to another space." More about KW Aikido and its partners can be found at www.aikido-kw.ca. Continued from page 5 'IT'S BEEN AN EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATING ROLLER-COASTER' NEWS