Metropolis has additionally been looking for methods to create extra housing in Barrie, such because the rezoning of a number of city-owned properties
Who’s answerable for Barrie residents being housed?
The County of Simcoe is the designated service supervisor for the Metropolis of Barrie below the Housing Providers Act, 2011.
This implies the county is answerable for planning, funding and managing social housing packages and homelessness providers, together with poverty discount initiatives and shelter retention packages.
Town can encourage and facilitate the provisions of reasonably priced housing by initiatives, packages and insurance policies; nevertheless, the town doesn’t present or handle housing.
However there are different methods the town has helped, beginning with methods to extend Barrie’s inventory of housing.
4 residences on one metropolis property was deemed a match by council in late March, altering the town’s zoning bylaw to 4, from three, residential items allowed on one lot.
Earlier that very same month, Barrie acquired $25.7 million in federal funding to fast-track greater than 680 housing items in the course of the subsequent three years and assist spur development of 4,100 properties within the subsequent decade.
This cash got here from the federal housing accelerator fund, which is a three-year, $1.2-billion program designed to encourage municipalities to handle the housing provide disaster. Barrie’s plan commits to 9 native packages, together with allowing 4 items as-of-right city-wide.
Different initiatives coated by the federal funding embrace serving to stalled developments that have already got planning approvals get constructing permits, by providing incentives and increasing the town’s reasonably priced housing group enchancment plan to incorporate forgivable loans for secondary suites.
This spring, council rezoned three city-owned properties for residential growth. The properties — 29 and 35 Sperling Dr., 50 Worsley St. and 48 Dean Ave. — have gone in the marketplace to be bought to builders, which might probably flip them into an estimated 1,375 new items.
Invoice 23, the province’s Extra Houses Constructed Sooner Act of 2022, requires 1.5 million new properties inbuilt Ontario by 2031.
Council endorsed a pledge in early 2023 with a goal of 23,000 new properties constructed by 2031, along with what was already deliberate.
The residences that may be constructed from the rezoning and sale of the Sperling Drive, Worsley Road and Dean Avenue properties might assist the town make that focus on, as might allowing 4 residences per property.
