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Virtual Community Information Meetings
City Planning staff held two virtual community information meetings on the draft Core Area Community Improvement Plan on December 9, 2020. The same presentation was given at both meetings. You can watch this presentation here and view additional resources from the meetings below.
A Community Improvement Plan (CIP) is a strategy that guides redevelopment and improvements within a defined area of need. To achieve the strategy, CIPs allow a municipality to take actions such as:
Identify changes needed to land use planning policy, zoning, other by-laws and practices;
Acquire, rehabilitate, and dispose of land;
Provide grants and loans to property owners that would otherwise be unavailable; and,
Direct investments made to infrastructure and public space.
Why are we preparing a CIP for the Core Area?
In 2019, the City of London initiated a study to identify the gaps that were potentially hindering the success of the core area. The Core Area Action Planwas the result of this study, which identified a number of initiatives that were intended to fill in these gaps. In October 2019, Municipal Council received this plan and directed its implementation.
Specifically, the Core Area Action Plan identified the need for a Community Improvement Plan to implement the following initiatives:
Item #54: Provide grants to implement safety audit recommendations on privately-owned property
Item #62: Eliminate encroachment fees for patios, signage and awnings in the Core Area
Item #63: Eliminate application fees for encroachments, signage and patios in the Core Area
Item #64: Eliminate fees for use of on-street parking spaces for temporary restaurant patios
While there are existing Community Improvement Plans for the downtown and Old East Village, the Core Area Community Improvement Plan will allow the defined grants listed above to be made available to properties within the entirety of the Core Area Project Area (see map below).
The City would like your feedback on the draft Core Area Community Improvement Plan. You can submit your questions and feedback to kkillen@london.ca.
Other opportunities to provide feedback will be available in the future. Please check back for updates.
Virtual Community Information Meetings
City Planning staff held two virtual community information meetings on the draft Core Area Community Improvement Plan on December 9, 2020. The same presentation was given at both meetings. You can watch this presentation here and view additional resources from the meetings below.
A Community Improvement Plan (CIP) is a strategy that guides redevelopment and improvements within a defined area of need. To achieve the strategy, CIPs allow a municipality to take actions such as:
Identify changes needed to land use planning policy, zoning, other by-laws and practices;
Acquire, rehabilitate, and dispose of land;
Provide grants and loans to property owners that would otherwise be unavailable; and,
Direct investments made to infrastructure and public space.
Why are we preparing a CIP for the Core Area?
In 2019, the City of London initiated a study to identify the gaps that were potentially hindering the success of the core area. The Core Area Action Planwas the result of this study, which identified a number of initiatives that were intended to fill in these gaps. In October 2019, Municipal Council received this plan and directed its implementation.
Specifically, the Core Area Action Plan identified the need for a Community Improvement Plan to implement the following initiatives:
Item #54: Provide grants to implement safety audit recommendations on privately-owned property
Item #62: Eliminate encroachment fees for patios, signage and awnings in the Core Area
Item #63: Eliminate application fees for encroachments, signage and patios in the Core Area
Item #64: Eliminate fees for use of on-street parking spaces for temporary restaurant patios
While there are existing Community Improvement Plans for the downtown and Old East Village, the Core Area Community Improvement Plan will allow the defined grants listed above to be made available to properties within the entirety of the Core Area Project Area (see map below).
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20 Oct 2020
The draft Core Area Community Improvement Plan (CIP) and an update report was presented to the Planning and Environment Committee on October 19, 2020. This report provided background information and outlined the next steps to the creation of the Core Area CIP.
The personal information submitted on this page is collected under the authority of the Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c. 25 and will be used to provide details regarding future Core Area Community Improvement Plan supported communications, events, or activities.
Questions about this collection should be addressed to Kerri Killen, Senior Planner by email to kkillen@london.ca.