Councillors in Prince Edward County are going to circle back on plans for a large residential development after hearing revisions Tuesday.
After adjourning the last planning committee meeting after hours of discussion on the topic, councillors picked back up on the subject of the prospective Talbot on the Trail development with some new revisions made to address some concerns. Representatives from Port Picton Homes made revisions regarding the concerns expressed by the public at the last planning committee meeting and presented them for councillors Tuesday.
The updated plans for the Talbot on the Trail residential development.
The chief concerns were affordability and environmental impact. Jennifer Wood, of FoTenn Planning, addressed environmental concerns by saying they expect to have at minimum a one to one ratio on tree replacement during development, if not a two to one ratio.
A look at some of the projected unit prices for Talbot on the Trail.
Changes to the plans include reducing the density from 56.1 units per hectare to 51.1 units per hectare, reconfiguring the park block to protect vegetation, centralizing the stacked townhouse units, replacing four stacked townhouses with standard town homes and reducing the number of units from 258 units to 238 units.
David Cleave of Port Picton Homes spoke candidly about the affordable housing situation in Prince Edward County.
“It doesn’t matter what CMHC says. Our community, next year, will be an average price house of $650,000 and it won’t stop there. And that’s just the truth that we really have to get our head around. It may not be that everyone gets to live in Prince Edward County that wants to live in Prince Edward County.”
Councillors were generally in favour of the revisions with regards to the development and spoke at length about the affordable housing situation in Prince Edward County, agreeing that it needs to be addressed at a meeting in the near future.
Talbot on the Trail is a proposed residential development set to be built with frontage on Talbot Street and the Millennium Trail in Picton.
After hearing the revisions, councillors moved to refer back to the matter at an unspecified date in February.
