City of Belleville staff is recommending zoning changes for vacant land at 99 Millennium Parkway that would allow the construction of a hotel but with an important condition.
That condition is that the hotel’s height be no more than 11 metres.
The hopeful developer’s latest proposal was for a four-storey (originally presented as five storeys) hotel with a height of 14.5 metres.
Lowering the height of the hotel would effectively make it a three-storey building.
Staff believes the developer’s changes, adding more landscaping and fencing in the rear yard to shield the hotel from residents of Cloverleaf Drive, are acceptable.
Residents nearby have passionately opposed the development since it first came forward a year ago, saying it doesn’t fit in with the neighbourhood and will cause traffic and noise concerns as well as lower property values.
The developers have made several changes and in March there was a third public meeting on the issue in which some members of the Planning Advisory Committee expressed skepticism about the plans and the way they’ve been communicated to people in the neighbourhood.
Belleville’s Planning Advisory Committee meets virtually at 5:30 Monday afternoon, May 3.
Here is a link to view the meeting.
