A plan for a new 160-bed long-term care home on Highway 8 near Glover Road in Stoney Creek appears set to move forward after Hamilton City Council approved an Official Plan Amendment Application and a change in zoning.
Fothergill Planning and Development Inc. made the Official Plan Amendment Application and Zoning By-law Amendment Application on behalf of KSCO Holdings Inc. Esposto Architects is also involved.
Donna Spasic is listed as the contact person for KSCO Holdings.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Spasic is the President of a long-term care consulting and management firm, Optimum Management Consultants, and the Managing Director of Unger Nursing Homes Ltd.
She is also the Owner of Madison Village (formerly the Clarion Nursing Home) in Stoney Creek at Highway 8 and King Street East, a 100-bed long-term care facility that is slated for closure.
The new long-term care home near Glover Road is meant to replace the 100 beds at Madison Village and add 60 new beds.
The new facility is set to be six storeys high and include 84 surface parking spaces and 12 short-term bicycle spaces
The property is located at 861 Highway 8, and although access will be through Highway 8, only the building’s width will face the street.
The building’s length will extend northward towards Winona Vine Estates, which borders the property.
The area’s Councillor, Jeff Beattie (Ward 10 – Stoney Creek-Fruitland-Winona), told Council, “It only really has one way to be built due to the fact that the property has extensive flood plain, water course, and hazard and conservation elements to it. Only 35 per cent of the property is developable. So they’re stuck in how they have to build this building given that configuration.”
The property currently has an existing one-and-a-half-storey single detached home on the westerly side and is across from Fruitland Farms.
Measures will take place to protect the natural areas at the north end of the property, and a neighbourhood park will also be added.
Council, with the recommendation of the city’s planning staff, approved a change in zoning from “Agricultural Specialty (AS) Zone” to “Major Institutional (I3, 963, H214) Zone,” “Conservation/Hazard Lane (P5) Zone, and “Neighbourhood Park (P1) Zone.”
Holding provisions have also been included to ensure that the lands will be properly serviced with sewers.
The proponent will have to enter into an external works agreement for the design and construction of any required improvements to municipal infrastructure.
A report from city staff says that the long-term care home proposal “contributes to a complete community by providing housing options for people in need of continuing care.”
Staff shared that the proposed development is approximately 250 metres away from the nearest HSR bus route (Route 55), which stops at Glover Road and Highway 8.
HSR also plans to build a new Stoney Creek Gateway Terminal on Jones Road, which will serve an additional three routes (5 Queenston, 10 B-Line East, and 12 Barton East).
Staff add that the proposal “protects the natural heritage system by maintaining a watercourse and by providing a buffer to the watercourse.”
“The proposal also supports the provision of long-term public parkland by identifying lands that are to be set aside for a neighbourhood park in accordance with the Fruitland-Winona Secondary Plan.”
It should also be noted that Homefield Management Ltd. is planning to propose a 102-unit, three-storey townhouse development directly to the east of the future long-term care home that is meant to “provide attainable housing through a land-lease tenure model.”
Homefield is acting under agreements of purchase and sale with the owners of 219 and 235 Glover Road and 869, 873, and 877 Highway 8, and is expected to bring forward that proposal soon.
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