Council has directed Administration to do two things.
1. Prepare a bylaw to repeal blanket rezoning and go back to the old zoning with a caveat that any development permit obtained prior to the repeal date will be grandfathered in.
2. Prepare a bylaw to heavily modify what is permitted as part of R-CG zoning.
Council will debate both bylaws and hear from the public on them in March. The reason why it can't occur any sooner is that bylaw modifications like the ones being proposed have strict public advertising timelines and so in order to comply with the requirements of the Municipal Government Act, March is pretty much the soonest anything can happen.
Personally I'm almost more concerned with #2 versus #1. Repealing blanket rezoning is going to add cost and delay to infill projects but there is still the opportunity for them to get built after a developer jumps through the hoops.
I've been told by people smarter than me that the modifications to R-CG that Council has directed Administration to make will essentially make it completely unfeasable to build any sort of in-fill project using R-CG ever again. The worst part is these amendments were supported by many of the pro-housing Councillors and the entire conversation has flown under the radar because everyone is so focused on the blanket rezoning repeal instead.
