PART IV: LAND USE POLICIES Page 179
4.18.6 SPECIAL OPEN SPACE POLICIES (cont’d)
(d)
KINGSTON MEMORIAL CENTREIn view of its multi-purpose characteristics the Kingston Memorial Centre constitutes a significant element in the municipal recreation lands system.
i) The Memorial Centre has been identified as a community park although its historic use as a minor league hockey arena, cultural and entertainment centre, and site for a county fair have conveyed attributes of a regional park.
ii) The Memorial Centre also functions as a neighbourhood and community focus, and provides extensive open space amenity in the residential area bounded by Concession, Division, and Princess Streets.
iii) The Memorial Centre is recognized as a strategic site by virtue of its location on the Concession Street artery, its relationship to the surrounding residential community, and its proximity to the Central Business Core and the Upper Princess Street Commercial District.
iv) Conversion or disposition of the Memorial Centre lands could have significant impacts on any or all of the above land use systems and community features.
v) Any conversion or disposition of the Memorial Centre will warrant comprehensive review in an appropriate analytic framework, and should proceed only on the basis of a long term comprehensive land use concept.
(MMA Approval dated April 6, 1993)
(e) SOUTH-WEST SECTOR SPECIAL POLICY AREA
The lands shown on Schedule ‘C’ to this Plan as Site Specific Policy 18 are recognized as an area which has been used for private open space and residential uses. Lands within and adjacent to the Special Policy Area have been the subject of a long term acquisition program undertaken by the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority and the City of Kingston.
The existing residential uses are in part the subject of a long-standing Committee of Adjustment decision and agreement registered on title which recognizes that the site has potential for development for residential purposes.