City Council, October 25, 2023
The 2 recorded votes taken at this meeting, every member by name, and the 12 motions decided on voice votes, transcribed from the City's own minutes.
The City's record of this meeting: the minutes as a web page · the minutes as a PDF. A copy of the document text is archived with this site, taken August 9, 2026, so these votes stay checkable if the City's links move.
23-G-179
to build more housing. 2 That staff in Development Services report back to General Committee in Q1 2024 with recommendations.
The motion, as the minutes record it: Moved by: Councillor, S. Morales Seconded by: Deputy Mayor, R. Thomson WHEREAS, on February 15, 2023, Barrie City Council adopted motion 23-G-020 a commitment to the Ontario Municipal Housing Pledge that included a housing target of 23,000 units by 2031; and WHEREAS, the Federal Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) grant program represents an opportunity for the City of Barrie to refine the policies, procedures and processes to manage development in an effort to increase the supply of housing consistent with the Housing Pledge; and WHEREAS, the Federal Government has required cities such as London, Calgary and Halifax to allow four (4) units “as-of-right” to build more efficient and less expensive costs per unit in order to receive federal funding; and WHEREAS, Bill 23 amended the Planning Act to create a new provincial threshold for what is permitted moving forward “as-of-right” zoning to meet planned minimum density targets; and WHEREAS, the City of Barrie Zoning By -law currently permits “as-of-right” building for up to three (3) residential units in accordance with Bill 23; and WHEREAS, the City of Barrie would like to further promote efficient land use and provide more affordable housing options for families by reducing barriers; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: 1. That staff in Development Services conduct a stand -alone statutory public meeting concerning an amendment to the zoning by -law that would: a) Permit “as-of-right” building of four (4) residential units on a property wherever zoning permits single, semi or street townhouses prior to the end of 2023; and b) Rezone some or all of the municipal lands identified in motion
"Yes" is a vote to carry that motion; "No" is a vote against it. Where the motion adopts a report section "as circulated", the vote covers everything in that section, this item included.
| Vote | Members, as the minutes record them |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Mayor, A. Nuttall · Deputy, R. Thomson · Councillor, C. Nixon · Councillor, C. Riepma · Councillor, A.M. Kungl · Councillor, A. Courser · Councillor, N. Nigussie · Councillor, G. Harvey · Councillor, J. Harris · Councillor, S. Morales · Councillor, B. Hamilton |
| No (0) | — |
| Outcome | CARRIED |
23-G-242
ECOLOGICAL OFFSETTING POLICY
The motion, as the minutes record it: Moved by: Deputy Mayor, Thomson Seconded by: Councillor, B. Hamilton That Section "F" of the General Committee Report dated October 18, 2023, now circulated, be adopted.
"Yes" is a vote to carry that motion; "No" is a vote against it. Where the motion adopts a report section "as circulated", the vote covers everything in that section, this item included.
| Vote | Members, as the minutes record them |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Mayor, A. Nuttall · Deputy, R. Thomson · Councillor, C. Nixon · Councillor, C. Riepma · Councillor, A.M. Kungl · Councillor, A. Courser · Councillor, N. Nigussie · Councillor, G. Harvey · Councillor, J. Harris · Councillor, S. Morales · Councillor, B. Hamilton |
| No (0) | — |
| Outcome | CARRIED |
How to read this table. Most council business passes on consent with no member-by-member vote in the minutes. When one appears is itself a recording practice that has changed with the City's minutes systems — routine in the era through 2019, usually on a member's request from 2020 on. So this is the complete set of votes the minutes record by name, not of positions taken — absence from this table is not absence of a position. The voice votes are in the record too: every motion outcome printed in every council meeting's minutes — 2,872 across 257 meetings, beside these 178 recorded votes — each listed on its meeting's page, always as an outcome and never as anyone's position, because a voice vote records none. The public record also has a hole: the City's meeting system lists no meetings at all between October 22, 2025 and January 20, 2026, so any recorded votes from that window are missing until the Clerk provides the minutes. Where the minutes print no outcome beside a vote, none is shown here.
Source: City of Barrie council minutes, 2013–present, as published on the City's public meeting system (pub-barrie.escribemeetings.com) and archived locally on 2026-08-09. Each row links to the minutes document it was transcribed from; names appear exactly as the minutes print them.
Decided on voice votes
A voice vote records an outcome and nobody's position. That is how council disposes of most business — the recorded votes above exist only where a member asked for one. The motions below are outcomes only; reading a member's view into any of them is reading beyond the record.
| Item(s) | The motion, as the minutes record it | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 23-G-216, 23-G-217, 23-G-218, 23-G-219 | That Section "A" of the General Committee Report dated October 18, 2023, now circulated, be received. 23-G-216 REPORT OF THE COMMUNITY SAFETY COMMITTEE DATED SEPTEMBER 19, 2023 23-G-217 REPORT OF THE AFFORDABILITY COMMITTEE DATED SEPTEMBER … | Carried |
| 23-G-220, 23-G-221, 23-G-222, 23-G-223, 23-G-224, 23-G-225, 23-G-226, 23-G-227, 23-G-228, 23-G-229, 23-G-230, 23-G-231, 23-G-232, 23-G-233, 23-G-234, 23-G-235, 23-G-236, 23-G-237, 23-G-238 | That Section "B" of the General Committee Report dated October 18, 2023, now circulated, be adopted. 23-G-220 MEMORANDUM - REVIEW OF RIGHT OF WAY DESIGN STANDARDS FOR SALEM AND HEWITT AREAS Page 4City of Barrie October 25, 2023City Council … | Carried |
| — | That a clause be included that if the sign is required to be moved for future infrastructure projects the cost of doing so will be paid for by Pattison Outdoor.” | Carried |
| 23-G-240 | That Section "D" of the General Committee Report dated October 18, 2023, now circulated, be adopted. 23-G-240 2023 YEAR TO DATE INTERNAL AUDIT STATUS REPORT Councillor, A .M. Kungl declared a potential pecuniary interest concerning the … | Carried |
| 23-G-241 | That Section "E" of the General Committee Report dated October 18, 2023, now circulated, be adopted. 23-G-241 NO PARKING - DOWNING CRESCENT | Carried |
| 23-G-243 | That Section "G" of the General Committee Report dated October 18, 2023, now circulated, be adopted. 23-G-243 ESTABLISHMENT OF A YOUTH COUNCIL | Carried |
| 23-G-244 | That Section "H" of the General Committee Report dated October 18, 2023, now circulated, be adopted. 23-G-244 CORRESPONDENCE IN SUPPORT OF IOOF'S FUNDING REQUEST TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - UKRAINIAN REFUGEES | Carried |
| 23-G-245, 23-G-246 | That Section "I" of the General Committee Report dated October 18, 2023, now circulated, be adopted. 23-G-245 REFERRAL OF CIRCULATION CORRESPONDENCE - CONFIDENTIAL POTENTIAL LAND DISPOSITION MATTER - DUNLOP STREET AREA 23-G-246 REFERRAL OF … | Carried |
| — | That notwithstanding the provisions within the Procurement By -law 2019-015, staff in the Parks Planning Branch explore a partnership with Art and Water Group and report back to General Committee to discuss a draft agreement to locate the … | Carried |
| 12-G-190, 23-G-060 | 30 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to designate a property municipally known as 125 to 127 Dunlop Street East, Barrie, Ontario, as being of cultural heritage value or interest. ( 23-G-060) (Designating at Heritage … | Carried unanimously |
| — | That leave be granted to introduce the following Bill and this Bill be read a first, second and third time this day and finally passed: BY-LAW 2023-128 Bill #131 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to confirm the proceedings … | Carried unanimously |
| — | That the meeting be adjourned at 9:52 p.m. | Carried |
Derivation: every motion outcome printed in this meeting's minutes that was not decided by a recorded vote, extracted mechanically from the archived minutes text — complete by construction, nobody chose which motions to show. Item numbers are those printed within each motion's block; a motion adopting a whole committee-report section lists the items that section carried. Motion text is the operative clause as printed, cropped for the table.