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The City of Waterloo has received an Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment application for 164, 168 King St S and 8 George St (see attached Location Map). This application is being advanced to permit the redevelopment of the lands with a new 8 storey mixed-use building containing 581 square metres of commercial space located on the ground floor and 2nd floor and 34 dwelling units (44 bedrooms) located in the storeys above. The applicant is proposing to amend the City's Official Plan to redesignate 8 George Street from Low Density Residential and Low Density-10 metres, to Commercial, Uptown Mixed Use, Primary Node, Medium High Density-40 metres, and Uptown Complementary Transition Area, with a site specific provision to limit the maximum height permission on 8 George Street to 6 storeys and 20 metres. The applicant is also proposing to amend Zoning By-law No. 2018-050 by rezoning the lands at 8 George St from 'Zone Change Application' (ZC) to 'Uptown Mixed-Use - 20' (U2-20) and the lands at 164 and 168 King Street South from 'Zone Change Application' (ZC) to 'Uptown Mixed-Use - 30' with site specific provisions. The requested site specific zoning provisions would include reduced street line setbacks, reduced landscape buffer, reduced commercial parking rate, reduced podium height, reduced tower stepback above the podium and an alternative parking configuration. NOTE: This application was submitted and deemed complete in accordance with the Planning Act, prior to the passing of By-law 2018-050 on September 10, 2018 being the new Zoning By-law for the City of Waterloo. The subject lands are currently zoned Zone Change Application (ZC) on Schedule 'A' to By-law 2018-050, which carries forward the zoning provisions applied to the lands in By-law 1108, being Commercial Two-12 (C2-12), and General Residence Two A (GR2A). This meeting shall constitute the formal public meeting required under Sections 22 and 34 of The Planning Act, R.S.O., 1990, as amended. It is expected that Council will decide whether the application should be approved, denied or amended.A copy of the staff report will be available prior to the Public Meeting. If Council approves the application, a by-law to adopt the Official Plan Amendment and to amend the Zoning By-law will be passed. For further information regarding the above matter, please contact the City of Waterloo Integrated Planning and Public Works, 2nd Floor, Waterloo City Centre, Waterloo, Ontario, by calling Rita Szilock at 519-747-8650 or email rita.szilock@waterloo.ca Any person may attend the Public Meeting and/or make a written or verbal representation either in support of, or in opposition to the proposed Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment. If you wish to make a presentation to Council or would like more information about the meeting, please contact Kevin Gerlach at 519-747-8549 or by email at clerkinfo@waterloo.ca A written summary of the presentation should be filed with the City Clerk prior to the public meeting. We encourage the public to provide input into these important Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications. Individuals may submit written/ electronic comments. The public is informed and notified that names, addresses and comments may be made public. If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Corporation of the City of Waterloo before the by-laws are passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision of Council to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal. In addition, if a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting, or make written submissions to the Corporation of the City of Waterloo before the by- laws are passed, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal unless, in the opinion of the Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to do so. Olga Smith, City Clerk, City of Waterloo P. 519-886-1550 TTY. 1-866-786-3941waterloo.ca Researchers are leveraging technology developed by local artificial intelligence company DarwinAI in the fight against fake news. The firm's chief scientist Alexander Wong, a Canada Research Chair and pro- fessor at the University of Waterloo, co- published a paper in November that showed the technology could verify with 90 per cent accuracy if a headline agreed or disagreed with the body of the text. Company founder Sheldon Fernandez says this process, known as stance detec- tion, is an important first step in automat- ing the fact-checking process. "What this tool would allow is to auto- mate a headline and check it against arti- cles across the (political) spectrum," said Fernandez. "Are there any other articles among these hundreds of articles that sup- port the claim?" It could also be a major breakthrough in fake news detection after other stance de- tection research yielded lower results of around mid-80 to high-80 per cent accura- cy. Last year, Ipsos Public Affairs conduct- ed a poll for Waterloo's Centre for Interna- tional Governance Innovation (CIGI) and found nearly 90 per cent of people have fall- en for fake online news. DARWINAI JOINS FIGHT AGAINST FAKE NEWS JAMES JACKSON jjackson@therecord.com LOCAL RESEARCHERS ARE USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED BY THE LOCAL AI TECH COMPANY See - page 11