Recorded votes on PUD2015-0096

That the SPC on Planning and Urban Development Recommendations contained in Report PUD2015-0096 be adopted, as amended, as follows: That Council: 1. Receive this report for information; 2. Direct Community & Neighbourhood Services to assemble a task force to work with appropriate agencies and organizations to petition the provincial and federal governments to amend maximum annual interest rates and other payday loan business practices to better protect the financially vulnerable from predatory lending practices; and to influence mainstream financial institutions to re-engage low income earners with the ability to access short-term small loans and financial counselling services and education and to report back with a terms of reference for this task force to the SPC on Community and Protective Services no later than Q3 2015; 3. Direct Administration to report back to Council through the SPC on Community and Protective Services with details of the task force‟s progress by no later than the end of Q2 2016; 4. Direct Administration, in consultation with the Task Force identified in Recommendation 2, to develop provisions for inclusion in the Business License Bylaw to better identify and regulate payday lending businesses, and other fringe financial institutions with particular consideration of curtailing proliferation and regulating geographic distribution, and report back to the SPC on Planning and Urban Development no later than Q4 2015; and 5. Direct Administration to bring forward amendments to the Land Use Bylaw related to payday lending businesses and other fringe financial institutions, and report back through Calgary Planning Commission no later than Q3 2015.