June 7th Midtown Ward 3 Meeting

You can reach Gabe Charles, Director of Planning at Town of Oakville at midtown@oakville.ca  or gcharles@oakville.ca

You are invited to attend and provide input at a videoconferencing meeting hosted by the Planning and  Development Council. The area to be discussed is the NE corner of Cornwall & Trafalgar (Beer Town & WholeFoods)

Monday, May 16, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. 

Videoconference broadcast from the Council Chamber Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road youtube.com/TownofOakvilleTV

You are invited to attend and provide input at a videoconferencing meeting hosted by the Planning and  Development Council.

Monday, May 2, 2022, at 6:30 p.m.  

Videoconference broadcast from the Council Chamber  Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road 

youtube.com/TownofOakvilleTV  

Midtown is being planned as a dynamic urban destination where people embrace healthy, active lifestyles by living, working and playing in a vibrant, walkable, mixed-use neighbourhood, connected to the rest of Oakville by pedestrian, cycling, transit and street networks.

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This call is to discuss the proposed redevelopment of 130 Cornwall Road. A new 37-unit development will replace the existing home and it is being designed to be a signature project that will be sensitive to the local environment and offer accessible, affordable and sustainable housing for our community. 

Date: February 16, 2022

Time: 7:00 - 8:00pm 

Where: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-Q4nzxfeSFWo0aLO_wLYLw (Zoom Webinar)

TCRA is invited to join a virtual call to hear about the early stages of proposed developments at 217-227 Cross Avenue & 571-595 Argus Road and 166 South Service Road East.

Details of these proposals, and applications have not yet been submitted to the Town of Oakville. Distrikt and the project team look forward to presenting their preliminary ideas at the meeting and hearing from the community. 

Date: February 3, 2022

Time: 6:30 – 8:30pm 

Where: https://bit.ly/crossargus-southservice (Zoom Webinar)

Scroll down for Notice of Meeting & QR Code for registering

A Planning Development meeting will be held Jan 17th to hear a report for 627 Lyons Lane. The 70 Old Mill application is anticipated to be on the February P&D Council meeting. You can view all Planning and   Development applications  here. 

To rezone the property from Existing Development (ED) to Residential High (RH) and to include  bonusing permissions within the site specific provisions of the proposed by-law in accordance with the  Livable Oakville Plan.  

The effect of rezoning the lands would permit a 26-storey residential building with 296 units.  

The subject land is located south of the QEW, west of Trafalgar Road, north of Cross Avenue  (details in PDF below) 

Newly submitted applications include 70 Old Mill to Developments da - Ruth Victor and Associates - 70 Old Mill Road (oakville.ca) Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment. Proposed residential High Density with 8 to 12 stories permitted at a density of 158 units per site hectare (see artist rendition on the left).

See  Notice of Complete Application served in accordance with the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13  below 

The Midtown Oakville Team would like to thank the public for attending the June 28th information session regarding Midtown Oakville. 

Click below to read the answers to questions received during the session.

Questions and Answers – Advancing Midtown Oakville: Virtual Public Information Session – June 28, 2021

Remember to visit the Midtown Oakville Growth Area Review webpage on the Town’s website for the most recent information regarding Midtown.

 A virtual public meeting was held on June 28th to review the transportation and functional layout of  Midtown Oakville. 

Presentation Slides from the Advancing Midtown Virtual Public Information Session

FAQs to be added when they become available

The content presented at this session was a condensed version of the material presented during Special Meetings of Council specifically to provide information to Council regarding Midtown Transportation (May 31, 2021) and Midtown Urban Design (June 22, 2021).  The recordings of these meetings are available here

Midtown is the strip of land across the entire northern border of our neighbourhood. It runs from 16-Mile Creek to Chartwell Road, and from Cornwall Road on the south to the QEW as its northern border   It has been identified as  the primary area for intensification in Oakville through to 2051 and it is right in our backyard!  It will be dense, accommodating what are expected to be the tallest buildings in Oakville. As our neighbourhood digests the implications of this we can expect controversy. Big picture, the choice is between  accommodating growth in the GTA through (a) intensification while protecting existing stable residential neigbourhoods or (b) urban expansion into farmland. Click here for an Oakville News opinion piece outlining the issue and click here for a Wikipedia article on Urban Growth Boundaries. Provincial Policy and our Regional and Town councils favour intensification. The Official Plan for the area will be amended to bring it into line with recent Policy revisions.  An excellent overview of the amendments contemplated was presented to Council on March 22 .  Click here for a Youtube video of the presentation.  For more information, click here for the Midtown Review page on the Town website.