Notice of the Passing of a Zoning By-Law Amendment

NOTICE OF THE PASSING OF A ZONING BY-LAW AMENDMENT
(File No. Z14-23, Housekeeping Amendments affecting properties throughout the
Municipality)

TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Essa passed By-law No. 2023-75 on the 20th day of December 2023, under Section 34 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P.13, as amended. 

AND TAKE NOTICE that any person or public body who made written or oral submissions at the public meeting may appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) in respect of the Zoning By-law by filing with the Clerk of the Corporation of the Township of Essa, not later than the 11th day of January, 2024, a Notice of Appeal setting out the objection to the Zoning By-law Amendment, the reasons in support of the objection and the relevant OLT fee. Each appeal must be accompanied by a cheque made payable to the “Minister of Finance”. Only the applicant, a person or public bodies who, before the by-law was passed, made oral submissions at the public meeting or written submissions to Council, or the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, may appeal a Zoning By-law to the Ontario Land Tribunal. If the last date for filing an appeal falls on a Saturday, Sunday or Statutory Holiday, appeals will be accepted on the next working day. Note that every appellant must explain and demonstrate how the adopted Zoning By-law Amendment is inconsistent with a Provincial Policy, fails to conform with or conflicts with a Provincial plan or fails to conform with an Official Plan.

THE PURPOSE AND EFFECT of By-law No. 2023-75 is as follows: 1) rezone lands municipally known as 5901 County Road 56 from the existing Agricultural (A) Zone to Agricultural with Special Provisions (A-1); 2) update the definition of “Dwelling, Townhouse” to include ‘Rowhouse’; 3) introduce the definition “Dwelling, Multi-Unit”; 4) add a footnote to Section 6.3 – Agricultural Zone Regulations; 5) re-number subsections under Section 10.4  – Residential, Low-Density, Semi-Detached (R2) – Special Provisions; 6) re-name Section 12 to “Residential, Medium-Density, Multi-Unit (R4) Zone; 7) amend Section 14 to include multiple changes to the Permitted Uses for Residential Zones including ‘Multi-Unit Dwelling’ removing redundancies; and 7) remove Section 4.63.3 – Landscape Buffer Between Ingress and Egress Points.

For further information, please contact the Township of Essa at 705-424-9770 or
plan@essatownship.on.ca. 

Dated at the Township of Essa this 22nd day of December 2023. 

Samuel Haniff
Manager of Planning, Township of Essa