19658 Centre Street - Rice Commercial Group - The Town of East Gwillimbury

File Number: 19T-17003 & ZBA.17.06

Applicant Name: Rice Commercial Group

The proposed residential Draft Plan of Subdivision is to divide the lands into 9 development blocks to facilitate the development of 15 single-detached dwellings and 14 townhouse units on a private road for a total of 29 units.

Application status

This application was approved by the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT).

View the case order and case decision.

Application background

The proposed development was appealed to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT), now the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT).

LPAT identified the following three issues:

1) Servicing Allocation
2) Vehicular Access off King Street via Block 201
3) Natural Heritage System

A Council meeting was held to obtain Council's direction on the proposed settlement matters.

The following highlights the history of the proposed applications:

Proposed applications were filed and deemed complete in 2017.
Proposed Applications heard at the December 19, 2017, Committee of the Whole Council Meeting (Staff Report P2017-105).
A statutory public meeting was held on March 20, 2018 with no staff report.
Applications were appealed the proposed applications on March 28 and 31, 2018 to the Ontario Municipal Board (the Town failed to make a decision within the required 180 days from the date the application was deemed complete).
Notice of the Case Management Conference was provided to nearby property owners within 120m of the property on October 8, 2019.
A Case Management Conference with LPAT was held on November 12, 2019. No members of the public were identified as party status by LPAT.
LPAT identified 3 outstanding issues and authorized a meditator to help resolve the outstanding issues and directed the appellant to return to LPAT for a final decision when a settlement has been reached.
At the June 1, 2021 Closed Session Council meeting, Council directed staff to bring the proposed settlement to the June 15, 2021 Council meeting for information and provide a recommendation to the following July 27, 2021 Council meeting to receive final direction on the appealed applications.
June 15, 2021 Council Meeting was held to discuss about the proposed settlement issues on the Draft Plan of Subdivision and Zoning By-law Amendment applications.