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Loyalist Township is committed to community engagement to ensure that decision-making is well informed and provides citizens with the means and opportunity to share their ideas, experience and knowledge to issues that affect them.  All opportunities to provide input are featured here.
 

The development of a community engagement framework was a key initiative identified in the Township's Strategic Plan. The Community Engagement Framework is currently under development and should be available soon. The Framework will outline the Township’s commitment to create a consistent and clear process for what community engagement looks like in Loyalist Township. The Guide will provide a variety of communication and marketing tools and techniques and a framework to be followed to inform and engage the public on a variety of municipal activities coordinated every year.

Projects Open for Input

Technical Drawing of W.J. Henderson Recreation Centre
Community Hub Project

Loyalist Township is continuing work on the Community Hub project, an initiative which will involve upgrading the W.J. Henderson Recreation Centre and the construction of a new Aquatic Facility.  Public consultation sessions are scheduled in January 2023.

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Amherstview West
Amherstview West Secondary Plan

Like an Official Plan, a Secondary Plan is developed with engagement and input from the local community, in accordance with the Planning Act, so that growth can be achieved while respecting the needs of current residents, ensuring compatibility with the existing community fabric and character, and promoting progressive planning principles.

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Loyalist Dog Park

During the development of the 2017 Recreation Master Plan, consultations with residents identified the demand for an off-leash dog park within the Township. Currently, there are no designated dog parks or off-leash areas in Loyalist. Off-leash areas provide safe spaces for owners to exercise and socialize their dogs. At the August 8, 2022, Council meeting, Council directed staff to develop a Dog Park Ad-Hoc Advisory Committee; the mandate of the Loyalist Township Dog Park Ad-Hoc Advisory Committee was to represent the community and review possible locations for a dog park in Loyalist Township in either Amherstview, Bath or Odessa and make a recommendation to Council on a park considering all features and requirements necessary for a successful dog park.

The volunteer advisory committee reviewed all materials and possible locations for a dog park in Loyalist Township. To help inform the committee’s recommendation, residents were invited to provide feedback via a survey and/or participate in three in-person public engagement sessions. On November 8, 2022, the final committee meeting was held to review and discuss the public consultation results and finalize a recommendation(s) to Council.

The Dog Park Ad-Hoc Advisory Committee recommended to Council that the public consultation resulted in no definitive preferred location for a dog park. Therefore, one specific dog park is not being recommended to Council; should Council consider a dog park in the future, further public consultation be completed, and funding options be reviewed for investment within Loyalist Township.

On November 28, 2022, Council adopted the Dog Park Ad-Hoc Advisory Committee recommendation and directed that the grant funding originally intended for the dog park be directed to the Layer Cake Hall refurbishment project. Although the Township will not build a dog park at this time, reallocating this funding will further offset the cost of the Layer Cake Hall refurbishment that the municipality would have otherwise funded.

For full project details, visit the Loyalist Dog Park project page.

 Water and Wastewater Connection Charges and User Rates

Loyalist Township owns, operates, and maintains the following infrastructure to provide water and wastewater services to urban residents in the community:

  • 2 Water treatment plants

  • 2 Wastewater treatment plants

  • 5 Water distribution facilities

  • 8 Wastewater pumping stations

  • Approximately 150 kilometers of water and wastewater pipe

In 2019, Hemson Consulting Ltd. undertook a review of water and wastewater rates and charges. This periodic review accompanies a water financial plan that is required by the Province of Ontario to retain a drinking water license. There were three major components to the study:

  1. Review of the connection (impost) charges, including both a growth and existing capacity component (growth and club fee)

  2. Review of user rates and impacts of various scenarios to update the fixed to consumption ratio, or to implement a new structure

  3. Update to the drinking water and wastewater financial plans

Project Timeline

July 29, 2019 Special Council

Hemson Consulting Ltd. presented draft user rate scenarios and connection charges to Council.

As recommended, staff were directed to hold two public open houses and report back to Council with results/feedback.

  • SR 1083 - Draft Results of Water and Sewer Rates Study

August 26, 2019

Public open house on draft connection charges and capital program.

  • Draft Connection Charges - Developer Consultation Presentation

  • Impost Growth Capital Program

  • Impost Club Fee Calculations

September 23, 2019

Public open house on draft user rate scenarios.

  •  Draft User Rates - Public Consultation Presentation

  •  Draft User Rates (non-growth) Historical Budget and Forecast Costs by Area

October 15, 2019 Regular Council

Staff report  providing Council with results of public open houses. Recommendation to bring draft by-laws at the November 12 Regular Council.

  • SR-1171 Water and Sewer Charges and Rates - Results of Developer and Public Consultations

October 28, 2019 Regular Council

Staff report providing Council with draft by-laws and addressing various items as directed by Council, such as bulk water rates and options for large families. Staff were also directed to post notice for public meeting to occur on November 12, 2019.

  • SR-1200 Water and Sewer Rate Study - Draft By-laws and Update
  • Notice of Public Meeting

November 12, 2019 Regular Council

Public meeting to obtain comments on the draft rates and charges. Staff Report recommending intention to adopt by-laws at November 25 Regular Council.

  • SR-1216 Water and Sewer Charges and Rates - Public Meeting and By-laws

November 25, 2019 Regular Council

Staff Report recommending adoption of By-laws 2019-099 Water & Wastewater Connection Charges and 2019-100 Water and Wastewater User Rates. Approval of water and wastewater financial plans. 

  • SR-1227 Water and Wastewater Financial Plans and Response to Public Comments

January 1, 2020

New connection charges in effect.

Bill dates ending January 15, 2020 (Bath, Odessa, Harewood, Brooklands) and February 15, 2020 (Amherstview)

New user rates in effect.

ResiLienT Climate Action surveys

From September until December 2020, three surveys were conducted to gather resident feedback that helped inform what will be included in the Climate Action Plan.  The surveys focused on Public Transit, Source Separated Organics and Community Climate Action Initiatives. On February 8th, 2021 Council unanimously passed the motion to accept the ResiLienT Loyalist Township Climate Action Plan to act as a road map for local action and keep climate action as a priority for decisions.

Update to Building By-law

Loyalist Township is proposing to adopt a new building by-law, to take effect on January 1, 2021. A draft version of the proposed by-law is available for review. Please return any comments to the Chief Building Official no later than noon on November 10, 2020. A public meeting will be held on Monday, November 23, 2020 to consider the new by-law.

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