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TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corporation of Loyalist Township has scheduled a Hybrid Public Meeting on Tuesday, August 12th, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. or shortly thereafter to consider the following amendment to the comprehensive Zoning By-law 2001-38, as amended, and a Draft Plan of Subdivision in accordance with the provisions of Sections 34(12) and 51(20) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990.
The Public Meeting will be a hybrid meeting, where participants can attend via the Zoom platform. Those attending through Zoom can find instructions on how to participate in the public meeting at the following link https://loyalist.civicweb.net/Portal/ prior to the meeting. The Zoom link can also be found on the Council Agenda prior to the meeting at the previous link. Alternatively, you may contact Dave Casemore, Approvals Planner at the contact details below in order to receive information on how to view and participate in the meeting through Zoom.

Lakeside West (4661 Bath Road) Subdivision Proposal- Zoning By-law Amendment (D14-004-2025), Draft Plan of Subdivision (D12-350-2025)

Location
The subject property consists of 19.4 hectares in area and is legally described as Part of Lot 34, Broken Front Concession, north of Bath Road and west of County Road 6 and addressed as 4661 Bath Road formerly known as the Smiths Farm in the village of Amherstview.
A key map is attached showing the location of the subject property.
Proposed Draft Plan of Subdivision
The proposed 261-unit subdivision consists of the following:
• 43 single detached units;
• 16 semi-detached units;
• 118 Townhouse units;
• 2 blocks consisting of 2 Stacked townhouse buildings totalling 84 units;
• 2 future mixed use blocks and 1 park block and 1 storm water block;
• 4 streets with two being extensions of existing streets (Kildare Avenue, Amherst Drive), a multi use path and walkway blocks throughout.
Purpose and Effect of the Zoning By-law Amendment

The proposed amendment to the Loyalist Township Zoning By-law 2001-38, as amended, if approved, will serve to rezone the lands from the Residential Type Six Exception Three (R6-3), Residential Type Four Exception Sixteen (R4-16) and Residential Type Five Exception Twenty-Two (R5-22).
The zoning by-law amendment also request site specific standards as follows:

Residential Type Four Exception (R4-X) Zone

To permit the additional uses: Streetfront Townhouse, Row or Cluster Dwelling House;
To permit the following provisions for Single Detached Dwellings:

  • Reduce the Lot frontage for corner lots
  • Reduce the driveway setbacks from interior lot lines
  • Reduce the interior yard setback for detached garages sharing a common party wall
  • Increase the rear and exterior yard projections for porches, decks, balconies and steps.

To permit the following provisions for Semi-detached Dwellings and Duplex Dwellings:

  • Increase lot coverage for accessory buildings
  • Increase the rear and side yard projections for porches, decks, balconies and steps

To permit the following provisions for Streetfront Rown or Cluster Dwelling Houses:

  • To follow the provisions of Section 5.15.7.22.5 of the zoning by-law besides the following:
  • Increase lot coverage for accessory buildings
  • Increase the rear and side yard projections for porchses, decks, balconies and steps

Residential Type Five Exception (R5-XX) Zone
To permit the following provisions for Streetfront, Row or Maisonette Dwelling
Houses:

  • Increase lot coverage for accessory buildings
  • Increase the rear and side yard projections for porches, decks, balconies and steps

To permit the following provisions for Stacked Townhouses and Back to Back Townhouses:

  • Reduce the exterior side yard setback
  • Reduce the interior side yard setback for non-adjoining walls
  • Reduce the rear yard setback for non-adjoining walls
  • Increase building height
  • Reduce planting strip width
  • Reduce the width of parking spaces

Residential Type Six Exception (R6-XX) Zone
To permit the following provisions for stacked Stacked Townhouses:

  • Reduce the interior side yard for a corner or end unit
  • Reduce planting strip width
  • Reduce the width of parking space

Additional Information relating to the draft plan of subdivision and zoning amendment is available for inspection and can be sent to the requester by e-mail. A staff report pertaining to this application will be included in the Council Agenda and will be available prior to the meeting at the following link: https://loyalist.civicweb.net/Portal/.
It’s intended that a recommendation will be brought forward to a Council Meeting at a later date.
For more information about this matter, including information about preserving your appeal rights, please contact Dave Casemore, Approvals Planner, at 613-386-7351, extension 129 or through e-mail at dcasemore@loyalist.ca.

Representation and Information
If a person or public body would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of Loyalist Township Council to the Ontario Land Tribunal, but the person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to Loyalist Township before the approval authority gives or refuses to give approval to the draft plan of subdivision or by-law is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision to the Ontario Land Tribunal.

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to Loyalist Township in respect of the zoning by-law amendment and plan of subdivision before the by-law is passed, or the approval authority gives or refuses approval to the draft plan of subdivision, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Land Tribunal unless, in the opinion of the Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party.


Please note that only the Landowner, applicant, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, a specified person or public bodies as outlined in the Planning Act may appeal decisions in respect of applications for zoning by-law amendment or the draft plan of subdivision to the Ontario Land Tribunal.


If you wish to be notified of the decision of Loyalist Township Council on the proposed zoning by-law amendment and draft plan of subdivision, you must make a written request to:


Anne Kantharajah, Township Clerk Loyalist Township, PO Box 70, 263 Main Street Odessa, Ontario K0H 2H0
Dated at Loyalist Township this 30th day of June 2025.


If you are a person with a disability and need Loyalist Township information in another format, please contact 613-386-7351, ext. 100 between 8:15 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday and Fridays 8:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. or e-mail info@loyalist.ca

Key Map

Map of Lakeview West