Statutory Public Meeting for a proposed Town-initiated Zoning By-law Amendment on April 20, 2026

Site location: All lands subject to Zoning By-law 2014-014. 
Applicant: Town-initiated
File number: 42.25.23
Ward: 1 to 7

Planner: Catherine Buckerfield, Senior Planner
Email: catherine.buckerfield@oakville.ca 
Phone: 905-845-6601 ext. 2084
Address: 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 0H3

Meeting information

You are invited to attend a public meeting under the Planning Act to share your comments on the proposed Town-initiated Zoning By-law Amendment. The purpose of this meeting is for the Town to present proposed amendments and receive feedback. No recommendation to approve or deny the Town-initiated Zoning By-law Amendment will be made at this meeting. You can attend the meeting online or in person.

Meeting date: April 20, 2026
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Council Chamber, Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road

What is proposed?

The Town is proposing new and revised regulations related to properties zoned “Residential Low” (RL) under Zoning By-law 2014-014, as amended.

The purpose of the Zoning By-law Amendment is to modify and introduce regulations and make various amendments to clarify and simplify zoning regulations to make them easier to understand and apply, reduce the number of Residential Low zones, apply more equitable practices and improve livability.  

The effect of the proposed amendment would make changes to various parts of Zoning By-law 2014-014, as amended, including: 

• Part 1, Administration 
• Part 2, Establishment of Zones
• Part 3, Definitions
• Part 4, General Provisions
• Part 5, Parking, Loading and Stacking Lane Provisions
• Part 6, Residential Zones
• Part 15, Special Provisions 
• Part 19, Maps 

Proposed updates which include changes to regulations such as:

• general amendments that are housekeeping in nature, and bring about clarity such as the introduction of table identifiers and reorganization of     information, clarification of definitions and regulations;
• update transition provisions;
• streamlining and consolidation of zones resulting in updates to minimum lot frontages and areas including related changes to regulations such as minimum yards, residential floor area and lot coverage and symbol change from “RL” to “R”;
• related updates to mapping;
• updates to requirements for side yards, window wells, lot coverage, garage area and residential floor area; 
• introduction of height requirements based on roof slope, driveway setbacks, soft landscaping requirements and minimum yards for additional residential units;
• change the “-0” Suffix Zone to an Overlay and removal of some requirements such as main wall proportionality and other changes such as replacing the term “prohibited” with not “permitted” for balconies and residential floor area above the second storey within the “-0” Overlay areas. 
• updates to special provisions for Heritage Conservation Districts and introduction of a special provision for the Trafalgar Road Heritage Conservation District. 

How to participate/How you can share your views

Read the staff report:

The report includes details of the proposal. It is made available for review on the town’s website at oakville.ca by searching the file number or visiting “Agendas & Meetings” the Friday before the meeting.

To review the submission materials visit the South Oakville Residential Zoning By-law Review page.

Review the supporting material:

The reports, studies and plans submitted by the proponent are available to review on the project webpage.

Provide written comments:

We welcome your views. To provide a written comment to be presented to Council or if you wish to be notified of the decision of the Town of Oakville on this matter, you must make a written request to the Town Clerk at the Town of Oakville, Clerk’s department, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6H 0H3 or at townclerk@oakville.ca. The personal information accompanying your submission is being collected under the Planning Act and may form part of the public record which may be released to the public.

Speak at the public meeting:

To speak at the public meeting, you must register and share any presentation materials in advance:

Register before noon on the day of the meeting with our Delegation Request Form; or Contact the Clerk’s Department at 905-815-6015 on the last business day before the meeting to register as a delegation and to obtain instructions on how to participate.    

If you have presentation materials, submit them to the Town Clerk at townclerk@oakville.ca.

All speakers have 10 minutes to present. 

Please be aware that all meetings are recorded live and available on YouTube.

Watch the public meeting online:

To watch the meeting live, or to view a previously recorded meeting, please the Town of Oakville YouTube channel.

You must attend in person to speak at the meeting.

Find more information

To learn more about the planning process, visit the Building, Planning & Development Guide page.

Related applications:

Currently there are various Planning Act applications across the subject lands. Additional information is found on the Town’s webpage for Active Development Applications and Committee of Adjustment applications. 

Legal notice

You are not required to participate. However, only those persons and public bodies that submit comments or speak at the public meeting may be allowed to appeal the decision of Town Council on this proposal. 

If a person or public body would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of Town of Oakville 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 the Town Clerk before the zoning by-law amendment is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision. 

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submission to Town of Oakville Council before the proposed zoning by-law amendment is passed, the person or public body may not be added as a part 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.

For accessibility support, please contact the planner on file one week before the meeting.

This notice was issued on March 31, 2026.