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To Create New Zones for the Rural Area of the City of Hamilton.
Not Final and Binding
Impact
City Wide
Type
Individual
Date Passed
Issued by
City Council
Categories
Zoning
To Amend By-law No. 15-173 for Corrections and Additions to Rural Zones in Zoning By-law No. 05-200, as amended by By-law No. 15-173.
Impact
City Wide
Type
Amendment
Date Passed
Issued by
City Council
Categories
Zoning
Attachment 1 – Exhibits “B”, “D” and “E”
The Board orders the appeals by Pharm Meds Limited are allowed in part. The City of Hamilton Official Plan Amendment No. 9 and Zoning By-law No. 15-173 are modified in accordance to Attachment 1.
OMB Case No. PL150805
OMB File No. PL150805, PL15806
Impact
City Wide
Type
Amendment
Date Passed
Issued by
Ontario Municipal Board Decision
Categories
Zoning
To Amend By-law No. 15-173 to Apply Special Exception 253 to Additional Properties to Permit a Landscape Contracting Establishment.
The Board ordered to dismiss CROP’s Phase 1 appeal in respect of Special Provision 253.
Special Exception 253 is in full force and effect referenced in Zoning By-laws 15-173 and 15-238. By-law No. 238 is now Final and Binding (as passed by Council).
OMB Case No. PL151130
OMB File No. PL151133
Impact
Ward: 14
Type
Amendment
Date Passed
Issued by
Ontario Municipal Board Decision
Categories
Zoning
Attachment 1 – Schedule “A” and “B”
The decision and order of the Board is to allow the appeal, in part, in accordance with the Order set out as Attachment 1. The Order further provided that By-law No. 15-173, as modified by paragraph 3 of the Order, is hereby approved, save an except Schedule “C”, Special Provision 253, which provision is to be determined together with the Board’s decision with respect to By-law No. 15-238. That decision was reserved (at the request of the parties) following the November 2016 hearing and will be issued as a separate Order of the Board
OMB Case No. PL151130
OMB File No. PL151133
Impact
City Wide
Type
Amendment
Date Passed
Issued by
Ontario Municipal Board Decision
Categories
Zoning
To Amend By-law No. 15-173 to Apply Special Exception 253 to Additional Properties to Permit a Landscape Contracting Establishment.
Impact
Ward: 14
Type
Amendment
Date Passed
Issued by
City Council
Categories
Zoning
Exhibits “B”, “D” and “E”
Those parts of Zoning By-law No. 15-173 that are not in issue, as set out in Exhibit “D” to the affidavit of Ms. Hickey-Evans, dated March 30, 2016 (the annotated By-law), are deemed to have come into force on the day the By-law was passed, being July 10, 2015, in accordance with s. 34(31) of the Act.
The above is subject to the following:
The appeal by Fern Brook Resorts Inc. is allowed to the extent necessary to implement the changes set out in Exhibit “E” to the affidavit of Ms. Hickey-Evans, dated March 30, 2016
Correction of the municipal address error in Special Exception 118 shall be made in accordance with Exhibit “B” to the affidavit of Ms. Hickey-Evans, dated March 30, 2016.
OMB Case No. PL150805
OMB File No. PL150805
Impact
City Wide
Type
Amendment
Date Passed
Issued by
Ontario Municipal Board Decision
Categories
Zoning
As amended by By-law No. 15-173, respecting lands located at 3081 Tisdale Road, Glanbrook. ZAH-19-048
Impact
Ward: 11
Type
Amendment
Date Passed
Issued by
City Council
Categories
Zoning
As amended by By-law No. 15-173, to Apply Rural Zones to the lands generally bounded by Garner Road East, Highway 6 South, Glancaster Road, White Church Road, Carluke Road and Fiddler’s Green Road and the lands directly to the South of the Binbrook Urban Boundary.
Impact
Ward: 12
Type
Amendment
Date Passed
Issued by
City Council
Categories
Zoning
Attachment 1 – Exhibit “C”
The Board orders that the appeals by Pharm Meds Limited are allowed in Part. The City of Hamilton Rural Hamilton Official Plan Amendment No. 9 and Zoning By-law No. 15-173 are modified in accordance with Attachment 1.
OMB Case No. PL150805
OMB File No. PL150805, PL15806
Impact
City Wide
Type
Amendment
Date Passed
Issued by
Ontario Municipal Board Decision
Categories
Official Plan - Rural