Back to SearchTAKE NOTICE that a Public Meeting will be held virtually on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at 6:00pm., (virtually via Zoom) in the Municipality of Mississippi Mills Municipal Office, 3131 Old Perth Road, Almonte, Ontario, to consider a proposed Zoning By-law Amendment under Section 34 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, Chapter P.13.
Please be advised that the Corporation of the Municipality of Mississippi Mills has received the following Zoning By-law Amendment request for the property legally described as Concession 9 East Part Lot 11 and Part Lot 11, Ramsay Ward, Municipality of Mississippi Mills, municipally known as 775 and 785 Country Street (details below).
AND TAKE NOTICE that the Municipality continues to take significant steps to limit the transmission of the COVID-19 virus while at the same time processing Planning Act applications. Therefore, in accordance with the Municipality’s Procedural By-law 20-127, the Council of the Municipality will hold Public Meetings in accordance with the Planning Act.
AND THAT while members of the public are currently permitted to attend (hybrid) Council meetings in-person to view the meeting, members of the public are not currently permitted to attend the Public Meeting in person to provide oral submissions, to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Public Meeting will be held virtually through the Municipal ‘Zoom’ platform, where oral submissions for the Public Meeting can be made.
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File Number: |
Z-03-22 |
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Applicant: |
Jacob Bolduc, Fotenn Planning + Design |
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Legal Address: |
Concession 9 East Part Lot 11 |
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Municipal Address: |
775 and 785 Country Street |
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Ward: |
Ramsay |
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Location and Description of Property: |
The property affected by the subject Zoning By-law Amendment is a proposed severed lot that will be considered by the Lanark County Land Division Committee as part of a surplus farm dwelling severance application located at 785 Country Street. The proposed severed lot is vacant and proposed to be added to the overall farming operation located at 775 Country Street. Surrounding land uses include non-farm residential uses, rural uses, and agricultural uses. The subject property is currently split zoned as Rural (RU) and Agricultural (A). |
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Purpose And Intent of The Zoning By-Law Amendment: |
The purpose and intent of the Zoning By-law Amendment is to rezone the severed parcel from the current split zoning to a site-specific Rural zone (RU-XX) in order to restrict the future development of a dwelling on the proposed severed parcel, address site-specific lot area and frontage requirements of the Rural (RU) zone and to regularize the boundary of the Agricultural (A) zone and Rural (RU) zone between the proposed severed and retained lots. |
IF YOU WISH TO MAKE AN ORAL SUBMISSION before Council, please send an email to mknight@mississippimills.ca with the subject line “Z-03-22 Registered Speaker Request”. The Municipality will make arrangements for you to actively participate in the meeting. The maximum allotted time per delegation will be 5 minutes.
IF YOU WISH TO VIEW THE ONLINE MEETING, please follow this link to the Municipality’s web page: https://events.mississippimills.ca/council. When the meeting is live, this link will give you viewing privileges only, there will be no opportunity to speak via this link.
IF YOU WISH TO BE NOTIFIED of the decision of the Municipality of Mississippi Mills on the proposed zoning by-law amendment, you must make a written request to 3131 Old Perth Road, R.R. #2, P.O. Box 400, Almonte, Ontario, K0A 1A0 or by email to mknight@mississippimills.ca.
IF A PERSON OR PUBLIC BODY would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of the Municipality of Mississippi Mills to the Ontario Land Tribunal but the person or public body does not make oral submissions at the virtual public meeting or make written submissions to Municipality of Mississippi Mills before the by-law is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision.
IF A PERSON OR PUBLIC BODY does not provide written submissions or participate in the hearing, the Council may proceed in your absence, and you will not be entitled to any further notice of the proceedings. It is the practice of the Council, after hearing all evidence, to make a decision in public to approve, deny or defer a provisional consent. Persons taking part in the virtual public meeting and wishing a copy of the decision must make a written request to the undersigned.
AFTER A DECISION has been made by Council, persons wishing to formally register an objection must, regardless of any previous submissions, file with the Clerk a Notice of Appeal accompanied with the Board’s fee to the Ontario Land Tribunal setting out the objection and the reasons in support of the objection.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION relating to the proposed Zoning By-law Amendment or information for registering and submitting comments are available by contacting:
Melanie Knight, Senior Planner
Municipality of Mississippi Mills
613-256-2064 ext. 259
mknight@mississippimills.ca
