Official Plan Amendment 35 Open House and Public Meeting – October 7 and October 21, 2025

A public meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 6 p.m. to consider a proposed Official Plan Amendment under Section 22 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, Chapter P.13.  

An open house will precede the public meeting on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 6 p.m. at the Mississippi Mills Municipal Office.

File number: Official Plan Amendment (OPA) 35 

Owner: Municipality-initiated amendment

Affected lands: All lands within the Municipality of Mississippi Mills (no map attached)

Purpose and intent of the Official Plan Amendment: The proposed Official Plan Amendment is part of the initiatives that leverage the Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF), which is a federal program managed by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).

The Municipality will be receiving HAF funding over the next three (3) years, which will help build more housing within the Municipality. The HAF grant will cover the cost of implementing seven (7) planned initiatives, which includes investigating the feasibility of a Community Planning Permit System (CPPS) (also commonly referred to as a Development Permit System).  

The Municipality has initiated this Official Plan Amendment to establish enabling planning policies in the Community Official Plan for the potential creation of a Community Planning Permit System in the future. This permit system provides municipalities an alternative method for reviewing and approving development, effectively replacing the zoning, minor variance and site plan processes.

As per Section 70.2(2)(f) of the Planning Act, municipalities are required to have policies within their Official Plan before a Community Planning Permit System may be implemented. 

The overall purpose of this Official Plan Amendment is to add enabling policies into the Municipality’s Community Official Plan to allow for the potential consideration of a Community Planning Permit System in the future.  

Open house and public meeting details:

Open house: Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at 6 p.m, at the Municipality of Mississippi Mills Municipal Office, 3131 Old Perth Road, Almonte, ON, K0A 1A0

Public meeting: Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 6 p.m, at the Municipality of Mississippi Mills Municipal Office, 3131 Old Perth Road, Almonte, ON, K0A 1A0

Please contact the planner noted below to participate in the public meeting.

IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK AT THE PUBLIC MEETING before Council, please send an email to the assigned planner noted below with the subject line “OPA 35 Registered Speaker Request.” The maximum allotted time per delegation will be 5 minutes.

IF YOU WISH TO VIEW THE PUBLIC MEETING ONLINE, please follow this link to the Municipality’s web page: https://calendar.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 VIEW THE MEETING IN-PERSON, you may attend the Council meeting during the above noted time held in the Municipality of Mississippi Mills Municipal Office, 3131 Old Perth Road, Almonte, ON K0A 1A0. If you wish to speak at the public meeting, please contact the assigned planner below to participate.

IF YOU WISH TO BE NOTIFIED of the decision of the Municipality of Mississippi Mills on the proposed Official Plan Amendment, you must make a written request to the Municipality of Mississippi Mills, 14 Bridge Street, Almonte, ON K0A 1A0 or by emailing a written request to the assigned planner noted below.

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 make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Municipality of Mississippi Mills before the by-law is passed, 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 do so. 

AFTER A DECISION has been made by Council, persons wishing to formally register an objection must, regardless of any previous submissions, file a Notice of Appeal with the Clerk of the Municipality, setting out the objection and the reasons in support of the objection accompanied with the appeal fee to the Ontario Land Tribunal.

IF YOU ARE THE OWNER OF A BUILDING WITH SEVEN (7) OR MORE RESIDENTS, it is requested that you post this notice in a location visible to all the residents.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION about this application is available on the Municipality’s web page: www.mississippimills.ca/planning-notices. For more information about this matter, including information about appeal rights, contact the assigned planner:

Hayley McCartney, Policy Planner
Municipality of Mississippi Mills
14 Bridge Street, P.O. Box 400
Almonte, ON K0A 1A0
613-256-2064
hmccartney@mississippimills.ca