Notice of Public Meeting : Town of Pelham Official Plan

Notice of Public Meeting 

Town of Pelham Official Plan

Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM

Place: This hearing will be a hybrid (virtual/in-person) meeting.

Virtual Participation: Zoom Webinar/YouTube Livestream

In-person Participation: Town Hall, Council Chambers

20 Pelham Town Square, Fonthill

Town Council approved hybrid meetings via By-law No. 4507 (2022). The Town of Pelham live webcast of the Public Meeting will be streaming at:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TownOfPelham

Background

The Official Plan is a document that guides both short and long-term growth and development. The Town has worked on updating the Official Plan to ensure that growth in the community is appropriately accommodated in the context of the Town’s unique history and character.

Key highlights of the new plan include:

• A new vision for the Town outlines strategic directions focused on creating vibrant, healthy communities, addressing climate change, and economic vitality.
• An updated growth management strategy to accommodate Pelham’s projected growth.
• Policies that support protecting, maintaining and enhancing existing residential areas while promoting opportunities for intensification and encourage higher-density, transit-supportive and mixed-use developments.
• Preserving the agricultural area's diversification, integrity, and function to protect the sector's ongoing sustainability.
• A greater emphasis on the Town’s natural environmental and water resource systems, green spaces, and tree protection.
• Policies to support the mitigation of impacts due to climate change, the reduction of air and water pollutants and the creation of natural and open spaces, supporting the efforts outlined in the Town’s Corporate Climate Adaptation Plan.
• Integration of art, culture, and design considerations to enhance quality of life.

Your Input is Encouraged: The Town of Pelham would appreciate receiving your written and/or verbal comments regarding this application. Unless indicated otherwise, personal information and all comments will become part of the public record and may be publicly released. To provide input in writing or to request personal notice if the proposed applications are approved, please submit your correspondence or request by 12:00 PM on Monday, March 31, 2025, for inclusion in the public meeting agenda package c/o Deputy Town Clerk Sarah Conidi, PO Box 400, 20 Pelham Town Square, Fonthill, Ontario L0S 1E0, or by email at SConidi@pelham.ca. Comments and requests received after this date will still be received by Council. However, they may not be published as part of the public meeting agenda. Verbal comments will be received by the Town at the public hearing via virtual or in-person participation.

To provide verbal comments virtually at the hearing, please pre-register with the Deputy Town Clerk by sending an email to SConidi@pelham.ca before 12:00 pm noon on Friday, April 4, 2025.

Zoom webinar registration information and procedure will be provided.

Pre-registration is encouraged but not required to provide verbal comments in person at the Public Meeting. Registrants will be notified of Council’s Decision. If you have not submitted written comments and wish to submit a comment live during the meeting, you may live stream the meeting from the Town of Pelhams YouTube channel and e-mail comments to clerks@pelham.ca during the public portion of this application only. If your comments are not received during the public portion of the meeting, they will not be considered.

Need More Information: For more information, please contact Lindsay Richardson, MCIP, RPP, Policy Planner, by email at lrichardson@pelham.ca or at 905-980-6675 or 905-892-2607 ext. 335. A copy of the staff report regarding the proposed applications, as well as any additional information, may be obtained on Engaging Pelham at https://engagingpelham.ca/town-of-pelham-official-plan or Town Hall by appointment after 12:00 PM on Friday, April 4, 2025.

Important Information: If a person or public body would otherwise have the ability to appeal the decision of the Town of Pelham’s Municipal Council to the Ontario Land Tribunal but the person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written statements to the Town of Pelham 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 Town of Pelham 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.

Dated at the Town of Pelham, this 20th day of March 2025

Sarah Leach, BA Acting Town Clerk