Gregory Ingram

The Ontario Land Tribunal held a Case Management Conference regarding appeals by the applicant against the City's refusal of official plan and zoning by-law amendments for a 48-storey mixed-use development.

The Tribunal granted party status to a neighbouring property owner and a neighbourhood association, and participant status to a condominium corporation.

A 9-day hearing was scheduled for March 2026.

The County of Middlesex appealed the approval of a consent to sever application by the Committee of Adjustment for the Municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc.

The application sought to sever approximately one acre of farmland from a 49-acre parcel.

The Ontario Land Tribunal held a Case Management Conference, confirmed the parties' awareness of mediation, and scheduled a hearing for October 1, 2025.

The appellant appealed the Lakehead Regional Planning Board's refusal of two consent applications to create two new parcels from a 55-hectare property.

The Board had refused the applications on the basis that the Official Plan's growth management strategy capped new severances at 200, a limit that had already been reached.

The Tribunal found that the growth management strategy had expired in 2017 and no longer applied.

The Tribunal allowed the appeal in part, granting provisional consent for the first severance as it complied with the Official Plan and Zoning By-law.

However, the Tribunal dismissed the appeal for the second severance because the Official Plan only permits one severance per parcel held as of June 1, 1997.