Mr. Thun

The appellant appealed the Town of Oakville's refusal to amend the Official Plan and Zoning By-law to permit the development of 81 townhouse units on a site that includes a designated cultural heritage landscape.

Following an earlier interim decision that found the initial proposal too intense, the appellant submitted a revised concept plan.

The Tribunal found that the revised proposal, which only reduced the unit count by four, still represented an overdevelopment of the site.

The proposed four-storey townhouses and their projecting decks would crowd the site, negatively impact the surrounding low-density neighbourhood, and pose an unnecessary risk to the mature trees that form part of the site's heritage attributes.

The Tribunal concluded that the proposal was not consistent with the Provincial Policy Statement and did not conform to the Livable Oakville Plan's policies on compatible intensification and heritage conservation.

The appeals were dismissed.