Halton Region Votes Unanimously In Favour
Motion
Moved by: Marianne Meed Ward
Seconded by: Angelo Bentivegna
WHEREAS applications have been made by Millcroft Greens Corporation to the City of Burlington for a plan of subdivision and to amend the City’s Official Plan and Zoning By-law to develop portions of the Millcroft Golf Club golf course, identified as Areas A, B, C, D on the attached map, with 90 single detached homes; and
WHEREAS the same applications also propose the development of a separate parcel that has been designated in the City’s Official Plan as ‘Residential – Medium Density’, identified as Area E on the attached map, with a 6-storey residential apartment building or townhouse development; and
WHEREAS the applications have been appealed to the Ontario Land Tribunal and scheduled for a four-week hearing in March 2024; and
WHEREAS Burlington City Council at its December 13, 2022, meeting unanimously declared its opposition to the proposed residential development of Areas A, B, C, and D of the Millcroft Golf Club golf course, and its support in principle for the proposed residential development of Area E of the Millcroft Golf Club golf course, in recognition of the importance of these lands to the City and its residents; and
WHEREAS portions of Areas A, B, C and D are critically important to the management of storm water and flood prevention in the Millcroft neighbourhood; and
WHEREAS Areas A, B, C and D serve individually and collectively as vital pockets of existing green space for residents of the City; and
WHEREAS the protection of existing greenspace within the City is crucial for the City to be able to provide opportunities to access both public and private green space for both existing residents and future residents; and
WHEREAS Burlington City council is committed to accommodating its share of growth and has unanimously signed on to the Municipal Housing Pledge for 29,000 homes by 2031. The proposed development on the golf course is not needed to meet or exceed this housing pledge, ample land is available to accommodate new growth within the urban area around GO stations, aging retail plazas and major transportation corridors that don’t compromise existing greenspace; and
WHEREAS the Millcroft Golf Club golf course is part of a stable residential neighbourhood known as the Millcroft Community, and Millcroft Golf Club can continue to operate the golf course on the subject lands and benefit from existing uses; and
WHEREAS Oakville-North Burlington Member of Provincial Parliament Effie Triantafilopoulos has formally declared her support for maintaining the Millcroft Golf Club golf course as greenspace, and has presented in the legislature several thousand signatures on a petition from residents across the city of Burlington and beyond asking the Province to preserve this greenspace; and
WHEREAS Burlington City Council at its December 13, 2022 meeting unanimously directed the Mayor to work with the Ward Councillor and Deputy Mayor for Housing to bring forward a resolution to Burlington City Council and Regional Council to request the Province to declare a provincial interest in the Millcroft Golf Club golf course;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Halton Regional Council supports the City of Burlington’s resolution requesting the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing to help protect the vital Millcroft Golf Course greenspace for existing and future residents; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT this resolution be circulated to the Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario; the Honourable Paul Calandra, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing; the Honourable Doug Downey, Attorney General; the Honourable Parm Gill Minister of Red Tape Reduction; Natalie Pierre, MPP Burlington; Effie Triantafilopoulos, MPP Oakville North-Burlington; City of Burlington; Millcroft Greens; Conservation Halton and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.
Mayor Meed Ward requested that a recorded vote be taken on the Motion and the results are as follows:
Yeas: Carr, Adams, Ali, Bentivegna, Best, Burton, Duddeck, Elgar, Fogal, Haslett-Theall, Ijaz, Knoll, Krantz, Lawlor, Malboeuf, Meed Ward, Nanda, Nisan, O’Meara, Somerville, Stolte (21).
Nays: None (0).
As a result of the recorded vote the Motion CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
