Development · Glenorchy
Oakville has banned houses on its busiest transit corridor
Within 50 metres of Dundas Street, six storeys is now the floor and townhouses are out.
Development
What is being proposed and approved
Planning documents are written to be legally sufficient, not to be understood. This is what they say.
Development coverage
Transit · Glenorchy
North Oakville finally has an east-west road that goes all the way
The bridge over Sixteen Mile Creek is open, closing a 12-kilometre gap across north Oakville.
Transit · Bronte
A second crossing of Bronte Creek is due to open this autumn
A four-lane bridge over Bronte Creek links Oakville to Burlington, due to finish this autumn.
Development · Midtown Oakville
How Midtown Oakville ended up being zoned from Toronto
Four provincial orders override municipal zoning and cannot be appealed. The Town's own plan waits.
Schools · Palermo
A $43 million elementary school breaks ground in north Oakville on 10 September
926 student places and 88 childcare spaces, opening 2028. Ground breaks 10 September.
Development · Southeast Oakville
Oakville freezes data centre applications on employment land for a year
A one-year freeze across every employment designation in town, while staff write the rules.
Town Hall · Bronte
What changed in Oakville: the week of 1 September
Transit changes, a square closing, a school groundbreaking, and the dates that matter.
Development · Glenorchy
A 6,420-home proposal at Trafalgar and Burnhamthorpe goes to a public meeting
Twenty-seven buildings, ten of them towers, on a single corner. Public meeting 8 September.
Development · Bronte
Council approves four towers and 1,191 homes beside Bronte GO
Industrial land beside the GO station becomes four towers, a daycare and two public roads.
Where growth is directed
Oakville's growth areas
Where a tall building is policy rather than an exception.
- Midtown OakvilleThe lands around Oakville GO. Four provincial zoning orders now cover four sites; the Town's own plan is still awaiting a decision.
- GlenorchyNorth Oakville east of Trafalgar Road, inside the North Oakville East Secondary Plan. More active applications than anywhere else in town.
- Bronte and Bronte GOTwo studies, one for the village and one for the station area north of the QEW, where the first tower approval has now landed.
- Downtown OakvilleThe historic retail core, under growth area review, with the Towne Square rebuild running to September 2027.
- Uptown CoreA partly built mid-rise node at Trafalgar and Dundas. The former Public Works site is the largest opportunity in it.
- Kerr VillageA growth area review deciding how much height an existing working main street can take.
How to read one
What to look for in a planning application
- Location
- The municipal address, and which side of which intersection.
- Applicant
- The numbered company, and the developer operating behind it.
- Planning file
- OPA, Z and 24T numbers. This is how the Town tracks it.
- Height and units
- Storeys, unit count and floor space index, which is density per unit of land.
- Parking
- Spaces per home. The clearest test of whether a proposal is really transit-supportive.
- Status
- Filed, at public meeting, approved, under appeal, or holding provisions outstanding.
- Meeting dates
- The statutory public meeting, and the later Council decision.
- Appeal deadline
- Usually 20 days after notice for a zoning by-law; 50 days for an interim control by-law.
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Rezonings, meeting dates and appeal deadlines, each linked to the Town notice.