Pearson's operator answers Oakville's Midtown airspace request with a staff meeting, not a commitment to seek new federal rules
Pearson's operator will meet Town staff on Midtown airspace but hasn't said if it will ask Ottawa for protection.
Development
What is being proposed and approved
Planning documents are written to be legally sufficient, not to be understood. This is what they say.
- Significant applications
- 363
- Homes proposed
- 75,899
- Still active
- 158
- Under review
- 61
Oakville has 363 significant development applications on the Town’s planning record, together proposing about 75,899 new homes.
Standing tracker
Oakville development and major projects
Every application and public project where the Town has published a status, a scale and a date, with what happens next and when we last checked.
Database
363 development applications, mapped
Every significant planning application from the Town’s own records: what is proposed, how many homes, which community, and whether it is under review, appealed or approved. 61 are under review now.
Active pipeline
What is in the pipeline
158 active applications propose 65,346 homes — under review, under appeal, or approved but not yet built.
Homes proposed in active applications, by stage
Counted once per project, so a rezoning and its subdivision are not double-counted. “Proposed” is what an applicant has asked for — not homes approved to build or under construction.
| Category | Homes proposed |
|---|---|
| Under review, 61 applications | 27,548 |
| Under appeal, 14 applications | 15,101 |
| Approved, 83 applications | 22,697 |
Planning intelligence
Latest development changes
Development coverage
Conservation Halton is redrawing Oakville's flood maps along three creek systems, and wants residents' flooding observations by December 14
Conservation Halton is updating flood hazard maps for three Oakville creek systems; a resident survey closes December 14.
Conservation Halton will be merged into a Western Lake Ontario authority on February 1, 2027 — and Oakville says it is losing its seat
Conservation Halton merges into a Western Lake Ontario regional authority Feb. 1, 2027; Halton gets 3 of 16 seats.
Oakville issued $1.34 billion in building permits through August, 61 per cent more than a year earlier
Oakville issued $1.34 billion in building permits January–August 2026, up 61 per cent on 2025, with 1,006 new units.
DevelopmentOld Oakville
Committee of Adjustment hears six variance requests on October 28; comments and requests to speak are due by noon on October 27
Six variance applications reach Oakville's Committee of Adjustment October 28; comments and speaking requests close October 27.
DevelopmentMidtown Oakville
Oakville development digest, week of October 19: a radio-tower hold lifted, a 50-storey Midtown filing, and 6,420 homes still in review
Six Oakville planning files: Harasym hold lifted, 118 Cross Ave tower filed, Speers, Wyecroft, Westerkirk, data centres.
Development
Oakville tells the Province: add an environmental pillar and make municipal consultation mandatory in data centre rules
The Town's response to Ontario's Data Centre Playbook asks for an environmental pillar and mandatory municipal consultation.
Development
Data centre freeze stands unchallenged — Oakville begins the policy review
No one appealed the data centre freeze. The Town's planning policy review is now underway.
DevelopmentOld Oakville
Committee of Adjustment, October 14: five variance requests, including less parking at a nine-storey rental building on Glenashton Drive
Five minor variance requests go to Oakville's Committee of Adjustment on October 14.
Development
Committee of Adjustment, October 28: six variance requests, including a car wash on Third Line and a four-storey building on Trafalgar Road
Six minor variance requests go to Oakville's Committee of Adjustment on October 28.
TransitPalermo
Halton's completed study would widen Bronte Road to six lanes north of Wyecroft; comments close October 14
Halton's Bronte Road study recommends six lanes from Wyecroft north; comments close October 14.
Town HallOld Oakville
Oakville's new Central Library is moving to Church Street and opening in 2030
The new downtown Central Library moves to 193 Church Street, opening in 2030.
DevelopmentBronte
Oakville extends a replacement-housing deadline for a Bronte condo site now in receivership
Council extended the rebuild deadline for a stalled, receivership-bound Bronte condo site.
DevelopmentGlenorchy
Oakville is lifting a radio-tower zoning hold on Mattamy's north Oakville land
An AM radio tower blocked these Mattamy lots for years; with it gone, the zoning hold lifts.
DevelopmentMidtown Oakville
Oakville asked Ottawa to cap Midtown tower heights using airport rules. Ottawa said no.
Ottawa declined Oakville's bid to cap Midtown tower heights through airport rules.
Development
A 320 MW AI data centre is proposed for Oakville — on a grid the IESO says is fed from Toronto
A proposed 320 MW Oakville AI data centre meets a grid the IESO says is fed from Toronto.
Development
Acclaim Health asks to make its 2250 Speers Road dementia care home permanent
Acclaim Health seeks permanent zoning for its 2250 Speers Road dementia care facility.
Housing
Oakville finished 3,543 homes in 2025, against a 33,000 target for 2031
Oakville completed 3,543 homes in 2025, toward a 33,000-unit 2031 provincial target.
TransitBronte
When does the Wyecroft Road bridge open? Halton Region still says fall 2026
No opening date yet for the four-lane bridge over Bronte Creek. Halton gives fall 2026.
DevelopmentGlenorchy
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.
TransitGlenorchy
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.
DevelopmentMidtown 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.
Development
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.
SchoolsGlenorchy
A $43 million elementary school is going up at 3490 Preserve Drive in north Oakville
926 student places and 88 childcare spaces at 3490 Preserve Drive, opening fall 2028.
DevelopmentSoutheast 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 HallBronte
What changed in Oakville: the week of 1 September
Transit changes, a square closing, a school groundbreaking, and the dates that matter.
DevelopmentBronte
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.
Development
North Oakville employment lands rezoned at 145 Burnhamthorpe, with a modular-housing plant
Council rezoned 145 Burnhamthorpe West for employment, including a modular housing-parts plant.
DevelopmentMidtown Oakville
Oakville Council approved the Midtown redevelopment of the former GE site at 420 South Service Road East
Council approved the official plan and zoning for the former GE site, the largest redevelopment parcel in Midtown.
Development
Oakville rewrites residential zoning rules town-wide with By-law 2026-088
A town-wide zoning amendment changes residential lot, yard and height rules across Oakville.
DevelopmentGlenorchy
Province plans a science lab near Oakville's hospital in a four-storey building
The Province wants a four-storey science lab near Oakville's hospital in Glenorchy.
Development
Council approves a mixed-use plan with four mid-rise buildings at 3000 Sixth Line
Council rezoned 3000 Sixth Line for four mid-rise buildings and townhouse blocks.
Development
Oakville adopts OPA 340, opening three Trafalgar Road sites to mixed-use housing
Council adopted OPA 340, allowing mixed-use housing on three Trafalgar Road sites.
HousingMidtown Oakville
Oakville can now require affordable units near two GO stations. Here is what inclusionary zoning does
Council approved the inclusionary-zoning framework (OPA 77) for the Midtown and Bronte GO areas on 19 May 2026.
Housing
Oakville adopted new housing policies for its Official Plan. Here is what OPA 78 changes
Council adopted OPA 78, a new housing section of the Official Plan, on 20 April 2026.
TransitMidtown Oakville
The Oakville GO Station rebuild is underway, without closing the station
Metrolinx started construction at Oakville GO in April 2026, adding an accessible bridge and elevators.
Town Hall
Oakville proposed one town-wide rule for seasonal patios on private property
A town-wide zoning amendment for seasonal private-property patios went to a public meeting on 2 March 2026.
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 west of Trafalgar Road, the western half of the North Oakville East Secondary Plan. Two new schools are going up here, and the town's largest application sits across Trafalgar Road in Joshua's Meadows.
- 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.