Council approved four-storey townhouses at 1295 Sixth Line after a six-storey plan was scaled back

What Council decided

On June 16, 2025, Oakville's Planning and Development Council approved two applications by Creditmills Development Group for 1295 Sixth Line, on the east side of Sixth Line between Sewell Drive and McCraney Street East in Ward 5. By-law 2025-104 adopted Official Plan Amendment 72, which changed the land from Low Density Residential to High Density Residential. By-law 2025-105 rezoned it. The motion, moved by Councillor Knoll and seconded by Councillor Grant, found the applications consistent with the Provincial Planning Statement and in conformity with the Livable Oakville Plan. The zoning by-law identifies the property as 1297 Sixth Line, formerly 1295.

From six storeys to four

The file began in 2024 as a different building. The Town's notice of June 5, 2024 described an Official Plan amendment to allow a six-storey, 70-unit apartment building with 80 surface and underground parking spaces. At the statutory public meeting on July 8, 2024, residents told Council the building would add traffic near a stop sign, leave too little parking and bring garbage storage and delivery trucks close to neighbouring homes while cutting their sunlight. Council sent staff a list of questions for the recommendation report, among them the parking ratio, bicycle parking, the design of the entrance on Sixth Line and along the walkway to a school, the school board's comments, and whether a change from low to high density was justified.

The applicant came back in spring 2025 with a zoning application for a smaller project, which the Town deemed complete on May 2, 2025. The Town's project page says the proposal was revised to four-storey townhouse dwellings, and its planning applications layer records 28 townhouse units. Because the zoning application was new, the June 16, 2025 meeting was both its statutory public meeting and the recommendation meeting. Three residents spoke; the minutes record opposition to high density, a question about why medium density was not proposed, and concerns about the driveway, green space, traffic and property taxes.

What the zoning allows

The rules now sit in Special Provision 438 of Zoning By-law 2014-014. The provision is written around building form rather than a fixed design: it permits townhouses, back-to-back townhouses and apartments, and it sets a floor on the number of homes as well as a ceiling on height.

Where it stands now

The last day to appeal was July 21, 2025. A search of the Ontario Land Tribunal's case-status database on November 9, 2026 found no case for the address or file number, and the Town's consolidated Official Plan lists Amendment 72 as in effect on July 25, 2025. The Town's planning layer shows both the Official Plan and zoning files as closed, with a Council decision date of June 16, 2025. As of the same check, that layer showed no site plan application for the property, the step that would come before building permits.