Council approved 190 affordable rental apartments over a daycare at 1493 Sixth Line in a 13–0 vote

What Council decided

On Monday, May 4, 2026, Oakville's Planning and Development Council approved official plan and zoning amendments for 1493 Sixth Line, on the east side of Sixth Line south of Upper Middle Road in Ward 5. The recorded vote was 13 to 0, with two councillors absent. Council passed By-law 2026-066, adopting Official Plan Amendment 79 to the Livable Oakville Plan, and By-law 2026-067, amending Zoning By-law 2014-014.

The Town's notice says the amendments permit a six-storey mixed-use residential building with a daycare on the ground floor, surface and underground parking, and protection of the natural heritage system at the back of the lot. The Town's application page describes it as 190 affordable rental apartments above a 278-square-metre daycare. The applicant is Post Residences Inc.

One detail for anyone looking up the decision: the Town's notice refers to “Official Plan Amendment 066”. The minutes and the by-law title give the amendment number as 79; 066 is the number of the by-law that adopts it.

What “affordable” means here

The details come from the applicant's planning reports, not from the by-laws, and the applicant says they may change as agreements are signed. Its January 2026 addendum says all 190 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments would be kept as affordable rental housing for at least 25 years, using the Province's definition: rent no higher than the lesser of an income-based figure and average market rent in the Province's affordable housing bulletin. For Oakville, the 2025 bulletin's ceilings quoted in the report are $1,888 a month for a one-bedroom, $2,251 for a two-bedroom and $2,379 for three or more bedrooms.

The addendum says 57 units would be fully accessible and 35 would be “deeply affordable”, intended to be delivered with Halton Region at rents below those ceilings. It says the owner intends to lease blocks of units for 25 years to community organizations, and had signed memoranda of understanding with four: Home Suite Hope, Community Living Oakville, Halton Women's Place and Milton Transitional Housing. The daycare, about 285 square metres indoors with an outdoor play area, would hold about 39 children, and the report says talks were under way with the YMCA to run it.

Two meetings, many speakers

When the application was filed the property held a vacant house and a woodlot, with Munn's Public School to the north and the McCraney Valley Trail beside it. At the statutory public meeting on November 17, 2025, ten people spoke after the applicant's planners. Six supported the project, among them people who spoke for community organizations and a speaker who tied it to Sheridan College's applied research. Four residents opposed it, citing traffic, too little parking, the six-storey height, crowded schools and harm to the natural area.

The applicant revised the plan in January 2026. Its addendum says the building was moved to the south side of the lot, away from the school, set back 7.5 metres from Sixth Line instead of 3.34, and stepped back above the fourth storey. On May 4, 14 people spoke, including the applicant's two planners, and nine items of correspondence were on the agenda. The minutes list the speakers without summarizing what each said.

Where it stands now

The last day to appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal was June 8, 2026. On November 9, 2026, the Town's planning applications record listed the rezoning under “Council Approval”, not as appealed. A site plan application for the same building, received on April 30, 2026, was in circulation with Town departments. Site plan approval settles the detailed design and comes before building permits. No construction start has been announced.