Council approved zoning for about 600 houses and townhouses at 210 and 374 Burnhamthorpe Road West in December 2024

What Council decided

On December 16, 2024, Oakville Council passed two by-laws for 210 and 374 Burnhamthorpe Road West, a 39-hectare property on the south side of Burnhamthorpe Road West and William Halton Parkway, midway between Neyagawa Boulevard and Sixth Line in Ward 7. By-law 2024-170 adopts Official Plan Amendment 334 to the North Oakville East Secondary Plan. By-law 2024-172 rezones the land. The applicants are Eno Investments Limited and Ankara Realty Limited; the Town's project page calls the project the Remington ENO Residential Development.

The decision had been shaped a week earlier. At the Planning and Development Council meeting on December 9, 2024, Council approved the applications in part and sent both by-laws back to be trimmed before they were passed. It also authorized the Director of Planning Services to grant draft plan approval to the revised subdivision plan dated November 1, 2024, subject to conditions.

What was approved, and what was not

The Town's notice for the December 9 meeting describes about 287 single detached homes, 216 street townhouses, 71 lane-based townhouses and 20 more lane-based townhouses it labels live/rent, which is 594 ground-related homes. It also lists two future apartment or mixed-use blocks, a future development block, a neighbourhood park, an elementary school block, part of a stormwater pond and natural heritage lands.

The applicants had asked for more than that. Their official plan amendment sought to move part of the site from Neighbourhood Area into the Neyagawa Urban Core Area, with site-specific policies on maximum height, a higher floor space index and no units-per-hectare requirement. Council did not grant it at that stage. The December 9 motion removed the reference to height and the modified urban core designation from the amendment, removed three special provisions from the zoning by-law, and deferred the balance of the applications to be considered with the Town's own Neyagawa Urban Core review.

What passed is narrower. According to the notice of passing, the official plan amendment changes the community structure schedule to relocate the Neighbourhood Central Activity Node to the intersection of Carding Mill Trail and William Halton Parkway. The zoning by-law moves the land from Future Development to General Urban, Suburban, Neighbourhood Centre, Park, Institutional, Natural Heritage System and Stormwater Management Facility zones, with site-specific rules. Access is from William Halton Parkway, Burnhamthorpe Road West, the neighbouring subdivisions and, from the south, Carding Mill Trail.

Where it stands now

The file has moved on since. When checked on November 9, 2026, the Town's planning record showed the subdivision as draft approved on February 12, 2025, with 594 units, 287 detached and 307 townhouses. The same record lists 601 units on the zoning file, which matches the slightly different mix on the Town's project page: 292 detached homes and 309 townhouses. A search of the Ontario Land Tribunal's case status service that day found no case for the address or the file numbers.

The deferred part is unresolved in the public record. Council adopted the Neyagawa Urban Core amendments on March 3, 2025, with maximum heights of 12 to 18 storeys, and the Ontario Land Tribunal approved them in principle, with changes, on April 24, 2026, after appeals by landowners in the area. But no later decision on this property's two apartment or mixed-use blocks appears in the Planning and Development Council minutes posted through September 2026. The notices do not say which school board the elementary school block is for. The same December 9 meeting produced a similar partial decision next door, at 382 Burnhamthorpe Road West.