Oakville's development corporation filed for 2,662 homes on the former public works yard at 2264 Trafalgar Road

What was filed

On June 16, 2025, Oakville's Planning and Development Council held the statutory public meeting on a plan to put about 2,662 homes on the Town's former public works yard at 2264 Trafalgar Road. The applicant was not a private builder. It was the Oakville Municipal Development Corporation, known as OakvilleMDC, a company whose sole shareholder, according to Council's own minutes, is the Town.

The Town's notice, dated May 16, 2025, covered three applications at once: an official plan amendment, a rezoning and a draft plan of subdivision. Together they would create residential and mixed-use blocks, public roads and parkland, with about 2,662 homes and commercial and office space. The Town's project page describes tall and mid-rise buildings of 6 to 28 storeys. The Town's planning record shows the applications were received on April 24, 2025.

The site is on the west side of Trafalgar Road, south of Oak Park Boulevard and north of Glenashton Drive, in Ward 5 and the Uptown Core. The Town notes the address was formerly 2274 and 2230 Trafalgar Road.

What Council heard

A planning consultant presented the proposal on the corporation's behalf. Seven members of the public then spoke. The minutes record concerns about traffic and transit, crowded schools, the height of the towers and the shadows they would cast, parking, the price and size of the units, and whether water, sewer, stormwater and hydro services could carry the growth. One asked for a traffic assessment of a nearby residential street and raised pedestrian safety.

Council received the staff report dated June 3, 2025 and gave staff a list of matters to weigh before a recommendation comes back. It includes school capacity and the potential for child care or school space leased on the site, the size and tenure of units and the yield of family-sized homes, phasing of construction, shadows, stormwater and servicing, hydro capacity including electric vehicle charging, the archaeological studies, visitor parking, affordability and rental options, and room for jobs on the site.

The Town as developer

Council made no decision on the applications that night, and none was due. But the file puts the Town on both sides of the table, which is why two of the matters Council listed stand out: how its directions would be carried out, and what follows if the applications are not supported. Three weeks earlier, on May 26, 2025, Council had agreed to lend the corporation up to $2,975,000 from the tax stabilization reserve for its 2025 to 2028 administrative and project costs. In May 2026, Council extended by a year, to June 30, 2027, the repayment date of a promissory note from the corporation that had been due on June 30, 2026.

Where it stands now

When checked on November 9, 2026, the Town's planning record listed all three applications at the public meeting stage, with no Council decision date, and the project page showed a single round of supporting studies dated May 2025. No recommendation report on the file appears in the Planning and Development Council minutes posted through September 2026. The 2,662 figure is therefore still a proposal, and the heights, unit mix and road pattern can change before staff bring it back.