Council approved towers of up to 30 storeys and about 1,271 homes at 3275 Trafalgar Road on November 17, 2025

What Council approved

On Monday, November 17, 2025, Oakville's Planning and Development Council approved revised official plan and zoning amendment applications from 3275 Trafalgar Limited Partnership for 3275 Trafalgar Road, on the east side of Trafalgar Road north of Threshing Mill Boulevard in Ward 7. The minutes record that Council passed By-law 2025-155, adopting Official Plan Amendment 337 to the North Oakville East Secondary Plan, and By-law 2025-157, amending North Oakville Zoning By-law 2009-189, both as revised. The motion carried without a recorded vote.

The Town's notice of the decision, issued on December 2, 2025, says the amendments permit mixed-use and residential buildings ranging from three to 30 storeys, along with protection of the site's natural features.

From 33 storeys to 30 in two weeks

The staff recommendation first reached Council on November 3, 2025. The Town's notice for that meeting described buildings of three to 33 storeys. Council did not vote on the applications that night. It referred the report back to staff “for consideration of re-distribution of height, density, compatibility with the adjacent development”, and to hold talks with the applicant, with the matter to return at the next meeting.

Staff came back on November 17 with a supplemental report and revised by-laws, which Council passed. The decision notice gives the top height as 30 storeys. The Town's planning applications record now describes two towers of 27 and 30 storeys beside Trafalgar Road on a six-storey podium, a block of three-storey townhouses east of an extended William Coltson Avenue, and two 14-storey buildings on the eastern part of the property.

The site and the plan

The applicant's draft amendment describes a 3.95-hectare property in the Trafalgar Urban Core Area of the North Oakville East Secondary Plan. The Town's application page lays the project out in two phases. The first is the pair of towers and the townhouses, reached from the William Coltson Avenue extension. The second is a reconstructed provincially significant wetland with woodland buffers, and the two 14-storey buildings on the eastern part of the site, reached by a future local road through the neighbouring property to the north. That page still gives the taller tower as 33 storeys, the figure from before the November revision.

How it got here

The Town's record shows the applications were received on October 9, 2024 and deemed complete on October 22. At the statutory public meeting on January 20, 2025, a planning consultant presented the proposal for what the minutes call New Horizon Development Group and Wyatt Development Group. Council asked staff to report back on which neighbouring properties would be shadowed, whether the natural heritage lands were drawn and zoned correctly, how much ground-floor commercial space was planned and whether institutional uses could fit, parking and loading for the shops and live-work units, and how the density compared with other projects nearby.

On January 19, 2026, Council approved the related draft plan of subdivision. It authorized the Director of Planning and Development to grant draft approval, subject to conditions, to a plan dated December 1, 2025, and directed that a subdivision agreement be prepared. The Town's notice says the plan extends William Coltson Avenue and creates blocks for housing, natural heritage protection and future development.

Where it stands now

The last day to appeal the amendments to the Ontario Land Tribunal was December 22, 2025. When OakvilleIQ checked the Town's planning applications record on November 9, 2026, it listed the official plan and zoning files as closed, not as appealed, and the subdivision as draft approved. Draft approval is conditional, and the Town has published no construction date. The record shows no site plan application for the property, the step that comes before building permits for the towers.