Council rezones the Glencare Farmhouse property at 4243 Sixth Line for warehouse and employment use

What Council decided

On June 1, 2026, Oakville's Planning and Development Council approved a Zoning By-law Amendment for 4243 Sixth Line, on the east side of Sixth Line, south of Highway 407, in Ward 7. Council passed By-law 2026-077, an amendment to North Oakville Zoning By-law 2009-189. The applicant is East & West Inc. and the file is Z.1215.06. The motion, moved by Ward 7 Councillors Scott Xie and Nav Nanda, carried without a recorded vote, and the minutes list no public delegations on the item.

The Town's notice of passing says the purpose of the by-law is to permit only uses that are consistent with the definition of an "area of employment" in the Planning Act.

What is planned

The Town's application record describes the development as two industrial and warehouse buildings with centralized loading docks, the adaptive reuse of the existing heritage house, and the retention of the Bell Mobility radio transmission tower already on the property. The application page says the rezoning is meant to allow employment and employment-related uses in the new buildings and in the house. The Town's notices and record do not give the floor area of the two buildings.

The farmhouse

The house is the Glencare Farmhouse, a property designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act; the Town's heritage register links the designation to By-law 2022-055. The register describes a two-storey Queen Anne Revival house with an irregular plan, a hipped roof, a bay window, decorative terra-cotta brick cladding and rusticated stone sills and lintels. Albert and Harriet Biggar built it in 1898 and named the farm Glencare. The register calls the Biggars an early settler family and says they owned the farm until 1985.

A fast final step

The Town's record shows the application was first filed in July 2025 and deemed complete on March 6, 2026. A notice of complete application followed on March 23. On May 12 the Town advertised the June 1 session as a statutory public meeting at which no recommendation to approve or refuse would be made. The item reached Council as a combined public meeting and recommendation report, and Council approved it the same night.

The March notice also listed a related application to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing to amend the Parkway Belt West Plan (Ministry files 24-PBW-243396 and 24-MZOA-243431). The later notices say no other applications affect the land. The Province has since revoked the Parkway Belt West Plan and its remaining Minister's Zoning Orders, including the one covering Oakville, effective July 1, 2026. The Town's notices do not say what became of the Ministry application.

Where it stands

Appeals to the Ontario Land Tribunal were due July 6, 2026. The Town's planning applications record, checked on November 9, 2026, lists the rezoning file as closed after the June 1 decision and does not list it as appealed. It showed no site plan application under this address on that date; one would normally follow before anything is built. Because the house is designated, changes to it are also a heritage matter for the Town. The planner on the file is Delia McPhail, 905-845-6601 extension 3785.