Five 18-storey towers with about 898 apartments are proposed at Neyagawa Boulevard and William Halton Parkway

What is proposed

On January 14, 2026, the Town of Oakville gave notice of a complete application from Burnhamthorpe/Oakville Holdings Inc. for official plan and zoning amendments on the northeast corner of Neyagawa Boulevard and William Halton Parkway, in Ward 7. The notice describes five 18-storey towers on podiums of up to six storeys, with about 898 apartments, 2,400 square metres of ground-floor retail space and 973 parking spaces on three underground levels. Driveways would open onto both Neyagawa Boulevard and William Halton Parkway.

The applicant's planning report, filed in December 2025, adds detail. It gives the site as 1.77 hectares and splits it into two blocks, one with three towers and one with two, with shops facing both streets. It counts 634 bicycle parking spaces and 33 visitor car spaces at grade. The density works out to a floor space index of 4.74, meaning the floor area would be 4.74 times the area of the lot.

Why it needs amendments

The land is in the Neyagawa Urban Core of the North Oakville East Secondary Plan. The applicant's December 2025 report says the plan then in force capped buildings there at eight storeys and a floor space index of 2.0, which is why it is asking for site-specific permission for 18 storeys and 4.74. The Town's notice says the zoning request also covers additional building types and a minimum Ministry of Transportation building setback from Neyagawa Boulevard and the planned 407 bus rapid transit corridor. The applicant's report says the strip along the north edge marked for the transitway is already owned by the Ministry and is not part of the application.

Council has already moved to allow taller buildings here. On March 3, 2025, it adopted Official Plan Amendments 326 and 45, which make the Neyagawa Urban Core a strategic growth area with maximum heights of 12 to 18 storeys. Those amendments were appealed to the Ontario Land Tribunal by four landowners, Burnhamthorpe/Oakville Holdings among them. On November 17, 2025, Council authorized staff to try to settle the appeals in line with the two amendments, and otherwise to oppose them. Two months after this application's public meeting, on April 24, 2026, the Tribunal approved the amendments in principle with changes, among them a limit of 20 storeys north of William Halton Parkway, which takes in this corner. The Tribunal lists the case as closed. Whether the final wording leaves the five towers needing site-specific permission will be for the staff report to say.

What Council asked

The statutory public meeting was held on February 17, 2026. The applicant's planning consultant presented the proposal, and the minutes record no other speakers. Council received the staff report and asked staff to consider 14 matters as the review continues.

• The mix and size of the apartments, and whether any would be rental.
• A food store for the area, and the type and size of the retail units.
• Whether there is enough parking, how it is divided, and whether visitor parking would be paid.
• Varying the building heights, and a review of the density.
• How parkland and green space are provided on the site, and how schools are being addressed.
• Servicing and servicing allocation, and details of the 407 transitway corridor.
• A composite plan that includes the lands to the east, and energy efficiency and climate change.

Where it stands now

On November 9, 2026, the Town's planning applications record listed both files at the “Public Meeting” stage, with 898 units proposed and no Council decision. No recommendation report on the application appears in the Planning and Development Council minutes through September 8, 2026. A recommendation meeting would be advertised by a further Town notice. Under the Planning Act, only people and public bodies who spoke at the public meeting or wrote to the Town Clerk before a decision may be able to appeal it.