NEW Mattamy North Oakville Homes: You can now pre-register
January 22nd, 2011 Categories: North Oakville Development, Oakville Real Estate News, Oakville Town Planning & Development
Developing lands north of Dundas in Oakville
This is a heads-up to let you know that Mattamy Homes has now begun pre-registrations on their website for this developer’s first offering of homes in North Oakville (lands above Dundas).
Expected to be called “The Preserve”, this new development will be located east of Neyagawa and just north of Dundas.
Many people were disappointed that the Woodland Trails housing community being offered by Starlane and Rosehaven were both SOLD OUT in a matter of days, before they could take a look at them. These companies prioritized appointments for the public based on the order in which they pre-registered on their websites. So you may wish to go to the website now to pre-register if you are interested in this development.
Mattamy is the largest land owner in the North Oakville area. To read more about plans for lands north of Dundas in Oakville, see my earlier posts:
Oakville Development North of Dundas: What’s Happening?
News on NorthOakville Development: OMB Gives Approval for Greenbelt
To access Mattamy’s website pre-registration page: http://www.mattamyhomes.com/GTA/Communities/Oakville/North-Oakville/Registration.asp
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Oakville Mayor wants your input on new hospital levy: Are you prepared to pay more property taxes?
February 9th, 2010 Categories: North Oakville Development, Oakville Town Planning & Development
Most of us are aware of the new Hospital to be built in the North West of Oakville (Palermo).
Halton Healthcare Services has asked the Town of Oakville to contribute $200 million dollars to this project beginning in 2015. The Town will need to borrow money to fund its contribution, which can be financed over 30 years. The total amount paid will be more than $200 million because of interest costs – just like a mortgage.
Here’s how $200 million dollars could impact your property taxes:
Cost
- Tax impact per $100,000 of assessment begins in 2015 at $15 per year, increasing to $35 per year over 30 years
Benefits
- Hospital opens in 2015
- Hospital able to add proposed new services, and equipment
- Provides capacity for future expansion and enhancements to medical services
Mayor Rob Burton is soliciting feedback from the community.
While it is a great opportunity for a community like Oakville to build a new state-of-the-art hospital, paying a new tax levy could be challenging for residents.
Contributing the requested funds for the new hospital will also slightly reduce the town’s ability to borrow money for local infrastructure and facilities such as roads, bridges and libraries.
Your feedback matters, you my participate in the following ways:
- Read key questions and answers about the new hospital
- Read the January 26, 2010, news release
- Complete the online survey
- Register for the public meeting on February 11, 2010
For more information about the new hospital, visit www.newoakvillehospital.ca
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Update on New Oakville Hospital: Construction to Commence in 2010
January 24th, 2008 Categories: North Oakville Development, Oakville Events, Oakville Town Planning & Development
A question I get frequently when I ask Oakville residents what they would like to find out more about on The Oakville Buzz is “Give us news on the new hospital”.
1. The new hospital will be located at the corner of Dundas Street West and 3rd Line in Oakville
2. In March 2007 the province donated 50 acres of provincially owned lands for the new hospital to be built.
3. The new state of the art facility will have more beds than Oakville’s existing hospital and will provide a full range of health services, including acute care, pediatrics, surgical care, mental health programs and complex continuing care.
4. Local fundraising for the new hospital has begun and construction work on the facility is expected to start in 2010.
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News on North Oakville Development: OMB Gives Approval for Greenbelt
January 20th, 2008 Categories: Green Trends, Halton Real Estate, North Oakville Development, Oakville Town Planning & Development, Why Move to Oakville?
As an interested resident and local REALTOR, I attended some of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearings for the North Oakville Secondary Plan in October at Town Hall.
This week the OMB gave approval for the preservation of an extensive network of linked natural heritage corridors as the “first priority?. This ruling means that 900 hectares, or more than one-third of the 3,400 hectares of developable land, will be preserved as green space.
The planned system of linked open spaces, woods and wildlife corridors, along water systems such as Bronte Creek and Sixteen Mile Creek and their tributaries, preserves an area 20 per cent bigger than New York’s Central Park, bigger also than Vancouver’s Stanley Park and almost double the size of Toronto’s High Park.
The OMB ruling marks the end of a decade-long battle by town planners and environmentalists who fought to ensure the proposed development would adhere to the planning principles of “new urbanism,” particularly in being more transit- and pedestrian-friendly.
The town has won a series of successive, hard-fought victories over developers who initially tried to fight the Natural Heritage System idea of planning at the OMB a few years ago and then abandoned the battle.
Most of the developers settled with the town in August, but a handful continued to fight, asserting their right to develop lands the plan had designated for green space.
Until now, the notion of “linked natural heritage” corridors has typically been an afterthought in planning GTA developments – or at least secondary to the goal of putting in as many housing units as possible.
The OMB ruling is expected to have ramifications across the GTA, especially in other high-profile developments in the works such as the provincially planned community for about 70,000 people on the Seaton Lands in north Pickering.
Some believe it may also play a significant role in how the province’s internationally lauded Places to Grow Act is implemented. The act is an attempt to contain urban sprawl by promoting intensification and growth in already built-up urban areas in the Golden Horseshoe.
Much of the information in this post came from a longer article in The Toronto Star entitled Hard Won Green Victory for Oakville, January 17, 2008.
Should you be interested, the Town of Oakville website contains full details of the proposed North Oakville Secondary Plan including maps.
Stay posted for upcoming article: The Oakville Buzz Interviews Planning Director, North Oakville, Town of Oakville
Related Posts:
Oakville Development North of Dundas: What?s Happening?
Do You Remember When We Ate The Fish in Lake Ontario: New Memorial in Bronte
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Oakville Development North of Dundas: What’s Happening?
September 8th, 2007 Categories: Fifty-five plus, Lighten Up, North Oakville Development, Oakville Real Estate News, Oakville Town Planning & Development, Real Estate News, South East Oakville
What is the Town planning for development north of Dundas?
Last week I was manning the kiosk in Oakville Place. The mother of a girl on my daughter’s soccer team stopped by. She is an urban design planner so I ask “What’s new at Town Hall?” 
“Council approved the North Oakville East Secondary Plan Minutes of Settlement last week”, she said.
I investigated further and found out a few things:
- How big? It will encompass 2,300 hectares of land
- Where will it be? The area to be developed is bordered by Dundas Street in the south, Sixteen Mile Creek in the west, Ninth Line in the east and Highway 407 in the north.
- How many people? When all is complete, it is expected to include about 50,000 new Oakville residents.
- What about the environment? Developers say the plan is innovative and breaks new ground in creating environmentally sustainable communities: walkable, compact and diverse (from a land use perspective) community. ”It will be one of the most environmentally sensitive community plans in North America” says David Stewart, President of Mattamy Development Corporation. “
- What about new jobs? About 25,000 new jobs are being created right in the area, which will reduce the need for commuting.
- What is the Mayor’s vision? “We have created a comprehensive, balanced and sustainable plan that will help create one of Canada’s most green and livable communities, says Oakville Mayor Rob Burton in a recent press release. (Mr. Burton believes North Oakville development will contribute greatly to our town’s stated vision of becoming the most livable in Canada.)
- What will it look like? Plans are for a public open space system that is twice the size of Central Park in New York City. Some 600 hectares of land will be set aside for open space linkages and wildlife corridors.
- When does development start? Word on the street is that ground will be broken before the end of the year.
The picture I am getting sounds somewhat appealing. Wayne and I could sell our house in South East Oakville and downsize into a bungaloft or townhome in this new community when our kids leave home.
I see Wayne jogging in the park, me walking to coffee shops, and the bank. The air will be fresh and clean (goodbye Ford Motor Company, Petro-Canada refinery and that other cement factory down by the lake). I envision neighbours walking their dogs in our very own Central Park…
I plan to check out the Ontario Municipal Board hearings, scheduled to start September 10, 2007. More on this subject in future posts. Please comment if you have any other questions, news or concerns.
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