TAKE NOTICE that, in accordance with Section 28 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, as amended, a Statutory Public Meeting will be held by the Council of the Corporation of Loyalist Township on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. or shortly thereafter to consider an Affordable and Purpose-Built Rental Housing Community Improvement Plan. The purpose of the public meeting is to provide the public with an opportunity to understand and comment on the proposed Plan.

Purpose and Effect of the Community Improvement Plans
The Community Improvement Plan (CIP) is a planning and economic development tool that sets out a framework to assist in community revitalization, and assists to achieve economic, community planning, and urban development goals. The Township’s Official Plan identifies the opportunity to provide affordable housing as a criteria for improvement, revitalization and re-development.

The proposed Affordable and Purpose-Built Rental Housing CIP will create financial incentives for the redevelopment, construction and reconstruction of lands and buildings to support the focus of this CIP.

Location
Through By-law 2022-056, the subject lands of the proposed Community Improvement Plan would cover the entirety of Loyalist Township. As a result, no key map is provided.

Additional information relating to the proposed Community Improvement Plan is available for inspection and can be sent to the requester by e-mail. Appointments can also be made to view the materials at the municipal office located at 263 Main Street, Odessa from Monday to Thursday between the hours of 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Friday. A staff report pertaining to the proposed Community Improvement Plans will be available prior to the July 8th meeting at the following link: https://loyalist.civicweb.net/Portal/

For more information about this matter, including information about appeal rights, please contact clerk@loyalist.ca at 613-386-7351, extension 121.

How to Participate
Any person may attend the Public Meeting and/or make written or verbal representation either in support of or in opposition to the proposed Community Improvement Plan.

The Council Agenda will provide further instructions on how to participate in the public meeting and can be found at https://loyalist.civicweb.net/Portal/ prior to the meeting. A link to the virtual meeting can also be found on the Council Agenda prior to the meeting at the previous link. Alternatively, you may contact clerk@loyalist.ca at the contact details above to receive information on how to view and participate in the meeting.

Representation and Information
If a person or public body would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of Loyalist Township Council to the Ontario Land Tribunal but the person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to Loyalist Township before the proposed Community Improvement Plans are adopted, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision.

If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to Loyalist Township before the Community Improvement Plans are adopted, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Land Tribunal unless, in the opinion of the Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party.

Unless comments are received from Council and/or members of the public at the Public Meeting prompting the need to revise the Community Improvement Plans, Council is expected to consider its adoption at the August 12, 2025 Council meeting.

If you wish to be notified of the decision of Loyalist Township Council on the proposed Community Improvement Plan you must make a written request to:
Anne Kantharajah, Township Clerk
Loyalist Township, PO Box 70, 263 Main Street
Odessa, Ontario K0H 2H0
Dated at Loyalist Township this 17th day of June, 2025.

If you are a person with a disability and need Loyalist Township information
in another format, please contact 613-386-7351, ext. 100 between 8:15 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday, and from 8:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. on Fridays, or e-mail clerk@loyalist.ca.