Notice of Public Meeting - Municipal Comprehensive Review Phase II – Schedules and Maps

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

County of Dufferin Official Plan Amendment - Municipal Comprehensive Review Phase II – Schedules and Maps

TAKE NOTICE that the County of Dufferin will hold a public meeting pursuant to Subsection 17(15) and 17(16) of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P.13, as amended, regarding a proposed amendment to the County of Dufferin Official Plan to implement the County’s Municipal Comprehensive Review (MCR) exercise under Section 26 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P.13, as amended.

PUBLIC MEETING

The public meeting is scheduled for Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. at the W. & M. Edelbrock Centre, 30 Centre Street, Orangeville. The purpose of the public meeting is to present the proposed second phase schedules and maps Official Plan Amendment (OPA) being put forward for consideration as a result of the County’s MCR exercise under Section 26 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P.13, as amended, and to give an opportunity for the public to provide input.

Any person or public body wishing to participate in the meeting may attend in-person or virtually. To join the meeting virtually on Zoom, please use the following link:

https://dufferincounty-ca.zoom.us/j/83298000567

Password: 817117136

If you wish to attend the meeting either in-person or virtually, please email dcmcr@dufferincounty.ca before July 12, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. to pre-register.

Written comments can be sent to the attention of the County Clerk by email or via regular mail to the address listed at the end of this notice.

The meeting will be livestreamed and will be available on the County’s YouTube channel

http://www.youtube.com/DufferinOne

THE PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF THE OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT

This proposed second phase schedules and maps OPA has been prepared in association with the County’s MCR to bring the County Official Plan into conformity with the Provincial Growth Plan, A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (Growth Plan) (Office Consolidation 2020). The proposed OPA will introduce updated policies and mapping required to conform to provincial plans and policies and to reflect the County’s growth structure including a settlement area hierarchy, updated Natural Heritage mapping, and updated Prime Agriculture Areas to accommodate the proposed growth allocations presented in Phase I of the MCR (OPA No. 2).

The OPA applies to the whole of the County of Dufferin and therefore, a key map is not provided with this notice.

NOTE: The County is specifically looking for your input on the second phase schedules and maps OPA at this time. There will be opportunity through future statutory Open Houses and Public Meetings regarding additional County OPAs to address proposed updates to the County’s policy framework and context.

This proposed OPA represents the second of multiple amendments to the County Official Plan that relates to the County Municipal Comprehensive Review.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A copy of the proposed OPA and additional information is available at

https://joinindufferin.com/dufferin-county-municipal-comprehensive-review

NOTIFICATION OF ADOPTION

If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed OPA, you must make a written request to the County Clerk at the address listed below. Such requests must include the name and mailing address/email address to which such notice should be sent.

NOTE: The approval authority for adopted County of Dufferin Official Plan Amendments is the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. If a person or public body would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing to the Ontario Land Tribunal but the person or public body does not make oral submissions at the public meeting or make written submissions to the County of Dufferin before the proposed official plan amendment is 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 the County of Dufferin before the proposed official plan amendment is 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.

NOTICE OF COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE

All personal information collected will be used to support Council in their deliberations and decision making, and by staff, about the second phase schedules and maps Official Plan Amendment, in accordance with sections 17 and 26 of the Planning Act and disclosed in full, including names, opinions, addresses and email, to any other persons requesting access to these records, or published as part of a public agenda. All information submitted to the County is subject to the Municipal Freedom of Information Act and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA). Questions about this notice of collection should be directed to the County Clerk.

DATED at Orangeville this 19th day of June, 2023.

Michelle Dunne, County Clerk

W. & M. Edelbrock Centre

30 Centre Street, Orangeville, ON L9W 2X1

Phone: 519-941-2816 x 2504

Email: clerk@dufferincounty.ca