Notice of Passing - Zoning Bylaw Amendment: Reduced Minimum Floor Area For All Dwellings and Cottages

TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Armour passed By-law No. 12-2025 on the 11th day of March, 2025, under Section 34 of the Planning Act.

1. Explanatory Note: This By-law applies to all lands within the Township of Armour which permit single detached dwellings, cottages and land lease community homes. The purpose of this By-law is to reduce the cost of housing by reducing minimum floor areas. This Zoning By-law Amendment conforms with the Armour Official Plan and creates no changes to the land use mapping designations.

2. AND TAKE notice that an appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal in respect to all or part of this Zoning By-law Amendment may be made by filing a notice of appeal with the Clerk either via the Ontario Land Tribunal e-file service (first-time users will need to register for a My Ontario Account) at olt.gov.on.ca/e-file-service by selecting Township of Armour as the Approval Authority or by mail to 56 Ontario Street, P.O. Box 533, Burk’s Falls, Ontario, P0A 1C0 no later than 4:30 p.m. on March 31, 2025. The filing of an appeal after 4:30 p.m., in person or electronically, will be deemed to have been received the next business day. The appeal fee of $1,100 can be paid online through e-file or by certified cheque/money order to the Minister of Finance, Province of Ontario. If you wish to appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) or request a fee reduction for an appeal, forms are available from the OLT website at olt.gov.on.ca. If the e-file portal is down, you can submit your appeal to clerk@armourtownship.ca.

Any appeal must be accompanied by a certified cheque/money order in the amount of $700.00 made payable to The Municipal Corporation of the Township of Armour. Only specific stakeholders, including the applicant, the Minister, public bodies, a “specified person” and /or registered owner of any land to which the Zoning By-law would apply may appeal a zoning by-law to the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT). A notice of appeal may not be filed by an unincorporated association or group. However, a notice of appeal may be filed in the name of a specified person or registered owner who is a member of the association or the group on its behalf.

No person or public body shall be added as a party to the Hearing of the appeal unless, before the By-law was passed, the person or public body made oral submissions at a public meeting or written submissions to the Council or, in the opinion of the Ontario Land Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party.