Draft # 2 of the proposed Town of Collingwood Official Plan was  released in July 2023.    The statutory  public meeting is expected to be scheduled in the early fall.

Official Plans and Zoning By Laws cannot prohibit up to three ( 3) residential units per parcel of  urban residential land.

Permitted configurations: two attached accessory units in primary dwelling, 1 accessory attached  unit in primary dwelling and 1 detached  accessory unit, or  2 detached accessory units.

Below are updates on 3 projects currently working thru development approvals   in the Shipyards:

1. Collingwood Quay proposed by Fram Stokker,  recently  obtained Council approval for a ZBA  to permit smaller restaurant in different location.   Proposed 6 storey mixed use.

1. Perfect World,  Larry Dunn developer,  3  six storey buildings which only need building permit.   One building […]
   

The Province recently announced another series of policy, legislative and regulatory changes for consultation, designed to assist with meeting its goal of constructing 1.5M houses in the next decade.

Given the significance of the land use planning-related changes, Planning Services staff at the Town are pivoting resources to advising Town Council on the impacts of the […]

In a news release issued today, the Town of Collingwood announced it is developing a “made-in-Collingwood” solution for the affordable housing crisis in the form of an affordable housing master plan that will “give the town prioritized, costed, and actionable direction.”

Using work already done by the Collingwood affordable housing task force, the town aims to […]

Amendments to Procedural By-law No. 2021-090 are being brought forward for Council’s consideration. The earliest date the proposed revisions to the Procedural By-law will be considered is during the Council meeting scheduled for March 20, 2023. The purpose of the amendments is to review the current governance structure, meeting calendar and publishing […]

After consultation with the community Planning Staff brought forward  on January 30 2023 proposed changes to the SCAP  matrix. In addition to these proposed changes to the matrix Staff proposed to batch the first grouping of 2023 merit-based allocation
capacity requests and bring those forward to Council in March 2023 or thereabouts pending the
timing of outstanding […]

On Monday, December 12, the Development & Operations Services Standing Committee Town of Collinwood received a staff report on the ICBL and SCAP update.

The purpose of the report was to request that Committee and Council consider extending the Short-Term Interim Control By-law Exemption Program so the Town can further support shovel-ready development projects to continue […]

Both the Town of Collingwood and the Town of Blue Mountains draft Official Plans  will go forward to new Councils in 2023 for adoption. Grey County Council adopted OPA # 11 in October.

The second draft of the new Official Plan for the Town of Collingwood will go forward to the new Council early in 2023.  Staff expect this draft will be scheduled for the statutory public meetings.