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Leamington Council Considers – August 13, 2024

At the Leamington Council meeting of Tuesday, August 13, 2024, Council will:

  • Hold a Public Meeting under the Planning Act to consider:
    • An application to create a surplus dwelling lot located at 2219 County Road 14 and rezone the severed lot from Agricultural Hobby Farm to Agricultural Residential Zone. The application will also seek to rezone the retained parcel to Agricultural General Zone.
    • An application to allow for mixed-use building while preventing standalone commercial building. The application seeks to add provisions that set the maximum density in certain residential zones to 120 units per gross hectare.
  • Consider an engineer’s report recommending changes in assessment to the Essex Kent Townline Drain and Rutter Drain for parcel 550-05300.
  • Consider appointing Don Williamson as the Fire Chief and Derrick Clark and Russ King as Deputy Fire Chiefs for the Municipality of Leamington.
  • Consider an agreement with Switzer-Carty Transportation Inc. to provide transit services in the Municipality of Leamington.
  • Consider awarding a tender for the Southwest Leamington Storm Water Management Pond and Pump Station to J&J Lepera Infrastructures Inc. in the amount of $3,965,000 plus applicable taxes in addition to allocating contract administration expenditures of $440,000 to Dillon Consulting Inc.
  • Consider entering into a Sister City relationship with Yecheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea for the purposes of promoting cultural, educational, technological and economic development.
  • Consider exempting Destiny Estates Phase 3 from the provisions of Part Lot Control to enable developers to construct townhomes and semi-detached dwellings on a property and establish property lines that align with the placement of shared walls.
  • Consider appointing Mayor Hilda MacDonald as proxyholder for the Municipality of Leamington to cast its shareholder votes at the Union Water Supply System Inc. shareholders’ annual meeting and appoint Deputy Mayor Larry Verbeke as the alternate proxyholder.
  • Considering authorizing Leamington Fire Chief Don Williamson to be appointed as the Emergency Worker Center Manager in the Town of Amherstburg.
  • Consider re-entering into the Municipal Funding Agreement for the Canada Community-Building Fund.

For further information, please refer to the council agenda and minutes at leamington.ca/meetings. The meeting will be streamed live online for public viewing at leamington.ca/live.

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