Four industrial buildings at 11801 Derry Road: approved in May 2024, cleared to proceed in May 2026

The 2024 approval

On May 13, 2024, Milton Council approved applications by Takol CMCC Derry Limited Partnership to amend the Official Plan and the zoning by-law for 11801 Derry Road (files LOPA-02/24 and Z-03/24). Resolution 071-24, moved by Councillor Challinor and seconded by Councillor Ijaz, approved staff report DS-032-24 "to facilitate the construction of four industrial buildings." Council passed By-law 040-2024, adopting Official Plan Amendment 82, and zoning By-law 041-2024 at the same meeting.

The Town's notice of complete application, dated February 7, 2024, describes the property as about 7.61 hectares at the northwest corner of Derry Road and Sixth Line, in Ward 2, within the Derry Green Corporate Business Park Secondary Plan. It was designated partly Business Park and partly Industrial and zoned Future Development. The proposal was for four multi-unit industrial buildings with surface parking and entrances from both Derry Road and Sixth Line.

What the amendments allow

According to the notice of passing, Official Plan Amendment 82 does three things. It redraws the boundary between the two land-use designations so that it follows the buildings' footprints. It creates a Special Policy Area that permits surface parking between a building and a street within the secondary plan's Street Oriented Area overlay. And it adds two uses to the site that are not industrial: a banquet facility and a motor vehicle dealership.

The zoning by-law rezoned the land from Future Development to site-specific Business Park (M1) and General Industrial (M2) zones. The Official Plan amendment was exempt from Halton Region's approval, and the last day to appeal was June 3, 2024.

The 2026 holding removal

The zoning carried a holding provision, H82, which keeps development from proceeding until its conditions are met. On April 27, 2026, the Town gave notice (file Z-03/26) that it had received an application to remove it for 11801, 11771, 11791 and 11781 Derry Road, and that Council intended to pass the by-law on May 11, 2026. The notice sets out what the holding provision required:

• Updated noise, stormwater management, grading, functional servicing, hydrogeological and geotechnical reports, approved by the Town.
• An assessment of Sixth Line in support of the proposed truck access, including the road's structural integrity, the entrance width and truck-turning movements.
• A site plan and landscape plan showing enhanced berming, landscaping and urban design along Derry Road.
• Updated Phase One and Phase Two environmental site assessments, to the satisfaction of Halton Region.

Council's minutes for May 11, 2026 list By-law 033-2026, "Removal of Holding - 11801 Derry Road (Z-03-26)," among the by-laws read and passed that night. The Town's notice explains that once the conditions are met the Town is required to remove a holding symbol when the landowner applies, and that only the owner of the land has a right of appeal.

Where it stands

With the holding provision lifted, the zoning no longer stands in the way of the approved development. The notices do not say when construction will start or who the tenants will be, and MiltonIQ could not confirm either from the Town's published pages as of November 9, 2026. The Sixth Line condition echoes one Council attached to a warehouse and transportation terminal site at 7072 Sixth Line, also north of Derry Road, in September 2026.