Milton's Committee of Adjustment hears 14 requests on November 12, including a three-building commercial plan on Louis St. Laurent Avenue

The hearing

The Town of Milton's Committee of Adjustment and Consent will hear 14 minor variance applications on Thursday, November 12, starting at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers at Town Hall, 150 Mary Street. The meeting is in person. The committee is made up of five Milton residents appointed by Council, and it decides requests to depart in minor ways from the Town's Zoning By-law. The agenda says its next meeting after this one is Thursday, January 28, 2027, making November 12 the last scheduled hearing of 2026.

The commercial and business items

The most significant item is at 1040 Louis St. Laurent Avenue, listed on the agenda as Fieldgate Commercial. The agenda says the minor variances are being requested to facilitate a proposed development of three commercial buildings, tied to site plan file SP-05/26; the site plan attached to the agenda is labelled Aselton Boulevard. The agenda's summary does not say what businesses are planned or which zoning standards would be varied.

At 8105 Esquesing Line, the owner is proposing to expand an existing business. According to the agenda, Town staff found that the property's current use, a building supply outlet, is legal non-conforming, meaning it predates the zoning that now applies, so a minor variance is needed to allow it to keep operating.

At 7095 Fifth Line and 2100 Labrador Avenue, the agenda says there is no proposed development. A related consent application to sever each building and its parking into its own lot was conditionally approved on September 10, 2026, and the properties are to enter a plan of condominium whose common element will include servicing and stormwater infrastructure. The agenda says the variances are needed only because of the new lots and lot lines being created.

The residential items

• 3300 15 Side Road: the owners want to keep the existing home on the property and live in it while a new house that the family will move into is built.
• 75 Miles Street: a new two-storey house replacing the existing house and garage, with more lot coverage, a reduced interior side yard setback and a reduced garage setback.
• 144 King Street: special permissions for lot coverage and for the setback of the front wall of a proposed detached house.
• 10625 Guelph Line: an addition to a detached garage that would bring the accessory building to 202.52 square metres of floor area.
• 105 Campbell Avenue West: a covered rear porch replacing an existing deck, which needs more lot coverage.
• 255 Caves Court: a 9.04-square-metre covered front porch on a house whose existing lot coverage is legal non-conforming, plus a roof overhang into the side yard on an irregular lot.
• 1384 Clark Boulevard: an accessory structure in the back yard with an outdoor cooking area.
• 654 Willmott Crescent: a reduced rear yard setback for a sunroom addition.
• 1547 Buttercup Court: a narrower path to the entrance of an additional residential unit, so an existing side door can be used; the agenda notes Planning staff have no concerns.
• 2800 High Point Drive and 279 Thomas Street: the agenda describes both, in identical words, as a new 65-square-metre detached garage needing 2.7 per cent more lot coverage. The staff reports were not available to confirm whether both applications are the same.

How to take part

Applicants and interested residents can attend the hearing at Town Hall and speak to the committee about an application. The Town notes that since provincial changes under the More Homes Built Faster Act, only the applicant, the municipality, certain public bodies and the Minister can appeal a committee decision to the Ontario Land Tribunal. A resident who disagrees can no longer appeal, but anyone who spoke at the hearing or sent written comments can ask for participant status if an eligible party does appeal.