You may have heard that the City Council will be voting on Sept 24 on changes to permitted forms and heights of housing in existing neighbourhoods like ours. A key change is to permit stacked townhouses and apartment buildings up to 4 storeys in height anywhere on Lawson Road and on Sleightholme/Wychwood from Sarnia to Lawson.
At this point, and before any building takes place, a rezoning application is still required first. Whether or not this will result in any building at all, or at what price points, is unknown at this time. For more details, see this document that shows the old rules for type and height of housing (the first two colour pages) and the new version (the other two pages). We are in the Primary Transit Area.
The other change is to permitted building heights on Sarnia Road (a Civic Boulevard), from a maximum of 6 storeys to up to 8 storeys. This may affect the proposed development at 299-307 Sarnia Road which is still in the works. However, the stacked townhouse at 279 Sarnia Road is still being processed as 3 storeys and will be before City Council in October (click here).
If you are either concerned or want to express your support about these changes, please write the Mayor and Deputy Mayor at mayor@london.ca and s.lewis@london.ca as well as our Councillor, Sam Trosow at strosow@london.ca
Please also consider a cc to opsfrp@gmail.com so that the Executive of the Neighbourhood Association has a sense of the opinion of residents.
Orchard Park / Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association 