2019-128 By-law to amend By-law 2018-108, as amended, under Section 38 of the Planning ActThe Corporation of the Township of Oro-Medonte
By -Law No. 2019-128
A By-law to amend By -Law 2018-109, as amended, under Section 38 of the
Planning Act
Whereas the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Oro-Medonte had on
November 14, 2018 directed Township Planning Staff through Motion No. C181114-21
which stated that:
(1) Council direct Township Planning Staff to undertake a study of the land use
planning policies in the Agricultural/Rural Zone in order to determine whether those
Zoning policies and provisions should be amended to address land use planning
compatibility issues that were not studied at the time that the Agricultural/Rural (A/RU)
Zoning was put in place; and,
(2) That Township staff to bring forward a By-law under Section 38(1) of the
Planning Act to be in effect for a period of one year, to prohibit the use of any lands in
the Agricultural/Rural Zone for the purposes of the growing of marijuana and any related
activities.
And Whereas Council on December 12, 2018 enacted By-law 2018-109, as amended
by By-law 2019-064, under section 38 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P. 3, as
amended, which by-law prohibited the use of land, buildings or structures within all
lands within the municipal boundary of the Township except for such purposes as are
set out in that by-law;
And Whereas Council proposes to amend By-law 2018-109, as amended, as set out in
this By-law;
Now Therefore the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Oro-Medonte enacts
as follows:
Section 5 of By-law 2018-109, as amended, is repealed in its entirety and
replaced by the following:
5. This By-law shall take effect December 4, 2019 and shall be in effect until
June 4, 2020 unless otherwise extended in accordance with the provisions of the
Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P. 13, as amended.
By -Law Read a First, Second and Third time, and Passed this 11th day of
December, 2019.
The Co oration of the Township of Oro-Medonte
yc r, H.S. Hug es
De uty Clerk, J. Teeter