Notice of Public Meeting: Community Improvement Plan Amendment

File Number: -

Subject: 2025 Lakeshore Community Improvement Plan for Housing and Main Streets and Rural Economic Development

Applicant: Municipality of Lakeshore

Purpose: The Municipality of Lakeshore is proposing an amendment to the 2025 Lakeshore Community Improvement Plan for Housing and Main Streets and Rural Economic Development (CIP). The 2025 CIP was adopted by Council in August 2025 and applies to the entire Municipality of Lakeshore. The proposed amendment would revise the geographic eligibility provisions for the Main Streets and Rural Economic Development incentives. Currently, the CIP provides for the Main Streets and Rural Economic Development incentives to apply within the Primary Settlement Areas and Secondary Settlement Areas identified in the Municipality's Official Plan. The proposed amendment would permit eligible properties throughout the Municipality of Lakeshore to be considered for the Main Streets and Rural Economic Development incentives, subject to the applicable program-specific eligibility criteria, application requirements, zoning and other regulatory requirements, available funding, and municipal approval. The proposed amendment does not change the Community Improvement Project Area, which remains the entire Municipality of Lakeshore as designated by By-law 56-2025.

Council Meeting: September 1, 2026, at 6:00 PM, or as practical thereafter.

Meeting Location: This will be a hybrid meeting with limited in person attendance at Town Hall (419
Notre Dame Street, Belle River, Ontario, N8L 0P8).
To participate in the meeting online or in person, it is recommended that you
complete the ‘Delegation Request Form’ on our website.
If you wish to simply watch the meeting online, visit Lakeshore.ca/TV
If you wish to provide your comments on the matter, it is strongly encouraged to
write an email or written correspondence, prior to a decision being made.

Take Notice that Council for the Municipality of Lakeshore will be holding a Public Meeting under Section 28 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13, to consider an amendment to the 2025 Lakeshore Community Improvement Plan for Housing and Main Streets and Rural Economic Development.

Additional Information relating to this matter is available for review at the Municipal Office during regular office hours (Town Hall: 419 Notre Dame Street, Belle River, ON). The proposed amendment and supporting materials will also be available on the Municipality of Lakeshore website and as part of the Council agenda.

Any Person may make written representation in support of or in opposition to the proposed amendment. Written submission regarding the proposed application can be made to the attention of Arshjit Singh, Senior Planner – Planning Services, Municipality of Lakeshore, 419 Notre Dame Street, Belle River, Ontario, N8L 0P8, or email planning@lakeshore.ca  Any person looking to make a verbal submission must register to speak at Lakeshore.ca/Delegations 

If a Person or Public Body would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of the Municipality of Lakeshore to the Ontario Land Tribunal but the person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Municipal Clerk of the Municipality of Lakeshore before the proposed Amendment is passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision. 

If a Person or Public Body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to the Municipal Clerk of the Municipality of Lakeshore before the proposed Amendment is passed, the person or public body may not be added as a party to the hearing of an appeal before the Ontario Land Tribunal unless, in the opinion of the Tribunal, there are reasonable grounds to do so.