Notice of Public Hearing for Consent and Lot Boundary Adjustment Application B082025WL September 24

Get involved with your input. The Township of West Lincoln Committee of Adjustment will hold a public hearing in accordance with Section 45 of the Planning Act at an accessible facility where the matter below will be considered. The meeting will take place:

Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Township Administration, Council Chambers, 318 Canborough Street, Smithville

About the Application for Consent & Lot Boundary Adjustment

B08/2025WL: Leonard and Lynn Snippe (Owner)
Property Address: 4421 & 4373 Regional Road 20 (location map below)

An application has been applied for a Lot Boundary Adjustment to merge 4373 Regional Road 20 (referred as Parcel 3 on the survey sketch) with the abutting lands located at 4421 Regional Road 20 and to consolidate the parcels and continue the agricultural use and crop production.

Additionally, this application is for a Surplus Farm Dwelling Severance (Consent) whereby the two existing dwellings located on 4373 Regional Road 20 are deemed surplus to the farm operation, therefore the two dwellings will be severed from the continued agricultural use.

If approved, a condition of consent will be to rezone the surplus farm dwellings (referred as Parcel 1 and Parcel 2 on the survey sketch) to Rural Residential (RuR) and if required, apply the applicable site-specific zoning provisions.

How to provide comments

Any person may attend the meeting and/or provide written or verbal comments on the above noted severance. We ask that any written comments be provided by Tuesday, September 16, 2025, to have them included in the Staff’s report for the application. Please submit your comments electronically to Stephanie Pouliot, spouliot@westlincoln.ca, with the file number for the application or via the Township’s dropbox in the back parking lot.

If you submit comments after this date, they may not be included in the Staff’s report. The comments will instead be read into the public record during the meeting. Please ensure all comments have been submitted no later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24, 2025. While residents are encouraged to make written submissions to the Committee, members of the public will also be able to provide verbal comments at Committee of Adjustment meeting. 

Any written comments received with regard to this application will constitute part of the public record for this particular file, in accordance with the Planning Act.

Important information about making a submission

If the Applicant, the Minister or a specified person or public body that has an interest in the matter that files an appeal of a decision of the Committee of Adjustment in respect of the proposed severance does not make written submissions to the Committee of Adjustment before it gives or refuses the consent application, the Ontario Land Tribunal may dismiss the appeal.

Planning documents and background material for any application is available during regular office hours by contacting the planning department at 905-957-3346 or planning@westlincoln.ca and making an appointment.

Copies of the Staff Report will be available on Friday, September 19, 2025, after 4 p.m. If you wish to be notified of the decision of the Committee of Adjustment in respect of the proposed severance, you must make a written request to:

Stephanie Pouliot
Secretary Treasurer to the Committee of Adjustment
Township of West Lincoln
318 Canborough Street, Smithville, ON L0R 2A0
spouliot@westlincoln.ca