Chatham-Kent council has approved a consent application to sever and convey eight new residential parcels on Water Street in the community of Wallaceburg, along with a related zoning bylaw amendment.
The approvals, granted at Monday’s council meeting, allow Joaquim and Tina Da Silva to create eight new vacant residential lots ranging from approximately 1,164 to 1,589 square metres, located in Part of Lot 1, Registrar’s Compiled Plan 787. Each lot is intended to be developed with a single detached dwelling and will be assigned civic addresses along Water Street, ranging from 144 to 172 Water Street.
As part of the approval, the Chatham-Kent Zoning By-law will be amended to rezone a nine-metre setback from the top of bank along Otter Creek to Hazard Land zone to delineate the erosion hazard, and to rezone the severed parcels to a site-specific Residential Low Density Second zone limiting permitted uses to single detached dwellings and applying a front yard setback minimum of 19 metres for new development.
The subject property, located at the intersection of Water Street and Main Street, is approximately 1.25 hectares in area and is currently vacant. The lands are designated Residential Area in the Chatham-Kent Official Plan.
Conditions of approval require the lots to be fully serviced with municipal water and sanitary sewer connections, and require implementation of a stormwater management design prepared by R. Dobbin Engineering, including boulevard swales, rear yard catch basins, stormwater outlets and rough grading works. The owner must also enter into a Mutual Agreement Drain for the shared rear yard storm drainage works, and pay $4,000 in cash-in-lieu of parkland dedication, among other conditions.
An archaeological assessment completed in 2022 identified one Indigenous site on the property, registered as site AdHo-53. A subsequent Stage 3 excavation recovered 12 Indigenous artifacts, all resembling parts of small stone tools, but the site was determined to have no further cultural heritage value or interest, and no additional fieldwork was recommended.
The St. Clair Region Conservation Authority reviewed the proposed development and stormwater management approach and found it reasonable, though a permit will be required to implement the proposed outlets into Otter Creek.
