2360 First Street Louth - Notice of Complete Application and Open House

Proposal

The Planning and Building Services Department received applications for a Zoning By-law Amendment and Official Plan Amendment for lands located at 2360 First Street Louth. The Applications were declared complete as of March 27, 2026, pursuant to sections 22 (6.1) and 34 (10.4) of the Planning Act.

The Applicant is seeking permission for the site to be serviced by a private waterline connection from the property to the municipal watermain for fire suppression purposes.

The property is located outside the City of St. Catharines urban area, as delineated in the Garden City Plan and Niagara Official Plan.

The Garden City Plan (GCP), designates portions of the property as Agriculture and Natural Area. Special policy 15.7.1 a) and c) of the GCP permits the existing Place of Worship serviced by private water and sanitary facilities at 2360 First Street Louth. The City’s Zoning By-law currently zones portions of the property as Agriculture with Special Provision 85 (A1-85) and Conservation/Natural Area (G1). Special Provision 85 permits a place of worship serviced by private servicing systems (private well/cistern and private septic system) on the property, subject to site-specific performance standards.  

The Applicant is requesting amendments to the site-specific land use permissions in the Official Plan and Zoning By-law to permit a Place of Worship to be serviced by a private waterline connection to the municipal watermain, for fire suppression purposes. The Applicant also requests to amend the Niagara Official Plan to allow the development to be serviced, in part, by a private waterline and not exclusively by individual on-site water and individual on-site sewage services.

More Information

The Open House is an opportunity for public input. No decision will be made at this meeting. City Council will host a Public Meeting at a later date, for which notice will be issued separately, in advance.

The submitted application materials are available for review and comment and may be found at www.stcatharines.ca/development and at the Planning and Building Services Department, City Hall, 50 Church St.

How To Participate

Attend the meeting or mail/e-mail your comments/questions to Claire Semple, Planner (csemple@stcatharines.ca) by the day of the Open House (April 23, 2026). All written submissions will become part of the public record for this application.

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Burgoyne Woods Room, Third Floor, City Hall, 50 Church St., St. Catharines

Legal Notice

 I. If a person or public body would otherwise have an ability to appeal the decision of Council of the City of St. Catharines 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 Council of the City of St. Catharines before the proposed official plan amendment is adopted and by-law passed, the person or public body is not entitled to appeal the decision.

II. If a person or public body does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or make written submissions to Council of the City of St. Catharines before the proposed official plan amendment is adopted and by-law 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 add the person or public body as a party.

If you wish to be notified of the decision of the Corporation of the City of St. Catharines on the proposed official plan amendment and zoning by-law amendment, you must make a written request to:

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