485 Harbour Road, Sarnia

What's Proposed?
OPA No. 13 and ZBA No. 2-2025-85 of 2002 would be to permit the development of a fourteen (14)-storey mixed-use building, comprising one hundred five (105) dwelling units and 295m2 of commercial floor space.

In addition, one hundred seventy-three (173) parking spaces are proposed on the first five (5) floors of the building: one hundred twenty-seven (127) will be standard spaces, and forty-six (46) will be tandem parking stalls.

Official Plan Amendment
OPA No. 13 proposes to redesignate the subject lands from “Greenlands System” and “Environmental Protection” to “Mixed Use Corridor II” in order to permit a 14-storey, mixed-use building. The site-specific Mixed Use Corridor II designation would also permit an increase in the maximum building height for high-rise buildings.

More specifically, OPA No. 13 proposes to:

• redesignate the subject lands to a “Strategic Growth Area” on Schedule 1;
• add a site-specific policy area in the “Mixed Use Corridor II” designation on Schedule 2;
• remove the subject lands from the ‘Natural Heritage System’ and ‘Natural Hazard System’ on Schedule 3 and Appendix I, Map 2, respectively; and,
• remove the subject lands from the ‘One Zone Policy Area’ on Appendix I, Map 3.

Zoning By-Law Amendment
ZBA No. 2-2025-85 of 2002 proposes to rezone the subject property from the “Waterfront 1-5 (W1-5) Site-Specific Zone” to an “Urban Residential 5 (UR5-XX) Site Specific Zone” to permit the proposed mixed-use building.

The proposed “Urban Residential 5 (UR5-XX) Site Specific Zone” will provide site-specific standards relating to front yard setback (Harbour Road), exterior side yard setback (Seaway Road), building openings above floodproofing elevation of 178.33 m (CGVD28); lot area, rear yard setback, lot coverage, building height, landscaped space, required parking spaces, and permit commercial uses on the ground floor.

Class 4 Area Classification

The applicant is also requesting that the subject property be classified as Class 4 Area pursuant to Publication NPC-300 (Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Class 4 Noise Area Classification (NPC-300) and that the Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks (MECP) be notified of this effect.

Implementation

If approved, site plan approval will be required to implement the proposal.

All submission materials are available for review under the 'Documents' section.

Area Map