FAQs

After this EA process is completed - During Detailed Design process. Detailed Design is currently scheduled to begin in 2025/2026.

There is an opportunity to have your property purchased using the valuation method mentioned. The City may chose not to purchase the entire property, however.

At the time of property purchase a valuation for the required property will be provided by the City. Landowners would have the option to retain their own qualified appraiser to prepare a valuation for review by the City for negotiation purposes.

Depending on whether or not the property required for the proposed widened roadway is imperative to implementing minimal features of the roadway, the minimal amount of property will be purchased on a willing buyer - willing seller basis as a preferred scenario.  If an agreement cannot be reached on this basis,  the City has the right to expropriate the required property. Valuation of the property will be conducted mentioned. Expropriation is not preferred over willing buyer - willing seller scenario since expropriation is a costly and time-consuming legal process.  

Valuation of the property includes compensation for loss or replacement of landscaping, driveway impacts and other hardships resulting from road widening. If the impacts to your property are such that you would prefer to sell your entire property to the City, not just the front, this will be taken into consideration and evaluated as part of the negotiation process.

The proposed long term recommended right of way (entire roadway corridor including all the elements from edge to edge of the public space), will be incorporated into future land takings when your property comes up for redevelopment in the future, i.e. if you sell your house to a developer who decides to redevelop the property, the additional right of way space required for the long term recommended solution will be required to be dedicated to the City for implementation of the wider roadway design sometime in the future.  Usually, however, the road widening to the final design will only be possible once the entire corridor is available/owned by the City, and in the case of Barton Street, east of Lewis Road, the reconstruction to 5 lanes of traffic will only happen when ALSO, additional traffic volumes/other road uses merit that widening.

With respect to the Fruitland-Winona area, there are several files in various stages of review (this list may not be comprehensive and doesn’t include site plans or projects under construction/complete):

• FC-20-087 - 258 Fruitland Rd: To develop the site for 66 single detached dwellings, 49 street townhouse dwellings, 60 back to back units with 30 visitor parking spaces, a 2.44 hectare stormwater management block, a creek block, a future development block, and four streets.
• FC-20-094 - 290 Jones Rd: To construct 35 block townhouses and 12 maisonette dwelling units on the subject lands with 21 visitor parking spaces and 94 resident parking spaces.
• FC-24-041 - 820, 822 and 832 Barton St: To develop a mix of residential built forms for a total of 262 units, including 38 single detached dwellings, 2 semi-detached dwellings, 87 on-street townhouses, 44 back-to-back townhouse units, and 1 multiple dwelling with 91 units.
• ZAC-18-049 / 25T-202109 - 860 & 884 Barton St: 
  • Draft Plan approved (OLT)
  • Phase 1: one block to retain an existing dwelling (Block 1); one block for 156 multiple residential units in the form of three storey townhouses and stacked townhouses (Block 2), one block for a 1.651 hectare SWMF (Block 3), and one block for road widening (Block 4); and,
  • Phase 2: three blocks for 39 street townhouse dwellings (Blocks 1, 2, and 3), one block for 64 multiple residential units in the form of maisonette townhouses and three storey townhouses (Block 4), one block for a 0.440 hectare portion of a neighbourhood park (Block 5), one block for future development (Block 6), three blocks for 0.3 m reserves (Blocks 7, 8, and 9), and public roads (Streets A and B).
• ZAC-20-043 / 25T-202009 - 1036-1090 Barton St and 262 McNeilly Rd
• Draft Plan approved (OLT)
• Consists of 152 lots for single detached dwellings (Lots 1 to 152), 28 blocks for street townhouse dwellings (Blocks 153 to 180), two blocks for block townhouse dwellings (Blocks 181 and 182), six blocks reserved for future residential development (Blocks 183 to 188), one block for a neighbourhood park (Block 189), one block for a walkway (Block 190), one block for a stormwater management pond (Block 191), two blocks for road widening (Blocks 193 and 194), two blocks for services (Blocks 192 and 195), five blocks for 0.3 metre reserves (Block 196 to 200), new local roads (Streets “C”, “D”, “E”, “F”, “G”, “H”, “I”, and “J”), and new collector roads (Streets “A” and “B”).
• FC-23-112 - 286 Lewis Rd: To develop a residential subdivision consisting of 91 townhouse units, two townhouse condo blocks, a stormwater management pond block, and a local road network.

Permitting process is allowed to continue before the road reconstruction takes place. The permit issuance and scope depends on each application. Some changes are still permitted within the Fruitland-Winona Secondary Plan policies.

There is one appeal outstanding in the FWSP area, for 238 Jones Road. The appeal relates to the extent of the Natural Heritage System designations on the subject lands. A hearing on the appeal has been scheduled for October 2024.

The City is moving forward with zoning by-law updates for all Secondary Plan areas across the City to implement Council’s direction to permit a broader range of dwelling types in low density residential areas (i.e. duplex, triplex, fourplex, street townhouses). The same changes have already been made for areas outside of Secondary Plans. These changes are in progress for areas within the Fruitland Winona Secondary Plan which already have existing residential zoning (i.e. Winona community). Zoning updates are expected to be completed in the Fall.

The change to the Right-of-Way width is due to public comments at 2021 PIC, and City of Hamilton's approval of Complete Street Guidelines. All the required Complete Street elements will fit within the narrower righ-of-way width.