Municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc Comprehensive Zoning By-law Review
Need for Comprehensive Review of Zoning By-law
The Municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc’s current Zoning By-law was adopted by Council on September 2, 2008, and has been the subject of nearly 300 site-specific and housekeeping amendments since adoption. Additionally, since the previous Zoning By-law took effect, the Province has introduced updated planning legislation that changes the way that municipalities regulate land use in their communities.
The Municipality’s Official Plan underwent a comprehensive review and update in 2022, setting the vision and direction for the future of growth and development in Strathroy-Caradoc over the next 25 years. In 2023, the County of Middlesex also updated its Official Plan. Given that both the Municipal and County Official Plans were updated, the Planning Act requires that Strathroy-Caradoc review and update its Zoning By-law to ensure conformity with the updated Official Plans.
Certain new or updated policies in the updated Municipal Official Plan are under appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal and are therefore not yet in full force and effect. The Zoning By-law Review is therefore proceeding in two stages. The first stage will address legislative and policy changes at the provincial level, policies in the updated Municipal Official Plan which are unaffected by the appeal, and changes to planning practice since the Zoning By-law was adopted in 2008. The second stage of the Zoning By-law Review will commence upon resolution of the appeal and will update the Zoning By-law in conformity with the remainder of the new and updated policies of the Municipal Official Plan. This survey pertains to the stage 1 review. As part of this review, we want to hear from you to learn more about what is important to you, your views on the current zoning by-law, and ways it could be improved to better support the Municipality’s vision for Strathroy-Caradoc.
Participating in this Survey – Your Right to Privacy
You are invited to participate in this survey as part of the Municipality’s comprehensive review of the current Zoning By-law. The goal of this survey is to understand what works and does not work in the current Zoning By-law, areas of the by-law that could be more user-friendly, issues that you feel could be better addressed through updates to the By-law and your position on them, and any other areas that you feel warrant additional review (e.g., permissions for additional residential units, agri-tourism uses, development standards, etc.).
This survey is being conducted by J.L. Richards & Associates, as the Municipality’s retained consultant undertaking the comprehensive review.
Participation in this survey is voluntary and you can withdraw at any time. If you agree to participate, completion of the survey is expected to take 5 to 10 minutes. You may skip any questions you don’t want to answer, and you may end the survey at any time. Please note that if you exit the survey before completing it, any responses that you have drafted will not be recorded and will not be included in the final analysis.
The information you will share with us, if you participate in this survey, will be kept anonymized. When the survey period has ended and the data has been analyzed, study findings will be presented only in summary form and no specific responses to open-ended questions will be attributed to you directly.
Please note that there are some risks of data breaches when sending information over the internet that are beyond the control of the Municipality.
If you have any questions about this survey, or more generally about the Zoning By-law Review, please contact Lorelie Spencer, Project Manager (J.L. Richards & Associates Limited) at lspencer@jlrichards.ca (t. 226-780-7480) or Jennifer Huff, Director of Building & Planning (Municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc) at jhuff@strathroy-caradoc.ca (t. 519-245-1105 x 250).
