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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).

Part 1: General Impression of the Current Zoning By-law

In reviewing the statements below, please indicate the degree to which you strongly agree, agree, neither agree nor disagree, disagree, strongly disagree, or I have no opinion.

Space to provide any comments on each topic is provided below.

In my day-to-day, I frequently use or reference the Municipality’s Zoning By-law.
 
The Municipality’s current Zoning By-law is a user-friendly document.
 
The organization, layout, and order of sections within the current Zoning By-law makes sense to me.
 
The definitions for terms used in the current Zoning By-law are clear and straight forward.
 
Overall, the provisions within the current Zoning By-law are working well to regulate development in the Municipality.
 
Provisions should be added to the current Zoning By-law for issues that are not currently being addressed to better regulate development in the Municipality.
 

Part 2: Planning Issues to be Addressed in the Zoning By-law

In reviewing the topics below, please indicate the degree to which you feel they are extremely important, important, neither important nor unimportant, unimportant, extremely unimportant to you, or if you have no opinion.

Space to provide any comments on each topic is provided below.

Residential Areas & Uses

Permissions and regulations for additional residential units (e.g., additional residential unit(s) within an existing dwelling or in an accessory building/structure on a property)
 
Permissions for a greater diversity of residential uses (e.g., townhouse, semi-detached dwelling, duplex dwelling, apartment building, etc.)
 
Permissions and regulations for short-term rental accommodations (i.e. AirBNB, VRBO)
 
Review of development standards for main and accessory buildings/structures in all zones (e.g., maximum height, maximum lot coverage, minimum required setbacks, etc.)
 

Rural & Agricultural Areas

Permissions for home industry uses (e.g., woodworking shops, metal/welding shops, small-scale trades operations on the same property as the proprietor’s primary residence)
 
Permissions for agri-tourism uses as a secondary farm occupation in prime agricultural areas
 
Permissions for small-scale retail or restaurant uses as a secondary farm occupation in prime agricultural areas
 
Permissions for small-scale renewable energy generation (i.e., wind, solar) as a secondary farm occupation in prime agricultural areas
 
Permissions for animal kennels in the Agricultural zones
 

Other Planning Considerations

Review of permissions and development standards in the Industrial zones
 
Review of permissions and development standards in the Commercial zones
 
Review of permissions and development standards in the Institutional zone
 
Processes for zoning properties with demonstrated archaeological potential (e.g., the use of a holding provision requiring an archaeological assessment prior to development)
 
Requirements for dedicated electric vehicle parking spaces for multi-unit residential uses (e.g., 4+ units) and non-residential uses
 
Requirements for bicycle parking for high density residential uses (i.e. apartment buildings), commercial uses, and institutional uses
 

Part 3: Additional Information

Please feel free to include any other information and/or commentary that you would like to provide regarding the update to the Municipality’s Zoning By-law that has not yet been captured. 

Part 4: Demographic Information

I identify as
 
What is your age?
 
Please identify yourself as one of the following (select all that apply)
 
Which best applies?
 

Thank you for your participation in this survey!

We value your feedback and your participation in the review of the Municipality’s Zoning By-law. For more information on the project, its status, upcoming public engagement events, or reports associated with the review, please visit www.strathroy-caradoc.ca/zoning-bylaw.



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