Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the
Township of Mapleton Committee of
Adjustments.
I'm the secretary treasurer. My name is
Larry Wheeler and we'll start the agenda
with regrets and we have uh regrets from
our member Jeff Dumering.
Next item business is 1.2 two
appointment of a chairperson. Do we have
a recommendation?
» The seconder.
[laughter]
>> Thank you.
» Okay. So, um next item then becomes uh
call for uh deferral or withdrawal of
any matter before the committee. Do we
have any?
>> We do. Okay.
Do we have any declarations of pecunary
interest?
None.
All right.
On to the minutes of the last meeting
that we had. So, we had a committee of
adjustment meeting dated July 15, 2026.
And we have draft minutes.
Um, there is a recommendation here that
the minutes of the Township of Mapleton
Committee of Adjustment meeting held on
July 15, 2026 be confirmed as circulated
in the agenda. Do we have a mover and a
second for that?
>> I'll move.
>> Okay,
>> I'll second.
>> Benjamin's and Stanners.
» All right. Now do we have any matters
arising from the minutes anyone wishes
to raise? None.
Okay. So that moves us to our uh first hearing which is A20614.
The location of this subject property is
legally described as part of lot 17
concession 8P and is municipally known
as 73448
line. Subject property is 40 hectares in
size and is occupied by a residence and
a dairy farm operation.
The purpose and effect of this variance
application is to provide relief from
the required minimum distance separation
to MDS2 from a type A use. The
applicants are proposing to construct a
dairy barn and manure tank and are
seeking an MDS2 setback of 171 m whereas
220 m is required for the barn and 162 m
whereas 298 m is required for the manure
tank from the closest type A use. The
other variances other variances may be
considered where deemed appropriate.
Do we have uh any um notifications or
comments that have been received to date
by the secretary treasurer?
>> Thank you, sir. Staff can confirm that
property owners, Mapleton staff and
agencies were provided with the required
notice on or before July 22nd.
There is a comment summary included in
the planners report. Proper on-site
postings were completed July 23rd.
Source water comments from our risk
management inspector were received and
there was no concerns expressed.
County of Wellington comments from their
planner Jamie Barnes were received and
they're attached. And the GRCCA comments
from their resource planning technician
were received and they are attached.
Thank you.
Okay. Do we have any further comments
from on behalf of the township planner
for the on this application?
» Thank you through your chair. No, we
don't. We are we don't see any issues
and we are in full support.
So this is an opportunity for the owner
Gary and Marilyn applic uh Martin and
the applicant Cleon Martin to introduce
themselves and speak to the application
if there's any further clarification
they wish to give.
» Good afternoon. I'm Cleon Martin acting
as the agent on behalf of Gary and
Carolyn Martin on this uh file. Um I
have no other comments. The u appreciate
the planning staff support. I have no
further comments.
Thank you.
Now I don't know that I see anybody but
uh is there anybody here that wishes to
speak to the proposal? Um, and if you do so, then you can give your name and
address to planning staff. Anyone? None.
I don't know that we have any questions
then from any interested persons. So,
I'll move to committee member questions
uh of the owner applicant.
And do we have anyone that has any
questions on this particular
application? Member Stanners.
>> Thank you, Chair. No, I have no com no
uh questions. I'm I was glad to see this
neighbor's letter that uh there's
somebody else in the township that's
concerned about it and and they they're
quite happy to see this. Go ahead. Quite
often we never see any comments from
anybody other than the applicant. So, I
was really glad to see that there is a
concerned citizen that and their comment
was positive to it. Thank you.
Okay, thanks. Anyone else with anything
else to offer?
>> Thank you, chair. I don't have any
questions. I did do a site visit this
morning and I think it makes good sense.
It's taking the the um the barn and the
manure storage away from the water
course kind of midway back on the farm.
So, um I think it's uh I'm have no
further questions or comments.
>> Thank you.
So at this point it's uh up to the to
the committee to uh either grant,
refuse, defer or reserve uh a decision
on this application and the four tests
that are required for us to consider are
is the variance minor in nature. Is the
variance requested desirable for the
appropriate development or use of the
lands, building or structure?
Does the variance maintain the general
intent and purpose of the official plan?
Does the variance maintain the general
purpose and intent of the zoning bylaw?
So based on on those those questions and
the the um analysis by staff, there is a
recommendation here that the minor
variance applied for in application A
202614
located at part of 7 part of lot 17
concession 8 municipally known as 73448
line to provide the following relief as
proposed.
a new livestock facility and manure
storage.
Um MDS2 set back to a type A use for a
livestock facility. The required
distance is 220 m proposed distance 171
m difference of 49 m and MDS2 set back
to a type A use manure storage
requirement is 298 m. The proposal is
for 162 meters. There's a difference of
136 meters.
So at this point, I ask for a motion or
a mover of the recommendation if we have
one.
>> I'll move that, Dennis.
>> Okay. Member Sheik and a seconder.
>> Seconded.
>> Benjamin's. Okay. So, um, put that to a
vote then. All in favor?
All right.
So we have a granting of that variance.
Okay, we've had the circulation of the
decision sheet um for this uh particular
item. The hearing for minor variance A
202614 is now concluded.
Thank you.
So under general business, we have an
item for upcoming hearing dates. Guess
the question is for September 9th. Do we
have any items at this point?
» So we have nothing for September 9th,
but we do have September 9th, October
14th, and November 18th as the next
scheduled meetings of the committee.