The Town of Ajax is considering a zoning bylaw amendment that will impact residential driveways.
According to the Town, the amendments to the bylaw will facilitate numerous Town objectives, such as:
- Allowing property owners to address parking needs on their own private properties
- Alleviating issues resulting from on-street parking
- Providing more flexibility to property owners who wish to undertake landscaping improvements on their properties
- Maximizing the number of legal parking spaces that can be accommodated on existing driveways
- Reducing the administrative burden of minor driveway-related applications
- Matching zoning bylaw standards to current and desirable forms of driveway design
- Enabling the Town to prevent undesirable forms of driveway design
- Simplifying existing zoning bylaw standards
- Facilitating storm water management through the preservation of existing landscape features
- Creating a consistent policy framework where zoning bylaw standards directly align with other municipal documents impacted by the recently approved Boulevard Encroachment Policy.
Two electronic public open houses will be held on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. The first session will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and the second will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
More information can be found here.
