Notice of Study Completion - Oakville Transit Facility Construction

Acknowledgement - Oakville Transit Bus Garage Statement of Completion (pdf, 278 kB)

The Town of Oakville has completed an Environmental Project Report in accordance with Ontario Regulation 231/08 for the new Oakville Transit Facility Construction Environmental Assessment and Preliminary Design.

Following Town Council approval in principle of the 2007 Transit Facilities Strategy, the town retained Giffels Associates Limited / IBI Group to prepare the new Oakville Transit Facility Environmental Assessment and Preliminary Design. This strategy identifies a need to acquire a new site and construct a new single facility that provides all essential functions including administration, operations, maintenance and storage. The preferred new location is at 430 Wyecroft Road in the town's central industrial area south of the QEW. The ability to maintain existing service quality is being compromised and there is no opportunity for further growth of transit services at the current location.

The environmental impact of this transit project was assessed and an Environmental Project Report prepared according to the transit project assessment process as prescribed in Ontario Regulation 231/08, Transit Projects and Greater Toronto Transportation Authority Undertakings.

A project file report has been prepared and is available from the table below and at the following locations for a 30-day review period (until September 21, 2009):

Environmental Project Report - New Oakville Transit Facility Environmental Assessment

Final Report - September 2009 (pdf, 1 MB)

Appendix A - Project Notification and Consultation Record (pdf, 3.5 MB)

Appendix B - Transit Facility Design Plans and Drawings (pdf, 1.7 MB)

Appendix C - Public Information Meetings (pdf, 4.1 MB)

Appendix D - Natural Heritage (pdf, 352 kB)

Appendix E - Stage 1 Archaeological (pdf, 518 kB)

Appendix F - Air Quality (pdf, 168 kB)

Appendix G - Noise Study (pdf, 3.1 MB)

Appendix H - Traffic Impact Assessment (pdf, 982 kB)

Appendix I - Stormwater Management Study (pdf, 5.5 MB)

Appendix J - Optimum Location Matrix (pdf, 24 kB)

Ministry of the Environment
Environmental Assessment and Approvals Branch
2 St. Claire Avenue West, Floor 12 A
Toronto, ON  M4V 1L5

Ministry of the Environment
Central Region Office
5775 Younge St., 8th Floor
North York, ON  M2M 4J1

Town of Oakville
Clerks or Engineering and Construction Department
1225 Trafalgar Road
Oakville, ON  L6J 5A6

All Oakville Public Library branches

There are circumstances in which the Minister of the Environment has the authority to require further consideration of the transit project, or impose conditions on it, if the minister is of the opinion that:

• The transit project may have a negative impact on a matter of provincial importance that relates to the natural environment or has cultural heritage value or interest; or
• The transit project may have a negative impact on a constitutionally protected aboriginal or treaty right.

Before exercising this authority, the minister is required to consider any written objections to the transit project that he may receive within 30 days after this Notice of Completion of the Environmental Project Report is first published.

Interested persons are encouraged to review this document and provide comments by September 21, 2009. Comments and concerns may be directed to the project contacts listed below. If you have unresolved concerns, you have the right to submit an objection to this transit project to the Minister of the Environment no later than September 21, 2009.

Minister of the Environment
135 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, ON  M4V 1P5
Fax: 416-314-7337
minister.moe@ontario.ca

Although not required, a copy of the objection is requested to be forwarded to the director and project contacts listed. Further information on this environmental assessment is available by contacting either of the following project contacts:

Ms. Agatha Garcia-Wright, Acting Director
Environmental Assessment and Approvals Branch
Ministry of Environment
2 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, ON  M4V 1L5
416-314-7288
agatha.garciawright@ontario.ca

Ms. Saher Fazilat, Project Manager, New Construction
Town of Oakville
1225 Trafalgar Road
Oakville, ON  L6J 5A6
905-845-6601, ext. 3620
sfazilat@oakville.ca

Mr. Don Drackley, MCIP, RPP, Senior Associate
Giffels Associates Limited/IBI Group
379 Queen Street South
Kitchener, ON  N2G 1W6
519-745-9455, ext. 1302
ddrackley@ibigroup.com

Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Environmental Assessment Act, unless otherwise stated in the submission, any personal information such as name, address, telephone number and property location included in a submission will become part of the public record files for this matter and will be released, if requested, to any person.

This notice issued August 20, 2009.