Title
Review of Public Notification Requirements for Development Applications and Land Use Bylaw Amendments
Proposed Motion
That Council direct Administration to amend Land Use Bylaw 2025-12 to update public notification requirements, as presented.
Body
Administration Recommendation
That Administration be directed to prepare amendments to Land Use Bylaw 2025-12 to extend the Major Development Permit Decision notification radius from 800 m to 1600 m.
Purpose
To review the public notification requirements for development applications and Land Use Bylaw amendments under Land Use Bylaw 2025-12, to clarify the existing notification radiuses for different application types, and to present Administration's recommendations to ensure notification requirements appropriately reflect Parkland County's rural context and specific application impacts.
Summary
This report addresses Council's motion to review the public notification requirements under the Land Use Bylaw to assess whether they appropriately reflect a rural context. In May 2025, Parkland County adopted a new Land Use Bylaw 2025-12, which governs notification standards for development permits and amendments to the Land Use Bylaw (Sections 7.60 and 8.40 accordingly).
Currently, Major Developments require an 800 m minimum notification distance, and all other discretionary Development Permits require a 100 m minimum notification distance. Parkland County’s Land Use Bylaw defines Major Development as “a new commercial, industrial, resource extraction, institutional, recreational, or Multi-unit residential project that, in the opinion of the Development Authority, has an intensity of operations that has significant environmental, transportation, and municipal infrastructure demands or similar effects and may include off-site impacts that are licensed under municipal, provincial or federal policies or regulations”.
Discretionary Development Permits
Administration recommends maintaining the existing discret...
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