Please send an email to Councillors urging them to vote to DENY this application!

Include the Clerk so your email is added to the Planning Committee public agenda for September 9, 2025.

(Instructions and contact emails are below)

The Details:

On December 19, 2024, the Planning Division received an Official Plan Amendment application to expand Hamilton’s urban boundary into the Greenbelt Area and Niagara Escarpment Plan Area by approximately 10 hectares to allow the development of 75 low density dwellings on a condominium road at 159 and 163 Sulphur Springs Road.

A virtual open house information meeting was held by City Planning Staff on July 10, 2025

Video of open house meeting is HERE

Staff slide deck presentation is HERE

Read more and view all the material submitted by the developers so far HERE

Talking points

• Hamiltonians and Hamilton Council have rejected urban boundary expansion and support intensification within existing neighbourhoods

• The City of Hamilton’s Growth Strategy is to enable intensification within the existing firm urban boundary

• Urban expansion into the Greenbelt and Niagara Escarpment areas should not be permitted under any circumstances

• Permitting the construction of more low density housing will not help solve the housing crisis or help with housing affordability

• Expanding urban infrastructure onto greenfields will worsen Hamilton’s current $5.2 Billion infrastructure spending gap, and the lifetime costs to maintain, repair and replace new infrastructure will fall to Hamilton taxpayers.

To send your email, copy / paste the contact list below all at once into your “To” box

Subject line: 159/163 Sulphur Springs Road Sept 9, 2025 Planning Committee

clerk@hamilton.ca

mayor@hamilton.ca 

maureen.wilson@hamilton.ca 

cameron.kroetsch@hamilton.ca

nrinder.nann@hamilton.ca  

tammy.hwang@hamilton.ca

matt.francis@hamilton.ca

tom.jackson@hamilton.ca

esther.pauls@hamilton.ca 

ward8@hamilton.ca

brad.clark@hamilton.ca

jeff.beattie@hamilton.ca

mark.tadeson@hamilton.ca 

craig.cassar@hamilton.ca 

alex.wilson@hamilton.ca 

mike.spadafora@hamilton.ca 

ted.mcmeekin@hamilton.ca

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