Update: Report to Council and Revised Site Boundaries

Update - Feb. 13 2025

Report Number 25-065 (Proposed Indoor Multi-Sport Facility at St. Lawrence Business Park) will be going to Council on Tuesday, February 18 2025. Please see an update on the project and a sketch showing revised site boundaries below.

In 2023, a developer approached the City to develop a parcel of land at St. Lawrence Business Park (Lot 214) into a multi-use indoor sportsplex with a focus on soccer-related activities.

Initially, in addition to purchasing Lot 214 the developer’s proposal included two acres of soccer field lands where one of the mid-sized fields and a pathway is located. This disposition and proposal, if implemented, would have resulted in the loss of one-midsized field from the City’s rectangular field inventory to the creation of a privately operated indoor, all-season, full-size field. (As noted below, the site boundaries have now changed and the parcel where the mid-sized field and pathway is located is no longer part of the disposition.)

Public engagement was conducted in September and October 2024. After further review of the layout plan and exploring alternative development scenarios with the developer and various internal departments, staff and the developer were able to revise the site boundaries. The new lot boundaries consist of Lot 214, and an extension northerly into a strip of land currently used as an emergency access to the John Machin soccer fields. This revised site boundary does not disturb the existing fields or the existing pathway, maintaining both “as-is” and it will also continue to provide emergency access to the soccer fields after development, via an easement in favour of the City.

The revised site boundaries are shown below and the full report is up on the City website.