Lapsed Cork and Vine sub-division gets re-approved

By Sharon Harrison
Kaitlin Corporation’s Cork and Vine lapsed draft plan of sub-division application for Wellington (phases 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A) was re-approved by council which deemed it not to have lapsed.

However, at Wednesday’s planning and development committee meeting, the re-approval did come with a new condition. Councillor Phil St-Jean put forward an amending motion that the re-approval come with a new lapsing date of three years from today’s date, i.e. June 17, 2029.

St-Jean had a further motion that the confidential letter received by council from Kaitlin, and which was presented in closed session at this meeting, be released and made publicly available (which Kaitlin’s Devon Daniell agreed to). Council voted in favour of the motion, and as a result, the clerk will re-publish the agenda to include the letter from Kaitlin as an attachment to the agenda item.

The lapsed (but previously approved) application was last before council on April 2, who, at that time, were considering whether the previously approved application should be deemed not to have lapsed. It was staff’s recommendation at the time that the application be deemed not to have lapsed, but council voted instead to defer the decision to “implement legal counsel direction”. See that story here

The application was allowed to lapse by Kaitlin in November 2025 who called it an “oversight” and said it had “slipped through the cracks”. Having failed to request an extension in advance of the lapsing, Kaitlin filed a request on Feb. 20 asking that the application be deemed not to have lapsed.

Today’s decision will allow Kaitlin to move forward in satisfying the remaining conditions of draft approval and proceed to final approval without having to re-start the planning process through a new draft plan of sub-division application.

There was very little discussion around the horseshoe on the matter, and no public comments, but St-Jean did enquire how soon it would be before Kaitlin got started on building, once the municipality has the pumping station in place.

“As soon as we possibly can,” was Daniell’s reply. “It is tendered, it is designed, it is ready to go, so as soon as I get the go-ahead, we’re ready to go.”

St-Jean followed-up by asking if Kaitlin anticipates building this summer, to which Daniell responded by asking, “Is the pumping station going to be ready this summer?”

Councillor Brad Nieman asked how many units there will be for the entire property, with Daniell confirming the first phase will contain about 220-ish units. Nieman again asked how many units there will be for the entire property.

“The caveat here is that there is active applications on re-zoning as well, but right now, there is about 600, give or take, on the B side, and on the A side is 220, and there are additional lands on top of that which are subject to further amendment, but as draft approved and/or registered, there is going to be about 800 to 850,” confirmed Daniell. The County planner, Samatha Deck, clarified that draft approval for phases 1A to 4A is for 460 units.

Nieman then asked how long it will take to build the 220-ish houses in the first phase.

“With the HST coming in, and some potential development charges reductions, pretty quickly,” confirmed Daniell, “That could be a couple of years, two years or it could be three years, somewhere in that range.”

Kaitlin had filed applications for draft plan of sub-division and zoning bylaw amendment for 460 residential units in January 2019 for the proposed development known as Cork and Vine (previously Country Club Estates). However, the sub-division is awaiting completion of the municipality’s capital works projects to be completed before it can begin development

“The sub-division cannot advance until the County’s capital works projects have been completed, including the sewer trunk main and pumping station,” stated Deck. “Based on the executed sub-division agreement, infrastructure works can be completed on the subject lands; however, no connections to the municipal systems will be granted until the capital works projects have been completed.”

Deck noted how Kaitlin has advanced various aspects of the development, with the majority of draft plan conditions cleared, including:
-A pre-payment agreement has been entered into between the County and the owner for the subject lands to hold allocation for the applicable water and wastewater capacities;
-The M-plan has been prepared and is currently being reviewed by County staff;
-The sub-division agreement has been signed and executed in 2024 and is prepared to be registered on title following the issuance of final approval; and
-Environmental compliance approvals have been granted for both sanitary and stormwater management infrastructure.

Planning documentation relating to this application can be found on the County’s website for the June 17 planning and development committee meeting, along with the meeting recording.