Council Highlights - June 9, 2025

Stay-up-to-date with what’s happening at the Council table with the Town of Arnprior’s meetings in just a few minutes.  Please note these summaries are not an official record of Council meetings. Official minutes are posted online once they are approved during a subsequent meeting. You can also access the meeting recording on the Town’s YouTube channel.

Public Meetings under the Planning Act:

Zoning By-Law Amendment 5/25 (85 Madawaska)

Council held a public meeting to hear comments from the public regarding an application for an amendment to Zoning By-law 6875-18 for a vacant parcel on Madawaska Blvd. to amend the zoning to:

• increase the maximum building height from to 14.0 m to 14.9 metres
• permit balconies to project a maximum of 1.3 m into the minimum required rear yard; and
• reduce the minimum required planting strip along the front lot line abutting Madawaska Blvd from 3.0 m to 0.0 m

The application will permit development of a four storey 185-unit apartment development with some first-floor non-residential uses as proposed. 

Zoning By-Law Amendment 4/24 (Grace St Andrews United Church)

Council held a public meeting to hear comments from the public regarding an application for an amendment to Zoning By-law 6875-18 for the Grace St. Andrews United Church property including 24 Ottawa St., 258 Albert St., and 257 and 269 John St. N., to amend the zoning of a portion of the property from Residential One to Institutional and a portion of the property from Institutional to Residential One in order to support severance of the existing detached dwellings at 258 Albert St. and 24 Ottawa St., and the creation of two new vacant residential lots with frontage on Albert St. and Ottawa St.  

Staff Reports:

Impact of Ontario Regulation 343/22 on Fire Department Water Rescue Program

Council approved a Hybrid Certification Training Program as outlined in a staff report from the Deputy Fire Chief, as the preferred approach to maintaining water and ice rescue capabilities for the Town of Arnprior Fire Department, considering operational requirements, volunteer capacity, regulatory compliance, and long-term financial responsibility and direct staff to train to this standard. Council also directed staff to advise both the Town of Renfrew and Township of Horton that the Town of Arnprior wishes to discontinue the current Ice and Water Rescue Agreements designating the Arnprior Fire Department as the primary first response agency for water rescue.

Bell Fire Monument

Council directed staff to proceed with a $20,000 capital project to install the bell monument, formerly on display at Hydro Park beside the library, at the Stanley Tourangeau Fire / Police Service Centre in 2025, to be funded from the Capital Expenditure Reserve Fund.

Resolutions:

Council approved the request for waiving the Robert Simpson Park Gazebo Rental Fee on Sunday, September 14th, 2025, for the Terry Fox Run.

Council also approved a request from the Arnprior Regional Health Foundation to include a letter from the ARH Foundation in the July/August 2025 utility bill mailing to be delivered to homes in early September 2025 at no cost to the ARH Foundation.