Notice of Application for Approval to Expropriate Land - 16th Avenue from Warden Avenue to Kennedy Road
Notice of Application for Approval to Expropriate Land
Expropriations Act, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 363
In the matter of an application by The Regional Municipality of York for approval to expropriate land in the City of Markham, being described in Schedule ‘A’, as the case may be, as follows:
1) all right, title and interest (“Fee Simple”);
2) temporary easements or rights in the nature of temporary easements each described as a temporary limited interest commencing on registration of the plan of expropriation and expiring on December 31, 2031 in, under, over, along and upon and for municipal purposes including, but not limited to, entering on the lands with all vehicles, machinery, workmen and other material for construction purposes, which may include (1) relocation of existing services and utilities, (2) work that supports the construction of municipal infrastructure within the Region’s permanent takings, (3) staging and storage of materials and equipment, (4) geotech testing, borehole testing, and other investigative works, (5) removal, relocation and/or installation of signage, (6) hard and soft landscaping, paving, grading and reshaping the lands to the limit of the reconstruction of the municipal road fronting the lands herein described, (7) the installation and removal of temporary (i) pedestrian access and walkways, (ii) parking measures including re-striping of aisles, lanes, and parking stalls, (iii) shoring and formwork, (iv) drainage and erosion/sediment control measures (v) traffic signals, (vi) fencing, and (vii) handrails, and (8) works ancillary to any of the foregoing and necessary to the works to be performed in association with the purpose of implementing road and intersection improvements along 16th Avenue including associated local roads, and to provide designated lanes for the road widening and works ancillary thereto. (“Temporary Easement”),
for the purpose of road widening and improvements of 16th Avenue, from Warden Avenue (Y.R. 65) to Kennedy Road (Y.R. 3), and works ancillary thereto.
Notice is hereby given that application has been made for approval to expropriate the land described in Schedule ‘A’.
Any owner of land in respect of which notice is given who desires a hearing into whether the taking of such land is fair, sound and reasonably necessary in the achievement of the objectives of the expropriating authority shall so notify the approving authority in writing,
(a) in the case of a registered owner, served personally or by registered mail within thirty days after the registered owner is served with the notice, or, when the registered owner is served by publication, within thirty days after the first publication of the notice;
(b) in the case of an owner who is not a registered owner, within thirty days after the first publication of the notice.
The approving authority is:
The Council of The Regional Municipality of York
17250 Yonge Street, Newmarket, Ontario, L3Y 6Z1
The expropriating authority is:
The Regional Municipality of York
17250 Yonge Street, Newmarket, Ontario, L3Y 6Z1
THE REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF YORK
Eric Bjornson, Manager, Realty Services
This notice first published on the 28th day of July, 2026
For more information, please visit york.ca/landexpropriation
