Employment Sites Review

Project background

The City of Mississauga, in partnership with the Region of Peel, is evaluating the appropriateness of converting three employment sites to allow for sensitive uses, including residential development.

Why this matters

Employment areas provide land for diverse employment uses to meet current and future needs. Certain types of employment use, including industrial operations, benefit from separation from residential use. These employment activities contribute significantly to the city's economic base.

At the same time, the province has found that it needs 1.5 million more homes over the next ten years, and there is pressure to build more homes in Mississauga.

Regional Council directed staff to evaluate these three sites to determine if residential uses would be appropriate.

At the moment, these three sites act as a buffer between heavy employment uses in the city's employment area and residential areas nearby.

Have your say this September!

The City will ask community and industry members to comment throughout Phases Two and Three of the project. The comments and ideas will be considered as part of the recommendations prepared for decision-makers to review. September is our next in-person info session! Join us to learn more—no registration required.

Site 1 - SmartCentres Argentia Rd. Information Session

  • Wednesday, September 20
  • Hope Church, 7755 Tenth Line West
  • 6 – 8:00 p.m.

Sites 2 and 3 – Smart Centres Burnhamthorpe Road West Information Session

  • Thursday, September 28
  • The Great Hall – Mississauga Civic Centre, 300 City Centre Drive
  • 6 – 8:00 p.m.

Watch recorded information session on-demand

If you are unable to attend the in-person sessions, a recorded presentation is available here for you to review and provide your comments on.


Stay involved

Subscribe to receive news alerts about future engagements at the top of the page.

If you prefer to mail in your comments, please send them to Christian Binette, 7th floor City Planning Strategies, Planning and Building, City of Mississauga, 300 City Centre Dr, Mississauga, ON L5B 3C1.

For more information check the Frequently Asked Questions

Project background

The City of Mississauga, in partnership with the Region of Peel, is evaluating the appropriateness of converting three employment sites to allow for sensitive uses, including residential development.

Why this matters

Employment areas provide land for diverse employment uses to meet current and future needs. Certain types of employment use, including industrial operations, benefit from separation from residential use. These employment activities contribute significantly to the city's economic base.

At the same time, the province has found that it needs 1.5 million more homes over the next ten years, and there is pressure to build more homes in Mississauga.

Regional Council directed staff to evaluate these three sites to determine if residential uses would be appropriate.

At the moment, these three sites act as a buffer between heavy employment uses in the city's employment area and residential areas nearby.

Have your say this September!

The City will ask community and industry members to comment throughout Phases Two and Three of the project. The comments and ideas will be considered as part of the recommendations prepared for decision-makers to review. September is our next in-person info session! Join us to learn more—no registration required.

Site 1 - SmartCentres Argentia Rd. Information Session

  • Wednesday, September 20
  • Hope Church, 7755 Tenth Line West
  • 6 – 8:00 p.m.

Sites 2 and 3 – Smart Centres Burnhamthorpe Road West Information Session

  • Thursday, September 28
  • The Great Hall – Mississauga Civic Centre, 300 City Centre Drive
  • 6 – 8:00 p.m.

Watch recorded information session on-demand

If you are unable to attend the in-person sessions, a recorded presentation is available here for you to review and provide your comments on.


Stay involved

Subscribe to receive news alerts about future engagements at the top of the page.

If you prefer to mail in your comments, please send them to Christian Binette, 7th floor City Planning Strategies, Planning and Building, City of Mississauga, 300 City Centre Dr, Mississauga, ON L5B 3C1.

For more information check the Frequently Asked Questions

Comments

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and providing a comment on the Employment Sites Review study. Constructive feedback and diverse perspectives play a vital role in the development and improvement of policies. 

Your feedback adds another layer of understanding to the complex issue of urban planning, and it encourages staff to have a more comprehensive examination of the topic. The more participation we have from interested parties, the better it helps in ongoing efforts to create policies that benefit everyone and foster vibrant, livable communities. 

Once again, thank you for taking the time to share your perspective.

Sincerely, 

The Employment Sites Review Team. 

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  • Residential development close to employment, entertainment, schooling centres, and transit is a good idea. This plan increases housing in Mississauga and does it in a fairly smart way, aligning the sites close to where families, students, and people want to live. I think the two sites near Erindale Go Station are a prime area for dense residential developments, especially due to their proximity to downtown Mississauga. However, as someone previously mentioned, the transit availability is not the best at these sites, to say the least. I hope these sites become hotbeds of improvement within the city, however will funding to other public services (transit, schooling, etc.) be considered during the planning phases?

    Shanom asked 24 days ago

    We sincerely appreciate your comments and the diverse perspectives you have shared with us regarding the Employment Sites Review project. As we move forward with the project, we would like to emphasize that your feedback holds weight in our recommendation-making process. We encourage you to review the presentations on the website for more information and continue to participate in our in-person or on-demand information session

  • I would really like to keep The Keg and Hero burger as I have many food allergies and these are two of the very few places I can eat. I think it’s great to build more affordable housing but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Also Tim Hortons is an icon and should remain. Just my 2 cents worth.

    J shaw asked 11 days ago

    We sincerely appreciate your comments and the diverse perspectives you have shared with us regarding the Employment Sites Review project. As we move forward with the project, we would like to emphasize that your feedback holds weight in our recommendation-making process. We encourage you to review the presentations on the website for more information and continue to participate in our in-person or on-demand information session

  • Its great to hear that the city is looking into opening up more areas for housing, the areas identified in this review are mostly taken up by parking lots currently so I look forward to seeing them converted into something that is more beneficial to the community. Adding more housing to these areas would be great for the nearby businesses and help them thrive. To help replace the retail space being redeveloped, will the new housing developments be mixed use and allow for retail on the ground level? And to help create a better sense of community in the area, will parks and paths be added as part of the development to provide spaces for people to hangout and walk to the different shops in the area?

    jsreid13 asked 18 days ago

    We sincerely appreciate your comments and the diverse perspectives you have shared with us regarding the Employment Sites Review project. As we move forward with the project, we would like to emphasize that your feedback holds weight in our recommendation-making process. We encourage you to review the presentations on the website for more information and continue to participate in our in-person or on-demand information session

  • It is very bad and disapponting thing that officials are planning to do. In the mentioned site there are numerous numbet of local business and around thousands of people of all agrs are working to fulfill their household needs. I don't think so people prefer housing over the job. Don't take people workplace from them. It is not a good idea

    Simran asked 11 days ago

    We sincerely appreciate your comments and the diverse perspectives you have shared with us regarding the Employment Sites Review project. As we move forward with the project, we would like to emphasize that your feedback holds weight in our recommendation-making process. We encourage you to review the presentations on the website for more information and continue to participate in our in-person or on-demand information session

  • I recently purchased a house in the Lisgar neighborhood. A huge factor in my decision was the fact that this neighbourhood is one of the few areas in Mississauga that is livable without a car. It has grocery stores (Walmart and Real Canadian Superstore) as well as numerous restaurants. However, I recently learnt about the Employment Sites Review process, and I think it would be a huge mistake to rezone the site into a residential zone. The current commercial zone is essentially the lifeblood of the Lisgar and Meadowville communities. The first issue with rezoning the site is that it will increase congestion and add even more burden onto the already struggling transportation network. Everyone who is able to walk or cycle to the current site for shopping will be forced to either drive to another location or rely on the bus network (since the GO train is only for rush-hour commute to downtown). For example, I currently walk to the site for my grocery shopping as well as when I want to eat out. Rezoning will not only increase congestion on the roads, but also greatly increase the emissions generated (since everyone will have to drive further). We as the community and you as the representative of local government should actually be working to reduce this at all costs. Please consider the environmental impact of removing local amenities as part of this proposal. Secondly, the site is vital for the local economy. It has a huge number of businesses that employ a lot of local residents. By rezoning the site into a residential site, you'll be essentially removing jobs from the local economy. I feel that this is the opposite of what the local government should be doing. With the rising cost of living as well as Quantitative Tightening policies of the Bank of Canada, local residents are finding it harder and harder to make their mortgage payments. Removing economic activity and jobs from neighbourhoods is the exact opposite of what the government should be striving for and will only punish local residents. I completely understand the need to build more housing in Mississauga, but I think that building housing at the cost of essential commercial zones is the wrong way to go about it. Housing should not come at the cost of the local economy and amenities, especially when the transportation and infrastructure is unable to support it. Housing should grow hand-in-hand with the local economy as well as transportation in order for MIssissauga to grow and prosper. I hope that you will fairly consider the opinions of local residents as you see how important the site is to us.

    Anonymous01 asked 12 days ago

    We sincerely appreciate your comments and the diverse perspectives you have shared with us regarding the Employment Sites Review project. As we move forward with the project, we would like to emphasize that your feedback holds weight in our recommendation-making process. We encourage you to review the presentations on the website for more information and continue to participate in our in-person or on-demand information session.

  • Site 1 redevelopment would be sacrificing the integrity of this beautiful community. It will impact resale values as having a smart center so close by is a positive by means of local amenities. This is the only smart center in the community that offers a wide variety of shopping especially for the elderly population in this area. Not to mention the site is a home for many teenagers to gain part time employment close to home. You would be sacrificing the amenities in the neighbourhood, jobs for many teens who are in need, imposing on the elderly population and congesting this area even further. The old Rona has been sitting vacant for close to a decade perhaps the focus should be on those commercial buildings that are sitting vacant and a total waste of resources.

    Cat123 asked 12 days ago

    We sincerely appreciate your comments and the diverse perspectives you have shared with us regarding the Employment Sites Review project. As we move forward with the project, we would like to emphasize that your feedback holds weight in our recommendation-making process. We encourage you to review the presentations on the website for more information and continue to participate in our in-person or on-demand information session

  • Are they planning on ripping down the Walmart and Superstore in the ara?

    Gumwood777 asked 16 days ago

    Thank you for your question. No development application has been submitted for this site at this time. We are undertaking a high-level review to see if housing as part of a broader mix of uses is appropriate for the site. If you would like to learn more, please continue to check back on the website.   

  • Overall, I support the change in use for the site. However, I suggest that redevelopment of the subject site be done in a way that preserves the potential to relocate Lisgar GO nearer to Winston Churchill. This would significantly improve transit connectivity with municipal bus service for both Mississauga and Brampton transit, and with 401 for GO buses. This relocation would improve pedestrian and cyclist access to the station by leveraging the grade separation at Winston Churchill, and reduce the need for an eventual grade separation at Tenth Line. It would also locate the station to better serve Meadowvale community and employment uses both south of the 401 and the industrial sites north of it. The importance of easy access to Lisgar GO will become more important once 2WAD service is enabled on the Milton Line, and easy bus at the station to the rest of Mississauga would serve the potential residents of the subject lands and enable less car dependent development.

    Andrew asked 3 months ago

    We sincerely appreciate your comments and the diverse perspectives you have shared with us regarding the Employment Sites Review project. As we move forward with the project, we would like to emphasize that your feedback holds weight in our recommendation-making process. We encourage you to review the presentations on the website for more information and continue to participate in our in-person or on-demand information session.

  • I am absolutely not in favour of the Site 1 conversion request as presently proposed by Smartcentres. This Site 1 conversion proposal wreaks of the same foul trend that other cities have followed in the last decade, namely eliminating local businesses and jobs in favour of excessive residential density without any thought given to the community's daily shopping and personal needs. There are other empty patches of land in Mississauga where housing could be established without eliminating or displacing important local businesses. I don't understand why we cannot explore those other empty parcels for housing development, rather than dislodging existing local businesses and jobs. I was also not clear on the information presented by Smartcentres on what precise kind of residential housing would be developed, but typically affordable housing strongly implies high density condo or townhome developments. I am not against responsible housing development in Mississauga, but I cannot make heads or tails of the current Smartcentres proposal as it seems excessive in its current scope. Further, it is normal for any commercial plaza to see a variation in vacancy rates throughout economic cycles, and especially now since some businesses are still adjusting to life after covid lockdowns. I live very close to Site 1 and I do not know what kind of high vacancies Smartcentres is referring to that would justify the current conversion request and elimination of many local businesses. I would be open to supporting a modified proposal that develops a smaller portion of the currently proposed conversion request, and only if there are clear details on what kind of residential development and density will be permitted. I will not be supporting excessive density or highrises as they inevitably exacerbate road traffic and crime. If the city or region remains ambiguous on the type and density of residential development, then I will not support any conversion request that eliminates or displaces any local businesses. We have already seen an increase in petty crime, littering, and panhandling in this area with no clear and effective plan from the city to combat this issue, so it is hardly worth supporting a new affordable housing project as currently proposed, and under the current conditions in the community.

    Rajj asked 17 days ago

    We sincerely appreciate your comments and the diverse perspectives you have shared with us regarding the Employment Sites Review project. As we move forward with the project, we would like to emphasize that your feedback holds weight in our recommendation-making process. We encourage you to review the presentations on the website for more information and continue to participate in our in-person or on-demand information session.

  • Tearing down local businesses to build housing that no one can afford is not creating affordable housing amd is not solving the housing crisis in this province. The city is already set to demolish several large plazas in streetsville without realising the roadways and transit can not support this traffice as is. Housing in mississauga is at an unaffordable rate and we are being price gouged in the PC owned mega stores while this city approves buildings that pave over local owned shops. When will this governments greed end and real solutions be offered?

    Mississauga citizen asked 16 days ago

    We sincerely appreciate your comments and the diverse perspectives you have shared with us regarding the Employment Sites Review project. As we move forward with the project, we would like to emphasize that your feedback holds weight in our recommendation-making process. We encourage you to review the presentations on the website for more information and continue to participate in our in-person or on-demand information session.

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