Multiple areas across Wellington County like Fergus and Clifford will be making submissions to the provincial Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing after a reversal from the province of modifications to Official Plan Amendment 119. (OPA-119).

The shift has left many municipalities uncertain about what their lands will look like down the line. The original OPA was going to expand the boundaries of many Ontario municipalities, not excluding Centre Wellington.

The exceptions to the reversed legislation, that will see OPA-119 changed back to how it was originally adopted by county council, would be when “construction has begun” or where doing so “would contravene existing provincial legislation and regulation,” a report states.

County Director of Planning and Development Aldo Salis says Clifford in the Town of Minto will be making an application to the province.

"In the case of Clifford, the municipality does support the inclusion of the Clifford lands, so they'll be making a resolution or a submission to the ministry to have the ministry maintain that urban boundary inclusion for those lands in Clifford," Salis explained.

Salis added that one Fergus development is in a similar situation, and will be applying on the grounds that the Centre Wellington build is already too far along in the process.

"The golf course in Centre Wellington, the Fergus golf course; that application has moved pretty quickly through the system," Salis said.

"Even though it was modified, the request, the municipality, the applicant, we see justification for including it, and maintaining it because it has already progressed through the planning system," Salis said.

Salis says he doesn't know how rapidly the province will move on this, but his instinct is telling him it won't be too long.

"Based on what we're hearing from the minister's office, that they want to move quickly on a new legislation, my gut feeling is they would probably move rather quickly in order to move this along," Salis said.

"It's hard to predict," he added.

It's stated in the report from the County of Wellington that the Deputy Minister confirmed in a call with Salis "the date of this new approval from the Province of Ontario hasn't been determined yet."

Consideration of municipal costs related to provincial modifications will be taken into consideration following a 45-day commenting deadline.

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