Notice of Commencement - Addison Extension Environmental Assessment

The City of Richmond Hill is projected to continue experiencing population and employment growth. With this knowledge, the City has initiated a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) and Preliminary Design Study for the proposed Addison Street extension. The extension will be located between existing Addison Street and Weldrick Road West on the west side of Yonge Street. As shown in the adjacent Key Plan, the general study area is bounded by Harding Boulevard to the north, Weldrick Road West to the south, Kersey Crescent to the west and Yonge Street to the east. The City of Richmond Hill Official Plan (OP) has identified the proposed Addison Street extension with a 20 m right-of-way.

The Addison Street Extension will generally help establish the limits of the intensification boundary and provide separation and/or transition opportunities between the existing low-density neighbourhood in the west and the new development form that has been recently constructed, approved or planned along the Yonge Street corridor. Running parallel to Yonge Street, this new roadway will improve the road network by providing local transportation capacity, active transportation, access opportunities for new development, and a finer grid network.

This project is being carried out as a Schedule C project under the Municipal Engineers Association Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (March 2023).

As part of the consultation process, a mailing list for notification purposes is now being compiled. If you wish to receive further information about this project, to submit a comment, or to be added to the mailing list, please visit the study website at RichmondHill.ca/AddisonEA, or contact:

Attila Hertel, P.Eng
Project Manager
City of Richmond Hill
225 East Beaver Creek Road
Richmond Hill, ON L4B 3P4
Tel: 905-771-9996 ext. 6592
attila.hertel@richmondhill.ca

Stefan Sirianni, P.Eng.
Consultant Deputy Project Manager
Arcadis IBI Group
7th Floor – 55 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, ON M4V 2Y7
Tel: 416-596-1930 ext. 61270
stefan.sirianni@arcadis.com

If you have any accessibility requirements in order to be able to review the project materials and provide comments, please contact the City Project Manager listed above.

Personal information submitted (e.g., name, address and phone number) is collected, maintained and disclosed under the authority of the Environmental Assessment Act and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy for transparency and consultation purposes. Personal Information you submitted with become part of a public record that is available to the general public, unless you request that your personal information remain confidential. This notice was first issued on October 13, 2023.