A 59-lot residential subdivision is being proposed for Woodview in North Kawartha Township, at the location of the former Woodview Golf Course on Northey’s Bay Road off Highway 28.
Peterborough County has received a notice of complete application for the plan, with a request for an amendment to the county’s official plan and an amendment to North Kawartha Township’s zoning by-law, and has published the notice on its website as a requirement of the Planning Act. The notice does not infer that the application is approved.
The proposed subdivision would be located on 78 acres within a 301-acre parcel of land owned by Eric and Diane Challenger, who purchased the land in 2006 and opened the nine-hole Woodview Golf Course in 2013, which closed in 2023.
According to a planning justification report prepared by Peterborough-based land use planning and consulting company EcoVue Consulting, the lands surrounding the proposed site include residential uses and community facilities — including the Emergency Services Station 1 and Wilson Park Community Centre, which contains the Woodview branch of the North Kawartha Library — as well as undeveloped lands containing woodlands and wetlands.
The proposed subdivision would mostly be located within the same area as the golf course. While a limited amount of tree clearing would be required to accommodate the proposed
development, the intention would be to retain as much vegetation on the site as possible.
The proposed subdivision would have 59 lots, ranging in size from 0.75 acres to 1.2 acres, 58 of which would be residential units in the form of single detached dwellings, with one commercial lot located adjacent to Northey’s Bay Road and directly across the road from the community facilities.
The plan also includes blocks for open space, a storm water management facility, and public streets. Since the hamlet of Woodview is not municipally serviced for water or wastewater, the individual lots would have private wells and septic tanks.
As a portion of the lands currently have a rural designation in Peterborough County’s official plan, which precludes multi-lot residential development, an official plan amendment would be required to redesignate all the lands with a hamlet area designation, which would effectively expand the Woodview settlement area.
In addition, since the current site-specific rural exception zoning under North Kawartha Township’s comprehensive zoning by-law is for use of the lands for a golf course, which does not permit multiple residential lots, the property would need to be rezoned as a site-specific general residential exception zone.
Along with EcoVue Consulting’s planning justification report, the application received by Peterborough County includes archaeological assessments, a traffic impact study, a preliminary stormwater management report, a hydrogeological assessment, a geotechnical investigation report, an environmental site assessment, an environmental impact assessment with a response to peer review comments, and a draft plan of the subdivision.
A future public meeting will be scheduled on the official plan amendment application, and notification of the public meeting will be provided in accordance with the requirements of the Planning Act.
More information about the application, including all supporting documents, is available on Peterborough County’s website.
PDF: Draft plan for Woodview Golf subdivision
Draft plan for Woodview Golf subdivision
