Notice of Application for Approval to Expropriate Lands – Warden Avenue from Major Mackenzie Drive East to Elgin Mills Road East

December 04, 2025

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL TO EXPROPRIATE LAND

EXPROPRIATIONS ACT

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 described as temporary limited interests 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) 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, (4) the installation and removal of drainage and erosion/sediment control measures necessary to the works to be performed in association with the purpose of implementing road and intersection improvements along Warden Avenue, including associated local roads, and to provide designated lanes for the road widening and works ancillary thereto. (“Temporary Easement”); and

3) permanent easements or rights in the nature of permanent easements described as limited interests in perpetuity 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 (i) to construct and maintain permanent municipal infrastructure which may include installation, maintenance, relocation and/or removal of drainage, erosion or sediment control measures such as ditching and culverts and (ii) for construction purposes which include, but are not limited to, (1) relocation of existing services and utilities, (2) staging and storage of materials and equipment, (3) geotech testing, borehole testing, and other investigative works, (4) hard and soft landscaping, paving, grading and reshaping the lands to the limit of the reconstruction of municipal road fronting the lands herein described, (5) the installation and removal of drainage and erosion/sediment control measures necessary to the works to be performed in association with the purpose of implementing road and intersection improvements along Warden Avenue. (“Permanent Easement”),

for the purposes of road widening and improvements of Warden Avenue (Y.R. 65) from Major Mackenzie Drive East (Y.R. 25) to Elgin Mills Road East (Y.R. 49) in the City of Markham 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
Dino Basso, Commissioner of Corporate Services

This notice first published on the 4th day of December, 2025.

For more information, please visit york.ca/landexpropriation

Schedule ‘A’

In the City of Markham, Regional Municipality of York:

  1. Temporary Easement
    Part of Lot 21, Concession 4, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41516.
  2. Temporary Easement
    Part of Lot 21, Concession 4, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41531.

  3. Fee Simple
    Part of Lots 21 & 22, Concession 4, designated as Part 2 on Plan 65R-41528.

    Temporary Easement
    Part of Lots 21 & 22, Concession 4, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41528.

  4. Fee Simple
    Part of Lot 22, Concession 4, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41520.

  5. Fee Simple
    Part of Lot 22, Concession 4, designated as Part 2 on Plan 65R-41564.

    Permanent Easement
    Part of Lot 22, Concession 4, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41564.

  6. Temporary Easement
    Part of Block 149, Plan 65M-4794, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41530.

  7. Fee Simple
    Part of Lot 25, Concession 4, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41529.

    Permanent Easement
    Part of Lot 25, Concession 4, designated as Part 2 on Plan 65R-41529.

  8. Fee Simple
    Part of Lot 25, Concession 4, designated as Part 2 on Plan 65R-41527.

    Permanent Easement
    Part of Lot 25, Concession 4, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41527.

  9. Fee Simple
    Part of Lot 26 and Part of the Road Allowance between Lots 25 & 26, Concession 4, designated as Parts 2, 4 & 6 on Plan 65R-41583.

    Permanent Easement
    Part of Lot 26 and Part of the Road Allowance between Lots 25 & 26, Concession 4, designated as Parts 1, 3 & 5 on Plan 65R-41583.

  10. Fee Simple
    Part of Lot 26, Concession 4, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41560.

    Permanent Easement
    Part of Lot 26, Concession 4, designated as Part 2 on Plan 65R-41560.

  11. Fee Simple
    Part of Lot 26, Concession 5, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41498.
  12. Fee Simple
    Part of West Half of Lot 25, Concession 5, designated as Parts 1 & 2 on Plan 65R-41533.
  13. Fee Simple
    Part of Lot 24, Concession 5, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41555.
  14. Fee Simple
    Part of Lot 23, Concession 5, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41524.
  15. Fee Simple
    Part of Lots 22 & 23, Concession 5, designated as Parts 1 & 2 on Plan 65R-41532.
  16. Fee Simple
    Part of Lots 21 & 22, Concession 5, designated as Parts 1 & 2 on Plan 65R-41547.
  17. Fee Simple
    Part of Lot 21, Concession 5, designated as Part 1 on Plan 65R-41559.
location map of Expropriation of Land Warden Avenue from Major Mackenzie Drive to Elgin Mills Road in the City of Markham