Burlington commission backs rezoning adding five lots to World of Pentecost campus

Burlington’s Planning & Zoning Commission unanimously recommended approval of a conditional rezoning to add five residential lots to the World of Pentecost church campus on Hanford Road, advancing the request to Burlington City Council. “Burlington’s planning and zoning commission has given its unanimous nod to a rezoning request that would allow the World of Pentecost church to add five lots to its existing grounds along Hanford Road,” the commission’s action was recorded in local reporting.

The commission’s vote was 6‑to‑0 in favor of the recommendation, a numeric roll-call recorded alongside the referral to city council. “The planning commission’s members voted 6‑to‑0 to recommend the church’s request to Burlington’s city council,” local reporting stated; the council will be the final decision point on whether the five residentially‑zoned parcels will be folded into the church’s conditional zoning district.

The World of Pentecost congregation seeking the rezoning is described in local records as a 42‑year‑old congregation that “has been at its current location for over two decades,” currently occupying a 12‑acre campus on Hanford Road. The rezoning application requests that five adjacent, residentially‑zoned parcels be consolidated into the church’s existing conditional zoning district, a procedural move intended to extend the campus boundary and standardize zoning across the combined properties.

An original report fragment included the language that the rezoning “would consolidate the church’s existing conditional zoning district,” but that fragment was incomplete in the available material and did not detail specific conditions or the church’s planned use of the added lots. The public record provided to date does not include parcel identification numbers, parcel sizes for the five lots, or an explicit statement of how the church intends to use the properties if the council approves the rezoning.

Separate planning documents included in the reporting packet are from a different jurisdiction and do not apply to the Hanford Road matter. Those documents reference the City of Burlington in Ontario and identify report PB‑55‑17, lands adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Way and North Service Road, circulation dates in March 2017 and July 2017, and a September 2017 resubmission; they also note technical requirements such as a detailed landscape plan, native non‑invasive tree plantings near a candidate Regionally Significant Woodland, and that the Burlington Economic Development Corporation offered no objections to that unrelated application.

With the planning commission’s 6‑0 recommendation on record, the rezoning petition now awaits formal consideration by Burlington City Council; the available reporting did not include a council hearing date. Missing details from the public record include parcel IDs and ownership for the five residential lots, the city staff report language specifying any proffered conditions for the conditional zoning, and statements from World of Pentecost leadership or nearby property owners about the intended changes to the 12‑acre campus.