Cottage Builder Wasaga Beach

Schedule A, added by By-law 2026-17, lists what a Class C application has to include. Alongside ownership, identification and proof of $5,000,000 in liability insurance that names short-term accommodation, the applicant files a Neighbourhood Partnership Plan. Three parts of it are drawings or depend on them:

• A to-scale site plan of the property showing every structure, temporary or permanent, plus fences, fire pits and outdoor burning devices, pools, hot tubs and swim spas, decks, docks, outdoor barbecue and cooking areas, garbage areas and parking surfaces.
• A parking management plan, drawn to scale, showing the size and location of every parking space guests will use. It has to comply with the Town’s zoning by-law.
• A garbage management plan that references the site plan and states where waste is stored, in what containers, and the total capacity.

A fourth part, the noise and nuisance strategy, can name measures such as acoustic fencing. For a new build, all of these are cheaper to draw into the original site plan than to retrofit around a finished cottage. Where the hot tub sits relative to the neighbour’s bedroom window, whether two cars and a boat trailer fit without anyone parking on the road, where a week of garbage for a full house waits for pickup: those are siting decisions, and we make siting decisions for a living.

Our cottage work in Wasaga Beach starts from the same place as anywhere else: how the family wants to use the water and the deck. A rental season adds a few questions to that brief, and they are all answerable on paper.

Outdoor rooms placed with neighbours in mind

Our Panoramics designs are built around window walls, open interiors and integrated sundecks. On a rental cottage, which way those sundecks face is also a noise question for the Neighbourhood Partnership Plan, so we site them with the side yards and the next lot in view, not only the view.

Parking that fits the full house

A cottage that sleeps two families brings two families’ cars. We lay the parking surface out against the zoning by-law early, so the drawing the Town wants is a copy of the site plan rather than a new exercise.

Four-season, or not

A cottage that rents in shoulder seasons, or that may become a retirement home, earns its insulation and heating. We build four-season cottages that never have to be closed, and lighter seasonal ones where that suits the plan and the budget.

A plan line made for cottage lots

Our Country Retreats line is drawn for the cottage lifestyle, with open-concept plans, many on narrow or smaller footprints, and walkout options for sloping lots. Every plan is a starting point we reshape around your lot.

A&R Design Build has been building cottages and homes across Central Ontario since 1973, more than 1,500 of them, and our cottage service names Wasaga Beach as the southern end of the cottage country we work in. We are not a Wasaga Beach company. Our office, Design Centre and The Carlyle model home are in Innisfil, and Wasaga Beach is in Simcoe County, a region our site lists among those we serve.

The closest evidence we can point to is on our about page: the Georgian Bay cottage Our Homes featured in Fall 2019 was built for a couple who had first built with Rene Ouellet Jr. near Wasaga Beach, years before. We are Tarion registered and HCRA licensed (licence B46716), and both records are public, so you can check us before a Wasaga Beach lot is ever walked.