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CANAdIANLAwyERMAG.COM/INhOUSE october 2014
Q U I Z Julia Croome, Associate and Kim Mullin, Partner, WeirFoulds LLP
1
The City of Toronto has approved an offi cial plan amendment that enables development
permit bylaws to be enacted in any area of the City. Once enacted, the development
permit bylaw will effectively replace the zoning bylaw and the existing process through
which development applications are made, in that area.
(A) True
(B) False
2
A development permit bylaw will set a proportional relationship between the provision of
community benefi ts and the amount of increased height and density to be awarded in
return, which replaces the process authorized by s. 37 of the Planning Act.
(A) True
(B) False
3
A development application cannot propose development standards beyond what is
provided in the development permit bylaw.
(A) True
(B) False
4
An applicant cannot apply to amend a development permit bylaw on a site-specifi c basis.
(A) True
(B) False
(C) It depends
5
Community consultation for the selection of DPS areas and the preparation of a
development permit bylaw is preliminary and attendance is not necessary to reserve your
right of appeal to the OMB.
(A) True
(B) False
(C) It depends
Land use planning
reform in motion:
Development
Permit System
While Development Permit
Systems have been permissible
in Ontario municipalities
since the passage of Ontario
Regulation 608-06 in 2006,
the City of Toronto is only now
taking steps to implement
them within its boundaries.
A DPS combines the zoning,
site plan, and minor variance
processes into one application
and approval process.
Through area-wide studies
and community consultation,
new development standards
and performance criteria are
prepared and tailored to specifi c
areas of the municipality and
solidifi ed through a new bylaw
(a development permit bylaw).
Development permits are only
issued for applications that are
compliant with the development
permit bylaw, which has
some prescribed fl exibility. All
interested parties may appeal
the enactment of a development
permit bylaw, however, once in
force, third party appeals of a
development permit application
decision are not permitted and
only the applicant has the right of
appeal to the Ontario Municipal
Board.Take the following quiz to
help navigate the new system.
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