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Site Plan

The municipality's review of how your development sits on its site, under Site Plan Control. One fixed fee, reviewed and signed off by a Registered Professional Planner. From $10,000.

What Site Plan Control is

Site Plan Control, under Section 41 of the Planning Act, is how a municipality reviews the details of a development once the use is permitted: where the building sits, how vehicles and people move through the site, grading and drainage, servicing, landscaping, and the relationship to the street and neighbours.

The zoning is already in place at this stage. Site Plan governs the design, and it usually ends in a site plan agreement registered on title that has to be in place before a building permit is issued. We run the planning side of that process and coordinate the drawing set.

When you need one

You need Site Plan review for most development beyond a house or two once the zoning permits it. Common situations:

A new commercial, industrial, or multi-residential building
Additions or redevelopment on an existing site
A condition of a recent rezoning that requires site plan before permits
Changes to access, parking, or site servicing

If your proposal also needs the zoning changed first, that is a Zoning By-law Amendment, and the two are often run in sequence. We confirm the order at the outset.

What is included

Every Site Plan file includes:

Review of the zoning and any conditions carried over from a prior application
Pre-application consultation with municipal planning and engineering staff
Coordination of the drawing set with your architect, civil, and landscape consultants
The planning rationale supporting the application
The full application package, prepared and submitted
Responses to staff comments and re-submissions through the review
Coordination toward the site plan agreement, with a licensed RPP directing the file

Architectural, civil, and landscape drawings are prepared by consultants retained directly by you. We coordinate them and run the planning process.

How it works

Phase 1: Review and pre-application

We confirm the zoning and any prior conditions, scope the drawing set, and meet with staff to confirm submission requirements.

Phase 2: Submission and circulation

We assemble the planning package and drawings, submit, and manage the circulation to municipal departments and agencies.

Phase 3: Revisions and agreement

We coordinate revisions in response to comments and carry the file toward the site plan agreement.

From $10,000

excl. HST · fixed fee, confirmed before work begins · re-submissions included

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FAQ

Site Plan questions

Most development other than individual houses falls under Site Plan Control once zoning permits the use. The municipality's by-law defines exactly what is captured. We confirm whether your site is in.

A rezoning decides whether a use and its scale are permitted. Site Plan decides the details of how the approved development is built. If your use is not yet permitted, the rezoning comes first.

Typically an architectural set, a site servicing and grading plan, and a landscape plan, with other studies depending on the site. We scope the exact list with staff before submission so nothing is missed.

It depends on the complexity of the site and the number of revision rounds. A clean file with a well-coordinated drawing set moves faster. We give you a realistic timeline up front.

Ready?

Tell us your address and what you want to build. We will confirm whether Site Plan review applies and what it will cost. No commitment, no hourly clock.

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