Planning Act approval authority: municipalities
Find your planning approval authority.
Municipalities create official plans that set out general planning goals and policies to guide future land use. They also pass zoning by-laws, which set out the rules and regulations that control development as it occurs.
To make a change to land use or to create new lots within Ontario, an applicant (for example, a developer) must make a planning application and seek approval from the appropriate decision maker.
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Data dictionary
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Municipality | Text | |
| Municipal status | Text | |
| Upper tier or district | Text | |
| Official plan | Text | |
| Official plan amendment | Text | |
| Condo and subdivision | Text | |
| Consent | Text | |
| Validation | Text |
Additional information
- Last updated
- October 5, 2023
- Created
- January 24, 2020
- Format
- application/csv
- File size
- 78.3 KiB
- Licence
- King's Printer for Ontario
- Name
- Planning Act approval authority: municipalities
- Type
- Data
- Language
- English
- Data made public date
- May 30, 2019
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