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Development Application Guidelines: Cost Recovery Agreement

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This is the City of Hamilton’s document, as published on its website on 19 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice

Overview

Hamilton's Development Application Guidelines sheet for a Cost Recovery Agreement, under which the City recovers from an applicant or owner certain staffing costs and legal and consultant fees for an Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) hearing where the City supports a developer against third-party appeals. It names who prepares the agreement (owner, applicant, lawyer or agent), and describes the signed, witnessed and notarized Cost Recovery/Acknowledgement Form. The current edition is dated February 18, 2026; the October 2022 edition linked the Official Plan, Zoning By-law and Committee of Adjustment application forms.

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