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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
Hamilton's Development Application Guidelines for a Draft Official Plan Amendment and Draft Zoning By-law Amendment, last updated February 13, 2026. It describes each draft as the implementing amendment or by-law put before Planning Committee and Council, and lists what each contains. Its 21 pages attach the City's templates: Appendix "A" for an Urban Hamilton Official Plan amendment, with staff drafting notes, and Appendices "B1" to "B7" for amending Zoning By-law No. 05-200 and the Ancaster, Dundas, Flamborough, Glanbrook, Stoney Creek and former City of Hamilton zoning by-laws.
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