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A By-law to Establish a Site Plan Control Area
Published by City of Richmond Hill
This is the City of Richmond Hill’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
- Type
- By-law
- Published by
- City of Richmond Hill
- Date
- 12th day of July, 2023
- Also called
- By-law
- Form reference
- Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, section 41
- For
- any
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 7
- Instruments
- Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, section 41
Overview
The City of Richmond Hill's By-law 76-23, passed under section 41 of the Planning Act, which designates the whole city as a site plan control area and delegates approval powers to the Commissioner. It lists the classes of development it places under site plan approval, among them mixed-use development, residential development of ten or more units, and parcels abutting the railway or within 120 metres of a shoreline, mapped on Schedules B and C. It also covers pre-consultation, applications, agreements and approval expiry, and repeals By-law 137-09.
What it covers
- Interpretation
- Development Subject to Site Plan Control
- Administration
- Miscellaneous
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