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A By-law to Establish a Site Plan Control Area, Define Development That May Not Be Undertaken Without the Approval of Plans and Drawings and to Appoint an Authorized Person in Relation to Approvals Pursuant to Section 41 of the Planning Act Within the City of Richmond Hill

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: 9th day of April, 2025
Also called: By-Law 38-25
For: any
Signed by: David West, Mayor · Stephen M.A. Huycke, City Clerk
Building types: All building types
Pages: 7
Covers note: The file is a scan with no text layer; all seven pages were read by eye for these headings.
Instruments: Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P.13

Overview

Richmond Hill's Site Plan Control By-law, By-law 38-25, passed April 9, 2025 under Section 41 of the Planning Act, designating all City lands a Site Plan Control Area and repealing By-law 76-23. It lists the development subject to site plan control: commercial, industrial and institutional, mixed-use, residential over 10 units, municipal and regional facilities, lands abutting the railway and lands within 120 metres of a shoreline, mapped on Schedules A to C. It sets a three-year approval expiry. By-law 114-25 amends it.

What it covers

Part 1 - Interpretation
Definitions
Part 2 - Development Subject to Site Plan Control
Designation of Site Plan Control Area
Development Requiring Site Plan Control
Part 3 - Administration
Appointment of Commissioner as Authorized Person
Pre-Application Consultation
Site Plan Application Requirements
Site Plan Approval - granted - refused
Site Plan Agreement
Expiry - Extension of Site Plan Approvals
Mayor - Clerk- Agreement - Execution
Part 4 - Miscellaneous
Schedule "A" to By-law No. 38-25
Schedule "B" to By-law No. 38-25
Schedule "C" to By-law No. 38-25

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