TorontoSite Alteration & EngineeringTrees
Chapter 658, Ravine and Natural Feature Protection
Published by City of Toronto
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- Type
- By-law
- Published by
- City of Toronto
- Date
- May 12, 2022
- Also called
- Chapter 658
- Form reference
- Municipal Act
- For
- any
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 16
- Agencies
- Urban Forestry
- Instruments
- Municipal Act · City of Toronto Act, 2006 · Planning Act · Ontario Heritage Act
Overview
Chapter 658 of the Toronto Municipal Code, the City of Toronto's ravine and natural feature protection chapter, adopted by By-law 838-2002 and retitled from ravine protection in 2008. Its sections cover injuring or destroying trees, placing fill and altering grade, the exceptions, the form and content of an application to Urban Forestry, the issuance of permits and their conditions, council approval, appeals, enforcement and power of entry, orders to comply, restoration of a site, offences and remedial action. Schedules A-1 and A-2 carry the index and data maps.
What it covers
- 658-1. Definitions
- 658-2. Permit required for prohibited activities
- 658-3. Interpretation
- 658-4. Exceptions
- 658-5. Filing of applications; form and content
- 658-6. Issuance of permits; conditions
- 658-7. Council approval required
- 658-8. Permit appeals
- 658-9. Enforcement; power of entry; inspection powers
- 658-10. Orders to comply
- 658-11. Restoration of site
- 658-12. Offences; additional remedies
- 658-13. Remedial action
- 658-14. Conflicting provisions
- Schedule A-1, Index Maps, 1-4
- Schedule A-2, Data Maps
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