TorontoSite Alteration & EngineeringTrees
Tree Protection By-law Declaration
Published by City of Toronto
This is the City of Toronto’s document, as published on its website on 20 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Form
- Published by
- City of Toronto
- Date
- 2021-11
- Also called
- Tree Declaration
- Form reference
- 01-0348
- For
- owner
- Signed by
- property owner
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 5
- Agencies
- City of Toronto Urban Forestry · Toronto Building · Committee of Adjustment
- Submit to
- Toronto Building
- Instruments
- Chapter 813, Trees, of the City of Toronto Municipal Code · Chapter 658, Ravine and Natural Feature Protection, of the City of Toronto Municipal Code
Overview
The City of Toronto's five-page Tree Protection By-law Declaration, form 01-0348, filed with Toronto Building alongside an application to construct or demolish and with Committee of Adjustment applications. Toronto links it from its building forms index and from the permit pages for houses, additions, garden and laneway suites, multiplexes, decks, garages, demolitions and ground signs. Part 1 explains protected City, private and ravine trees, tree protection zones and barriers; Part 2 records the property, the work and yes/no answers on construction near trees; Part 3 carries the owner's declarations.
What it covers
- Part 1 – General Information
- When to submit this Tree Declaration Form
- What is the purpose of this declaration form?
- Relationship to the Building Permit
- What constitutes a protected tree?
- When is Permit required from Urban Forestry?
- What are tree protection zones?
- What are the standards for tree protection barriers?
- Faliure to comply with the by-laws
- Part 2 – Project Information
- Property Owner Information
- Impact to Protected Trees
- Part 3 - Declarations of the Owner
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