Ministry notice rules for subdivision approvals updated: electronic filing added, certified-copy requirement dropped

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Three types of notices that approval authorities must send to the provincial Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing — notices of new applications, decisions on applications, and changes to draft-approval conditions — can now be delivered electronically through a Government of Ontario website, in addition to the existing options of personal service, mail, fax, or email. The Ministry's name has also been corrected throughout the regulation. Separately, documents submitted to the Ontario Land Tribunal as part of the approval authority's record no longer need to be 'certified' copies; plain copies are now acceptable. These changes affect any municipality or other approval authority that handles plans of subdivision and is required to notify the Ministry regional director when that director has made a standing written request for such notices.

Who this affects: municipal approval authorities · planning boards and municipal planning authorities · land developers applying for subdivision approval · Ontario Land Tribunal staff handling subdivision appeals