62 | 1.RecentlyEnacted | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Bill 23, More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 | https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-23 | Received Royal Assent on November 28, 2022 | The omnibus bill contains changes to various pieces of legislation including the Development Charges Act, Planning Act, Municipal Act, and more. The bill is part of the Province's Housing Supply Action Plan 3.0. |
79 | 2.CurrentBills | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Bill 36, Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 | https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-36 | Referred to Standing Committee on November 17, 2022 | This omnibus bill follows the 2022 Fall Economic Statement and includes amendments to legislation such as the Gasoline Tax Act, Pension Benefits Act, Taxation Act, and more. |
80 | 2.CurrentBills | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Bill 39, Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 | https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-39 | Referred to Standing Committee on November 23, 2022 | The bill amends the Municipal Act, City of Toronto Act, and enacts the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve Repeal Act. The bill changes the recent strong mayor powers and proposes structural changes to certain regional councils. The bill also provides insight into next steps of extending strong mayor powers to other heads of council. |
81 | 2.CurrentBills | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Bill 43, Making Northern Ontario Highways Safer Act, 2022 | https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-43 | First reading carried on November 22, 2022 | The Bill amends the Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act in relation to standards for road maintenance in winter. |
82 | 2.CurrentBills | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Bill 44, Building More Homes by Ending Exclusionary Zoning Act, 2022 | https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-44 | First reading carried on November 22, 2022 | The Bill amends the Planning Act to require official plans to contain policies authorizing, in areas of settlement, the use of up to four residential units in a detached house, semi-detached house or rowhouse as well as multi-unit residential buildings of up to four stories. |
83 | 2.CurrentBills | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Bill 45, Building More Homes on Major Streets and Transit Corridors Act, 2022 | https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-45 | First reading carried on November 22, 2022 | The Bill amends the Planning Act to require official plans to contain policies that authorize, in areas of settlement, midrise housing developments ranging from six to 11 stories on major streets, including along transit corridors. |
58 | 2.CurrentBills | 8/29/2022 12:00:00 AM | Bill 4, Stay Home If You Are Sick Act, 2022 | https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-4 | Second reading vote deferred on November 24, 2022 | The Bill amends the Employment Standards Act, 2000 to entitle employees with greater sick leave and paid leave. |
59 | 2.CurrentBills | 8/29/2022 12:00:00 AM | Bill 5, Stopping Harassment and Abuse by Local Leaders Act, 2022 | https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-5 | First reading carried on August 10, 2022 | The Bill amends the Municipal Act, 2001 and the City of Toronto Act, 2006 to require the code of conduct for municipal councillors and members of local boards to include a requirement for those councillors and members to comply with workplace violence and harassment policies. |
63 | 3.RegConOpen | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Supporting Growth and Housing in York and Durham Regions Act, 2022 | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6192 | Comments extended to December 9, 2022 | The province is proposing new legislation that, if passed, would require the expansion of crucial wastewater treatment services for York Region and the construction of a phosphorus reduction facility to remove phosphorus from drainage water that flows into Lake Simcoe. |
64 | 3.RegConOpen | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6172 | Comments extended to December 9, 2022 | Proposes changes to parkland dedication rates for conveyance and cash-in-lieu for high density developments. Rates would also be frozen at time of zoning/site plan. Changes to DC freeze interest rates and changes to DC by-laws (timing and what services can be imposed on DCs). |
66 | 3.RegConOpen | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Legislative and regulatory proposals affecting conservation authorities to support the Housing Supply Action Plan 3.0 | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6141 | Comments extended to December 9, 2022 | A series of changes to the Conservation Authorities Act and Planning Act are proposed, including changes to natural hazards in Ontario, re-focusing the role of conservation authorities, and freezing conservation authority fees. |
67 | 3.RegConOpen | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Proposed Changes to the Ontario Heritage Act and its regulations: Bill 23 (Schedule 6) - the Proposed More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6196 | Comments extended to December 9, 2022 | The goal of the proposed changes is to renew and update heritage policies |
68 | 3.RegConOpen | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Seeking Feedback on Municipal Rental Replacement By-Laws | https://www.ontariocanada.com/registry/view.do?postingId=42808&language=en | Comments extended to December 9, 2022 | To enable the Minister to make regulations to standardize and clarify municipal powers to regulate the demolition and conversion of residential rental properties, in order to provide consistency and streamline the construction and revitalization of new housing supply. |
69 | 3.RegConOpen | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Proposed Planning Act and City of Toronto Act Changes (Schedules 9 and 1 of Bill 23 - the proposed More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022) | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6163 | Comments extended to December 9, 2022 | Proposed changes to the Planning Act would allow, “as-of-right” up to 3 units per lot in many existing residential areas. would also prohibit municipalities from imposing development charges, parkland dedication or cash-in-lieu requirements, applying minimum unit sizes or requiring more than one parking space per unit in respect of any second unit in a primary building and any unit in an ancillary structure. Also includes changes to upper-tier responsibilities in planning policy, and more. |
70 | 3.RegConOpen | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Proposed Amendments to the Ontario Land Tribunal Act, 2021 | https://www.ontariocanada.com/registry/view.do?postingId=42913&language=en | Comments extended to December 9, 2022 | Clarify OLT's powers for dismissing appeals, empowering OLT to order payments from unsuccessful parties, establishing timelines and priority criteria for cases. |
71 | 3.RegConOpen | 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM | Proposed Building Code Changes to Support More Homes Built Faster: Ontario's Housing Supply Action Plan: 2022-2023 (Phase 3 - Fall 2022 Consultation for the Next Edition of Ontario's Building Code) | https://www.ontariocanada.com/registry/view.do?postingId=42787&language=en | Comments close December 9, 2022 | -The first group of changes would amend the requirements in Ontario's Building Code for mid-rise wood buildings between four and six storeys to harmonize with current requirements in the National Building Code.
-The second group of changes would remove the current requirement for a standpipe system in a four-storey stacked townhouse. |
72 | 3.RegConOpen | 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM | Proposed Amendment to O. Reg 232/18: Inclusionary Zoning | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6173 | Comments close December 9, 2022 | Proposing amendments to O. Reg. 232/18 (Inclusionary Zoning) to provide more certainty/clarity and make inclusionary zoning rules more consistent across the province by setting maximum affordability period at 25-years, limiting the number of affordable units to 5%, and standardizing the approach to determining the price/rent of the affordable units |
73 | 3.RegConOpen | 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM | Proposed Changes to Ontario Regulation 299/19: Additional Residential Units | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6197 | Comments close December 9, 2022 | As a result of these proposed legislative changes, consequential amendments to Ontario Regulation 299/19: Additional Residential Units (O. Reg. 299/19) are also being proposed to: remove provisions that are no longer needed, and make housekeeping edits to align with and complement the proposed legislative changes. |
74 | 3.RegConOpen | 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM | Conserving Ontario’s Natural Heritage | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6161 | Comments close December 30, 2022 | The discussion paper is seeking feedback on how Ontario could offset development pressures on wetlands, woodlands, and other natural wildlife habitat. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is considering developing an offset policy that would require a net positive impact on these features and help reverse the decades-long trend of natural heritage loss in Ontario. |
75 | 3.RegConOpen | 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM | Proposed updates to the regulation of development for the protection of people and property from natural hazards in Ontario | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-2927 | Comments close December 30, 2022 | The ministry is proposing a regulation that outlines how conservation authorities permit development and other activities for impacts to natural hazards and public safety. |
76 | 3.RegConOpen | 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM | Review of A Place to Grow and Provincial Policy Statement | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6177 | Comments close December 30, 2022 | MMAH is undertaking a housing-focused policy review of A Place to Grow and the Provincial Policy Statement. MMAH is seeking input on how to create a streamlined province-wide land use planning policy framework that enables municipalities to approve housing faster and increase housing supply. |
77 | 3.RegConOpen | 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM | Proposed Changes to Sewage Systems and Energy Efficiency for the Next Edition of Ontario’s Building Code | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6211 | Comments close December 9, 2022 | The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing is entering its third and final phase of consultation on the next edition of Ontario’s Building Code. As part of this phase, changes to an energy efficiency requirement and sewage system provisions (Part 8 of the Building Code) are proposed |
78 | 3.RegConOpen | 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM | General Proposed Changes for the Next Edition of Ontario's Building Code (Phase 3 - Fall 2022 Consultation) | https://www.ontariocanada.com/registry/view.do?postingId=42888&language=en | Comments close December 9, 2022 | This phase focuses on remaining Ontario-specific provisions that were not included in the first phase of consultation, as well as new changes related to harmonization that were identified in the first two consultations. |
65 | 4.RegConClosed | 11/28/2022 12:00:00 AM | Proposed Updates to the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System | https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-6160 | Comments closed November 25, 2022 | Proposing changes to the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System to allow efficiences. |