BYLAW - Designate Site Plan Control Area - 20180724 - 610618The Corporation of the Town of Aurora
By-law Number 6106-18
Being a By-law to designate a site plan control area.
Whereas Section 41 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P.13, as amended, provides in
part that, where in an official plan an area is shown or described as a proposed site plan
control area, the Council of the local municipality in which the proposed area is situated
may, by by-law, designate the whole or any part of such area as a site plan control area
and may delegate to either a Committee of the Council or to an appointed officer of the
municipality any of the Council's power or authority under that section;
And whereas the Council of the Town deems it necessary and expedient to repeal the
existing site plan by-law, as amended, to update the designated site plan control area;
Now therefore the Council of The Corporation of the Town of Aurora hereby enacts as
follows:
1. For the purposes of this by-law:
(a) "Act" means the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P.13, as amended.
(b) "accessory" in reference to a building or structure means a detached
building or structure that is incidental, subordinate and exclusively devoted to
a principle use or building which is located on the same lot.
(c) "development" means the definition of development referred to in
subsection 41(1) of the Act;
(d) "Director" means the Director of the Planning Division, or his/her designate;
and
(e) "gross floor area" means the aggregate of the floor area of each storey or
mezzanine measured between the exterior faces of any exterior walls of the
building or structure, excluding the following within a building: the basement
or cellar, parking spaces, mechanical rooms, refuse storage rooms,
stairwells and elevator shafts.
2. All lands within the limits of the Town of Aurora shall be and are hereby designated
as a site plan control area.
3. The following classes of development may be undertaken without the approval of
plans and drawings otherwise required under subsections 41(4) and 41(5) of the
Act:
(a) any single -detached, semi-detached or townhouse dwelling;
(b) any addition or alteration to an existing single -detached, semi- detached or
townhouse dwelling;
(c) any building or structure accessory to an existing single -detached, semi-
detached or townhouse dwelling;
(d) any in -ground or above -ground swimming pool constructed in connection
with any single -detached, semi-detached, or townhouse dwelling;
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(e) any entrance, driveway, and site alteration/grading in connection with any
single -detached, semi-detached, or townhouse dwelling;
(f) a building or structure or an addition or alteration to a building or structure
that is owned or to be owned or used or to be used by The Corporation of
the Town of Aurora;
(g) any conservation or forestry development;
(h) any cemetery;
(i) any placement of a portable classroom on a school site.
4. (a) Notwithstanding subsections 3(a), 3(b), 3(c) and 3(e) of this By-law, any
development that occurs within the shaded areas identified on the attached
Schedule "A" (being the Stable Neighbourhood Study Area) that is equal to
or greater than 50m2 of the gross floor area or that is a detached garage
shall require the approval of plans and drawings as required under
subsections 41(4) and 41(5) of the Act.
(b) The power and authority to approve plans and drawings required in
subsection 4(a) of this By-law and to sign a simplified development
agreement as contemplated by subsection 41(7)(c) of the Act, is hereby
delegated to the Director.
(c) The power to revoke any approval granted in accordance with subsection
4(b) of this By-law is hereby delegated to the Director, who may revoke such
approval where:
The approval has been granted on mistaken or false or incorrect
information;
ii. The approval has been granted in error;
iii. The applicant for the approval has requested in writing that it be
revoked; or,
iv. Six (6) months after the approval has been granted, the development
in respect of which the approval has been granted has not been
seriously commenced in the reasonable opinion of the Director.
5. The Director may approve, or waive or amend the approval, of the plans and
drawings and be authorized to execute any agreements where it is in the opinion of
the Director that the proposed development is minor in nature.
6. By-law Numbers 3604-95.D, 3691-95.D, 3777-96.D, 4410-03.D, 4660-05.D and
4933-07.P be and are hereby repealed.
Enacted by Town of Aurora Council this 24th day of July, 2 18
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MI-Aael'cle Rond, Town Clerk
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Schedule "A"
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