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ARTICLE · 04 MARCH 2024

Ontario's Get It Done Act, 2024 And Bill 162 – A Strong Message?

The Ontario legislature reopened on February 20, 2024, with further land use planning changes. These changes were primarily packaged as part of an omnibus bill aimed at reducing red tape...

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The Ontario legislature reopened on February 20, 2024, with further land use planning changes. These changes were primarily packaged as part of an omnibus bill aimed at reducing red tape and streamlining approval processes for key infrastructure investments, which included everything from introducing automated licence plate renewals to more retroactive changes to legislatively approved official plans for certain municipalities. This update will focus on the substantive planning, housing and infrastructure-related changes set out in Bill 162: Get It Done Act, 2024 and related proposals.

  1. Official Plan Adjustments Act, 2023

In December 2023, Dentons provided an overview of Bill 150 in Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023: Out with the new and in with the old. Bill 150 enacted the Official Plan Adjustments Act, 2023 and retroactively reversed the Ontario governments own changes made in November 2022 and April 2023 to official plans from 12 municipalities:

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