Bill 23 Next Steps

On November 30^th, the Minister of Housing provided a commitment to work with municipalities to explore means to close funding gaps related to Bill 23 measures. This would commence with a third-party audit of select municipalities of their municipal finances, including reserve funds and development charge administration. It is not yet known if Ottawa will be included in this audit. As of this date, staff are not aware of any financial commitments or agreements from either the provincial or federal government to provide offsetting revenue and will monitor this.

Staff will continue to review the impact of this legislation and will update this website with changes required to programs resources and operations, including the calculations of parkland and development charges, and future impacts on infrastructure and service delivery.

Further, staff have submitted comments on regulations and bulletins posted to the Environmental Registry including the following postings, where permitted.

• ERO No. 019-6162 Consultations on More Homes Built Faster: Ontario’s Housing Supply Action Plan 2022-2023
• ERO No. 019-6172 Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges
• ERO No. 019-6163 Proposed Planning Act and City of Toronto Act Changes (Schedules 9 and 1 of Bill 23)
• ERO No. 019-6196 Proposed Changes to the Ontario Heritage Act and its regulations: Bill 23 (Schedule 6)
• ERO No. 019-2927 Proposed updates to the regulation of development for the protection of people and property from natural hazards in Ontario
• ERO No. 019-6161 Conserving Ontario’s Natural Heritage
• ERO No. 019-6160 Proposed Changes to the Ontario Wetlands Evaluation System
• ERO No. 019-6141 Legislative and regulatory proposal affecting conservation authorities to support the Housing Supply Action Plan 3.0
• ERO No. 019-6197 Proposed Changes to 299/19 Additional Residential Units
• ERO No. 019-6171 2031 Municipal Housing Targets