If you’re planning to construct a new building or addition on property within a site plan control area, you must apply for site plan approval. To find out if you need site plan approval, call 311 (905-615-4311 outside city limits) or check the property information.
To start the site plan approval process, you must request a pre-application meeting in ePlans to provide the pre-application drawings and documents. You can choose to waive your pre-application meeting itself later.
Submit the following drawings and documents with your pre-application meeting request:
Drawings and documents should be saved in the correct page orientation. Each drawing plan sheet should be saved as an individual file.
File names for all drawings should include the:
For example: A100 Site Plan.
Refer to the site plan manual for more information on standard submission requirements.
After we receive your pre-application meeting request, we’ll determine what kind of site plan application is needed.
We will upload a standard submission checklist to ePlans. It will list all required studies, as well as those required only in certain situations. You and your consulting team must review the checklist to determine which studies are required to complete your application submission.
Follow the steps in ePlans to submit your site plan approval application.
Submit all drawings and documents listed on the submission requirements checklist provided by staff.
Schedules and site plan undertaking documents are required for all site plan applications. You may be asked to submit additional forms, depending on your application.
After you upload the drawings and documents, we’ll do a pre-screen review to check that the application meets requirements. This usually takes 3 to 5 business days.
If we need more information, we’ll email you. You must complete all the pre-screen corrections for your application to move forward.
After we complete the pre-screen review, we’ll email you to let you know it’s time to pay your fees. Submit your fee calculation worksheet for approval before you make a payment.
Once you’ve paid the fees, we’ll email you to confirm that your application is complete.
All relevant City departments and agencies will review your completed application to make sure it meets requirements and to establish conditions of approval. You can view comments in your project status report in ePlans.
You may be required to file resubmissions. If a third resubmission is required, we recommend that you meet with reviewers for direction on how to resolve comments and get your application approved.
Once all comments are addressed and conditions have been cleared, your site plan application will be approved.
We’ll email you when your stamped and approved plans are available to download in ePlans. We’ll also forward your site plan approval to the City’s Building Department so it’s on file when you apply for your building permits.
Your site plan approval is valid for one year from the date shown on the plans.
Use the following templates to notify the City that site works or partial site works have been completed:
If you have questions about application comments, contact your reviewers directly. The phone number and email address for each reviewer is located on the first page of the project status report in ePlans.
For general questions, call 311 (905-615-4311 outside city limits) or email eplans.devdes@mississsauga.ca.