Bill 2 explained in plain English
Restoring Planning Powers to Municipalities Act, 2013
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 2 of 2013, the Restoring Planning Powers to Municipalities Act, amends the Planning Act to remove exemptions for renewable energy projects from municipal planning rules.
This bill, titled the Restoring Planning Powers to Municipalities Act, 2013, amends the Planning Act. The explanatory note states that the bill aims to reverse changes made by the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009. These previous changes had exempted renewable energy projects from certain provisions of the Planning Act. This bill would remove those exemptions, making renewable energy projects subject to the normal planning rules again.
- Repeals definitions related to renewable energy projects from the Planning Act.
- Repeals specific clauses in Section 50 of the Planning Act.
- Repeals Section 62.0.2 of the Planning Act.
- Reverses amendments made by the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009, which had exempted renewable energy undertakings from the Planning Act.
- Makes renewable energy projects subject to provincial policy statements, provincial plans, official plans, demolition control by-laws, zoning by-laws, and development permit regulations and by-laws.
- Municipalities
- Developers of renewable energy projects
- The public regarding planning and development of renewable energy projects
- Municipalities may have renewed authority to apply planning regulations to renewable energy projects.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- The exact date of Royal Assent is not specified in the provided text.
- The specific details of how previously granted exemptions are reversed are not fully detailed beyond the repeal of definitions and sections.
The bill amends the Planning Act. Specifically, it repeals definitions of 'renewable energy generation facility', 'renewable energy project', 'renewable energy testing facility', 'renewable energy testing project', and 'renewable energy undertaking' from subsection 1(1) of the Act. It also repeals clause 50 (3) (d.1) and clause 50 (5) (c.1) of the Act, and section 62.0.2 of the Act. The effect of these changes is to reverse exemptions previously granted to renewable energy projects from municipal planning regulations.
Source: Section 1, Section 2, Section 3
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