Bill 127 explained in plain English
Ontario Food Terminal Protection Act, 2019
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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The Ontario Food Terminal Protection Act, 2019, designates the Ontario Food Terminal lands and surrounding areas as a provincially significant employment zone, preventing conflicting uses and development.
The Ontario Food Terminal Protection Act, 2019, amends the Planning Act to protect the lands where the Ontario Food Terminal is located and surrounding designated lands. These lands are designated as a provincially significant employment zone. Municipalities are prevented from allowing any rezoning, development, or use of these lands that would conflict with their use as an employment zone. The Minister can make regulations to more specifically identify these lands and prescribe additional protections. This Act overrides conflicting official plans, growth plans, or other provincial plans. The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- Amends the Planning Act to add a new section (47.1) concerning the Ontario Food Terminal lands.
- Designates the lands of the Ontario Food Terminal and prescribed surrounding lands as a provincially significant employment zone.
- Prohibits municipalities from permitting rezoning, development, or uses on these designated lands that conflict with their use as an employment zone.
- Empowers the Minister to make regulations to specifically identify the designated lands and prescribe additional protections.
- States that this new section applies even if it conflicts with a municipality's official plan, a growth plan, or any other provincial plan.
- Municipalities (specifically regarding their authority to permit rezoning, development, or uses on the designated lands).
- The Minister of the relevant ministry (who may make regulations).
- Owners and users of the lands designated as the Ontario Food Terminal lands and prescribed surrounding lands.
- The Ontario Food Terminal.
- Municipalities have an obligation not to permit rezoning, development, or uses of the designated lands that conflict with their use as an employment zone.
- The Minister has the power to make regulations to further define the protected lands and their protections.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The specific "prescribed surrounding lands" are not identified in the Act itself and will be defined by regulations made by the Minister.
- The specific "protections that apply in addition to those identified in subsection (2)" are not detailed in the Act and will be defined by regulations made by the Minister.
- The Act does not specify any penalties for non-compliance by municipalities or other parties.
Adds a new section (47.1) that designates the Ontario Food Terminal lands and surrounding areas as a provincially significant employment zone and establishes protections for these lands.
Source: Section 1
The protections for the Ontario Food Terminal lands apply even if they conflict with existing official plans, growth plans made under the Places to Grow Act, 2005, or any other provincial plan.
Source: Section 47.1 (4)
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