Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority Development User Fees Update

On July 11, 2022, the Council for the Corporation of the Township of Southwold passed a by-law, no. 2022-64, to authorize the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Corporation of the Township of Southwold and the Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority to provide for the payment of fees and processing of applications made in respect of certain planning matters.

As part of the changes to the CA Act through Schedule 6 of Bill 229, a fee schedule has been generated for charging municipal planning review fees, which were adopted by the LTVCA’s Board of Directors on April 21^st, 2022.

In the past, the LTVCA had not charged fees for reviewing municipal planning submissions, whereas almost all other CA’s in Ontario have charged fees for quite some time.  As a result of the Province cutting CA Section 39 transfer payments in half, the LTVCA’s Planning Department will now have to offset that loss of funding by establishing a fee schedule for reviewing planning applications submitted by our member municipalities.

Below, please find a table setting out the planning application fees, effective April 21, 2022.  If you have any questions regarding the fees an email can be sent to planning@ltvca.ca for further clarification.