Development Engineering oversees the administration of subdivision agreements, inclusive of inspection and assumption, administration of the site alteration by-law and clean fill permit agreements. The department creates and updates engineering standards for Town infrastructure, oversees engineering and utility plans reviews and approvals (subdivisions/site plans), manages complaint tracking and resolution for subdivisions and prepares area network master plans for transportation, water, sanitary and storm sewers in coordination with the Planning Division.

Geodetic benchmarks set the horizontal and vertical position for a specific point.  The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNRF) maintains a GIS viewer on to the Cosine website that provides benchmark details.  The Town requires that all new benchmarks set for developments within the Town boundary be approved by the MNRF to cosine standards and referenced in the MNRF GIS database.

Standard Guidelines contains an issue page that records the Issue date.  

Standard Drawings (Appendix A) contains a list and set of standard drawings that have been approved by the Town. The standard drawings in the list have the following: (i) Town standard drawings, (ii) Noted standard drawings from other jurisdictions, (iii) Ontario Provincial Standard Drawings (OPSD) modified by the Town and (iv) Reference to other Ontario Provincial Standard Drawings (OPSD) adopted by the Town.

Sections, Appendices and Standard Drawings currently in use are contained within The "Town Standards" folder. When revised, the superseded issues are moved to the Superseded sub-directories.  Changes and revisions will be made from time to time. It is the responsibility of the Developer, Development Engineer and/or Landscape Architect to obtain current versions. Any proposed corrections to these guidelines and standard drawings shall be brought to the attention of the Town.

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A Site Alteration is defined as any alteration to the existing grade of land through the movement, removal or placement of Fill. Find by-law, permit and application details on our site alteration page.