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Establishment of Parkway Belt Planning Area
1. (1) The Minister of Municipal Affairs, herein called the Minister, may, by order, establish as the Parkway Belt Planning Area the area of land in Ontario defined in the order. Direction by Minister to prepare Parkway Belt Plan (2) Where the Parkway Belt Planning Area has been established under subsection (1), the Minister shall include in the order a direction that there be carried out an investigation and survey of the environmental, physical, social and economic conditions in relation to the development of the Planning Area or any part thereof, and that there be prepared within a period of two years or such other period of time as the Minister in his or her order determines, the Parkway Belt Plan. Order to be laid before Assembly (3) Where any order is made under subsection (1), the Minister shall, on the day the order is made, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, lay the order before the Assembly if it is in session or, if not, at the commencement of the next session and the Assembly shall, by resolution, declare the order approved, revoked or varied. R.S.O. 1990, c.P.3, s.1.
Planning and development
2. The Ontario Planning and Development Act, except section 12, applies with necessary modifications to the Parkway Belt Planning Area, and the Parkway Belt Plan and the Parkway Belt Planning Area shall be deemed to be a development plan and a development planning area respectively within the meaning of that Act. R.S.O. 1990, c.P.3, s.2.
Regulations
4. (1) The Minister may, in respect of any land within the Parkway Belt Planning Area, make land use regulations and in any such regulations the Minister may exercise any of the powers conferred upon the Minister under clause 47(1)(a) of the Planning Act, and despite subsection 47(4) of the Planning Act, any such regulation may be made that does not conform to a local plan in effect in the area covered by the regulation. Retroactivity (2) Any regulation made by the Minister under subsection (1) may be retroactive in its application. R.S.O. 1990, c.P.3, s.4. Fees (3) The Minister may charge fees for the processing of applications to the Minister in respect of amendments to land use regulations. Same (4) The Minister may reduce the amount of or waive the payment of a fee described under subsection (3). 1993, c.26, s.67. ____________________ Français