Overview

The land use policy and stewardship team is responsible for researching, developing and implementing provincial legislation, regulation, policy and guidance material related to land use planning and environmental issues that affect the agri-food sector.

Staff in the unit:

  • help residents, consultants and municipalities understand provincial agricultural and rural land use policies
  • provide correspondence on Planning Act applications to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MMAH) through the One-Window provincial planning system for official plans, zoning by-laws or lot creation
  • provide correspondence to other agencies for Aggregate Resource Act or Environmental Assessment Act applications
  • provide data, training and tools for land use planning topics such as permitted uses, identifying prime agricultural areas and Minimum Distance Separation (MDS) setbacks

Contact information

For items related to mineral aggregate resource proposals (for example, pit or quarry applications), email omafra.aggregates@ontario.ca.

For items related to environmental assessments (for example, notices), email omafra.eanotices@ontario.ca.

Geographically-specific questions

For geographically-specific questions, contact the appropriate rural planner according to the staff coverage map.

Province-wide questions

For province-wide questions related to agricultural land use planning and stewardship policies, contact any of the following staff.