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A Law Unto Itself : How the Ontario Municipal Board Has Developed and Applied Land-Use Planning Policy

John G. Chipman

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A Law Unto Itself provides a detailed examination of the development and application of land use planning policy by the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), a key Canadian administrative tribunal. Unlike the many existing analyses that focus on judicial reviews of the administrative process, this text explores the administrative process itself and demonstrates how a tribunal creates and implements policy through its decision-making.

Using a wide variety of case studies, John Chipman analyzes almost 900 of the OMB's planning-related decisions during two specific time periods (1971-1978 and 1987-2000), illuminating the way in which the OMB frequently overturns municipal land-use planning decisions and imposes its own policies, which are generally protective of private interests, and the way in which it applies provincial planning policies within the context of its own standards. Chipman concludes that the nature of the policies developed by the OMB as well as the changing climate within which it operates together provide evidence that the board has outlived its role as a planning appeal tribunal.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Page 8-9

LIST OF TABLES
Page 10-11

PREFACE
Page 12-15

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Introduction
Page 16-22

1 The Genesis, Evolution, and Operation of the OMB
Page 23-38

-----From Railway Regulator to Jack-of-All-Trades Tribunal
Page 23-24

-----The Structure and Operation of the OMB
Page 25-27

-----The Planning Appeal Role of the OMB
Page 28-29

-----The Emergence of the OMB as a Land Use Planning Tribunal
Page 30-33

-----The OMB as a Developer of Planning Policy
Page 34-38

2 The Evaluation of Interests
Page 39-69

-----The Public Interest
Page 41-48

-----The Adverse Impact Test
Page 49-57

-----The Balancing of Public and Private Interests
Page 58-61

-----The Evaluation of Private Interests
Page 62-63

-----Has the OMB Been Captured?
Page 64-69

3 Policy Development in a Statutory/Judicial Context
Page 70-115

-----The Adequacy of Approval Procedures
Page 72-83

-----Interference with Council Decisions
Page 84-93

-----The Adequacy of Decision Making
Page 94-103

-----Interim Control By-laws
Page 104-109

-----The Meaning of Minor
Page 110-115

4 Policy Development in a Public Policy Vacuum
Page 116-157

-----The Principles of Good Planning
Page 117-124

-----The Protection of Neighbourhood Character
Page 125-136

-----Commercial Competition
Page 137-143

-----The Provision of Social Housing
Page 144-148

-----Prematurity
Page 149-157

5 The Treatment of Provincial Policy
Page 158-203

-----Sources of Provincial Policy
Page 159-162

-----The Pattern of OMB Involvement
Page 163-167

-----The OMB's General Approach
Page 168-172

-----Regional Planning Policy
Page 173-175

-----Urban Development and the Protection of Agricultural Lands
Page 176-184

-----Statements of Provincial Policy
Page 185-191

-----Matters of Provincial Interest
Page 192-194

-----Environmental Protection Policies
Page 195-196

-----Conclusions
Page 197-203

6 A Tribunal Out of Time
Page 204-221

-----Theory v. Practice
Page 205-205

-----The OMB and the Province
Page 206-211

-----The Implications of Applying a Private Law Ideology
Page 212-214

-----A Forum for Sober Second Thought
Page 215-221

APPENDIX: METHODOLOGY
Page 222-225

NOTES
Page 226-253

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Page 254-261

INDEX OF CASES
Page 262-263

GENERAL INDEX
Page 264-272

-----A
Page 264-264

-----B
Page 265-265

-----C
Page 265-265

-----D
Page 265-265

-----E
Page 265-265

-----F
Page 265-265

-----G
Page 266-266

-----H
Page 266-266

-----I
Page 266-266

-----J
Page 266-266

-----K
Page 266-266

-----L
Page 266-266

-----M
Page 267-267

-----N
Page 268-268

-----O
Page 268-268

-----P
Page 269-270

-----R
Page 271-271

-----S
Page 271-271

-----T
Page 272-272

-----U
Page 272-272

-----W
Page 272-272

-----Y
Page 272-272

-----Z
Page 272-272

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Book Details

Title

A Law Unto Itself

Subtitle

How the Ontario Municipal Board Has Developed and Applied Land-Use Planning Policy

Contributors

John G. Chipman

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Publication date

2002-01-01

Pages

xii, 259 p.

Print ISBN

9780802036254

eBook ISBN

9781442670389

LC Subjects

Land use - Ontario - Planning., Land use - Government policy - Ontario.

Audience

Professional and scholarly

Series

IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance

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