Before you’ll ever see shovels in the ground, there is an in-depth application and review process for proposed developments. This public process is essential to ensuring the City is designed and built to serve our growing community.
The 2024 Municipal Benchmarking Study by the Building Industry and Land Development Association ranked Barrie as the overall best municipality across the GTA for getting new housing developments approved.
Development applications undergo a multi-step review process:
Did you know? Barrie’s Affordable Housing Strategy is the guiding strategy for the City to act on housing affordability, and the Housing Community Improvement Plan provides financial incentives and other programs to facilitate the development of housing supply, with an emphasis on affordable housing, across Barrie.
Related Requirements: Studies & Reports
As part of the development applications process, City staff may request that specific studies & reports be completed. Staff have compiled terms of reference for each potential study/report required:
- Affordable Housing Report
- Archaeological Study
- Community and Sustainable Design Report
- Deep Drilling
- Energy Conservation Report
- Environmental Impact Study
- Functional Servicing Report
- Geotechnical Study
- Heritage Impact Assessment
- Historic Neighbourhood Character Impact Evaluation
- Hydrogeological Study
- Illumination Study
- Market Study
- Noise-Vibration Impact Analysis
- Planning Justification Report
- Shadow Study
- Stormwater Management Report
- Traffic Impact Study
- Transportation Impact Study Guidelines
- Tree Preservation & Inventory Plan
- Wind Study