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The Draft Framework guides how the City of Hamilton will handle applications to expand its urban boundary. Currently, the Urban Hamilton Official Plan and Rural Hamilton Official Plan do not provide guidance for how to assess urban boundary expansion proposals. The Draft Framework will establish a clear and rigorous process for reviewing these requests, ensuring transparency and providing opportunities for public input. The Draft Framework is critical because recent provincial policy changes now allow urban boundary expansion applications to be made at any time, despite the City’s commitment to a firm urban boundary until 2051.

How to Provide Input

Under the new Provincial changes there are limitations on what the City can and can’t control with privately initiated urban boundary expansion applications. Focusing on what we can control the City is seeking is seeking input from the community on:

• How the community wants to be notified of urban boundary expansion applications.
• How the community wants to provide input on urban boundary expansion applications once received.
• What types of information should an applicant be required to provide as part of an urban boundary expansion application.