Planning and Development

Township of Severn's Planning and Development department provides land use planning guidance and advice to our community, Council, landowners and developers. We administer the Official Plan, Zoning By-law and development approval process.

Planning and development applications

Learn how to submit a planning and development application for a variety of new development projects:

Plan of Subdivision/Condominium (County of Simcoe is approval authority)
Official Plan amendment (County of Simcoe is approval authority)
Zoning By-law amendment
Site Plan control
Severance/consent
Minor variances

Active Planning applications

Stay up-to-date on local planning matters and subscribe to notices for public meetings on our Active Planning Applications page.

Development charges

Township of Severn development charges apply to residential land that has been vacant for three or more years. The Simcoe County District School Board, the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board, and County of Simcoe development charges apply to residential land that has been vacant for five or more years. Development charges assist in financing the long-term capital and operating costs for the infrastructure required to provide municipal services to the new development, including:

development related studies
long term care and seniors services
paramedic services
public works
roads and related maintenance
social housing
transit
waste management

You may need to pay development charges for new residential units or commercial, industrial and institutional floor space. These charges are paid at the time a building or planning permit is issued. View our Development Charges Background Study.

Municipal wide development charges

Service	Single and semi-detached dwellings	Other multiples	Apartment with two bedrooms or more	Apartments and bachelors with one bedroom	Special care or special dwelling unist	Non-residential per square foot of gross floor area
Municipal-wide 'hard services'
Highways	$9,984	$8,676	$6,484	$4,267	$3,941	$7.61
Fire protection	$1,460	$1,269	$948	$624	$576	$1.11
Parks and recreation	$4,421	$3,842	$2,871	$1,889	$1,745	$1.00
Library	$538	$468	$349	$230	$212	$0.12
Provincial Offences Act and By-law Enforcement	$9	$8	$6	$4	$4	$0.01
Growth-related studies	$680	$591	$442	$291	$268	$0.51
Total Township-wide services	$17,092	$14,854	$11,100	$7,305	$6,746	$10.36

Area specific development charges

Service	Single and semi-detached dwellings	Other multiples	Apartments with two bedrooms or more	Apartments with one bedroom and bachelors	Special care or special dwelling units	Non-residential per square foot of gross floor area
Westshore wastewater	$22,611	$19,650	$14,685	$9,663	$8,924	$22.86
Westshore water	$10,972	$9,535	$7,126	$4,689	$4,331	$11.10
Westshore total	$33,583	$29,185	$21,811	$14,352	$13,255	$33.96
Coldwater wastewater	$17,480	$15,191	$11,352	$7,470	$6,899	$10.42
Coldwater water	$3,262	$2,835	$2,118	$1,394	$1,287	$1.95
Coldwater total	$20,742	$18,026	$13,470	$8,864	$8,186	$12.37
Areas not receiving wastewater services septic and hauled treatment	$101	$88	$66	$43	$40	$0.06

Addressing

Contact us if you have an issue with your current address, for example if:

your address on Simcoe Maps is wrong
you currently have a water access address and recently got private road access
you don't know your address
you don't have a green address sign
Canada Post or a utility isn't recognizing your address

We work with the County of Simcoe to maintain the 911 addressing system.

Contact us

1024 Hurlwood Lane
Severn, Ontario

Phone: 705-325-2315
Fax: 705-327-5818
Contact us

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