Building Homes and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Act, 2026
Sponsored by Flack, Hon. Rob · Royal Assent received. Statutes of Ontario 2026, chapter 8
- Changes rules on building construction, planning, transit fares, and water services across multiple Ontario laws.
- Aims to speed up housing and infrastructure development and improve transit fare coordination across the province.
- Clarifies environmental protection standards count as construction/demolition by-laws under section 35.
- Makes matching clarifications in the City of Toronto Act and Planning Act on construction standards.
- Repeals municipal by-law powers on environmental protection and conservation in two other Acts.
- Removes references to "sustainable design" from section 114.
- Bars Toronto from requiring electric vehicle charging equipment in parking facilities.
- Prevents Toronto from imposing requirements on prescribed matters despite subsection (11).