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Program Information

Application Fee: $1,090.00 (Payable by Cheque to The City of Hamilton)

Once you submit your form, you will be redirected to a new page to sign and confirm the accuracy of your form. After you sign, if applicable, the form will automatically be emailed to the Registered Property Owner for their signature and consent. Once everyone has signed, you will receive a final confirmation email.

Please note: Your application is only considered complete after all signatures have been collected.

A ‘Save and Continue Later’ button is available at the bottom of this form. This button will generate a link and allow you to revisit the form at a later date.

Contact

Johnpaul Loiacono, RPP MCIP
Senior Planner
johnpaul.loiacono@hamilton.ca
905-546-2424 x5134

For mailing or in-person delivery of application fee:

City of Hamilton – Attention: Johnpaul Loiacono
Economic Development Division
Commercial Districts and Small Business Section
71 Main Street West, 7th Floor
Hamilton ON, L8P 4Y5

Complete Application Checklist

  • Completed and signed application form
  • A Remedial Action Plan (prepared by a Qualified Person)
  • A Business Plan for the planned development
  • Site Plan and architectural drawings for the planned development
  • Digital copies of all previous environmental studies for the site
  • An MPAC post-development assessment estimate for the planned development (where required – see Section A, 6.)
  • Application fee
  1. Arrange a pre-consultation meeting with the Program Contact prior to submitting an application in order to determine potential eligibility
  2. An application to the ERG Program must be submitted to the City prior to incurring eligible costs.
  3. All applicants are required to review the detailed City Council approved ERG Program description and terms (including details of eligible and ineligible costs).
  4. Confirm that the site subject to the application is located within the Historically Developed Area (HDA) in which this program is made available. The HDA is defined through the ERASE Community Improvement Project Area By-law 23-106.
  5. Applications shall include reports, plans, estimates, contracts and other details as may be required to satisfy the City with respect to the eligible costs and conformity of the project with the Environmental Remediation and Site Enhancement (ERASE) Community Improvement Plan and Province of Ontario environmental regulations.
  6. As part of a complete application, the applicant shall be required to submit an estimate of the post-development assessment for the planned development, prepared by the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) and undertaken at the applicant’s expense, except where the planned development is one of the following:
    1. a residential rental building containing six (6) or less units;
    2. a residential-only condominium development of any scale; or
    3. a mixed-use building containing a residential condominiums and commercial uses provided the commercial uses are limited to the first two (2) storeys of the building.
  7. Ensure all required information and supporting documentation is provided as per the checklist contained herein.
  8. Determine if the planned development is a ‘Brownfield Development’ or ‘Enhanced Brownfield’ Development’ as defined in the Program description and terms.
  9. For the purposes of this Program:
    1. a ‘site’ shall mean all properties forming part of the planned development;
    2. a ‘Qualified Person’ shall have the same meaning as defined under Ontario Regulation 153/04, as amended; and
    3. a ‘not-for-profit housing development’ shall mean the development of a building or structure intended for use as a residential rental premise or a residential premise for the homeless to be owned and developed by:
      1. a corporation to which the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 applies, that is in good standing under that Act and whose primary object is to provide housing;
      2. a corporation without share capital to which the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act applies, that is in good standing under that Act and whose primary object is to provide housing;
      3. a non-profit housing co-operative that is in good standing under the Co-operative Corporations Act. 2022, c. 21, Sched. 3, s. 4; or
      4. CityHousing Hamilton Corporation.

NOTE: Applicants must contact MPAC directly (products@mpac.ca) to obtain the estimate, when required. Applicants must advise MPAC that the estimate will be provided to the City of Hamilton and as such must contain any necessary disclaimers to ensure the estimate can be provided to, and used by, the City for the purposes of this application, including in public reports to City Council.