The Government of Ontario introduced legislation titled the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025 (Bill 60), which is designed to accelerate housing approvals, strengthen infrastructure delivery and reduce processing bottlenecks across municipalities.  

The legislation builds on previous reform efforts stemming from the Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act (Bill 17) introduced on May 12, 2025, by introducing more than 40 initiatives across three strategic themes: building homes and communities, improving the operations of the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) and keeping people moving.  

For industry stakeholders like OHBA members, this bill signals a continued recognition of the need to address red tape, identify additional opportunities for streamlining, create standardization, all necessary to deliver the homes Ontario needs. 

The Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025 introduces a series of practical measures aimed at cutting red tape, improving consistency across municipalities, and unlocking the delivery of homes and infrastructure faster. If passed, the legislation would: 

• Streamline approvals and site plan control to reduce costs, create consistent standards, and ensure new housing and infrastructure can move forward in time for the spring building season. 

• Modernize the Ontario Building Code through a comprehensive review focused on reducing unnecessary regulatory burden while maintaining safety and quality. 

• Accelerate water and wastewater servicing in Peel Region by enabling a new public corporation model for Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon, aimed at ensuring local infrastructure keeps pace with housing growth. 

• Tackle delays at the Landlord and Tenant Board by improving the speed and fairness of proceedings, addressing system abuse, and encouraging more rental housing to come online. 

• Standardize road construction rules across municipalities to eliminate duplication and get critical road projects built sooner. 

• Protect road capacity and mobility by prohibiting lane reductions when municipalities install new bike lanes. 

• Support agricultural housing needs by simplifying approvals for septic systems serving seasonal farm worker accommodations. 

Below are a further breakdown of the key sections and their related items as reflected in the government’s technical briefing tables, linked at the end of this member release (pages 6-10; 13-15; 17-19 of the deck).  

This bill is comprised of more than 40 initiatives to create conditions for accelerated development of housing and transportation infrastructure and cut red tape under three themes: 

Building Homes & Communities  

This section centres on accelerating housing supply, improving planning and approvals, and better aligning infrastructure with growth. 

Key initiatives include: 

• Reduce Building Code burdens - a full review of the Building Code to modernize requirements, cut unnecessary costs and red tape, and ensure safety standards remain strong. 

• Streamlined Development Charge (DC) administration – improving clarity, certainty and timing for DC collection by proposing further legislative and regulatory changes to standardize and streamline DCs. The updates aim to prevent land costs from unfairly inflating DCs; reduce disputes between builders and municipalities over who funds growth-related infrastructure; improve transparency and public access to DC reporting; and changes to prevent municipalities from deviating from statutory DC freeze rules. 

• Continued streamlining of application processes and official plans – exploring ways to streamline local planning and Building Code processes by leveraging digital platforms and data-tracking tools to improve efficiency and transparency and exploring technologies like artificial intelligence to automate reviews and enhance consistency, and continuing work on simplified and standardized official plans that are more predictable and streamlined. 

• Water and wastewater public corporation for Peel Region – to speed up housing-related infrastructure, the province will establish a new public water and wastewater corporation for Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon, targeting full operation by January 2029. This builds on discussions that BILD and industry members have been leading through the Peel Transition Board. 

• Green roofs and green development standards – the province will prohibit Toronto from requiring green roofs or alternative roof surfaces and phase out local green development standards imposed via planning act application processes.  

• As of Right Minor Variances – further exploration of Planning Act amendments that would allow for certain variations from standards (like height) “as-of-right” on specified lands, eliminating many minor variance applications and speeding up approvals. 

• Provincial policy tests – provide the Minister expanded authority to make planning decisions with similar flexibility found under MZOs to advance provincial housing priorities more quickly, with all decisions publicly posted for transparency. 

• Records of Site Condition and Excess Soil – proposed amendments would remove the need for a Record of Site Condition where contamination risk is low or for office-to-residential conversions, while updating O. Reg. 406/19 to exempt aggregate reuse depots from waste approvals, enable greater soil reuse between projects, add flexibility for stormwater pond sediment management, and reduce unnecessary sampling. 

Fighting Delays at the Landlord & Tenant Board 

Recognizing the rental market’s dependence on tribunal efficiency, Bill 60 also tackles the operation of the LTB with multiple reform items. Bill 60 includes measures to improve the efficiency and fairness of the LTB to help address the significant backlog and restore predictability to Ontario’s rental housing system. The province will expand the number of adjudicators, both permanent and part-time, to increase capacity and reduce wait times. 

A new digital case-management system will modernize scheduling, document sharing, and file tracking, while an improved triage process will prioritize urgent cases such as health and safety issues, illegal evictions, and landlord hardship. The legislation also provides stronger enforcement tools for the Sheriff’s Office to ensure tribunal orders can be carried out more effectively. 

To further streamline operations, the LTB will simplify forms and online filing processes and introduce plain-language communications for applicants and respondents. Finally, new service standards and public reporting will increase transparency and accountability across the system. 

Keeping People Moving

To ensure housing growth is supported by infrastructure, Bill 60 includes measures to expedite transit and highway capacity, utility coordination, and municipal partnerships. Bill 60 introduces several measures to ensure Ontario’s housing growth is supported by the infrastructure needed to move people, goods, and services efficiently. The legislation includes amendments to accelerate approvals for key highway and transit projects, including priority corridors under the Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act. 

The province is also advancing policies to better integrate transit-oriented communities by aligning land use and station-area planning to support higher-density housing near major transit hubs. Improvements to utility coordination will require earlier engagement between builders, municipalities, and service providers to minimize construction conflicts and reduce costly delays. 

To keep projects on schedule, the government will establish new municipal–provincial partnership frameworks that promote joint delivery and shared funding for critical infrastructure. Targeted traffic and safety upgrades will help ease congestion on major growth routes, while strategic corridor investments will focus on infrastructure that directly unlocks new housing opportunities across high-demand regions. 

Related Consultations and Regulatory Proposals 

Alongside the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025 (Bill 60), the province has launched a series of Environmental Registry of Ontario (ERO) postings to gather feedback on complementary reforms that will shape how housing and infrastructure are delivered across Ontario. 

These consultations include: 

• Planning Act Amendments (Bill 60, Schedule 10) — proposed changes to further streamline approvals and support faster housing delivery. ERO 025-1097 – October 23-November 22, 2025 (30 days)  

• Enhanced Development Standards – Lot Level (outside of buildings) — consultation on streamlining or removing local development standards that add cost and complexity to projects. ERO 025-1101 – October 23-November 22, 2025 (30 days) 

• Proposed Regulation – Minimum Lot Sizes — proposal to establish province-wide minimum lot sizes to create greater consistency in residential development permissions. ERO 025-1100 – October 23-November 22, 2025 (30 days)  

• Simplifying and Standardizing Official Plans — consultation on aligning official plans with the Provincial Planning Statement, 2025, to ensure a consistent, predictable planning framework. ERO 025-1099 – October 23-December 22, 2025 (60 days) 

• Water and Wastewater Governance in Peel Region — proposed Municipal Act, 2001 amendments to transfer jurisdiction over water and wastewater from the Region of Peel to lower-tier municipalities and a standalone statute to authorize the establishment of water and wastewater public corporations. ERO 025-1098 – October 23-November 22, 2025 (30 days)  

• On-Farm Worker Housing Sewage Systems — policy proposal to expand Building Code provisions to permit additional on-farm sewage systems supporting seasonal worker housing. ERO 025-0899 – October 23-December 7, 2025 (45 days)  

These consultations represent a significant opportunity for OHBA members to provide feedback and help shape the implementation of the government’s broader housing and infrastructure reform agenda. 

Next Steps 

The introduction of Bill 60 reflects a clear progression on government policies aligned with OHBA’s advocacy priorities. 

Members should begin reviewing how these upcoming reforms may affect current projects, timelines, municipal relations, and partnerships. OHBA will continue to monitor the legislative and regulatory progression of Bill 60, participate in consultations, and provide detailed implementation guidance for members. 

Read the Ontario Newsroom release here.

The Technical Briefing Deck can be found here.

For all policy inquiries, please contact Kirstin Jensen, Vice President of Policy, Advocacy, and Relationships at (647) 888-2792 or kjensen@ohba.ca