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Canadian Institute of Public Real Estate Companies v. Toronto

[1979] 2 SCR 2 Court SCC Decision date 1979-01-23 English

PartiesCanadian Institute of Public Real Estate Companies, Toronto Medical Arts Building Company Limited and 150 Bloor West Limited (Plaintiffs) Appellants·The Corporation of the City of Toronto (Defendant) Respondent

Counsel (6)
J.J. Carthy, Q.C., and G.J. Smith, Q.C., for the appellants.
J.J. Robinette, Q.C., for the respondent.
D.W. Brown, for the intervener.
Solicitors for the appellants: Weir & Foulds, Toronto.
Solicitor for the respondent: D.C. Lyons, Toronto.
Solicitor for the intervenor: D.W. Brown, Toronto.

Judges Ritchie, Roland Almon; Spence, Wishart Flett; Pigeon, Louis-Philippe; Dickson, Robert George Brian; Estey, Willard Zebedee

Delivered by Judgment of the Court

On appeal from Ontario

Subjects Administrative law Municipal law

Contents

Judgment of the Court

The judgment of the Court was delivered by

Widening of highways that abut on the land that is being developed or redeveloped.
Subject to The Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act, facilities to provide access to and from the land such as access ramps and curbings including the number, location and size of such facilities and the direction of traffic thereon.
Off-street vehicular parking and loading areas and access driveways including the surfacing of such areas and driveways.
Walkways and all other means of pedestrian access.
Removal of snow from access ramps, driveways, parking areas and walkways.
Grading or change in elevation or contour of the land and the disposal of storm, surface and waste water from the land and from any building or structures thereon.
Conveyance to the municipality, without cost, of easements required for the construction, maintenance or improvement of any existing or newly required watercourses, ditches, land drainage works and sanitary sewerage facilities on the land.
Floodlighting of the land or of any buildings or structures thereon.
Walls, fences, hedges, trees, shrubs, or other suitable groundcover to provide adequate landscaping of the land or protection of adjoining lands.
Vaults, central storage and collection areas and other facilities and enclosures as may be required for the storage of garbage and other waste material.
Plans showing the location of all buildings and structures to be erected on the land and the location of the other facilities required by the by-law.
Perspective drawings and plans showing building elevations and cross sections of industrial and com-

Footnotes

  1. [1] (1977), 15 O.R. (2d) 248.
  2. [2] (1976), 12 O.R. (2d) 697.
  3. [3] [1973] S.C.R. 131.