New Custom Homes in Aurora

A building permit with architectural, structural, mechanical and energy-compliance drawings and a grading and servicing plan, plus any minor variance or conservation permit the lot triggers. The Town of Aurora Building Division issues the building permit and, at the end, the occupancy permit, and inspects the build in between. Aurora has its own site alteration by-law, and we ask the Town of Aurora Building Division early whether the earthworks around the new house need a permit under it.

If the lot is inside the regulated area of the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA), yes. Under Ontario’s Conservation Authorities Act, building a house or grading a site in hazardous lands, wetlands, river or stream valleys or shorelines at risk of flooding or erosion needs the authority’s permit, because O. Reg. 41/24 counts both as development. The authority has to publish maps of its regulated areas and review them at least once a year. We check the lot against the current map. The LSRCA permit comes first, then the Aurora building permit.

That depends on the rules of the Northeast Old Aurora district. The first step is to check the lot against its boundary. Aurora has one Heritage Conservation District designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act: the Northeast Old Aurora Heritage Conservation District. For a lot inside it, we confirm with the Town of Aurora Building Division what the district asks of a new house before the design is fixed.

Yes. We take on new custom homes across Aurora, including Aurora Heights and Regency Acres, about half an hour from our Richmond Hill office. The first consultation is free, by phone or on site.

Three things to start: lot address and a survey, if you have one; your sketch, brief or a plan from another designer; and whether the lot is serviced or needs a well and septic. Send those and we tell you what the Town of Aurora Building Division will ask for before we quote.

It decides which trees the demolition, the excavation and the service trench may touch. Bylaw 5850-16 covers injuring a tree as well as removing it, and a heritage tree, or any tree on a lot in the Northeast Old Aurora district, needs a permit first. On other lots two larger trees a year may go without one, so on an infill rebuild west of Yonge we count the trees near the work on the survey before the house is placed.

Two mixes, under Registration By-law 6660-24: the house with one or two Integrated Units inside or attached to it, or the house with one Integrated Unit and one detached Ancillary Unit in the yard. Either way the lot tops out at three units, each registered with the Town and shown on the permit set for the Town of Aurora Building Division. A new house is the easiest place to make that choice, while the basement height, the entrances and the water service are still on paper.

In CityView. The Town of Aurora Building Division posts the application’s status there while it reviews the architectural, structural, mechanical and energy sheets and the grading and servicing plan, and the same portal takes the inspection requests once building starts. We book those as our crew reaches each stage and tell you whenever the file moves.

We do, as part of the rebuild. Ontario’s Building Code Act needs a permit before a building is demolished, so for an infill rebuild west of Yonge we apply to the Town of Aurora Building Division for the demolition along with the new house. Taking the old house out and digging the new basement both disturb the yard, so we check that work against Aurora’s site alteration by-law and the tree bylaw at the same stage.

Four things, which we can look into before your offer is firm: the lot’s zone in By-law 6000-17, whether it lies inside the Northeast Old Aurora district, whether LSRCA regulation maps any part of it, and which of its trees would need a permit under Bylaw 5850-16. Together they tell you how big a house the lot allows and which approvals come before the building permit.