Decks & Porches in Mississauga

It can need its own review. Grade changes in Mississauga come under its Lot Grading and Municipal Services Protection By-law, and a house lot’s grading plan is checked ahead of the building permit. If the deck means raising or cutting the ground around it, we draw those grades with the deck so both go to the City of Mississauga Planning and Building Department together.

Where the lot is in a regulated area, yes. Under Ontario Regulation 41/24 that area can reach 15 m past the stable top of a valley bank and 30 m out from a wetland, and building a structure inside it, a deck included, needs a CVC permit before the City of Mississauga Planning and Building Department issues the building permit. Along Etobicoke Creek in the east of the city, that permit comes from the TRCA instead. We check both authorities’ maps against the survey.

Yes. We take on decks & porches across Mississauga, including Port Credit and Streetsville, within an hour of our Richmond Hill office. The first consultation is free, by phone or on site.

Three things to start: property address; photos of the yard and the wall the structure would attach to; and rough size, and whether you want it covered. Send those and we tell you what the City of Mississauga Planning and Building Department will ask for before we quote.

They can. Mississauga’s Private Tree Protection By-law 0021-2022 calls for a permit before a private tree 15 cm or more across is injured or removed, and dying trees are not exempt; a footing hole dug into the roots can injure one. We plot those trees on the deck plan and space the footings to miss the roots where the beam spans allow. Where they cannot, the tree permit goes in alongside the building permit from the Planning and Building Department.

It takes one step before the building permit. Mississauga has designated Meadowvale Village, Old Port Credit Village and Streetsville under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act, and each district has its own expectations, so we ask the city what yours wants of a new porch before it is designed. The building permit then goes through ePlans with that design.

It helps. The deck has to keep the setbacks from the back and side property lines that Mississauga Zoning By-law 0225-2007 sets for your zone, and the survey is what we measure those from. Because the by-law has been amended many times since 2007, we check the version in force today rather than the rules when the house was built, and the deck plan for the Planning and Building Department shows each setback.

Yes. We draw the deck with its footings, beams, joists, guards and stairs, upload the set through ePlans and work with the Planning and Building Department until the permit is issued. Your contractor builds to the approved drawings, and you can check the file’s status in ePlans under Project info at any point.

At the stages written on the permit, and the inspectors come from the City of Mississauga Planning and Building Department, not Peel Region. Our crew calls each inspection in as the work reaches it. The permit stays open until the final inspection passes, and an open permit can hold up a sale or a later permit, so we see it closed.

We treat it as a new application, with drawings of the deck as built and of anything that has to change, uploaded through ePlans. The Planning and Building Department’s inspector may need boards lifted or soil dug back to see the footings. Where the deck is old and nobody knows how deep its footings go, replacing it can be less work than proving it, and we quote both options.