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Prepared for Cedric D. | Delivered August 14, 2020
Building Turnkey Prefab Homes in The Blue Mountains, Ontario
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Goals
To find information on the experience of buying land and building a turnkey prefab home in The Blue Mountains, Ontario. Desired information includes information on inputs, permits, turnkey prefab builders
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Early Findings
Building Permits
The Town of The Blue Mountains, Ontario requires people to have business permits for legal permission "
to construct, demolish
, or renovate on a property."
In the town, building permits, forms, drawings, and all associated documents are
submitted electronically
in PDF format by email or by using the Town's
secure sharefile.
To build a
municipally serviced dwelling
in The Blue Mountains, one must have the following:
Application forms
- building permit application including schedule 1 designer information, EEDS-performance or EEDS-prescriptive energy efficiency design summary form, town sewer and water connection forms, owner’s authorization form which is required if the applicant is not the owner, and an entrance permit guide.
Drawings and information
- site plan and/or lot grading plan, HVAC design including heat loss and heat gain summary, roof truss layout, engineered floor system layout including any engineered beams (LVL, PSL, Paralam), and other related documents as applicable/required by the Chief Building Official.
Fees and Charges
The fees and charges for acquiring building permits include: building permit fee of
$16.00
per square meter (
$1.49
per square foot), town development charges, county development charges, water and sewer connection fees of
$100.00
, civic addressing fee of
$250.00
, wood-burning fireplace fee of
$100.00
, and a water meter fee of
$450.00
.
Town development fees range from
$51,552 to $17,435
for single and semi-detached buildings while county development fees are
$6,768
for single and semi-detached residential units.
A total of all the above fees brings in a range of between $89,020 and $54,903 for a land of size 100 x 200 FT that will be used for residential construction.
Time Range
After a complete application is received,
review and further communication
from the building office will take place
after 10 days
in the case of a residential building permit application.
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