Real Estate Development and the Planning Process
Find out what it takes to get your real estate project approved
Real estate development projects can live or die by how professionals and leaders navigate the development approval process. This course explores how approval processes work and identifies necessary aspects to achieve successful project approvals with case studies, project examples, and guest speakers and administrators from across Canada. Learn about topics including: municipalities’ authority to plan, types of planning documents, and the major players in development processes, land use amendment applications, and subdivision and development appeals.
In-person classroom session: TBD
Site visit: TBD
Live online session: TBD
Investment: *$995
Commitment: 18 hours
Registration deadline: TBD
*$995 if registered 30 days prior to course start date. $1095 if registered within 30 days of course start date.
Participants come from a variety of fields including real estate development, banking, government, architecture, planning and engineering. The program is aimed for those who aspire to work in field of real estate development, expand understanding of the development process, and benefit from local expertise, perspectives and gain hands-on experience.
Participants who attend this course cover the following topics:
- Describe the various types of planning approvals that may be required for different types of development across different regions of Canada.
- Observe a municipal planning meeting and participate in a mock council meeting (public hearing).
- Compare the approval procedures, requirements, and legislation of different municipal jurisdictions in Canada.
- Differentiate between types of statutory and non-statutory plans that a municipality may use.
- Review land use bylaws and recognize how they may apply in various case studies.
- Interact with industry experts who have processed applications in a variety of municipal planning systems and recognize ideas and techniques they used to deal successfully with elected and administrative officials, interest groups, and the general public.
Mark Seasons, Professor at School of Planning, University of Waterloo