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Development Application Packages

A coordinated engineering package prepared for municipal submission.

What a development application package covers

A development package is the full engineering submission for a planning application. The reports and drawings are coordinated as one engineering assignment.

It suits official plan amendments, zoning by-law amendments, site plan control, and subdivision applications. The scope is set from your pre-consultation study list.

The package typically contains four documents. A servicing report, a stormwater report, a servicing plan, and a grading plan.

Preparing them as a set is the point. Flows, inverts, storage volumes, and levels remain consistent because the engineering team coordinates them across every document.

Reviewers cross-check documents against each other, so coordinated inputs and calculations reduce avoidable conflicts between reports and drawings.

The two reports at the centre of the package are the Functional Servicing Report and the Stormwater Management Report. Engineering work is reviewed and sealed by a licensed Ontario Professional Engineer, as applicable.

For more on pre-consultation and development approvals, read How to Define the Civil Engineering Scope for a Consultant .

When you need a package and what it includes

When you need one

  • Official plan amendment
  • Zoning by-law amendment
  • Site plan control
  • Draft plan of subdivision or condominium
  • Pre-consultation producing a multi-study list
  • Resubmission after a coordination failure

What you receive

  • Functional Servicing Report
  • Stormwater Management Report
  • Servicing plan
  • Grading plan
  • Cross-checked figures across the whole set
  • A coordinated point of contact for the engineering
  • Engineering review and sealing, as applicable

What a split package looks like on review

A package assembled from separate sources announced itself. The release rate in the stormwater report would not match the storage shown on the grading plan, or the report would reference an invert the drawing had since moved. Each document was defensible on its own. The set was not, and reconciling it fell to the applicant.