ONTARIO DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
Before the project rises, the planning case has to hold.
G-Force turns zoning, policy, design, and municipal process into one coordinated, defensible path from feasibility to approval.
ACTIVE APPLICATION
7800 Hurontario Street- Program
- Mixed use
- Scale
- 40 storeys
- Homes
- 346
- Status
- In review
THE FIRM
A planning practice built on files that finish.
G-Force Urban Planners & Consultants is an Ontario development-planning firm led by a Registered Professional Planner with more than three decades in the province’s planning framework. We act for landowners, developers, and institutions — reading the policy, preparing the evidence, coordinating the consultants, and carrying applications through committee, council, and the Ontario Land Tribunal.
WHAT WE DO
Three disciplines. One file.
Feasibility & Strategy
Before you buy, before you draw — what the land can carry.
1.1 Development feasibility & due diligence
Zoning and policy review of a site’s real potential — before the offer is signed.
1.2 Planning consultation
Direct advice on approvals strategy, development potential, and municipal expectations.
1.3 Reports & studies
Planning Justification Reports and Urban Design Briefs — the evidence that carries an application.
Applications & Approvals
The instruments that change what a property is permitted to be.
2.1 Zoning By-law & Official Plan Amendments
Site-specific rezonings and policy amendments, argued through staff, committee, and council.
2.2 Site Plan Approval · Minor Variances · Consents
Detailed design approvals, Committee of Adjustment relief, and land severances with conditions managed to clearance.
2.3 Draft Plans of Condominium & occupancy certificates
Ownership structures and zoning certificates that let projects sell, lease, and open.
Delivery & Hearings
Files don’t approve themselves — someone has to carry them.
3.1 Project management & consultant coordination
Architects, engineers, and specialists coordinated under one submission schedule.
3.2 Planning agreements
Easements, servicing agreements, and conditions of approval — drafted and negotiated.
3.3 Ontario Land Tribunal
Representation and support when applications are appealed or contested.
SELECTED WORK
Pulled from the flat file.
What is on our boards, and what has already broken ground. Every sheet is a real application — statuses shown as they stand.
In Review
SHT-0140-Storey Mixed-Use Tower
City of BramptonZBASite PlanPJRUDB
In Review
SHT-0211-Storey Marriott Hotel
Hurontario St · MississaugaSite PlanMinor Variance
In Review
SHT-0312-Storey Rental Residence
City of BramptonSite PlanMinor VarianceDC
OPA + ZBA Secured
SHT-04Place of Worship & Community Hub
City of BramptonOPAZBASite Plan
Delivered
SHT-05100-Home Townhouse Community
Town of InnisfilZBADraft Plan of Condo
Delivered
SHT-06700-Guest Banquet Hall & Motel
City of MississaugaMVZBAOPASite PlanTHE METHOD
How a file moves.
Every application follows the same discipline — whether it is a single variance or a forty-storey tower.
Feasibility before commitment
The approval strategy
Evidence & applications
Review, committee, council
Approval, conditions, delivery
THE TEAM
The names on the drawings.
A boutique bench — planning, law, and project management on one file. Led by Manni Chauhan, RPP, a full member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and the Canadian Institute of Planners.
INSIGHTS
Notes from the counter.
Plain-language guides to Ontario’s approvals system, written for landowners and developers.
Minor variances: the four tests, and how to pass them
When a small deviation from the zoning by-law needs permission — and what the Committee of Adjustment actually weighs.
Read the guide → Approvals · GuideRezoning in Ontario: how a Zoning By-law Amendment works
What changes when the project is bigger than a variance — process, public meetings, and the case you need to make.
Read the guide → Strategy · GuideMinor variance or rezoning? Choosing the right path
The scale of the change decides the route. Get it wrong and you lose months — here is how to judge it.
Read the guide →GET IN TOUCH
Bring us your parcel.
Tell us what the land could be. We’ll chart the path through the planning system — and tell you plainly what it will take.