Torbay's Housing Incentive Program was created to accelerate housing development within the community, specifically for local builders and developers.
Housing
The rising cost of housing along with an increasing population has caused a limitation of housing, especially for households in the low to very low-income brackets It is projected the Town of Torbay must build 600 new dwelling units by 2031 to meet the housing demand. The federal government has given $2.1 million to the Town to help accelerate the growth of housing. Torbay is committed to building 113 new homes by the end of 2027. This will include 71 missing middle dwelling units and 10 affordable housing units.
Missing middle units refers to housing forms that excludes single family homes and that cater to a specific income bracket and household size. This includes subsidiary apartments, duplexes, and row houses.
More information to come.
The Town of Torbay is now offering a convenient e-permitting system and we look forward to receiving your applications via the town’s e-services portal!
The new e-permitting system is being funded by the Federal Housing Accelerator Fund. The goal is to make the building permit process easier, more efficient and transparent for everyone!
Applicants are responsible for ensuring the information submitted is correct and complete for processing. Before you begin, make sure you have the following information:
- Floor Plans/Building plans
- Plot Plan ( when applicable)
- Estimated Cost of Construction
- Applicant Contact Information
- Copy of Survey
Once all the appropriate information has been submitted, plans will be reviewed by Planning and Development Staff and the applicant will be contacted about next steps.
For more information please contact our Administrative Assistant for Planning and Development at Town Hall by phone at (709) 437-6532 ext. 268, by email at AAugot@torbay.ca, or stop by the downstairs widget at Town Hall.
The Town is hoping to permit the use of a variety of new housing types, including secondary suites, duplexes, triplexes, row homes, apartments/condos and garden suites. To ensure these buildings adhere to the Town’s development regulations, design guidelines will be developed to help produce ready-to-implement concepts that are adaptable to Torbay’s existing aesthetic and characteristics.
Did you know that changes to housing forms and increased population density has significant impacts on the transport methods and patterns? The account for this, the Town is initiating an Active Transportation Plan to determine ways to make the community more accessible by walking and cycling.
Municipal and Crown-owned land can offer tremendous opportunities for future development. However, land ownership boundaries can often be difficult to determine. Therefore, the Town will produce a land inventory to identify publicly-owned areas within Torbay that contain potential for development of housing.
Torbay Developable Public Land Inventory & Residential Suitability Analysis Report
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