The City of Mississauga rejected applications for two residential towers in Port Credit steps from two major transit stations this month, saying the buildings proposed were too tall. 

But the province of Ontario says the city can no longer make this type of decision due to municipal planning changes the province brought into play in late 2022. 

In November, the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing approved a Peel Region official plan, which a ministry spokesperson told CBC Toronto “removed the discretion of lower-tier municipalities to establish maximum heights within major transit station areas.” 

The minister also wrote a letter to the Peel Regional Council using similar language in February. 

This hasn’t stopped Mississauga — a lower-tier municipality — from going ahead with rejecting recent applications that don’t conform to its own plan, including applications for several tall buildings on transit routes.

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