Ontario. Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Office of the Provincial Facilitator

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Office of the Provincial Facilitator

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Office of the Provincial Facilitator

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1987-1998

      History

      The Office of the Provincial Facilitator was established in 1987 within the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

      The Office of the Provincial Facilitator closed in 1998 and the custody of records were transferred to the Assistant Deputy Minister's Office, Business Management Division, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Office of the Provincial Facilitator provided a dispute-resolution service to the public and private sector to assist in the approval process for economically significant development projects. It sponsored and contributed to the improvement in the overall performance of the land use plan review and approval system. It promoted the use of alternative dispute resolution in all government businesses, especially land use planning.

      The role of the Office of the Provincial Facilitator was to facilitate or mediate issues that involved provincial ministries in the area of land use planning in a way which would further broaden provincial interests in growth and development. The Office provided mediation and reconciliation in disputes regarding land use planning, zoning, land annexation and related issues.

      Address

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Municipal Affairs (1985-1995)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA95

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Municipal Affairs controls Ontario. Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Office of the Provincial Facilitator

      Dates of relationship

      1987-1995

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (1995-2016) (1995-2016)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA96

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (1995-2016) controls Ontario. Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Office of the Provincial Facilitator

      Dates of relationship

      1995-1998

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA2238

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          Schedule MMAH-6071

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          Sadinsky