IMPORTANT

Resolution 67-2025  (4 December 2025)
1. The date on which a complete Consent application will be assigned to a particular statutory public meeting will be strictly enforced (no exceptions).
2. NAPBoard staff will not act as agent of the applicant(s) for the purpose of completing the Consent application form.
3. Section 10 of the Consent Application MUST be signed in person by the applicant.
4. To be considered complete, all Consent applications seeking the creation of a new lot MUST contain the following:
- A Consent Form (up to 2 Consent requests in each form) only typed for legibility (available on the napb.ca website with written instructions) [NO hand written forms will be accepted]
- The set fee for each Consent being requested (each new lot requested; a permanent easement or other process prescribed in Section 53 or 57) payable only by personal cheque or money order (NO CASH will be accepted)
- An OPPI Planner’s Report (Powassan Contract Planner) or a hired Planner for unincorporated townships [often the survey firm doing the sketch will have OPPI Planner(s) to act as agent]
- A sketch prepared by a registered Surveyor, which depicts the new lot AND the primary property and adjacent lands
- Either Local Roads Board (LRB) confirming frontage on a year round maintained road for lands located in the unincorporated townships OR MTO comments for land with highway frontage
- North Bay Mattawa Conservation Authority (NBMCA) comments for feasibility of septic (unless in the serviced area of Powassan)
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture comments if the new lot is within 750m of land with livestock activity
- Any other agency comments particular to the land in the area of the proposed new lot
- Title Report confirming ownership of the land by the applicant(s) and any relative encumbrance of easement etc., and/or copy of a Bona Fide Agreement of Purchase and Sale if the applicant is a potential purchase of the land (per subsection 53(1) of the Planning Act).



PUBLIC MEETING - START TIME

NAPBoard Public Meetings will now start at 2:00pm.




ENQUIRING ABOUT SEVERANCE

7 Oct 2024

 

NOTICE:  To ENQUIRE 

Please go to the CONTACT US section of this website, and fill out the Enquiry Form. It will be emailed to the NAPB staff for review and response. The Consent Application form can also be retrieved from Powassan staff.
 
For information on the process and the CONSENT APPLICATION FORMs are available on the APPLICATION FOR CONSENT SECTION of this website.



Declaration on Consent Application

Powassan Reception is open from 8:30am through 4:30pm - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday (closed Wednesdays)

If you wish to have your Declaration processed by a Commissioner of Oaths, that service is available by Powssan staff for a fee.

PLEASE CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT 

 




IMPORTANT re PAYMENT OF FEES

14 Feb 2023

PAYMENT OF FEES TO THE NAPBOARD may only be made via:

CHEQUE

CANADA POST MONEY ORDER

BANK TELLER CHEQUE

CASH PAYMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

 




ABOUT THE PLANNING BOARD

The North Almaguin Planning Board (NAPBoard) is a quasi judicial body for the Unincorporated Townships of East Mills, Hardy, McConkey, Patterson, Pringle and Wilson, and the Incorporated Municipality of Powassan to deliver certain planning services prescribed in the Ontario Planning Act, as delegated by the Minister of the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing:

Section 53 for land located in the six unincorporated townships identified above

Sections 51, 53 and 57 for land located in the Municipality of Powassan

Until further notice attending the NAPBoard office will require a set appointment. Please contact  the NAPBoard by email or telephone..

Information can be submitted at the Powassan municipal office reception or after hours through the drop box on the exterior of the Powassan Municipal Building at 250 Clark Street.

Note you will be required to be screened and also wear a mask to enter the 250 Clark Street municipal building until such time as the Parry Sound Public Health Unit retracts that requirement.

Contact is available by telephone 705-724-6758 or email northalmaguinplanningboard2018@gmail.com

 









 
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