PLG 510- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)
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Plg 510: week 1 readings 1-5: ontario planning law and practice - extract(s) Municipal structure (a) upper tier [counties and regions] Definition: a municipal corporation, in its strict and proper sense, is the body politic and corporate constituted by the incorporation of the inhabitants of a city or town for the purposes of local government thereof. Municipal corporations have power of local self-government; authorized in their corporate capacity to legislate in respect of matters of local concern. Referred to as miniature parliaments, institutions by which people"s will is expressed through elected representatives - no taxation without representation. In many municipalities a considerable amount of the work the council is carried on by advisory standing or special committees appointed to look into a particular problem. They deal with specific issues related to their field of government (eg. financing, property and planning)
