Ian Flett Professional Corporation
1 lawyer · City of Toronto
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About Ian Flett Professional Corporation
Ian Flett Professional Corporation is a Toronto based law firm that focuses entirely on Ontario land use and municipal planning law. The practice centres on appeals before the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT), the tribunal that replaced the former Ontario Municipal Board and Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, along with appeals to the Toronto Local Appeal Body (TLAB) and further appeals to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice when a tribunal decision involves a legal or procedural error. Clients include municipalities, developers, not-for-profits, private landowners, and community groups, on matters involving official plans, zoning bylaws, minor variances, severances, and subdivisions.
Ian Flett earned a J.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, where the Sam Beke Prize in Clinical Law was awarded, and also studied civil law at the University of Ottawa. Before starting practice, a clerkship was completed with Federal Court Justice Mandamin. Ian Flett was called to the Ontario bar in 2010 and has since built a practice with hundreds of appearances before the OLT and its predecessor bodies. The firm also works with smaller and mid sized Ontario municipalities that lack in house planning law capacity, offering flexible retainer structures aimed at CAOs, planning staff, and town solicitors managing tight budgets.
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The firm's office is at 99 Yorkville Avenue, in the heart of Toronto's Yorkville, a name most people now associate with high end shopping and upscale hotels. Yorkville has a longer history than that reputation suggests. It started out as its own village, was connected to Toronto by omnibus service in 1849, and was formally annexed into the city in 1883. By the 1960s it had become a gathering place for folk musicians such as Joni Mitchell and Neil Young and a centre of Toronto's counterculture scene.
The neighbourhood changed again after the Bloor subway opened nearby, as rising land values pushed the redevelopment of many older residential buildings into the galleries, hotels, and retail spaces that define the area today. For a practice built around zoning bylaws, official plans, and land use appeals, working out of a neighbourhood that has itself gone through so much rezoning and redevelopment over the decades is a fitting piece of local geography.
Frequently asked questions
- What kind of law does Ian Flett Professional Corporation practice?
- The firm focuses on Ontario land use and municipal planning law, including appeals before the Ontario Land Tribunal, the Toronto Local Appeal Body, and further appeals to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
- I'm a developer with an appeal at the Ontario Land Tribunal. Can this firm represent me?
- Yes. The firm represents developers, private landowners, municipalities, not-for-profits, and community groups in OLT appeals, whether advancing an appeal or responding to one.
- Our small municipality doesn't have in house planning counsel. Does the firm work directly with municipalities?
- Yes. The firm supports small and mid sized Ontario municipalities with OLT representation on minor variances, severances, subdivisions, official plans, and zoning bylaws, and offers flexible retainer structures for CAOs, planning staff, and town solicitors managing tight budgets.
- I received a Committee of Adjustment decision and I'm not sure whether to appeal to the TLAB. Can the firm help?
- Yes. The firm represents both applicants and respondents at the Toronto Local Appeal Body and can help review a Committee of Adjustment decision before deciding whether an appeal is likely to succeed.
- Can an OLT or TLAB decision be appealed further if it seems to have gotten the law wrong?
- In some cases. Where a tribunal decision involves a clear error in law or process, the firm can help assess whether seeking leave to appeal to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice is warranted.
- How much experience does the firm have with the Ontario Land Tribunal?
- Ian Flett was called to the Ontario bar in 2010 and has appeared before the OLT and its predecessor bodies, the Ontario Municipal Board and the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, hundreds of times.
Where to find them
99 Yorkville Avenue, Suite 200 Toronto, ON M5R 1C1 · 416-932-0136
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