Road Occupancy Permits

The public road allowance is a shared space used to deliver services and public utilities while allowing controlled access to adjacent properties. The City is required to coordinate activities to ensure public safety, reduce public impact and protect City assets from damage and reduce liability. Therefore, all homeowners, contractors and businesses doing work or other activities which require temporary occupancy of a municipal road, sidewalk, boulevard or right-of-way beyond its intended use require prior municipal knowledge and approval.

It is the responsibility of any resident, business or contractor to apply for a road occupancy permit a minimum of seven days prior to occupancy for a regular permit and ten days prior to a full road closure.

These activities include:

construction on the road or boulevard
temporary or partial road closures
utility repairs or installations
placement of moving containers, dumpsters or storage bins on the road or the boulevard
newspaper or flyer box installations
crossing municipal boulevards with heavy construction equipment to gain site access
sidewalk obstructions which impact pedestrian traffic

In conjunction with this permit, the Applicant shall have in place Commercial General Liability (CGL) insurance written on an occurrence basis with a liability limit of not less than five million dollars ($5,000,000) per accident or occurrence and automobile liability insurance of not less than $2 million for all owned or leased vehicles. The City of Pickering shall be named on the policy as an additional insured with respect to the Applicant’s CGL insurance. Policy coverage shall include, but will not be limited to, third party bodily injury including death, property damage, products and completed operations. The Applicant must verify with the City that valid insurance coverage is in place by submitting an Insurance Certificate which must be acceptable in all respects to the City of Pickering.

Permit Application

Road Occupancy Permit Application [PDF]

Each Permit has a fee as set by the municipal fee schedule by-law.

The Road Occupancy Permit application form can be downloaded from the above link or obtained from any City facility.

Completed applications may be sent to the Operations Centre by email.

Permit Fees

A fee of $175.00 will be applied to each individual street included in the Road Occupancy Permit application. If applicable, there will be an additional Road Degradation fee applied if the works require a road cut for a minimum charge of $300.00 or $45.00 per square metre of asphalt cut.