Can You Park on a driveway in Toronto?
If you park on it, it's a driveway/parking area. Technically in Toronto you're not even allowed to park in front of the house unless you have a front yard parking permit and the driveway is just supposed to be a means to get to your parking space which must be so far back from the front of the house.
Do I need a permit to widen my property in Toronto?
City of Toronto has rules. If your property follows the city's rules, a permit to widen is not hard to obtain. (Ie. 50 foot frontage) There are posts in RFD where owners was forced to put barriers such the non complient area was not useable to park a car.
How long can a driveway lead to a front yard parking pad?
Any driveway leading to a front yard parking pad must be maximum of 2.0 metres in length measured from the rear edge of the sidewalk or, where no sidewalk exists, the face of the curb or edge of the roadway and maximum of 2.6 metres in width.
Can I get a front yard parking licence after buying a house?
A front yard parking license isn't automatically transferred to the new owner of the property, therefore after buying a house, you have to apply for the licence. You can apply for a licence providing that on-site parking is neither available nor feasibly accessible, by means of a driveway or a contiguous street or lane.
toronto municipal code chapter 918 parking on residential front