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Concrete and the City of Toronto: what needs a permit, what the City fixes, and what is yours.

Toronto property owners sit between two sets of rules. The concrete inside the property line is theirs to repair. The sidewalk, the curb and the boulevard are the City’s, and anything that crosses them, a new or wider driveway, a walkway to the street, a trench for a water or hydro service, needs the City’s permission and is inspected to the City’s specification. This page sets out where the line is, which permit applies to which job, what the City repairs itself and how to report it, and what we do on each side of the line. Fees are set by the City and change, so we link to the City’s pages instead of quoting numbers that go stale.

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Formwork for new front steps at a Toronto house, with the lawn, the public sidewalk, the grass boulevard and the street behind it
One Toronto frontage, two owners. The steps and walkway inside the line are the homeowner’s; the sidewalk, boulevard and curb behind them are the City’s.

Six pieces of concrete at your frontage, and who owns each.

In most Toronto neighbourhoods the property line sits a metre or two behind the sidewalk, not at it. Everything from there to the road is the public road allowance. Where exactly your line falls varies street by street; the City’s mapping or a call to 311 settles it for your address.

A building entrance walkway resurfaced in a light grey traffic coating, with the public sidewalk and street beyond its railing
A building’s entrance walkway, resurfaced. The walkway and its railing are the owner’s; the public sidewalk on the other side of the railing is the City’s.
Front steps and landing restored in a grey flake coating at a Toronto house, meeting the walkway slab in front of them
Front steps and landing, Toronto. Inside the property line, so restoring or replacing them in kind is the owner’s decision, not a right-of-way matter.

The public sidewalk

City property. The City inspects and repairs it, and you report a cracked, heaved or sunken panel through a 311 service request. A private contractor does not work on it without the City’s permit, and in the ordinary case you never pay for it.

The boulevard

The strip between the roadway and your property line, grass and all, including the part of your driveway between the sidewalk and the curb. City property that serves your lot. You keep the lawn and the apron in reasonable shape; building, widening or rebuilding anything on it needs a permit.

The curb and the curb cut

City property. A new or wider curb cut for a driveway is approved by Transportation Services, not by Toronto Building, and the City or its approved contractor does the sidewalk and curb work at a frontage before a driveway is paved.

The driveway apron

The sloped section between the street and your driveway proper. Part of it is on the boulevard and part of it is inside your line; repairing the inside part in kind needs no City permit, while rebuilding or widening the boulevard part does.

Walkways, steps, porches and slabs inside the line

Yours. Repairing or replacing them in kind is not a City right-of-way matter. Structural changes, a new basement walkout, a tall retaining wall or work on a heritage-designated house can bring Toronto Building requirements, and we flag those at the assessment.

Utility cuts

A trench through the road, sidewalk or boulevard for a water, sewer, gas or hydro service is made under a City Utility Cut Permit and restored by the utility to the City’s specification, with the City inspecting. The trench across your own driveway or slab is yours to restore.

Five permits and one deposit, with the City’s own page for each.

These are the permissions that come up on residential and small commercial concrete work. Each card links to the City page that governs it; the amounts live there.

New, widened, relocated or repaved driveway or walkway on City property

A Landscape Construction Permit from Transportation Services, Right-of-Way Management. Confirm zoning with Toronto Building first, because a driveway width that does not conform cannot be approved without the Committee of Adjustment. The application needs drawings to metric scale, a financial security returned once staff confirm the work matches the approval, and a contractor licensed by the City. The City asks for at least eight weeks’ notice and fines unpermitted work and unrestored boulevards. The 311 guidance sets out the order of steps.

Parking a car in the front yard

A licence under Municipal Code Chapter 918, Parking on Residential Front Yards and Boulevards, applied for by the registered owner. One vehicle per property, applications not accepted in parts of the former City of Toronto, a landscape proposal, permeable paving on a newly approved pad and an annual licence that can affect your on-street permit priority. The 311 article explains where applications are accepted.

Any project with a building permit

A Municipal Road Damage Deposit, held against damage to the sidewalk, curb, boulevard and road during the work. Inspect the frontage before you start and ask the City for a pre-inspection within its ten-working-day window if it is already damaged; request the refund within two years of finishing, and the City deducts the cost of any repairs it has to make.

A trench in the road, sidewalk or boulevard

A Utility Cut Permit, issued to approved utilities, with a separate process for anyone else who needs to cut a City street. The cut is restored to the City’s utility cut specification, TS 4.60, and pavement degradation fees apply to cuts on City roads whoever makes them.

A bin, hoarding, crane or materials on the street

A street occupation permit under the Street Use By-law, through the City’s right-of-way construction permits. Occupying the boulevard or the road during your project without one is enforced, and the damage it causes lands on your deposit.

The fees, and why they are not on this page

Every permission above carries a City fee, a deposit or both, and several are adjusted annually. We do not reprint them, because a number on a contractor’s website is stale the year after it is typed and the owner who budgets to it pays the difference. The City’s fee article and the permit pages have the amounts that apply today.

Report damaged City sidewalks to 311 instead of repairing them.

The City’s Sidewalks & Roads page lists what a 311 service request covers on public property: minor sidewalk damage, sidewalk maintenance including accessibility ramps and tactile pavers, water ponding on a sidewalk, damaged curbs and curb height adjustments. Requests for a new sidewalk where none exists go to a separate City email address, named on the Sidewalks in Toronto page, rather than through 311.

The City inspects, prioritizes by severity and schedules the repair; a lifted panel that is a clear trip hazard is treated differently from a hairline crack, and timelines vary with the backlog. Keep the request number. A sunken utility cut in the road or sidewalk is also reported through 311, and the City follows it up with the utility responsible. What you should not do is repair a public sidewalk yourself or pay anyone to: the City removes unpermitted work at the owner’s expense, and in the ordinary case the repair would have cost you nothing.

A 311 request covers

  • Minor sidewalk damage
  • Accessibility ramps and tactile pavers
  • Water ponding on a sidewalk
  • Damaged curbs
  • Curb height adjustments
  • Sunken or missing utility cut restoration

Submit it online, in the app or by phone through 311 Toronto, with the address and a photo.

What we do on each side of the line, and what we will not do.

Most of a permit job is inside the line: steps, landings, walkways and the apron rebuilt to a written scope, with the frontage photographed before anything is touched. Where the work crosses the line it runs under your permit and to the City’s specification, with the record the inspection needs.

Two crew members finishing the edge of newly poured front steps and a landing at a Toronto house
Front steps and landing rebuilt in Toronto, inside the property line.

On your property

  • Driveways, walkways, steps and porches
  • The apron inside your property line
  • Garage floors, basement slabs and window wells
  • Trenches across your own concrete after a service connection
  • Trip hazards on private walkways, measured and documented

On the boulevard, under your permit

  • Boulevard restoration to the City’s specification after your project
  • Apron and walkway crossings once the permit is issued
  • Sidewalk panels and curb where the City approves private restoration
  • Pre-construction photographs and the record for the inspection
  • The drawings and specification the application asks for

What we will not do

  • Pour, patch or grind on City property without the City’s permit.
  • Repair a public sidewalk you could have had repaired for nothing.
  • Quote you a City fee. The City publishes them; we link to them.
  • Tell you a width or a pad will be approved before the City has said so.

A permit job, in the City’s order.

  1. 1of 5

    Ownership and zoning

    Confirm where the property line falls against the sidewalk and what the zoning by-law allows, with Toronto Building and the City’s mapping or 311.

  2. 2of 5

    Drawings and application

    The application is made in the owner’s name. We supply the metric drawings and the specification the City asks for, and name the licensed contractor.

  3. 3of 5

    Record the frontage

    Dated photographs of the sidewalk, curb and boulevard before anything starts, and a pre-inspection request where damage already exists.

  4. 4of 5

    Build to the City’s specification

    Sidewalk concrete to TS 3.70, cuts restored to TS 4.60, the driveway paved after the sidewalk and curb, every stage photographed.

  5. 5of 5

    Inspection and refund

    Transportation Services notified, the frontage inspected, the security or deposit released, and the record filed with your Condition Report.

The pages behind this one.

A commercial entrance apron rebuilt and finished in a light grey traffic coating, with interlock in the foreground

Driveway apron repair

The part of the driveway that fails first, and the part of it that is on City land.

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A broom-finished concrete walkway pitched away from a house wall, the finish and fall public sidewalks are built with

Boulevard, curb & sidewalk restoration

Restoring a frontage after a project to the City’s specification, so the deposit comes back.

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A floor slab cut out, rebuilt and cordoned off to cure in an operating facility

Utility cut & trench restoration

The trench across your driveway or slab after a service connection, restored so it does not sink.

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Spalled, salt-eaten concrete at a Toronto building entrance, private concrete that is the owner’s to repair

Who pays for a cracked City sidewalk?

The City, almost always. The exceptions, and how to report it.

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A relaid interlock driveway meeting a coated garage floor at the garage line

Parking pad & driveway widening permits

Two permissions, two City offices, and the order that saves a season.

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A concrete walkway with a settled, cracked panel and weeds growing through the open joints

Trip hazard grinding & removal

Raised edges on private walkways, measured, removed and documented.

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City of Toronto concrete questions

For the part inside your property line, repaving in kind needs no City permit. For the part on the boulevard, between your line and the curb, repaving, widening or relocating needs a Landscape Construction Permit from Transportation Services, applied for at least eight weeks ahead, and the width has to conform to the zoning by-law.

Every City page this one relies on.

Verified against toronto.ca in October 2026. If a rule on this page and a rule on the City’s page disagree, the City’s page is right and ours is out of date; tell us and we will fix it.

Google reviews from our customers.

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Daniel Marinelli

3 months ago

I contacted Concrete Repair Plus a few weeks ago to tear-out and repour a concrete porch and steps leading up to the front of my house in North York. I contacted them after having an awful experience with a previous concrete contractor who took my deposit and strung me around for over a month, never to return. The level of care and respect I received from Concrete Repair Plus was incredible. After explaining the situation I was in, they sent me Nick and his crew (Jeremy and Milton) and told me I would be in good hands; they were absolutely right. Nick was so respectful; always taking the time to ensure he messaged me exactly when he was coming and what he'd be doing. He had a vision for how this job would look and made sure to include me in the planning of it come time for the formwork. Watching Nick work with Milton and Jeremy was really something. They paid attention to small details: perfect corners on the steps, a gentle slope to drain water away from the house, the first step that meets the driveway was deep enough to be paved around properly, the really nice full broom finish. The form work was done so meticulously, ensuring that the final product would be perfect. Milton and Jeremy always cleaned up at the end of every day, leaving the site looking better than when they arrived. And they were just such nice guys too. What more could I ask for? It's now been a couple of weeks since the job was finished and it looks fantastic. I couldn't be happier with the result! I'm looking forward to contacting them again for any future projects.

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David

A month ago

Huge shout out to this company. Our concrete porch was showing significant wear and tear and we wanted to take action before a total rebuild would have been required. The team at Concrete Repair Plus was extremely patient, came to the house several times to provide a quote and share Graniflex samples, did fantastic work and (bonus) actually refused payment until every last touch up was complete on our newly finished porch (which looks amazing, BTW). We had spoken to other repair companies but did not love that they used "in-house" epoxy porch repair coatings for which we could not find industry info / reviews. Very happy we chose Concrete Repair Plus to refinish our porch with the Graniflex system, a well-known and very well reviewed product. Thank you!

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Donna L.

3 weeks ago

We had our over 50 year old concrete garage pad removed and replaced by Concrete Repair Plus at our North York, Ontario home. Our old concrete floor had deteriorated and had potholes, and it was too far gone to just resurface. The crew came on time, worked hard all day and completed the job in a timely, thorough and professional manner. They obviously took great pride in their work and showed care and attention to detail. They made sure all our concerns were addressed and resolved. We had them apply an epoxy coating a month later when the concrete had cured, and our garage now looks fantastic! We highly recommend Concrete Repair Plus for reasonable pricing, and for exceptional quality of work.

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Clive A

3 months ago

I recently had Concrete Repair Plus at my residence in Whitby to remove and replace the 66 year old garage floor. It was explained to me that it was not a good idea to grind and epoxy the floor but complete replacement was the way to go. The price was reasonable and the advice was excellent. Staff were on site had the floor removed and repoured the same day. The driveway was covered to prevent concrete spills/splashes. Saw cuts were completed next day. We are now in the process of covering the walls to clean it up. Definitely a five out of five and I would recommend you reach out for a quotation.

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Glen Johnstone

2 months ago

Excellent experience with Concrete Repair Plus! They removed the old concrete jewel stone finish from our porch and applied a Graniflex System, and the results look fantastic. The crew was professional, efficient, and paid great attention to detail. They took great care to remove and reinstall the existing railing, protect the surrounding property, and cleaned everything up when the job was finished. I highly recommend Concrete Repair Plus and will definitely call on them again - Scarborough, ON

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Johnny

3 months ago

I had these guys out to my property in Bowmanville to do a complete garage floor replacement, and boy am I glad I did. They did an excellent job on the entire project and after one little hiccup they went WELL above and beyond to make sure I was satisfied with the final product. My polished concrete floor looks amazing. Never realized how much better polished concrete can look versus epoxy. I wouldn't hesitate to use Concrete Repair Plus if I ever have another concrete project again

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James B

2 months ago

Our experience with Concrete Repair Plus was nothing short of exceptional. The crew was extremely professional, on-time and neat. Finished product was above expectations. Crew was knowledgeable and kept us informed all the way through the process. Equipment used was best-in-class. We would strongly recommend Concrete Repair Plus to anyone thinking about replacing their garage slab or interested in doing concrete repairs. Pricing was competitive. We would use them again.

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Natalie F

2 months ago

Needed to repair a concrete porch and steps in Vaughan for a detached home, they did a fantastic job prepping and repairing then using the graniflex system. from quote to scheduling everything was easy! All the neighbours were coming over to check it out and say it looks fantastic. Definitely elevated and refreshed the homes curb appeal.

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Richard Fawcett

3 months ago

We have owned our home for over 40 years and needed to change the garage floor. Last week Concrete Repair Plus removed the old garage floor and replaced it with a new one. The work was done in 2 days. Their team was professional and courteous, and the price was reasonable. We give them 5 stars. R. Fawcett Mississauga July 2026

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Jodi Leigh

A month ago

We redid our porch and the process was seemless from asking for a quote, to scheduling the work, and then the work itself. The workers were friendly and knowledgeable so made the whole process easy for us. Reasonably priced compared to others we compared to and very happy with the final product. Would use them again!

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Ali Ghalib Al-Bassam

4 weeks ago

Excellent work by the team! They repaired our concrete efficiently, on time, and with great attention to detail. The final result looks fantastic and solid. Highly recommend their services!

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Not sure which side of the line your concrete is on?

Send a photo and the address. We will tell you what is yours, what is the City’s, and which permit applies before anything is priced.

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