Lawyer Profile
Mary L. Flynn-Guglietti
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mary Flynn-Guglietti is one of Canada’s leading municipal land use planning and property development lawyers with over 30 years’ experience in the practice of administrative law, municipal law, commercial real estate law, environmental law and expropriation law. She acts for developers, ratepayers and municipalities on major construction and infrastructure projects. Mary has extensive experience obtaining approvals of citywide and site-specific official plan amendments, rezonings, subdivision approvals, severances and minor variances. She leads the firm’s Municipal, Land Use Planning & Development Group.Appearing before various committees of adjustment, committees of council and numerous municipal councils throughout the province of Ontario, Mary has particular expertise in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). She represents clients before the Ontario Land Tribunal and the courts of Ontario on appeal, and has also appeared before the Court of justice (Criminal Division), the former District Court, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Divisional Court.Recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada (2021) as a leading lawyer in real estate law and in the 2020 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as consistently recommended in the area of property development, Mary writes and speaks extensively on environmental, municipal and land use planning law for the Ontario Bar Association, Insight Seminars, the Canadian Institute and the Law Society of Ontario.Mary is president of the C. Dennis Flynn Foundation and past president of the Etobicoke Centre Progressive Conservative Riding Association and serves on the board of the Annual Catholic Missions Gala.On May 18, 2023, Ontario passed Bill 112 proposing the dissolution of Peel Region, and similar legislation could impact other regions in the near future.Further changes have been proposed to Ontario's land use planning regime, which will collapse the Growth Plan and Provincial Policy Statement into one documentAs a further update to our earlier bulletins, Bill 23 has now received Royal Assent meaning that much of the More Homes Built Faster Act is in force.Ontario's Provincial Government has proposed sweeping amendments to several Acts, Regulations, the Greenbelt Plan and the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1983 (ON)