City business licences and permits are now available online

municipalinfonet.com
March 16, 2022

The City of Vaughan’s online reporting tool continues to expand to provide quality services to citizens 24-7. The City's most recent addition to Service Vaughan will allow businesses and citizens to apply online for a variety of business licences. The following licences and permits now available through the platform:

• Adult entertainment parlour
• Auction hall
• Banquet hall
• Billiard hall
• Body rub parlour
• Clothing donation drop box
• Driving school
• Dry cleaner, including:
• Dry cleaning establishment
• Laundromat
• Dry cleaning depot
• Eating establishment
• Foodstuff (retail sales for packaged goods)
• Kennel
• Limousine company
• Mobile sign lessor
• Personal services, such as hair and aesthetics
• Pet grooming establishment
• Pet shop
• Place of amusement, including:
• Class A - Arcade
• Class B - Theatre
• Class C - Bowling alley
• Public garage, including:
• Auto body repairs shop
• Automobile gas bar
• Automotive retail store
• Automotive service station
• Car brokerage (providing sales, leasing or rentals)
• Car detailing (providing cleaning by hand)
• Car wash (coin or mechanical)
• Mechanical repairs
• Motor vehicle sales establishment
• Short-term rental brokerage
• Short-term rental owner
• Taxicab brokerage
• Tobacco shop
• Tow truck brokerage
• Video store, including:
• General
• Adult

More business licences and permits will be added to Service Vaughan later this year to continue to make the application process easily accessible and efficient online.

The City continues to modify and transition many services and programs online to better support citizens and businesses. The Service Vaughan platform is one of these innovations – and it continues to expand. By going digital, the City has seen significant process improvements, increased efficiency and cost savings, all while protecting the health and well-being of staff and citizens during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The City has also added the following services to the platform under the new Winter Maintenance section:

• Roads requests: If an area of your street needs plowing, you can now submit a service request for it online. Examples of other road maintenance requests you can submit include missed plowing due to a parked car, missed windrow-clearing, a snow pile in a court, a complaint about a winter vehicle driver and many more.
• Sidewalk and walkway requests: You can now submit a service request for maintenance needed at a walkway or sidewalk. Matters you can report include incomplete or missed snowplowing, a sidewalk or grass damaged by a plow, and more.
• City facility and community centre requests: Have you noticed an area at a City community centre that needs winter maintenance? You can now submit a request through Service Vaughan. Request categories include snowplowing, incomplete winter maintenance and more in parking lots, walkways, entrance areas, passenger pick up/drop off areas or other spaces.

Service Vaughan allows non-Vaughan residents to submit online requests if the inquiry is directly related to one of Vaughan’s City services. First-time users must create a username and password. Once the applicant has registered successfully, they will be redirected to a login screen. Returning users can log in to the system with the email and password they have previously created.

Explore all of the Service Vaughan offerings at vaughan.ca/ServiceVaughan. To learn more about the licences and permits managed by By-law and Compliance, Licensing and Permit Services, visit vaughan.ca/BusinessLicensing.