Mindful of this government’s…

Mindful of this government’s goal of substantially increasing housing supply across the
province, ACO strongly recommends that the proposed new policy instrument for land use planning:
• move forward, not backward, in refining the suite of provincial land-use policies:
strengthening as appropriate the province’s housing policies while also retaining the
current cultural heritage policies (recently updated in the PPS 2020)
• continue to provide up-front direction that the provincial planning policies “work
together”
• in strengthening housing policies, provide more and better direction on sustainable,
re-use housing options
• ensure that municipalities are provided with clear and current provincial guidance on
interpreting and implementing the province’s planning policies (ACO notes that the
Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism’s guide Heritage Resources in the Land
Use Planning Process, part of the Ontario Heritage Tool Kit, is more than a decade
out of date)
The current ERO proposal is pitched at a high level without the text of specific
proposed policies. ACO urges the government to circulate or post a draft of the new
instrument for public comment prior to its approval.