Repealing the Toronto Green…

Repealing the Toronto Green Roof By-Law will not make housing more affordable. Green roofs are barely a line item on any new development, largely due to the success and early incentivizing of their installation.

Toronto and the Province benefit greatly from green roofs as a stormwater management tool, as a means of unlocking density and development, as a value creator for buildings and communities, as additional recreation space in multi-family, commercial and community settings, as an efficiency booster to solar PV and HVAC ventilation systems, and as a public health contributor through lower urban heat effects, improved comfort, and better air quality.

Toronto is an exemplar on the global stage and often cited as an accelerating green roof implementation. Green roofs have been a job creator in the professional technical, design, contracting, manufacturing, and horticultural spaces.

I strongly oppose the Province’s overreach into Municipal regulations, its desire to cut down effective policies, and its continued downgrading of quality of life in one of Canada’s greatest and largest contributing cities. This is not an affordability measure.