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I have submitted comments before. I live VERY closed to the proposed development in Oakville. I am 80 years old and have lived in this residence since 1979! I know the area! The traffic is so bad now, one can hardly move during the rush hours. It takes my daughter 45 minutes just to get to Iroquois Shore Road from the GO station on Trafalgar Road! She lives close to the Old Oakville Golf Club. Putting high rise apartments in this area is simply ridiculous!

I listened to a young educated professional at a recent meeting at City Hall, and he gave an intelligent review of the type of property HE is looking for...certainly not egg crates as is being proposed. I would like to downsize and continue to live in the area, but not in an egg crate either. I would have to pay more than my house is worth to get anything that I would be comfortable with!

Below is another example of what Ford is supporting for our area...it will not work. Financing of such building will not be available...rethink you plans for goodness sake before you allow Ford to totally ruin what was a decent place to live!

Maggie Hildebrand's first apartment in Toronto had a kitchen, a dining table, a workspace and a bed – all in the same 300-sq-ft room.

It was a decent home at first, close enough to her job downtown and with all the bare necessities for daily living.

But it didn't take long for the 28-year-old to feel boxed-in. "It was so isolating in that tiny space," she told the BBC. "It definitely feels like it's just somewhere to put worker bees during the night."

Ms Hildebrand lived in one of the city's micro-condos, a once rare sight in Canadian real estate that has become ubiquitous in the last decade thanks to fast-growing, high-rise developments in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver.

But - as Canada's condominium market sinks to lows not seen in decades due to a series of market pressures - the value of these micro units is cratering faster than any others.

The condo market is experiencing a downturn not seen since the 1980s, with thousands of move-in-ready units sitting empty and unsold across Toronto and its surrounding regions. Over the last year, an unprecedented 18 condo projects were cancelled in the city, with experts expecting that number will grow as demand continues to plummet.

The downturn has reignited debate over whether developers catered too much to real estate investors by building smaller, more affordable units that minimised square footage to keep prices low in areas where land values are high, and which were often designed to be rented out or flipped for profit.

Investors own the majority of condos under 600 sq ft in Toronto, according to national database Statistics Canada. Construction of these small units skyrocketed in 2016, and they now make up 38% of condos built in the city, compared with only 7.7% before.

These units have not exploded in the same way in the US, where they represent a very small share of the market, though Nadia Evangelou, a senior economist at the National Association of Realtors, said "their prevalence has roughly doubled over the past decade".