Please find attached a…

Please find attached a letter from More Neighbours Toronto supporting Toronto's Official Plan Amendment related to the Environment, but with suggestions to expedite the implementation. Toronto's Official Plan describes hopes for a diverse, connected city of opportunity, working to mitigate climate change and prepare for the future. However, the land uses permitted by the zoning by-laws and secondary plans do not match these goals and the city's process for changing them is long.
More Neighbours Toronto suggests that the province adopt several key recommendations of the Housing Affordability Task Force in order to address the climate and housing affordability crises with the urgency that is needed. These include:
● Legalize fourplexes and four storeys across the province, as of right;
● Legalize mid-rise development along key transit routes across the province, as of
right;
● Set provincial standards for setbacks, stepbacks, angular planes and other aesthetic
design regulations that municipalities use to make housing construction unviable or
“effectively illegal” even if it is technically allowed; and
● Remove language that prioritizes the preservation of specific built forms and
character in neighbourhoods at the expense of providing homes for people to live in
(eg. Toronto’s OPA 320)

Please see the letter for further details.