While many of the changes in…

While many of the changes in this proposal will help address our long standing housing issues, there are a few areas that are contradicting the focus to enable effective growth. While one section is positively on focused urban growth and major transit, along with intensification, the initial proposal statements toward Residential supply are not supportive of the overall goals or how these are best achieved. Specifically the changes to the settlement boundaries is not justified and there is no evidence that this is in any way needed or justified. Likewise the issue of Rural housing is misguided as urban housing is at issue - we do not need more rural based housing sprawl or intensification as this deters from the focus of intensification and affordable housing for those needing it.
To support this, the section on steamlined planning can be strengthened by changing fewer studies to effective studies, clear prescriptive, not flexible but integrated and comprehensiveness in planning processes.

Information based forecasting is also needed to be consistent and provide the evidence to support growth strategies. What is missing is to change this to include population forecasts that address demographic needs, incomes projections, housing deficiencies specific to population demographics and communities needs. This must also be aligned to effectively assess and evaluate infrastructure investment and optimization of current lifecycle and its utilization