I am STRONGLY opposed to…

I am STRONGLY opposed to this proposal to remove 15 areas of land from the Greenbelt protected area.
There are ways to solve the housing crisis without removing these lands such as focusing on land in existing urban areas that is close to transit and services people want. These lands have possibilities for mid-rise and re-zoning to allow single family homes to be converted to dwellings with 2-3 units. There are also 88,000 acres of land in the GTHA that are already designated for development.

Removing 7,400 acres of farmland and natural areas from Greenbelt protection will severely harm Ontario’s food security by reducing our ability to grow fresh local food, and destroying land that provides key ecological services like flood protection and carbon sequestration that we will increasingly rely on as the climate crisis worsens.

I do support ADDING more lands to the Greenbelt, including urban river valleys, but NOT at the expense of removing other lands.