1. Streamlining Municipal…

1. Streamlining Municipal Planning Responsibilities
Removing the role of upper tier municipalities from a role in planning is shameful. They provide a coordination role to ensure the cumulative development across landscapes has no negative impacts. Our landscapes are already seriously fragmented and require a coordinated approach to protect migratory animals and fish.
2. Third Party Appeals
These are one of the few remaining mechanisms to enable the public to hold both government and developers accountable. There are innumerable examples of where concerned citizens have successfully defended environmental right. Rights that are enshrined in the law. This must be maintained as a fundamental right.
3. Public Meetings - Plans of Subdivision

The public (especially neighbours) have a fundamental right to know what is proposed to occur on adjacent lands. These rights are enshrined in the oldest legislation in Canada, the British North American Act. How else will a neighbours riparian rights be protected?
4. Conservation Authorities
Prohibiting the ability of conservation authorities to comment on anything other than hazard lands is ludicrous and unfair to municipalities. CAs have the expertise to evaluate cumulative effects and are the only organization that can at least attempt to protect Ontarians from extreme weather associated with climate change. Their role should be increased not gutted!