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This legislations move to development in rural and farming lands is moving in the exact opposite direction from what Ontario needs. We need to increase density in areas with access to public transit and existing services. The Affordable Housing Task Force has said that all the needed housing can be built within existing urban boundaries and yet you're pushing suburban sprawl into valuable greenbelt and farm lands.
As someone who grew up in a farming community that was overtaken by sprawl I am very familiar with the conflict that comes when people move next door to a farm while expecting a suburb experience. Noisy or smelly farms get closed and pushed out. Land values skyrocket pricing out new farm operations and encouraging further development.
Those province needs to focus on building density in serviced urban areas. Leave the farms to feed Ontario and our greenbelt lands alone.
Submitted May 22, 2023 9:50 PM
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Review of proposed policies adapted from A Place to Grow and Provincial Policy Statement to form a new provincial planning policy instrument.
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