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I am fully supportive of government action to accelerate the construction of more housing, particularly more affordable housing. But I am fully opposed to any development beyond existing urban boundaries.
We need, instead, to build Sustainable Communities, ones that are efficient and environmentally friendly and are socially well developed. We do NOT need new development of the type that is promoted by the Ontario government, which is sprawling, traditional suburbia that is highly dependent on the automobile. This traditional development is highly profitable for the land developer, but much more costly for the taxpayer in the long run, and a total disaster for our climate.
What we DO need are communities that are more dense, but comfortably so; ones where you can walk, bike, or take public transit to your daily destinations.
And ALL our communities have to be built, or retrofitted, to meet climate-wise building codes, ones that force developers not to build cheap, but to build with high energy efficiency and low carbon emissions.
Submitted June 4, 2023 9:01 PM
Comment on
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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