Much of the PPS proposal is…

Much of the PPS proposal is admirable as far as addressing current municipal/provincial problems. In perusing the content of PPS, we find sorely missing the extremely important concepts of conservation and sustainability. Due to the limited amount of arable land in all of Ontario, the utmost effort to keep agricultural land as such, should be paramount in all development proposals. As well, all developments need to have the view of sustainability.
Currently, the increase in auto traffic is not sustainable. Far more public transit needs to be built, along with incentives to use it, which of course includes the building of shared housing (apartments, condos, and townhouses), and the intensification of land use for housing. Incentives must be implemented to encourage folks to live near their work places.
More land should be included in the Greenbelt instead of taking some away or substituting undesirable lands in order to build single family homes. Increasing the amount of single family homes is completely unsustainable. As well, protecting the water table of the Greenbelt is becoming more urgent as the atmosphere is becoming drier and thus unable to renew that level regularly. Alternate energy producers, particularly wind turbines must be built to supply the increased population expansion. More charging stations should be dramatically increased as autos become more and more electrified.
Since there's always a cost of implementation of all these proposals, a great amount of care must be taken not to take away funds from the most important of all govt. programs, which is health care. Already this current govt. is far behind in allocating tax dollars to health care as evidenced in its promise of spending at least $1B more on health care, and even having its recent $1B surplus is proof that there's already enough resources for that. Using that surplus on building a new highway is entirely foolish, as a new highway leads to increased fossil fuel waste, pollution, less public transit use, and land taken away from agricultural or recreational use.