Comment
On July 5, 2023, a letter was sent to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing signed by 62 local interested parties and environmental and nature groups in Ontario. I am in total agreement with the content of this letter. I do not agree with the current housing policies of this government which increase sprawl and road traffic at a time when we should be concentrating housing in a denser format in our cities and protecting the countryside and agricultural areas. Ontario already has more than enough space to build the houses it needs in creative ways.
I also do not agree with the policies that take control of housing policies from local municipalities and contravene municipalities own regional planning processes and priorities. Nor do I agree with undercutting the authority of Ontario's long serving conservation authorities which oversee and protect our wetlands, water sources and monitor flooding.
Most of the housing and environmental policies of this government do not seem to be based in science or even good economic policy.
Submitted August 2, 2023 10:53 AM
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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019-6813
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92278
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