From the 5 proposals. 1. It…

From the 5 proposals.
1. It is a good thing that rural severances are dropped from the PPS. Any residential or business needs for rural housing can be accomplished by allowing up to 3 homes on the building cluster. Rural severances are bad news. 1 severance (or lot line adjustment) is as bad as 3 severances.
2. Permit municipalities to identify a new settlement area only where it has been demonstrated that the infrastructure and public service facilities needed to support development are planned or available (new) DROP THE WORDS "or available"
4." Agricultural systems" and minimum distance formulae are good ways to protect agriculture. But which mds, and what agricultural systems model. What may look like "protection" may not happen.
It is OK to require municipalities to facilitate access to aggregate resources. But municipalities need to be able to "facilitate" rehabilitation of the exhausted aggregate resource. Tit for tat.
5. It is embarrassing to read that the new PPS wants engagement with Indigenous communities when just a few months ago lower tier municipalities were allowed the expand their settlement areas, when as recently as 2023 , the upper tier had a regional plan that included support from the local indigenous community to not expand those settlement areas. It is embarrassing to see the Ontario government enabling local municipalities to disregard the Indigenous once again.

In conclusion, there are good things in the PPS rewrite but new problems are the result of this tinkering. On the other hand,, it is always disheartening to see the words "regard", "consideration" , "require", "encourage ", "allow" , "permit" , "direct" and others to describe things. Subjective words to make hard decisions. YIKES

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