While FUN supports the…

While FUN supports the stated goals of encouraging an increased mix and supply of housing, protecting of the environment, creating jobs and a strong economy, reducing barriers and costs for development, and providing greater predictability, we note that many of the proposed policies pay only lip service to these goals. Several proposed policies undermine the government’s professed commitment to orderly growth management, for example policies such as:

• loosening environmental standards;
• further facilitating sprawl by increasing the opportunities for settlement boundary changes;
• lowering the protection of employment lands by allowing conversions outside of the municipal review process;
• reducing predictability and certainty by constantly changing provincial planning legislation, policies, and plans in rapid succession; and
• the central and critical issue of climate change is neglected.
As a result we oppose the proposed revised policy