Please defer implementation…

Please defer implementation of the proposed Provincial Planning Statement until further review. I offer the following initial comments to inform the further draft
1. Retain retain the following language from Provincial Policy Statement 2020 Policy 1.1.1:
a) “healthy, liveable and safe communities”,
b) “avoiding development and land use patterns which may cause environmental or public health and safety concerns” , and
c) “promoting development patterns that conserve biodiversity”.
2. Retain Policies 1.1.3.8 and 1.3.2.4 from Provincial Policy Statement 2020 limiting identification or expansion of a settlement area and the conversion of employment lands to non-employment uses to a comprehensive review. Master planning may be more difficult and perhaps meaningless if these considerations can be handled with regard to specific lands in isolation at any time.
3. Set the minimum density targets for designated growth areas at 90 residents and job per hectare, to meet the minimum density requirements in support of public transit, as opposed to the encouraged target of 50 proposed in Policy 2.3.1.5. A minimum target of 90 residents and job per hectare will also provide for more economical infrastructure and conservation of farmland and natural spaces.
4. Revise Land Use Compatibility Section 3.5.2 to afford protection to adjacent sensitive uses from new development. Policy 3.5.2 seems to only protect new development from adjacent sensitive uses.