I like the stress on…

I like the stress on creating housing in the revised PPS, but I feel it's missing language to promote an obvious, cost-effective solution to the housing crisis, and one with fewer financial and environmental costs than most others: the adaptive reuse/ renovation of existing buildings, including heritage buildings, to provide housing.

These buildings are already serviced by existing infrastructure. They are often in existing built-up areas.
They don't require paving over farmland and creating car-dependent, greenhouse gas emitting rural suburbs.

To promote this solution, could the Provincial Planning Statement insert an additional sub-clause (c) to Section 2.1. Planning for People and Homes.
4. To provide for an appropriate range and mix of housing options and densities required to
meet projected requirements of current and future residents of the regional market area,
planning authorities shall:
a) maintain at all times the ability to accommodate residential growth for a minimum of 15 years through lands which are designated and available for residential development; and
b) maintain at all times where new development is to occur, land with servicing capacity sufficient to provide at least a three-year supply of residential units available through lands suitably zoned, including units in draft approved or registered plans.

PLEASE ADD
c) shall identify and encourage the redevelopment of existing buildings and other structures as housing.