Do not expand the urban…

Do not expand the urban sprawl further into natural areas. We do not need more detach housing that will create more and more car-dependent neighbourhoods that are impossible to live in without a vehicle. Use the open office spaces that are sitting empty in Toronto and Mississauga's downtown core to add density to these areas that already provide amenities necessary for living such as schools and grocery stores nearby. We need more homes in livable and walkable / public transit-heavy areas to support lower income families in their daily lives, not mansions and single-family homes and all the build-up necessary to support them way out in the middle of nowhere. This will inevitably destroy those fragile ecosystems to build insufficient housing. More apartment complexes in denser urban areas with all the amenities already built up nearby, especially if they are MANDATED to contain low-income housing and geared towards lower wage earners specifically, will be much less harmful and more cost-effective. We do not need to be so wasteful and inefficient with our city planning and despoil our country's beautiful natural resources so some developers can line their pockets. Develop the areas we already have, let the natural environmental spaces be untouched and BOLSTER the protections surrounding them. We need MORE strict legislation to protect our green spaces and natural resources, not to destroy them with haphazard and recklessly inefficient development.