This proposed Bill sets up a…

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This proposed Bill sets up a binary condition - either Heritage or More Fast Homes. This seems, once again, to toss aside any substantive deliberation around context, appropriateness of site, what the new build is to be, and doesn't consider what is lost if we keep continuously destroying our own built heritage. What about adaptive or regenerative re-use strategies instead of razing down our structures of the past. Inner city conditions surely are different than exurbs and beyond - is this what we are really talking about with this Bill? A disdain for our cities and the previously built structures? All I can imagine is older brick buildings destroyed for more terribly built glass condo structures. Will there also be architectural review panels that - at least - oversee the destruction of heritage building and making sure that the replacement is of public value? Will the heritage buildings be replaced with resilient, green, sustainable buildings using Platinum Leed standards?