Thank you for the Bill 23…

Thank you for the Bill 23 Policy that the province brought forward, seeing the latest changes City of Toronto made to finally end Single Family exclusive zones is an amazing step forward, and hope more municipalities in Ontario follow sooner rather than later,

in this new update to the PPS is there an opportunity to require municipalities to commit to approval timelines, currently zoning bylaws even simple amendments are taking 20 plus months for approval.
As a consultant in the City of kingston, the city will delay circulations, which add additional processing time.

I hope the province reviews the annual municipal benchmarking study, and noted that zero ontario municipalities received a good grade, in Ontario it takes almost 2 years for a simple zoning amendment.
applicants work hard to resubmit files within reasonable timeframes because they understand the cost implications delay can have.