This proposal negatively…

This proposal negatively changes the model for how we have been trying to plan our communities for the past two decades. Places to Grow is smart legislation and policy, that was created in part to limit sprawl and its externalities (E.g. poor health outcomes, increased municipal maintenance costs and upkeep, environmental destruction, social isolation, traffic, etc).

The government is not exploring countless other options to encourage housing supply. It is curious as to why this is being pushed through as the only option. Was an independent option analysis conducted to determine the best policy solution to unlocking housing? Or was this just another idea from the PO and MO pushed onto the civil servants to implement?

The government is making changes and leaving municipalities to figure it out for themselves with no guidance.

I am a professional in this field and I am appalled at this proposal because it fundamentally does not make sense. And as an Ontarian, I do not want to live in communities that endlessly sprawl, eating up our countryside and farmland.