At first blush this sounds…

At first blush this sounds like the application of urban/suburban planning will apply to every square inch of the province. The only limits on opening up land for housing and related development appears to be to avoid hazardous sites and to mitigate for natural disasters. This new Planning document neglects everything but housing and development.

Yes, we have a shortage of homes, but homes can be apartments, condos, multiplexes, town-homes, etc. HOMES DO NOT NEED TO BE SUBURBAN, DETACHED, GREATER THAN 1800 SQ FT WITH A YARD.

I realize that this is as much (or more) about the profits to developers and the automotive industry. Paving the province for car-dependent housing clusters will make many people very rich in the short run, but will greatly exacerbate issues with pollution, resource shortages and climate change.

Any policies on an increase in housing must greatly limit suburban sprawl. There should be maximum average lot sizes in municipal areas. If a community wants an "executive subdivision" then they have to also have affordable homes on small lots or multiplexes to offset and limit the sprawl. The prices of the larger homes in less dense areas should also include development charges for the infrastructure (including schools, etc) required, since these homeowners are not effectively using existing infrastructure and with often require an inefficient new infrastructure to be built and supported.