As a professional planner…

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   As a professional planner, I am incredibly disappointed at this legislation. To echo the many councillors, advocates and community members I have heard on this issue, it must be said again: This works against the goals of IZ.

  The Province needs to include the following in order for the legislation to achieve its goal:

  - At least 10% need to be affordable

 - They need to be permanently affordable and certainly longer than a 30 year time span

 - IZ should not be an either/or with other community benefits

  Please look to successful precedents around the world. They are many. This legislation does not represent the public good. As it stands it is a monument to developer lobbying and concessions to the point of losing any effectiveness.

  Housing is a very real crisis - it is not too late to salvage this legislation with a major overhaul.

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