Please protect the Greenbelt…

Please protect the Greenbelt. There are plenty of other spaces where homes can be built outside of the Greenbelt.

If we pave the natural habitats of wildlife and pave farmland, we can never get it back. We must protect this precious land from development. Our survival depends on it.

We can live happy healthy lives in a world where fewer people own single detached homes. Urban infill and intensification is the answer, but developers will never build that way if they are given an opportunity to build homes they feel will be more profitable for them.

Developers are not interested in building enough homes to meet the needs of the people. Their mandate is to maximize profits. It's in their best interest to ensure there the demand for homes is always greater than the supply, so they can maximize their profits on the homes they sell.

We must find a way to empower city planners to determine what types of homes are built and where. The free market has proven that will never deliver enough homes to house everyone.