There are people who…

There are people who disagrees with the growth plan for the greater golden horseshoe for the urban sprawl expansion. Sustainability is when we are improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems and I believe that this growth plan will not support our ecosystems.
The changes may be helping to increase housing supply in the greater golden horseshoe, but at the same time there could encounter a huge damage on the environment since they’re sprawling subdivisions on farmland, forests, and the source of our drinking water. The proposed growth plan changes will weaken provincial land needs assessment rules and allow urban boundary expansion without strong evidence of need. The requirements for using land efficiently will be weakened to allow more low density sprawl. Urban sprawl creates more construction of roads and building which will have a negative effect on farmland and wildlife habitat. Fear of creating more loss of habitat will increase. Also increasing the transit stations to 800 metres will increase the area where greater density can be developed. Increased density will affect our community for using more resources and creating more air and noise pollution especially from the number of traffics. Proposed changes will affect our community since human activities increases and changes the land surface and emits various substances to the atmosphere which causes climate change. I think it is unacceptable to remove mention of climate change as an issue to be addressed in municipal plans.
Environment defence is Canada’s most effective environment action organizations and we must continue this action without favouring sprawl. I believe the changes in government to ensure a greener, healthier, and prosperous life.