As a Richmond Hill resident,…

As a Richmond Hill resident, property owner and tax payer, I am absolutely appalled by these proposals.

There is absolutely no equivalency between the land supposedly “added” to the Greenbelt and the natural spaces and farmland being removed from the Greenbelt. Most of the lands being added are ALREADY PROTECTED or would never ever have been built on anyway. Was Mill Pond in Richmond Hill in imminent danger of development so it needed to be added to the Greenbelt??!! Of course not!!!! This was an absolutely cynical numbers game to make it SEEM like the Greenbelt was being expanded, to make room for selling off valuable land to your developer buddies.

Each parcel of land that is removed from the Greenbelt will contribute to death by a thousand cuts to the Greenbelt. The maps show that each parcel is gradually encircling other Greenbelt land which will then in itself become subject to future sell offs.

There is already a vast amount of existing development land that is as yet undeveloped because speculators are sitting on the land. Multiple studies show that there is already sufficient land already open for development to meet our future housing needs. Just continuing the old and tired approach of increasing urban sprawl making and cities less and less liveable due traffic congestion helps no-one. We need to be looking at increasing intensity in transit friendly existing neighborhoods rather than increasing sprawl.

I demand that these proposals are abandoned immediately.

Very disgusted and disappointed,
Richmond Hill