The plan mentions building…

The plan mentions building housing and related infrastructure . Does that include schools, stores, community facilities, transit, and parks? It sounds like it is all about single family homes once again.
Fields, forests, and cropland will become a sea of detached homes spread out as far as the eye can see, something like the current city of Vaughan. Why must we keep spreading ever outward Places places that are supposed to be protected so that there is at least some balance between nature and so-called civilization

Appearance wise it is ugly, space wise it is wasteful, and resource wise it deprives Ontarians of the fresh air to be gained from trees and agricultural land that might be used for crops (has the pandemic taught us nothing about food supply?). T

These proposed amendments are encroaching further into an area I grew up in at 19th Ave and McCowan Road. I used to be able to ride my bike along quiet country roads and enjoy the peacefulness of nature all around me. The idea seems to be to continue the sprawl characterizing 16th Ave and Kennedy Rd northward: a field of homes with no aesthetic appeal, no effort to build vertically and compactly and no regard for history (the farms and open space that used to be there).

If you must continue to build why not think smarter, harder, and much more selectively about it? Why are there so few compact complete communities in the outskirts ? Where are the stacked townhouses and apartment buildings, the shopping plazas or street retail at the *centre of the community so that people don't have to drive, the busses and trains so that people aren't driving everywhere, the farms to grow our own crops into the future????

You are worried about housing two million more Ontarians. Maybe the emphasis should shift instead to worrying about the definition of housing (housing does not equal a stand-alone house). Maybe we should worry more about the fact that in York Region the building impetus is always a subdivision of single detached homes and nothing else. I'm actually ashamed of Markham. What is most of new Markham, except a blur of repeated brick houses with little else around it? The city of Toronto does a much better job of actually containing sprawl and deeply valuing its parks and other greenspaces.

Maybe 2,000,000 more people is not actually advantageous.