‘To incent the supply of…

‘To incent the supply of attainable housing units, a residential unit, in a development designated through regulation, would be exempt from development charges, parkland dedication requirements and community benefit charges.’
Totally opposed to this line of thinking.

People and families who need affordable housing have just as much equitable right to greenspace and parkland around or nearby, if not more so.
Reducing the size of urban parkland by half defeats the goals to combat climate change. Green spaces improve air quality, reduce noise and support biodiversity as well as moderate temperatures and provide places for relief.

Housing density percentages should be the focus of this legislation so that municipalities have support to build up not out, and to maintain park lands so we are not creating ‘urban jungles’. Furthermore, this legislation should be mandating developers support net-zero and reforestation rather than giving them fee reductions that simply add to their abundant profit margins. Development fees provide infrastructures that go along with the affordable housing; municipalities count on it and tax payers shouldn’t have to pay more while developers pay less. Developer fees could also be helping municipalities invest in green energy solutions for transit’ sewer systems and water treatment recycling plants.

Finally, where is the legislation that holds developers accountable for actually building affordable housing on urban lands they are ‘sitting on’ because this government is trying to allow them to build ´possibly affordable housing’ on Greenbelt land that they purchased at a steal because it wasn’t ever supposed to be developed?

This type of legislation as it is, while potentially meant to speed up processes, ultimately does nothing but reinforce a two tier system between the elite, privileged ‘haves’ and the majority of ‘ have nots’. I do not support this legislation.