I do not support allowing rural communities the ability adjust their settlement area boundaries and to further incentivize urban sprawl and the paving of employable agricultural lands.
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Thank you for finally injecting some solid, practical common sense. When the new Growth Plan came out, we looked at the mapping for both the City of Kawartha Lakes and the County of Peterborough. It was totally ridiculous in terms of the natural heritage and prime agricultural land designations.
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Remove Schedule 10 from Bill 66, which allows municipalities to override provisions in the Greenbelt Act, Clean Water Act, Lake Simcoe Act, Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act and Great Lakes Protection Act.
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Please do not exempt any municipalities from the ministerial comment on whether growth can occur within current Green Belt designations. This is purely a political gain to blame municipalities for eventual Green Belt development intrusion and a deferment of provincial your responsibility.
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Some Concerns with the Schedule 5: Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks:
The third bullet is concerning;
•See "Planning and reporting changes under the toxics reduction program and Ontario Regulation 455/09"
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The oak ridges morrain / green belt is not red tape. It is a vital piece of Ontarios enrironment that keeps our waters clean. The answers to our economic growth pro lems cannot be found by jeopardizing our future. keep development out of the green belt.
These proposals are clearly a bunch of verbiage designed to deceive - to make sure that most people do not read the stuff and/or give up before starting so that the current government of Ontario gets a carte blanche to destroy the province's and the world's precious ecosystem to satisfy the greed
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I do not support this Bill in the slightest. Great strides have been made in the past by taking away power from and dismantling the OMB and replacing it with LPAT.
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Bill 66 that removes controls on many important environmental regulations and opens up the Greenbelt to industrial and commercial development. This bill is a gift to developers and Doug Ford’s insider friends – at the expense of the rest of us.
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It is crucial that we preserve all of our remaining green space and focus residential and business growth on already developed areas by increasing density and allowing the green space to be reserved for recreation, agriculture, or conservation.
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The draft amended growth plan states, “ The Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) is one of the most dynamic and fast-growing regions in North America. It is the destination of choice for many people and businesses relocating from other parts of Canada and around the world.
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Hello, During the rescent…
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