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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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75497

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Removing the requirements for minimum unit size, parkland etc. will not achieve the objective of houses for everyone and will lead to many mental health issues

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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75507

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The Corporation of the County of Brant

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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the changes proposed through Bill 23, and specifically Schedules 9 and 3. Attached is a report to the Council of the County of Brant that outlines preliminary comments on the proposed changes. Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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75815

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Many of these proposed changes in Bill 23 will lead to an urban situation that is practically un-livable. What is the point in creating housing if that housing amounts to little more than tenements? Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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75910

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Thomasfield Homes Limited

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I support the changes. Bill 23 will help the building industry do what it does best, build homes. The adjustments to the DCs will give builders the certainly they need when building new homes. Almost 1/3 of a housing cost is taxes, fees and development charges.

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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76042

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The projected downloading of development fees on the municipalities and taxpayers is daunting at best!!!!! According to the AMO's submission on Bill 23, the largest communities will drop be at least $569 million per year in today's dollars. Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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76281

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ERO# 019-6172 Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act Parkland Changes to the parkland dedication rate, which reduce the current rate of one hectare for each 300 Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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76299

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Please do not remove housing from the development charge process! Municipalities rely on those fees to support affordable housing, and this guts their ability to provide those vital services as their communities grow. Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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76647

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This is an OUTRAGEOUS bill. This will have huge deleterious fallouts for the environement, sustainabilty initiatives in place, and the sheer lack of oversight this will grant to developers is horrendous. This is absolutely not how Ontario should be run. Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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76828

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Guidelines need to be expanded to encourage active transportation links within new and expanded communities. Pedestrian routes across, under or over busy motorized routes must be included in planning for safe mobility. Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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76884

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This Act is just plain bad. While the act may be intended to reduce the costs of new homes, we all know that it really kjust a savings for Developers and Construction companies. Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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77039

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Hello, I do not support this proposal for two main reasons: -The reduction of parkland. Despite the wording of the act trying to get around it, this means less guaranteed parkland. We have so little public space in our cities to begin with, why lower it further? Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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77256

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Schedule 3 of Bill 23 will have a long term negative impact to residents. There is no guarantee that reducing development charges imposed on the developers will reduce costs to home buyers. It's very unlikely the developers will pass all the savings to the home buyers. Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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77778

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: I am deeply opposed to many changes in this Act as follows: 1. Provide greater cost certainty of parkland costs to enable housing developments to proceed more quickly Read more

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Proposed Planning Act and Development Charges Act, 1997 Changes: Providing Greater Cost Certainty for Municipal Development-related Charges

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77833

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I am writing to express my strong opposition to the provisions in Bill 23 that: • Takes away land use planning powers from municipalities • Takes away needed development charge revenue from municipalities resulting in increased taxes for ordinary taxpayers Read more

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