Angular plane requirements are incredibly restrictive on garden suites and reduce the number of compatible lots to a fraction of what would be otherwise allowed with an equivalent laneway lot.
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Please stop “cutting red tape” and using MZOs to make it easier for developers to destroy wildlife habitat, wetlands, forests, etc. The UN says that affordable housing must not come at a coat to the environment. And these projects are mostly commercial and industrial.
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Concerning permissions for three residential units per lot, please ensure that the regulatory changes limit municipalities to permit the required parking be "no more than one space per unit".
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Question 1. Are there specific zoning by-law barriers standards or requirements that frustrate the development of ARUs (e.g., maximum building height, minimum lot size, side and rear lot setbacks, lot coverage, maximum number of bedrooms permitted per lot, and angular plane requirements, etc.)?
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This is a step in the right direction to alleviating housing shortage in Ontario. However, I would recommend that a closer attention is paid to development on shorelines in Settlement Areas.
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April 27, 2024
re:- comment re Bill 185
Hello, I would like to propose some modifications to Bill 185
to make it more effective
based on my own personal experience with increasing the supply of housing
and municipal resistance and obstruction to same.
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I do not believe that limits on lot coverage or limits on the number of bedrooms are a barrier to the creation of Additional Residential Units. The largest barrier will be the building costs of creating the units including hooking up to municipal services such as sewer and water. The limits on bed
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April 28, 2024
re:- additional comments re Bill 185 / ERO # 019-8366
Hello, these are some new comments additional to my comments of April 27/24,
ie comment id 98390:-
(11) The Planning Act needs a clause to explicitly forbid municipalities
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The province should consider introducing a standard definition for the minimum number of dwelling units that constitutes an apartment building. In Toronto, an apartment building is defined as having 5 or more units, in other cities it is more than 3 units.
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To Whom It May Concern,
The consideration for Additional Residential Units (ARU)s is not a plausible solution to building more homes.
Please accept these comments - not from a NIMBY perspective - but to be practical and realistic.
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Thank you for providing the opportunity for the County of Bruce to comment on ERO Posting 019-8366 which seeks input on reducing barriers to additional residential units through the Environmental Registry.
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Climate Action Newmarket-Aurora input for
BIll 185 Cutting Red Tape ERO 019-8365
The Greenbelt and our agricultural lands are threatened even more so now with Bill 185 and the proposed Provincial Planning Statement than the 2021-23 Greenbelt controversy.
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While I recognize the need for more rental housing, I do not support the creation of a free-for-all approach to development of rental units in residential areas which is NOT compatible with residential properties that surround the proposed development and that would have a negative effect on the str
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I like the local bylaws they way they are. Our home is our single biggest investment. We are counting on it as neither my wife nor I work for the government or have juicy union pensions like some enjoy.
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The housing crisis is not due to zoning barriers, it is due to high immigration.
Leave things alone and instead negotiate a new immigration agreement with the federal government that caps immigration, as Quebec has.
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While I agree there is a housing crisis, there are many homes left empty in our area and the main issue is affordability. Building more houses is not really going to help with the affordability issues!
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I do not believe that limits on lot coverage or limits on the number of bedrooms are a barrier to the creation of Additional Residential Units. The largest barrier will be the building costs of creating the units including hooking up to municipal services such as sewer and water.
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