The proposed amendment involving settlement boundary expansions of less than 40 hectares outside a Municipal Comprehensive Review, needs to INCLUDE “justified” Greenbelt areas.
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The proposed amendment involving settlement boundary expansions of less than 40 hectares outside a Municipal Comprehensive Review, needs to INCLUDE “justified” Greenbelt areas.
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Everybody and their brother in almost every government agency is running around saying "I'm here to Protect the Environment"
No one questions the need to protect the environment , but really does anyone ever think of whether we need as many agencies as we have all doing basically the same thing ?
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The amendments to the Growth Plan are not good for Ontario. The majority of the municipalities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe have enough unused land within the built-up boundaries to supply housing and commercial land for the next 10 years.
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I am a land surveyor and former mayor. As the former, I have walked many of the fields in the Town of Erin, and have driven iron bars into the ground here for over 30 years. I have first-hand knowledge of the soil types in my community.
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Please see the attached report regarding the Proposed Amendment to the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, 2017.
1. That the report entitled Proposed Amendment to the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, 2017, dated February 4, 2019 be received; and,
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The #1 problem in the GTHA is affordability because of the greed of developers. They are building poor quality condos and homes because they can get away with charging astronomical prices for buildings that barely meet minimum building code.
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Charles O'Hara, Director
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Ontario Growth Secretariat
777 Bay Street
C/O Business Management Division 17th floor
Toronto Ontario
M5G 2E5
Dear Mr. O’Hara:
RE: Stroud Development Group
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Ontario Farmland Trust (OFT) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to protect and preserve Ontario farmlands and associated agricultural, natural, and cultural features of the countryside.
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The proposed changes to the Growth Plan need to be modified or withdrawn for the following reasons.
1. The changes promotes sprawl driven planning – by weakening the ‘standardized’ land needs assessment methodology recently put in place by the province in early 2018.
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The Town of Midland generally supports the proposed changes to the Growth Plan. Staff comments on Proposed GPA#1 are set out in the attached Staff Report.
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Having reviewed the Proposed Amendment to the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, 2017, I have a number of concerns, not only with the amendment, but with my own township's submission as a further amendment.
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I am shocked but not particularly surprised to see that after Schedule 10 was removed from Bill 66, there is yet another attempt to enter by the back door to accomplish what couldn't be done in view of the negative response to the initial plan.
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I think that urban sprawl is one of the destructive legacies of this era, and am concerned that these changes will facilitate it. I am especially concerned about the ability to add to the urban boundary 40 hectares ata time of agricultural land, apart from the municipal planning process.
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