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Proposed Amendments to the Greenbelt Plan

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Have we learned nothing from our past mistakes? Sprawl makes communities unsustainable as the infrastructure for connecting utilities, road systems etc. is too expensive to provide and maintain. So this is only cheaper for the developers and, initially, the new homeowners. Read more

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Proposed Amendments to the Greenbelt Plan

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I think it is environmentally irresponsible to do away with green space in favour of housing. Especially during a time when carbon emissions are on the rise and ecologically diverse areas are on the decline. Hamilton has many spaces that are underutilize within the city itself. Read more

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I cannot overstate how strongly I disapprove of the plan to expand housing into any part of the Greenbelt. Doug Ford himself promised in 2018 to protect it, and Housing Minister Steve Clark of the PC Party made similar statements just last year. Read more

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Doug Ford promised NOT to build on the greenbelt. It is important that these areas remain protected, and not sold off to the highest bidder. Once these lands are sold, we cannot get them back the way they were - it's an irreversible change that will have long-term consequences. Read more

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I cannot overstate how strongly I disapprove of the plan to expand housing into any part of the Greenbelt. Doug Ford himself promised in 2018 to protect it, and Housing Minister Steve Clark of the PC Party made similar statements just last year. Read more

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This is a horrible way to fix the housing problem. You're using land that has protections in place because they are unique and a one-of-a-kind type of land we have in this part of Ontario. "Replacing" the land with others does not negate the negative effects of doing so. Read more

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Proposed Amendments to the Greenbelt Plan

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I am fully against development of our green belt. Premier Ford ran his campaign with the promise to protect the greenbelt. Shame on you Premier Ford. Do not allow development of our greenbelt. The greenbelt is necessary to sustain clean water and air for all. It was protected for a reason!

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Promises made should be promises kept. The government said they wouldn't remove any lands from the Greenbelt--that, if anything, they would only expand it. The people of Ontario are tired of lying governments. If I'm not mistaken, that was probably how you got elected in the first place. Read more

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Leave the Greenbelt untouched. The lands in question are extremely environmentally sensitive and their destruction to line the pockets of the Premier's developer buddies is unethical and utterly destructive. Build upward rather than outward. Intensify, densify.

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Proposed Amendments to the Greenbelt Plan

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Climate change is our reality now, and we must do everything within our power to preserve and protect vulnerable ecosystems; they are, in a very real sense, our only hope for a liveable future. Once the Greenbelt is gone we will never get it back. Read more

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Building in the greenbelt and instead "conserving" in a bunch of unrelated, scattered pieces of land in the province is not a valid conservation method - As a professional environmental scientist, anyone in the environment or land stewardship community knows this, that the greenbelt exists as one la Read more

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Amending the Greenbelt Plan is an absolute mistake. The Greenbelt provides critical ecosystem services that support biodiversity, regulate natural biogeochemical cycles, and helps mitigate climate change. More housing is important, however it is important to build up instead of out. Read more

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