“It threatens the stability and certainty of the Greenbelt,” said Victor Doyle, a former provincial planner who’s credited as an architect of the protected area.
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As it currently stands, Bill 23 will decimate environmental protection for wetlands, woodlands and other sensitive green spaces, and it will prohibit conservation authorities from protecting these spaces.
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You cannot trade wetlands and protected areas like for like. It's an abominable overstep and will cause irreversible damage to our environment in order to line the pockets of a few cronies.
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Opening supposedly protected green spaces to development defeats the whole point of protecting these spaces.
Urban sprawl is a huge problem, and allowing developers free reign to protected lands sets a terrible precedent for removing protections from other green spaces.
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The removal of this land from the greenbelt is incredibly short sighted.
There is plenty of existing land that can be and is being developed. If that is not sufficient then utilize densification.
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As Tim Gray, executive director of the environmentalist group Environmental Defence, said: "municipal data shows that there is enough land available to provide for housing development within existing Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area urban boundaries until 2031”.
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Dear Ministers Clark and Smith,
I am writing to express my opposition to Bill 23 and associated policy proposals that would weaken environmental protections and undermine public involvement in land use planning and decision-making.
I am particularly concerned about the:
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I am writing to who this may concern today to state I am against changes to the greenbelt plan
It is a complete overreach and abuse of power to acomplish something the Ford Government promised it would not do.
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Opening the Greenbelt for housing development fails to remedy the housing affordability crisis and puts Ontarians at risk of ecological disaster in the near future.
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I do not support this proposal, it will not solve our housing crisis that is primarily caused by rampant unaffordable vacant land and landlords buying up the market just to price gouge renters for profit.
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Doesn't go far enough and goes too far all at once : triplexes are good, ripping up conservation authorities are bad. Shuffling the greenbelt is bad.
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Removing greenbelt lands have devastating affects to the natural environment and the animals that have habitats there. These lands were protected years ago and this proposal and bill called “more homes built faster act” doesn’t even solve the main issue you have.
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