PC plan reverses Liberal overhaul of land tribunal, aims to lower costs for developers
Ontario’s PC government says it will ease the housing crunch with a sweeping package of measures aimed at getting more houses built more quickly, but critics say the plan’s move to increase the powers of the province’s land-use tribunal unfairly favours large developers.
“By speeding up the approvals ... that’s going to bring the homes to the area for the growth that we are experiencing," said Dave Wilkes, president and CEO of the Building Industry and Land Development Association , which represents Greater Toronto Area developers. “This is in answer to development industry lobbyists,” said Toronto city councillor Josh Matlow, who had long railed against the former OMB. “These are the people [Doug Ford] is answering to.”
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