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Ottawa—The Ontario government is facing widespread and vocal opposition to its legislation to boost home construction in the province.
“It likely looks like there is farmland everywhere, it shouldn’t matter. But it does. Farmland is a finite resource. When something is rare, we treat it as precious, like a gem or diamond. Agricultural land makes up less than 5 per cent of our province. But we don’t hold it as precious.” OFA has been promoting intensifying cities and building inside of the current urban footprint. So parts of Bill 23 make sense – building more on transit lines, allowing up to three units on a single detached lots. “There are more ways to intensify and hit intensity targets.”
The letter outlines six key concerns with the bill and how the changes will negatively impact the local development review processes, download new responsibilities to municipalities, increase costs to taxpayers, increase the risk of flooding, erosion and slope failure and damage the local environment.
The Ontario Greenbelt Alliance Steering says the government building plans is more about satisfying the interests of developers and the Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force explained in a 2022 report that “we do not need to sacrifice environmental protection to address the housing crisis.
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