Ontario proposes new rules to make it easier to build housing on farmland, in rural areas
That Growth Plan, passed by a previous Liberal government in 2005 when it created the protected Greenbelt area, was meant to force suburban municipalities around Toronto to build denser communities that are easier to serve with public transit.
In 2019, Mr. Clark lowered that number to 60 people and jobs per hectare in Hamilton, Peel, Waterloo and York Region areas, with other municipalities, including Barrie, Brantford and Guelph, required to plan for 50. Smaller places had to hit a target of 40. But hard targets for densities within what the Growth Plan designated “urban growth centres” in certain municipalities are no longer mentioned, even though the province has itself imposed densities well above any existing targets in Toronto’s Midtown and Downtown areas and along its proposed Ontario Line subway.
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