The Golden Horseshoe Wants Zoning Reform, Not the Removing of Greenbelt Land: Ideas on deciphering information from the Alliance for a Livable Ontario and the

The Golden Horseshoe Wants Zoning Reform, Not the Removing of Greenbelt Land: Ideas on deciphering information from the Alliance for a Livable Ontario and the

For a number of years, Environmental Defence has been rallying involved Ontario allies within the environmental and environmental justice actions to demand a swift finish to exclusionary zoning and the opposite planning and funding obstacles to constructing extra houses inside present communities. Our group has offered at Metropolis and Regional planning conferences, launched municipal and…

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Distinguished developer household linked to extra Greenbelt properties slated for housing

Distinguished developer household linked to extra Greenbelt properties slated for housing

Days after reporting a household of outstanding Ontario builders are major house owners of protected Greenbelt land that would quickly be opened for housing growth, CBC Toronto has linked extra properties to the De Gasperis household. The Ford authorities is presently consulting the general public on a plan to take away roughly 2,995 hectares of land from the Greenbelt, which…

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Housing, a hospital or each? Councillors in GTA township elevate considerations about way forward for Greenbelt land

Housing, a hospital or each? Councillors in GTA township elevate considerations about way forward for Greenbelt land

Elected officers in a Higher Toronto Space township fear a potential deal that would see a developer donate Greenbelt land for a brand new hospital will even result in undesirable residential growth in the identical space.  As a part of its latest proposal to open up sections of protected land for housing, the province is planning to carve out…

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TRCA Responds to Deliberate Improvement of fifty,000 New Houses on Protected Greenbelt Land

TRCA Responds to Deliberate Improvement of fifty,000 New Houses on Protected Greenbelt Land

November 8, 2022, Toronto, Ontario — On Friday, the provincial authorities introduced a proposal to take away 15 areas of protected land totalling 7,400 acres from the sting of the Greenbelt to construct 50,000 new houses. TRCA was not consulted previous to Friday’s announcement and this proposal is inconsistent with our prior steerage from the…

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