The Ontario government has laid out a four-year plan to address the province’s housing crisis, including a slate of changes to municipal planning rules that Premier Doug Ford’s government says are required to get more homes built faster and slow galloping house prices.
The province says it wants time to get municipalities onside with some those proposals such as the elimination of exclusionary zoning that would add density to established city neighbourhoods and it wants better data to base decisions on what to build and where, said a government source.that it says will help speed up home construction by expediting development approvals.
A government source said the province needs more time to work with municipalities because previously they have refused to implement provincially directed changes such as the community benefits framework that speaks to how developers contribute to the communities in which they are building. Some municipalities have also obstructed directives such as those aimed at building secondary units on single-family lots by placing so many conditions on their construction that they aren’t practical.
Overpopulation
I don't see slowness in my area except when the developer wants zoning changes, so to take our only central commercial area and remove 2/3 of it to replace with housing. We are losing all our walkable amenities and that is fine? Just houses with nothing else makes a good city?
All smoke and mirrors from Dougie Ford. Read it and all has fringe effects, doesn't hit the problem.
BAN REALTORS FROM HOARDING HOMES AND CONDOS. RAISE THE RATES AND WATCH THE LSITINGS EXPLODE.THE PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED WITH GOVERNMENT ACTION NOT INACTION SINCE FORD WADDLED INTO THE JOB.