Inside the Greenbelt deal from 2 developers’ perspectives

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While no one explicitly told developers that Ontario planned to open up the protected Greenbelt for housing last year, the government telegraphed that message to builders.

De Gasperis was seated at the same table as Amato and came armed with a package that his daughter, the director of planning for TACC Developments, put together to make the case for Cherrywood.

De Gasperis’ daughter told the integrity commissioner she did not see an opportunity to raise Greenbelt removal requests with the province until the 2022 election, when she noticed Ford did not renew his commitment to not touch the area.“From that silence, she saw an opening that it might be reconsidering that position,” Wake wrote.

She took that opportunity to tell Amato about three other sites: one in Richmond Hill, Ont., another in Vaughan, Ont., and one in Hamilton that TACC co-owned with a friend of her father’s. Rice told the integrity commissioner he thought it was likely the Greenbelt would be opened up, particularly after the government passed legislation giving the housing minister power to decide growth areas and reducing the role of conservation authorities.“If, by 2022, a developer was not thinking about the Greenbelt opening up, ‘they were asleep,”’ Rice, who leads the Rice Group of Companies, told Wake.

 

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