Doug Ford nixes fourplexes as part of next Ontario housing bill

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has ruled out allowing municipalities to build fourplexes, despite it being one of the province’s housing affordability task force recommendations and a mandatory factor federal infrastructure funding.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford makes an announcement and answers questions at a press conference in Mississauga, Ont., Tuesday, February 13, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov

Allowing fourplexes to be built as of right would involve amending official plans and zoning bylaws to allow the building of up to four residential units, up to four stories, on any parcel or land zoned as “residential.”. On their housing affordability website, municipalities are also “encouraged to adopt official plan policies and zoning by-laws exceed the three unit per lot minimum to help meet their provincially-assigned housing targets.

The premier said his government was working through Infrastructure Ontario on those “modular builds,” saying the hardest part is getting the land. Municipalities have slowly been working towards allowing these four-unit homes within their city limits as part of applications for federal funding under the Housing Accelerator Fund.“Given the scale and urgency of the housing crisis, it is critical that leadership at all levels of government work together,” Crombie said last year.

 

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