This is the proposal under the omnibus bill 23 and it's not just the Greenbelt that is at stake, the provinces wetlands and many smaller watercourses will be open for development under Bill 23. Here is an excerpt that I posted on another thread in the past week:
The amount of data that shows the population of the GTA could be more than doubled by simply opening up existing neighbourhood zoning to allow for more than 1-3 units per lot is evidence alone this disastrous approach is not needed (
Paving over the Greenbelt will have flood insurance effects for more than the rubes who buy houses on land that's normally marsh. One of the many important things the Greenbelt does is it retains water, slowing it down from reaching places downstream. This smooths out the surge in flow rate from things like heavy rainstorms.
I support these changes. Parts of Halton Hills are built on floodplains. Should these homes have never existed? You have tens of thousands of people living good lives there.
The worst is that "the housing problem" might not even exist, they could be using it as a campaign to profit with developers. Look around there are so many new developments (condos, town houses, etc.) going on all around the GTA.
So stupid, get rid of one storey strip malls, shopping malls, giant parking lots etc. There’s so much wasted building potential to make liveable, walkable communities
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Yesterday on a walk through the marsh I saw a bunch of mushrooms, some deadly, some edible. I saw flowers that still in bloom. I saw some bugs. Hell, even saw bees recently out getting what they can.
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Our 400 series highways are clogged as it is. There's no room to expand them further. Adding more sprawl would just make things worse. We need more density and more transit which are actual viable solutions to the housing crisis.
I find it interesting that the largest swath of land proposed to be removed from the Greenbelt is in west Pickering near Highway 407. I'm not entirely surprised though. I grew up in Pickering (Durham Region), and sprawl is still the status quo. Pickering is working on the Seaton development and it's expected to house 70,000 people and 35,000 jobs. I suspect the lands east of York-Durham Line (proposed to be removed from the Greenbelt) will ultimately end up looking like the Seaton development.
It wouldn't even take massive high-rise condos. 3-4 story apartments, duplexes, town houses or just efficiently using the space for single detached homes would open up so much more housing.
Replace all single family zoning with a new general residential zoning that allows apartments and tax land more and improvements and sales and purchases less.
You know, even two of Toronto's main public golf courses ... Don Valley and Scarlett Woods ... are perfectly fine, because they're on flood plains that could be dangerous to housing during heavy rains, as during Hurricane Hazel. They exist where it makes sense for them to exist. They're the result of actual urban planning, not land grabs. But Doug & Co. don't seem to give a fuck that plans exist for practical reasons, not just for them to make a buck.
There are so many plots of land to go after before golf courses. Sure golf courses aren't the gold standard of green space usage but they are still green space and support a significant amount of wild life. You would be surprised the wild life I have seen on golf courses directly in the city. I have seen deer, foxes, coyotes, beavers and other animals on the urban courses.
One day I hope I can show my grandchildren the vast fields of houses that used to be the green belt. When they ask why we got rid of the green belt, I’ll tell them it was so that a man named Ford could make some money for his friends.
If the current federal government continues with its plan to get the nation's population up to 100 million, your grandchildren may live in a GTA of 25 million.
70% SFH, and with a ton of additional constraints that greatly restrict how much building can be done on a given piece of land: maximum height, minimum setback, minimum parking, ...
Under the guise of more housing supply, Doug Ford is ramming through massive changes that limit how cities collect fees to pay for sewers, parks and amenities, deleting a bunch of important plans that help coordinate planning and public dollars with new private development, proposing to build in wetlands and flood zones, and removing regions from planning altogether. Lazily handed majority emboldening all the shitty ideas this government had from the get go…
Nobody wants to "waste" their valuable vote on a loser. Better to vote for a winner and know that you are superior to the losers who wasted their time.
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It infuriates me when people complain about new condos on Bloor Street and Yonge Street, when such sites, right on top of fucking subway lines, are precisely where condos belong. I live near Bloor & Jane, and a decade ago locals were bitching about a new condo. You know what it replaced? A car dealership lot that'd been there since the fucking 1930s! They preferred a parking lot to a reasonable apartment building. Because it was what they were used to, and no better reason than that.
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There’s a ton of empty office spaces in the downtown core now that so many people are work from home. Convert those into condos and you’ve got a good start without touching a piece of the Greenland.
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I want to see the Yellow Belt opened up first. People should be able to profitably build dense non-high rise housing in every neighbourhood of Toronto. If someone wants to buy the house next door to mine and put in a stacked fourplex, they should be allowed. If someone wants to buy a $8 million mega mansion on Forest Hill Road and put in 10 townhouses, they should be allowed. I live in the Yellow Belt and want to say loudly YES IN MY BACKYARD. It’s good for cities, good for local businesses, good for housing accessibility (largely without harming property values), good for traffic and transit. The only people it’s bad for are:
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Drive through any city and see all the wasted space ripe for mid-rise. Even Toronto has so many old, crumbling, energy-guzzling brownstones steps to subway and LRT. And the amount of underused single story commercial and parking is obscene everywhere.
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There is something called urban sprawl, and this to me sounds like urban sprawl. Basically, bad for the environment, bad for transportation, good only for people who have their mind set on owning a house with a backyard in a dull suburban neighbourhood where they commute 1 hour by car to work (Toronto) every day.
I was just reading a Narwhal article and it said that Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force did not recommend opening up the green belt. Here’s the task force’s
I don’t care what it is proposing. Hard no. We have plenty of vacant lots or lots in much more central locations that should be used for higher density buildings for rent. That is what will help with the housing crisis: housing people can afford to live in. That is not the housing that Ford is enabling. We don’t need more people living in the middle of nowhere, commuting for even longer, to get to the city centres where they work. We need affordable housing IN city centres so that people can spend less money on gas and less time commuting. Unfortunately, Doug Ford won’t go for that because the developers that fund him don’t want to.
Let's pave the whole province. All of it. Have the neighbourhood naming rights be owned by corporations.. you could live in the Rexall neighbourhood on Pepsi street. Have everyone work for minimum wage except managers, who should all be paid many times what their collective staff make. Get rid of hospitals, if someone gets sick they can be replaced by a new immigrant who will vote for the OPC as long as they promise to keep sex ed a secret in the age of the Internet.
Why bother even voting when these clowns just flip flop on their own promises. Its bullshit to say they didn’t realize we would need more houses as we go forward and increase the size of our population.
We have these clowns precisely because people DON'T vote; the only demographic that turns out in large numbers are the Boomers who have nothing else to do but vote for whoever is going to change things the least/make them more money
Because you can vote for alternatives to these particular clowns. Anyone believing Ford’s promises or thinking he won’t just sell out the province to developers hasn’t paid any attention.
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If you don’t know about the importance of the green belt PLEASE I’m begging you to look into it. Someone of Canada’s oldest ecosystems in that area and it needs to be protected.
I’m sure we can delay development until we can get a new competent government (I use that term loosely as the bar is pretty low) that just repeals the bill before any real damage is done. If there is one thing I know we can all be good at it’s being lazy…making this legal would take the municipalities a long time to actually change their official plans and zoning…that’s a lot of work that has to be done by a lot of individuals with invested interest in preserving their communities safe drinking water, flood protection, and ecological features…let’s all just be turtles…it takes a village.
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Is this similar to how people think adding lanes will reduce traffic, but all it does is induce demand? Does building out the greenbelt matter if you add 800,000 immigrants looking for housing?
Building more density in our already existing massively low density sprawl. The idea that this is the only developable land is a complete lie, even if it was it’s so inefficient it wouldn’t be a good idea anyways.
To turn our parks into condo spaces. For example, do we really need the rouge and don valley parks? Imagine how many high-end condos we could put there. Science centre - a waste of space. Imagine how many more people you could cram into this gem of a city if you demolish the schools and hospitals too and replace them with beautiful high-rises.
What if... only the province could build on the greenbelt using a provincially owned and operated development company. Remove the profit incentive and cut out the greedy developers. We have billions of dollars in that slush fund, lets do something interesting with it.
Destroying the greenbelt increase flood risk as majority of southern Ontario is a floodplain. This also makes our natural environment less resilient to environmental degradation. Don't get me started on impacts to small farms..
You can buy a missing middle and more density without going through the greenbelt. Lots of major cities have bigger population for less land usage than the GTA. Having an affordable house that takes you 2.5 hour a day of commute to get to isn't really what most find a nice life to live. When people ask for more affordable houses, they don't ask to live 100km from Toronto.
I’ve heard a few times before that a measure of intelligence is the ability to hold 2 seemingly contradictory beliefs simultaneously while still being able to function.
So "removing about 7,400 acres in 15 different plots of land and adding 9,400 acres in other areas" means 2,000 acres more of Greenbelt. Seems reasonable to me.
So when there was that press release a few weeks ago about Dougie overriding municipalities to build triplexes, this is the real bill. Yes, we may get a couple more triplexes in the GTA where previously there weren't, but ultimately resources are limited. Projects are going to be selected by companies based on profitability, and what do you think is more profitable? Buying up handfuls of lots to build triplexes for rentals across the city? Or buying up now freed tracks of land to dump oodles of cookie cutter subdivisions?
Hell No!!! Convert other spaces within the city….there are tons of abandoned schools and office building around…..we don’t need more housing outside the city to just cram more cars in the roads to get to the city….the environment shouldn’t be paying the price…..
Another simple idea is to alter property tax assessments to encourage hirise development. Or build better transit to less populated areas. Not many families of 4+ are able to live in the sea of condos downtown.
The problem is the ponzi/ pyramid scheme Canada has become. We can only sustain the economy by letting 8n hoards of people...they'll have to live somewhere
Great let build more suburban dystopia housing where nobody wants to live! Why not just add more density ? Oh wait it’s because they would actually have to pay to put in proper public transit. Fucking stupid idiot conservatives.
People we cannot have it both ways! You can’t complain about the price of housing only for ford to want to open the green belt to lower prices. Keep the green belt prices stay high!
Finally, all those bribes/donations from the Cortelluccis, Muzzos, and the rest of the developers are starting to pay off.
They’ve always paid off. How else do you kill 4 people in a van and get released after a short holiday?
Anybody have access to land registry to find the owners of the following lands? Thanks in advance
Don't ask me how I know this.....
This is the proposal under the omnibus bill 23 and it's not just the Greenbelt that is at stake, the provinces wetlands and many smaller watercourses will be open for development under Bill 23. Here is an excerpt that I posted on another thread in the past week:
The amount of data that shows the population of the GTA could be more than doubled by simply opening up existing neighbourhood zoning to allow for more than 1-3 units per lot is evidence alone this disastrous approach is not needed (
Paving over the Greenbelt will have flood insurance effects for more than the rubes who buy houses on land that's normally marsh. One of the many important things the Greenbelt does is it retains water, slowing it down from reaching places downstream. This smooths out the surge in flow rate from things like heavy rainstorms.
May Dough Boy rot in hell. My comments on the proposed bill:
Comments can actually be submitted before November 17 directly through the OLA website to be considered by the standing committee:
Who’s running this circus, exactly?
So things like demanding LEED certification, this kills that?
So he wants to sell that land for a fuckton of money basically. It was never about providing housing.
I support these changes. Parts of Halton Hills are built on floodplains. Should these homes have never existed? You have tens of thousands of people living good lives there.
There are somethings we lose and we will never get back. We need to fight this as a society.
Totally agree! This can never be taken back once it is given up. I wish more people cared.
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The worst is that "the housing problem" might not even exist, they could be using it as a campaign to profit with developers. Look around there are so many new developments (condos, town houses, etc.) going on all around the GTA.
Unfortunately, Ontarians don't give a shit. They will bitch and moan for a week and move on.
So stupid, get rid of one storey strip malls, shopping malls, giant parking lots etc. There’s so much wasted building potential to make liveable, walkable communities
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best we can do is strip malls and parking lots on top of previous farms
You could house like 10,000 people on the land used by one golf course
Yesterday on a walk through the marsh I saw a bunch of mushrooms, some deadly, some edible. I saw flowers that still in bloom. I saw some bugs. Hell, even saw bees recently out getting what they can.
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Ew, sounds like you’re into nature. Here, have some overpriced houses instead.
Absolutely not . Get rid of the empty office space and make room for new living quarters instead. Leave the green belt alone
Or sell condos to people who actually live here.
More importantly, just focus on existing residential neighbourhoods for rezoning. (
I read somewhere years ago that the GTA could easily triple it's population while staying within it's current foot print.
I mean yeah just look at the size of GTA on Google maps and compare it to European and asian cities. Its fucking massive.
Our 400 series highways are clogged as it is. There's no room to expand them further. Adding more sprawl would just make things worse. We need more density and more transit which are actual viable solutions to the housing crisis.
Our entire country could hypothetically live in Toronto if we did it properly. We just suck at planning, architecture and saying no to millionaires
I find it interesting that the largest swath of land proposed to be removed from the Greenbelt is in west Pickering near Highway 407. I'm not entirely surprised though. I grew up in Pickering (Durham Region), and sprawl is still the status quo. Pickering is working on the Seaton development and it's expected to house 70,000 people and 35,000 jobs. I suspect the lands east of York-Durham Line (proposed to be removed from the Greenbelt) will ultimately end up looking like the Seaton development.
It wouldn't even take massive high-rise condos. 3-4 story apartments, duplexes, town houses or just efficiently using the space for single detached homes would open up so much more housing.
Yeah but the elites would have to buy those properties and redevelop them, whereas the Ford government will arguably give land to his elite friends.
If the GTA had the same population density as Brooklyn in NY then 100 Million people would live here.
Replace all single family zoning with a new general residential zoning that allows apartments and tax land more and improvements and sales and purchases less.
Why not golf courses? Those aren't essential to the environment.
They’re essential to Doug’s friends.
You know, even two of Toronto's main public golf courses ... Don Valley and Scarlett Woods ... are perfectly fine, because they're on flood plains that could be dangerous to housing during heavy rains, as during Hurricane Hazel. They exist where it makes sense for them to exist. They're the result of actual urban planning, not land grabs. But Doug & Co. don't seem to give a fuck that plans exist for practical reasons, not just for them to make a buck.
There are so many plots of land to go after before golf courses. Sure golf courses aren't the gold standard of green space usage but they are still green space and support a significant amount of wild life. You would be surprised the wild life I have seen on golf courses directly in the city. I have seen deer, foxes, coyotes, beavers and other animals on the urban courses.
Corrected Title: Ford and the Cons want to allow developers to profit from ripping up the Greenbelt.
“Ford gifts political donors”
him and his real estate buddies are just sweating at all the land they can buy up and sell.
Compare and contrast, Doug Ford edition.
One day I hope I can show my grandchildren the vast fields of houses that used to be the green belt. When they ask why we got rid of the green belt, I’ll tell them it was so that a man named Ford could make some money for his friends.
If the current federal government continues with its plan to get the nation's population up to 100 million, your grandchildren may live in a GTA of 25 million.
All bc city councils are chock full of NIMBYs who think it’s okay for an international city to be zoned 70% SFH.
100%. Ford is a fuck, but so is Toronto City council.
Yeah this is the biggest problem. We don't want housing anywhere. But we need housing. And greenspace by definition doesn't have any voters.
70% SFH, and with a ton of additional constraints that greatly restrict how much building can be done on a given piece of land: maximum height, minimum setback, minimum parking, ...
This is what happens when the majority are too lazy to go vote.
The consultation is still open on the Environmental Registry of Ontario, leave your comments if you want them to rethink
Under the guise of more housing supply, Doug Ford is ramming through massive changes that limit how cities collect fees to pay for sewers, parks and amenities, deleting a bunch of important plans that help coordinate planning and public dollars with new private development, proposing to build in wetlands and flood zones, and removing regions from planning altogether. Lazily handed majority emboldening all the shitty ideas this government had from the get go…
I can almost guarantee that no one is listening or cares.
it's not just laziness. A lot of the opinion pieces forwarded by a lot of the big media guys were suggesting that "maybe ford has changed"
It’s not apathy it’s a broken system.
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Nobody wants to "waste" their valuable vote on a loser. Better to vote for a winner and know that you are superior to the losers who wasted their time.
Fuck that and fuck you, Ford.
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It infuriates me when people complain about new condos on Bloor Street and Yonge Street, when such sites, right on top of fucking subway lines, are precisely where condos belong. I live near Bloor & Jane, and a decade ago locals were bitching about a new condo. You know what it replaced? A car dealership lot that'd been there since the fucking 1930s! They preferred a parking lot to a reasonable apartment building. Because it was what they were used to, and no better reason than that.
Back off!!! 😩
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There’s a ton of empty office spaces in the downtown core now that so many people are work from home. Convert those into condos and you’ve got a good start without touching a piece of the Greenland.
Build up, not out, two and three bedrooms, not shoeboxes.
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I want to see the Yellow Belt opened up first. People should be able to profitably build dense non-high rise housing in every neighbourhood of Toronto. If someone wants to buy the house next door to mine and put in a stacked fourplex, they should be allowed. If someone wants to buy a $8 million mega mansion on Forest Hill Road and put in 10 townhouses, they should be allowed. I live in the Yellow Belt and want to say loudly YES IN MY BACKYARD. It’s good for cities, good for local businesses, good for housing accessibility (largely without harming property values), good for traffic and transit. The only people it’s bad for are:
Wonder if the CUPE strike is the distraction for this.
Conservatism is anti-environmental terrorism.
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It's kinda ironic how close the words conservative and conservation are.
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Ontario is way too big for him to destroy our fauna
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Drive through any city and see all the wasted space ripe for mid-rise. Even Toronto has so many old, crumbling, energy-guzzling brownstones steps to subway and LRT. And the amount of underused single story commercial and parking is obscene everywhere.
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There is something called urban sprawl, and this to me sounds like urban sprawl. Basically, bad for the environment, bad for transportation, good only for people who have their mind set on owning a house with a backyard in a dull suburban neighbourhood where they commute 1 hour by car to work (Toronto) every day.
I was just reading a Narwhal article and it said that Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force did not recommend opening up the green belt. Here’s the task force’s
I don’t care what it is proposing. Hard no. We have plenty of vacant lots or lots in much more central locations that should be used for higher density buildings for rent. That is what will help with the housing crisis: housing people can afford to live in. That is not the housing that Ford is enabling. We don’t need more people living in the middle of nowhere, commuting for even longer, to get to the city centres where they work. We need affordable housing IN city centres so that people can spend less money on gas and less time commuting. Unfortunately, Doug Ford won’t go for that because the developers that fund him don’t want to.
So. How do we stop him?
Let's pave the whole province. All of it. Have the neighbourhood naming rights be owned by corporations.. you could live in the Rexall neighbourhood on Pepsi street. Have everyone work for minimum wage except managers, who should all be paid many times what their collective staff make. Get rid of hospitals, if someone gets sick they can be replaced by a new immigrant who will vote for the OPC as long as they promise to keep sex ed a secret in the age of the Internet.
You can have a say!! Leave a comment here telling the government your thoughts!
Why bother even voting when these clowns just flip flop on their own promises. Its bullshit to say they didn’t realize we would need more houses as we go forward and increase the size of our population.
We have these clowns precisely because people DON'T vote; the only demographic that turns out in large numbers are the Boomers who have nothing else to do but vote for whoever is going to change things the least/make them more money
Because you can vote for alternatives to these particular clowns. Anyone believing Ford’s promises or thinking he won’t just sell out the province to developers hasn’t paid any attention.
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If you don’t know about the importance of the green belt PLEASE I’m begging you to look into it. Someone of Canada’s oldest ecosystems in that area and it needs to be protected.
The cons are ruining Ontario in every way possible.
It is so bad when a Canadian politician get elect with sole purpose of supporting oligarch.
Is there any action that we, as regular people, can take to help prevent this…?
This is like living in a fucking nightmare.
The only good Doug Ford is an unemployed Doug Ford
I’m sure we can delay development until we can get a new competent government (I use that term loosely as the bar is pretty low) that just repeals the bill before any real damage is done. If there is one thing I know we can all be good at it’s being lazy…making this legal would take the municipalities a long time to actually change their official plans and zoning…that’s a lot of work that has to be done by a lot of individuals with invested interest in preserving their communities safe drinking water, flood protection, and ecological features…let’s all just be turtles…it takes a village.
I just want to know how much these developers pay Ford. Is it millions? Is it thousands? Is it free properties?
All of the above
So developers' motivations is making money. They are certain expansion will generate them profit. What if we collectively not give in.
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This is a very slippery slope, like fucking mud and twigs type slippery.
The immigration is a dog whistle and straw man. This is to benefit his developer pals. This would happen regardless.
OR here me out: let office workers work from home. Get rid of empty office space and transform it into high density housing
No, then you’re ruining the work culture. Commuting an hour each way, minimum, teaches people discipline and a love for their colleagues.
Thousands of condo units are being built for the investor class already. Families want SFHs. Preferably with large yards.
Is this similar to how people think adding lanes will reduce traffic, but all it does is induce demand? Does building out the greenbelt matter if you add 800,000 immigrants looking for housing?
Its not a cure but a band aid. Of course, when you're bleeding out a band aid is still better than nothing.
What's an alternative solution to the housing supply crisis?
Building more density in our already existing massively low density sprawl. The idea that this is the only developable land is a complete lie, even if it was it’s so inefficient it wouldn’t be a good idea anyways.
Fix zoning.
The most impactful, fastest solutions would be creating policies and taxation to disincentivize real estate speculation and Airbnbs.
To turn our parks into condo spaces. For example, do we really need the rouge and don valley parks? Imagine how many high-end condos we could put there. Science centre - a waste of space. Imagine how many more people you could cram into this gem of a city if you demolish the schools and hospitals too and replace them with beautiful high-rises.
How dare you try to get at the root of the issue?
What if... only the province could build on the greenbelt using a provincially owned and operated development company. Remove the profit incentive and cut out the greedy developers. We have billions of dollars in that slush fund, lets do something interesting with it.
Maybe open up Toronto for more housing. Replace single family home zoning for general residential zoning.
I told you to watch the Caledon Municipal Election.
I hate this idea.
Destroying the greenbelt increase flood risk as majority of southern Ontario is a floodplain. This also makes our natural environment less resilient to environmental degradation. Don't get me started on impacts to small farms..
You can buy a missing middle and more density without going through the greenbelt. Lots of major cities have bigger population for less land usage than the GTA. Having an affordable house that takes you 2.5 hour a day of commute to get to isn't really what most find a nice life to live. When people ask for more affordable houses, they don't ask to live 100km from Toronto.
I’ve heard a few times before that a measure of intelligence is the ability to hold 2 seemingly contradictory beliefs simultaneously while still being able to function.
TBH i rather open the greenbelt than dealing with NIMBY.
Good. The environmental associations have too much power
So "removing about 7,400 acres in 15 different plots of land and adding 9,400 acres in other areas" means 2,000 acres more of Greenbelt. Seems reasonable to me.
Until you realise the added land is useless at providing any of the benefits the existing greenbelt provides. It's just smoke and mirrors.
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So what’s stopping you from walking right out again?
Writes a low effort post with no substance. So cringe.
2/10 troll
Gross
So when there was that press release a few weeks ago about Dougie overriding municipalities to build triplexes, this is the real bill. Yes, we may get a couple more triplexes in the GTA where previously there weren't, but ultimately resources are limited. Projects are going to be selected by companies based on profitability, and what do you think is more profitable? Buying up handfuls of lots to build triplexes for rentals across the city? Or buying up now freed tracks of land to dump oodles of cookie cutter subdivisions?
Ontario turning into a Mattamy homes feudalistic society is crazy to me.
Hell No!!! Convert other spaces within the city….there are tons of abandoned schools and office building around…..we don’t need more housing outside the city to just cram more cars in the roads to get to the city….the environment shouldn’t be paying the price…..
Build more dense! Ponzi scheme continues at this world’s destruction
When it’s gone it’s Gone for good its absolute shit idea
Why the fuck would we replace beautiful trees and wildlife with builder quality dog shit?
Honestly at this point the Ford government can suck my left nut, greedy parasites
Another simple idea is to alter property tax assessments to encourage hirise development. Or build better transit to less populated areas. Not many families of 4+ are able to live in the sea of condos downtown.
Who cares about the wetlands??? They don't do anything for us, and we should build more houses and infrastructure.
I knew it was just a matter of time.
I hope karma goes full circle on his fat ass
Every time Doug Ford adds “ And let me be clear” to a sentence, it means that he’s about to spit out a stupid idea or a bullshit idea
Don't touch green! Find something grey or brown! Make it green!
So have a better idea, no more immigration in Ontario
The problem is the ponzi/ pyramid scheme Canada has become. We can only sustain the economy by letting 8n hoards of people...they'll have to live somewhere
Follow the money
It's a good time to remind everyone Drug Fraud is a former hash dealing dropout who ran daddy's business into the ground.
Great let build more suburban dystopia housing where nobody wants to live! Why not just add more density ? Oh wait it’s because they would actually have to pay to put in proper public transit. Fucking stupid idiot conservatives.
Green Belt is only for hydro lines, and paid highways. Lol
Why does he suck soooo much? I miss his brother. Lol
People we cannot have it both ways! You can’t complain about the price of housing only for ford to want to open the green belt to lower prices. Keep the green belt prices stay high!
Don’t do it Ford, just continue to stack people up like ants in Toronto!