The PPS/Growth Plan proposed changes are out and it’s got #sprawl written all over it. Here’s a snapshot 🧵
“Require municipalities to permit more housing on farms, including residential lot creation subject to criteria”
“Provide a simplified and flexible approach for municipalities to undertake settlement area boundary expansions. Municipalities would be allowed to create new Settlement Areas and would not be required to demonstrate the need for expansion”
“Require municipalities to plan for and protect industrial and manufacturing uses that are unsuitable for mixed use areas, using a more narrowly scoped definition of “area of employment” limited to these uses and preserving large, contiguous areas of land”
“Require municipalities to designate specialty crop areas and prime agricultural areas, eliminating the requirement to use the provincially-mapped Agricultural System”
We are going back decades in time and reversing all the sustainable progress we’ve made in planning over the years.
Say goodbye to complete communities
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