A nice follow-up to yesterday's post:
As well, Bob Coupland of Oakville expresses some timely sentiments:
Ford government’s planning entrenches sprawl at expense of environment
I just heard the term “The Big Sprawl,” and it alarmed me to hear that between now and July 1, 2022, the Doug Ford government is forcing every Greater Golden Horseshoe municipality to rush through planning decisions to lock in 30 more years of outdated and environmentally damaging residential, commercial and industrial sprawl.
It seems to me that this goes hand in hand with their attitude towards the building of Highway 413, the appointment of Norm Sterling as head of the Greenbelt Council, and the rampant use of MZOs (Ministerial Zoning Orders), decisions that are designed to make developers and land speculators even wealthier.
Policies of this sort are heavy-handed and dictatorial, blatantly harmful, unnecessary, and not what the people of Ontario want.
It’s time to stop urban boundary expansions, and firmly and forever protect farmland and natural areas.
It appears that Doug Ford's attempt to use the Covid crisis as an opportunity for misdirection while he enriches his developer cronies is not wholly successful, eh?
We should have known what "For The People" meant, Lorne.
ReplyDeleteTo have voted for a party that was long on slogans and short on substance is an indictment of much of Ontario's electorate, Owen.
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