(01-03-2023, 06:13 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Changing zoning bylaws is (kind of) zero cost at the municipal level, but it's a very long and onerous process. However, it the provincial government legislates it, it happens immediately in every municipality in the province. That's how it should be implemented (and Ford even mentioned such an ability when introducing the legislation).
I'm not talking about changing zoning bylaws at all. Not a whit.
Zone boundaries and an individual zone's type are are not set by bylaws. The only thing the bylaws do is describe the zone types and their requirements and restrictions.
Saying this area in a neighbourhood is R-3, that area is R-4, and the area over there as R-5 is done by a committee following certain policies and guidelines but is essentially arbitrary.
All that is necessary here is to direct that committee to redesignate all R-1, R-2, R-3, & R-4 zones as as R-5, and all RES-1, RES-2, & RES-3 zones as RES-4, and to never use those lower level zone types ever again.
(01-03-2023, 06:13 PM)tomh009 Wrote: And Davey did not claim that it required funding, at least not in the twitter thread linked here. (Funding would be very helpful for inclusionary zoning, though -- and the province outlawing development fees does nothing to help that.)
Davey literally said that the reason they aren't doing the things is because of lack of funding. It was literally the last sentence of his tweet.
And development fees unnecessarily increase the cost of housing. In the current situation where so many people have having difficulties affording housing those extra, the people who can least afford those extra costs end up being the ones who pay them. A better idea would be to just raise property taxes in general and share that burden equally across all of us, especially since both a denser city and lower housing costs benefits all of us, not just the people moving into those new buildings.