General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

I'm not saying that this isn't necessarily a good thing, but it is worth noticing that it is yet another incentive to do more greenfield development and less infill.

How?

Umm, there aren’t tenants living in the forests or farm fields that a developer would pave over to build a greenfield development, hence they don’t incur any costs to this bill. But infill developments that redevelop existing housing low income tenants will incur the cost of accommodating those tenants.

You make infill more expensive, it incentivizes greenfield development in preference to infill.