12-07-2018, 10:51 AM
https://twitter.com/jpags/status/1070792286601138178
A good briefer on one of the most extreme proposals to land use planning rules I can ever remember.
Basically, any municipality in Ontario would be able to pass one bylaw. This bylaw would allow them to ignore Places to Grow, Big Move, Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Protection Act, Greenbelt Act, Metrolinx Act, Ontario Planning and Development Act, and more.
So if a business wanted to come to Waterloo Region and set up a business that would destroy our groundwater and necessitate the long-ago-priced-at-$1 billion pipeline to lake Erie (assuming great lakes protection act being null and void didn't make that a fool's errand), they could come and do that, endager the environment, species at risk, planning rules, transportation rules, be immune to OMB/LPAT... it's like handing a planning nuclear hand grenade to every part of Ontario.
A good briefer on one of the most extreme proposals to land use planning rules I can ever remember.
Basically, any municipality in Ontario would be able to pass one bylaw. This bylaw would allow them to ignore Places to Grow, Big Move, Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Protection Act, Greenbelt Act, Metrolinx Act, Ontario Planning and Development Act, and more.
So if a business wanted to come to Waterloo Region and set up a business that would destroy our groundwater and necessitate the long-ago-priced-at-$1 billion pipeline to lake Erie (assuming great lakes protection act being null and void didn't make that a fool's errand), they could come and do that, endager the environment, species at risk, planning rules, transportation rules, be immune to OMB/LPAT... it's like handing a planning nuclear hand grenade to every part of Ontario.