Interventions in municipal land use planning, particularly in the Greater Toronto Area, by the government of Ontario Premier Doug Ford over the past five years set in motion an enormous, unplanned experiment in what happens when the development industry is given almost everything it wants in a region subject to intense urban growth pressures.
The results of that experiment are now becoming apparent, and they are not good.
The defining feature of the Ford government’s approach to planning urban development has been to engage in a root and branch rewriting of the rules to suit developers.
Continue reading: Ontario has left urban planning to developers, and the results aren’t great – Globe and Mail, June 27, 2024
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