[All] OGA Meeting Tonight 7pm, ROP Update, Woolwich Motion, Hallman Pit

[strothjkl at sympatico.ca]

There will be new challenges with preventing sprawl with politicians now
seeing 'building new housing' as a questionable way to help with the high
cost of owning or renting a place to live - the way I see it, just because
one encourages new housing starts, it doesn't mean the developers will want
to charge any less than market value for those dwellings, and even if there
are incentives to charge less, they would probably still be quite expensive
and out of reach of most.  They seem to be confusing the high cost of living
with a lack of units available - 2 different things. Building more units
isn't addressing the issue or clamping down on why prices keep rising on the
existing housing stock.things like Air Bnb which have swallowed up a lot of
formerly affordable long-term rental spots. Encouraging converting existing
abandoned factories and office buildings into lower-cost housing where
feasible might be a better way to go.work with what we've already got.

 

Thanks

Lori S.

 

From: All <all-bounces at gren.ca> On Behalf Of Kevin Thomason
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2022 4:52 PM
To: Grand River Environmental Network (GREN) <all at gren.ca>
Subject: [All] OGA Meeting Tonight 7pm, ROP Update, Woolwich Motion, Hallman
Pit

 

Good Day,

 

Some updates that are likely of interest to GREN members:

 

1) Ontario Greenbelt Alliance All Member Meeting - Tonight, Thurs, Apr 7th
7:00pm

 

A reminder that tonight at 7:00pm is the OGA meeting to discuss the
provincial Greenbelt expansion, the upcoming provincial election, and the
Official Plans/Stop Sprawl movements underway across the province right now.

 

                Register at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgDAO6ceiec2143cz3f7Pj3ywRPuzbTAm1
vg4n4fetlVQI4w/viewform

 

                



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