<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">-------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi Kevin,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've attached the report which can also be<a href="http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/decisionBodyProfile.do?function=doPrepare&meetingId=19743#Meeting-2021.PH29" class=""> found here</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In Toronto, I know it will be a tough sell in many single family neighbourhoods to allow multiplex units. People hate change and they don't like construction.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My only advice in how to play this in Waterloo is to also appeal to people's pocketbooks. For example, perhaps neighbourhoods that have zoning changes to allow multiplex units are given a special tax break? I don't know if that is legal or would even work but it may be the sort of thing that helps quiet the NIMBYs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Re: making a presentation to regional staff and Council. Talk to Kevin Eby about this. Having GREN or some other ENGO present this makes it too easy to dismiss it as a "greenie/downtown Toronto idea that may work in Toronto but will never work here". It may make more sense to find someone doing this in a smaller city (in Ontario or elsewhere) so that we don't play into the "anti Toronto" sentiment that always lurks in the background. But Kevin E would know best.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">Franz<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class=""><div style="margin:0px" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Greg Michalenko <<a href="mailto:gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank" class="">gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><b class="">Re: [GREN-Exec] Regional Official Plan Update</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">November 25, 2021 at 10:34:40 AM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Kevin Thomason <<a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com" target="_blank" class="">kevinthomason@mac.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin:0px" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">GREN executive <<a href="mailto:executive@gren.ca" target="_blank" class="">executive@gren.ca</a>>, All <<a href="mailto:all-bounces@gren.ca" target="_blank" class="">all-bounces@gren.ca</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" class="">Re: new approaches to municipal zoning and "unzoning".</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" class="">Take a look at an article in the Globe and Mail this morning "Planning report signals real changes in house-centric areas" (p. A6). It's a recommendation from Planning to Toronto council to actually amend the same-old "exclusionary zoning" (ie, nothing-but single-family dwellings in many areas, exclusive employment lands, etc), that has stifled creative city design for decades in all out cities, and instead allow a mixture of houses, small apartments, commercial, etc. They call the outcome "gentle density". It's a bold departure. </div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" class="">I think we should make a presentation to Regional council before they spend too much time in round two just looking at how much additional land will be needed according to current zoning orthodoxy before 2051. We should ask them to do something similar to Toronto. I wonder if we could get a copy of the Toronto report. Chief planner is Gregg Lintern; Councillor Ana Blbao who is deputy mayor and the "housing point person" is on side. it now goes to the mayor's office.</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" class="">-Greg Michalenko</div><div id="gmail-m_-8200687498455191001appendonsend" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""></div><hr style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;width:1041.73px" class=""></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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