“On December 13, Minister Calandra announced a commitment to “work with municipal partners and ensure they have the tools and revenue streams to get shovels in the ground,” including consulting on development charges and fee refund frameworks. AMO has consistently stated that Bill 23 was deeply flawed and not in the public interest, undermining municipalities’ ability to build the infrastructure required to support growth. The recent announcement is a significant step towards fulfilling the government’s promise to make municipalities whole from the fiscal impacts of Bill 23. It responds to many of AMO and the municipal sector’s recommendations and shows that the government is listening. […] AMO looks forward to working with the government on more detailed discussion of development charges and fee refunds over the coming months.”

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« En réponse à la rétroaction des municipalités et des collectivités, le gouvernement de l’Ontario : […] consulte les propositions de révocation, de modification et de suivi des arrêtés de zonage existants du ministre dans le cadre d’une nouvelle approche « utilisé ou perdu » visant à soutenir l’amélioration de la planification et des ressources municipales tout en obligeant les constructeurs à rendre des comptes; clarifie l’application des exemptions de redevances liées à l’aménagement de logements accessibles afin d’améliorer la planification budgétaire municipale; mène une consultation sur les redevances liées à l’aménagement et les cadres de remboursement des redevances pour aider les municipalités à construire plus de logements, plus rapidement, et de manière durable. »

« Le gouvernement de l’Ontario a établi des cibles en matière de logement pour 21 municipalités supplémentaires dans le cadre de son plan visant à construire au moins 1,5 million de logements d’ici 2031. Une fois que ces municipalités, par l’entremise de leurs présidents des conseils municipaux, se seront engagées à atteindre leurs cibles, elles auront accès au nouveau Fonds pour l’accélération de la construction, qui récompensera les municipalités en voie d’atteindre leurs cibles en matière de logement. »

“Bill 23 is proceeding quickly through the legislature, which means it is likely to pass before many municipal Councils have been sworn in, and before the AMO Board can prepare a response. […] Bill 23 and the province’s new More Homes Built Faster Plan, as proposed, will have economic, social, and environmental implications that cannot be ignored. […] While AMO would like to support the province’s housing objectives, it cannot support changes that largely place the burden of carrying the costs associated with development onto municipalities. AMO believes that the proposed changes may contradict the goal of building more housing in the long-term as it merely shifts the financial burden of growth-related infrastructure onto existing taxpayers. […] Bill 23 proposes sweeping changes to the regulatory responsibilities of Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities that, if passed, will undermine the collaborative and productive changes put forward by the Ministry led Conservation Authority Working Group over the past two years.”

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“The Ontario government calls it an incentive that will help speed up new home construction and make housing more affordable across the province. But Toronto officials say a system of new planning deadlines with attached refunds, outlined in a provincial housing bill on Wednesday, is more penalty than incentive. It could amount to millions of dollars in refunds for cities and will have the “perverse” effect of delaying development by sending more planning applications to the already backlogged Ontario Land Tribunal. […] Luisa Sotomayor, an associate professor in York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, said the bill undermines local planning autonomy and won’t enhance affordability.”

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