Ford government altered local planning decisions to allow for development: Globe analysis
Internal records reveal the Ford government rewrote the official plans of Hamilton, the regions of Halton, Peel and York
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Internal records reveal the Ford government rewrote the official plans of Hamilton, the regions of Halton, Peel and York
Ann Lawlor learned about the changes 11 days after she was elected mayor, when the government posted them on the province’s environmental registry on Nov. 4 – the same day it announced the Greenbelt carve-outs
The same day that Premier Doug Ford’s government announced its plans to take certain developers’ land out of the Greenbelt, it also made moves that benefitted developers who own rural land on the outskirts of Ottawa and Hamilton.
The province ordered the expansion in November 2022, opening up 2,200 hectares of countryside for development, at the same time it announced it would be removing land from the Greenbelt.
Local advocates jubilant but argue residents must keep pressure on to rescind other contentious land-use decisions