Policies & Threats Related to Greenspaces
Background on Development Charges (DCs) To find out what happened in 2014, please go here. To find out what happened in 2014-2018, please go here (the untold story!) In brief: + Development Charges pay for a lot, but not all of the infrastructure cost of growth. A reasonable guess is that DCs cover 60-70% of the true cost of growth. Any gap is funded by all property tax payers. + Despite
We were pleased to see this report. Of course, as is acknowledged, the promoters of the myth that was the population growth projected for the 2003 Official Plan have now themselves long conceded to the facts. We would like to remind Council that at the time, in 2002, the Alliance provided advice in the clearest possible terms that these projections were not credible and we explained why, by their own
March 31, 2014 The Federation of Citizens’ Associations, the Greenspace Alliance and the Healthy Transportation Coalition this morning issued a media release decrying the absence of public consultation on the current review of Development Charges in Ottawa. On April 1, Trevor Haché was interviewed on CKCU. Listen to the 14-minute clip: – on the CKCU website here (the clip starts at the 93:55 minute mark of the 123:07 long clip) –
8 January 2014 The Greenspace Alliance today submitted responses to the questions posed by the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing about its (.) Land Use Planning and the Appeal System; and (.) the Development Charges System. The consultation documents are available from here. Key points: On Land Use Planning and the Appeal system: + All applications pertaining to a given property should move through the review and approval/rejection
