Earl Haig Secondary meeting
City Hall meeting
What does the province fear from Toronto’s residential bylaws? Whatever it is, the Ford government has taken the extraordinary step of introducing a bill (108) to essentially wipe out the freedom so-long sought by the City to moderate its dizzying growth. The issue is livability. Bill 108 would, apparently, return so-called de novo (start over) powers to the process. Builders would have the right to simply say that Toronto’s bylaws should be put aside for their project. It permits, as per the old OMB, entirely new and different criteria to be put in place for each project. And of course, each departure from a bylaw becomes a precedent, permitting more and more precedents until the bylaw is dead.
