- 1. Tom Mrakas and Emergency Housing
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- It is difficult not to feel disappointed with Aurora Mayor Tom Mrakas who, last week, voted against York Region’s proposed 55-unit transitional housing/ emergency shelter for men at 14452 Yonge Street. ...
- Created on 19 February 2024
- 2. York Region has enough housing approved or in the pipeline to meet Ford's targets without building on the Greenbelt
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- Ontario's beleaguered Premier, Doug Ford, maintains the pretence that he needs Greenbelt land to tackle the Province’s housing crisis. Yet the task force which he himself appointed makes it clear Greenbelt ...
- Created on 02 September 2023
- 3. The Greenbelt Scandal: Steve Clark cuts a pathetic figure as he clings on as Housing Minister
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- ... Amongst other things, the Auditor General wanted to talk to Rice to find out more about his approaches to servicing housing developments and whether land recently removed from the Greenbelt would be ...
- Created on 31 August 2023
- 4. Former Steve Clark aide, Luca Bucci, boasts that Ford’s planning and housing policies are now written by home builders association
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- Luca Bucci, the former Chief of Staff to Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister, Steve Clark, and now Chief Executive of the Ontario Home Builders Association (OMBA), told "industry leaders" in a state ...
- Created on 15 July 2023
- 5. Affordable Housing
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- I want to see more affordable housing in Newmarket - and across York Region. We are in the middle of a housing crisis. Too many people can't afford to put a roof over their head. House prices here ...
- Created on 02 October 2022
- 6. Deerfield Road and affordable housing in Newmarket
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- We all know there is a housing affordability crisis in Newmarket. Redwood on Yonge. On the old Slessor site. The question is: what can we do about it? In 2016 a fifth of all residential ...
- Created on 16 April 2018
- 7. Affordable Housing and the Green Lane Secondary Plan
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- The lack of affordable housing in Newmarket and elsewhere in York Region is a big issue that is not going to disappear any time soon. Newmarket’s planners say the 35% affordable target set by the Region ...
- Created on 26 February 2018
- 8. Redwood on Yonge and Affordable Housing
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- ... The Town's Secondary Plan reflects regional policy by stipulating that a minimum of 35% of new housing units in the Urban Centre (which includes 17645 Yonge Street) shall be affordable to low and moderate ...
- Created on 13 November 2017
- 9. Housing, Prices and Availability
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- Tomorrow (29 May) York Region's Chief Planner, Valerie Shuttleworth, and Rick Farrell, General Manager Housing Services, will be giving a presentation to Newmarket's Committee of the Whole on housing initiatives ...
- Created on 28 May 2017
- 10. Housing Supply and Sewage Treatment in York Region
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- New housing developments will grind to a halt in Aurora in 2019 because of water and wastewater capacity constraints that won't be resolved until the Upper York Sewage Solutions (UYSS) project is completed ...
- Created on 24 May 2017
- 11. Newmarket's scorching housing market is unsustainabl
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- ... the street. Jay Miller cautiously adds - "to date of sale". Housing hysteria House prices are spinning wildly out of control. And it cannot go on. This madness is infecting the entire GTA. The prices ...
- Created on 15 April 2017
- 12. Affordable Housing - a little less conversation, a little more action
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- There is something surreal about watching a debate in York Regional Council about affordable housing. It is a very clubby atmosphere and disagreements, where these exist, are expressed gently. The ...
- Created on 13 November 2016
- 13. Unaffordable Housing
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- At York Region’s Committee of the Whole (11 June) The Region’s Chief Planner, Valerie Shuttleworth, takes us through the paper “Affordable Housing Measuring and Monitoring Guidelines”. But first, her ...
- Created on 12 June 2015
- 14. Affordable housing in Newmarket is simply unaffordable
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- Only 8% (or 21) out of 277 new housing units completed and sold in Newmarket last year were deemed “affordable” according to a report going to York Region’s Committee of the Whole this week (11 June 2015). ...
- Created on 08 June 2015
- 15. Is Affordable Housing Unaffordable?
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- A new “Guideline Document” on housing affordability in York Region will be published “before June” according to Valerie Shuttleworth, the Region's Director of Long Range Planning. She told Regional Councillors ...
- Created on 09 March 2014
- 16. Affordable Housing that is out of reach
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- Slessor Square says it is making proper provision for affordable housing in its proposed giant development on Yonge opposite Upper Canada Mall. They are simply following the provincial definition of affordability. ...
- Created on 09 May 2012
- 17. Affordable housing?
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- Does the Slessor Square development deliver affordable housing? Curiously, there was no mention of affordable housing in the original Slessor application that went before the Council in November last ...
- Created on 23 February 2012
- 18. Affordable housing must be part of Slessor Square
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- Marion Plaunt Planning Department Town of Newmarket Dear Ms. Plaunt, Here are the themes I mentioned on Tuesday night during the public meeting about the proposed Slessor Square development. I ...
- Created on 15 February 2012
- 19. Southlake struggling to find a new site for its acute hospital complex
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- ... grinds on. To this day, the disgraced former Housing Minister Steve Clark has still not offered an apology to the Legislative Assembly for his role in the Greenbelt scandal. The recommendation by the ...
- Created on 27 March 2024
- 20. Aurora Mayor Tom Mrakas wants to house homeless men in York Region’s underused HQ
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- ... that can be potentially repurposed for other regional priorities including supportive housing. Cack-handed We shall see in due course if Tom is the leader that gets things done or if this is just a ...
- Created on 05 March 2024
- 21. Frank Scarpitti and his dreams of a Mega City
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- ... Ford ridiculed the idea. In September the new Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister, Paul Calandra, asked the Provincial Parliament’s Heritage and Infrastructure Committee to take on the work of assessing ...
- Created on 10 February 2024
- 22. The Greenbelt Scandal: Michael Rice, John Dunlap, Steve Pellegrini and the new Southlake
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- In 2023 the developer Michael Rice was interviewed under oath by the Integrity Commissioner, David Wake, who was conducting an investigation into the conduct of the former municipal affairs and housing ...
- Created on 29 December 2023
- 23. It’s no secret: our Freedom of Information laws need an overhaul
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- ... Hospital and with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing and hit road blocks at every turn. Endless delays. Staggering costs. Hoping I just go away. I have been told no records exist when they ...
- Created on 17 December 2023
- 24. Ford to deliver on his Beer Store promise after eight years
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- ... and Housing Minister, Steve Clark, used to complain about the way in which the (then) Liberal Government was constantly trying to curtail debate. On 28 May 2015 he fumed: “Time after time, we’ve had ...
- Created on 15 December 2023
- 25. Calandra abandons plans to dissolve Peel Region
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- Another screeching U-turn from the Ford Government as Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Paul Calandra abandons plans to dissolve Peel Region. In a news release earlier today Calandra talks about ...
- Created on 13 December 2023
- 26. We have a Government that stifles debate, ignores rules, trashes conventions and breaks the law. What is to be done?
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- ... The Acting Auditor General Nick Stavropoulos says the Government made: “significant changes to energy, land-use planning and housing policies without meaningful consultation, undermining Ontarians’ ...
- Created on 06 December 2023
- 27. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Understanding what really happened and why
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- ... that on 27 or 28 September 2022 - after Rice met the then Housing Minister’s Chief of Staff, Ryan Amato, at his Markham head office - he (Rice) concluded that Government policy on the Greenbelt was going ...
- Created on 30 November 2023
- 28. Ford rules out public hearings on Bill which returns lands to the Greenbelt
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- ... him grounded and in touch with ordinary folks. This is "buck-a-beer" fiction. Ford’s consigliere, Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister, Government House Leader and Minister of Legislative Affairs, Paul ...
- Created on 21 November 2023
- 29. Paul Calandra: “We made a public policy decision that was not supported by the people of the Province of Ontario."
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- PLBNpH1eUSmIozIdoWyvmn7jFEuPUP5Ept Paul Calandra, the new Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, endlessly repeats the line: "We made a public policy decision that was not supported by the people ...
- Created on 13 November 2023
- 30. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Why don't they just ask him
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- ... Chief of Staff, Ryan Amato, giving reasons why his Bathurst lands should be removed from the Greenbelt’s protected countryside. Rice proposed new housing but there was no mention of a second Southlake. ...
- Created on 07 November 2023
- 31. The Sophistry of Doug Ford
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- ... November favoured some developers and made their land more valuable because housing could be built on it. Ford continues to maintain that he had no knowledge of what was going on. “I don’t even ...
- Created on 04 November 2023
- 32. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: servicing the Bathurst lands
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- ... water and wastewater services in the 1 to 3 year time horizon Natural Core and Natural Linkage areas excluded from development consideration Suitable for a full range of attainable housing types for ...
- Created on 31 October 2023
- 33. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Senior Officials in the dark about second Southlake in King
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- ... in the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing were completely unaware that parts of the Bathurst lands in King, owned by the developer Michael Rice, were to be gifted to Southlake for a new acute hospital. ...
- Created on 31 October 2023
- 34. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Developer Michael Rice makes no mention of a second Southlake when asking for Bathurst lands to be removed from the Greenbelt
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- ... Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark, a bundle of documents calling for the removal of the Bathurst lands in King from the protected countryside in the Greenbelt. We now have these documents. ...
- Created on 30 October 2023
- 35. The Greenbelt Scandal: Chief Executive explains why Southlake has no records of the meeting when developer Michael Rice gifted land for a new hospital
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- ... Michael Rice, the developer, believed the Greenbelt’s protected countryside was going to be opened-up for development to some extent because of the shortage of land for new housing. He believed it was ...
- Created on 29 October 2023
- 36. The Greenbelt Scandal in King: Decision on naming mystery landowner who "brought forward idea of donating lands" for a new Southlake will be made by King Township on 6 November 202
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- ... you in connection with his inquiry into the former Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister, Steve Clark. In paragraph 288 of his report, Mr Wake writes: “… the Mayor explained that other lands in the ...
- Created on 28 October 2023
- 37. Ford and Calandra rule out debate on Integrity Commissioner’s report censuring Steve Clark for his role in the Greenbelt scandal
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- ... Affairs and Housing and to approve the recommendation to reprimand that former minister. The motion is still sitting there on the order paper. To the Premier: When will this motion be debated? The ...
- Created on 26 October 2023
- 38. The Greenbelt Scandal: When is the disgraced ex-Minister, Steve Clark, going to be reprimanded?
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- The Integrity Commissioner’s report on former Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister, Steve Clark, recommends he is reprimanded by the Legislative Assembly for his role in the Greenbelt scandal. As ...
- Created on 24 October 2023
- 39. CORRECTION: Review of Regional Governance
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- ... Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Paul Calandra, announced last month that facilitators would not be appointed to recommend and manage changes to the municipal map - as was the Government's original ...
- Created on 23 October 2023
- 40. MPP Dawn Gallagher-Murphy says her 2nd annual "free" BBQ is an “absolutely” appropriate use of taxpayers’ money
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- ... reprimand the former Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister, Steve Clark, as recommended by the Integrity Commissioner David Wake. She could have told us if she was going to press for a debate in the Legislature. ...
- Created on 22 October 2023
- 41. Greenbelt U-Turn Bill tabled at Queen’s Park
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- The Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, the devious Paul Calandra, has now tabled the Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 which will return lands to the Greenbelt that were removed from it ...
- Created on 16 October 2023
- 42. The Greenbelt Scandal: Why the RCMP should interview Steve Pellegrini under caution
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- ... and even, quite frankly, some of the regulations about affordable housing. That needs to be determined because it has an impact on development charges. So until we know the answers to everything I think ...
- Created on 12 October 2023
- 43. Discuss: the Ford Government and low ethical standards
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- ... brazen behaviour. Calandra replaced the disgraced Steve Clark as Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister who looked the other way when his Chief of Staff, Ryan Amato, was dismantling the protected Greenbelt. ...
- Created on 04 October 2023
- 44. From the Globe & Mail: Proposal to build hospital on protected Greenbelt land cancelled
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- ... second site. The property in King Township, north of Toronto, became a lightning rod for criticism of Premier Doug Ford’s bid to allow housing development in parts of the Greenbelt, an environmentally ...
- Created on 03 October 2023
- 45. Did Ryan Amato know that Michael Rice had gifted land for a new Southlake on the Greenbelt at Bathurst? And, if so, what did he do about it?
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- ... references to new housing and to the proposed new hospital. The fact that Dunlap’s land was not removed from the Greenbelt in December 2022 at the same time as the Rice lands suggests that Amato (a) Did ...
- Created on 02 October 2023
- 46. Selling the Greenbelt: My Deputation to King Township to ask Mayor Steve Pellegrini what he knows
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- ... development on Greenbelt lands at some point in the future because the housing crisis was becoming so acute with an increasing population and limited land supply. He told me he was convinced that the Greenbelt ...
- Created on 29 September 2023
- 47. Hung out to dry: The disgraced Steve Clark will be reprimanded in the Legislature
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- ... and Housing - the job formerly held by the disgraced Steve Clark. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Update on 26 September 2023. From the Toronto Star: Government policy made on a massage table ...
- Created on 25 September 2023
- 48. The Greenbelt Scandal: The Case for a Public Inquiry
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- ... for thinking the government would permit development on Greenbelt lands at some point in the future because the housing crisis was becoming so acute with an increasing population and limited land supply. ...
- Created on 24 September 2023
- 49. Doug Ford admits it was a mistake to open the Greenbelt for development and, astonishingly, reverses course
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- ... step to earn back your trust, I’ll be reversing the changes we made and won’t make any changes to the Greenbelt in the future.” Mr. Ford said he still believes that opening the Greenbelt to housing development ...
- Created on 21 September 2023
- 50. What is to be done with Steve Clark?
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- The report from the Integrity Commissioner on the conduct of the former Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister, Steve Clark, will likely be tabled at the Ontario Legislature on Monday 25 September 2023 ...
- Created on 20 September 2023