EagleEye
Senior Member
It will be interesting to see if there is any protest at FordFest in Windsor.
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Were any of the favoured developers at Ford's daughter's wedding?
Not sure these are of comparable scale. Whitby GO is about 36 acres with its parking. Similar for Oakville GO. Lets say the four GO stations in question are up to 200 acres. Ford removed 7400 acres from the Greenbelt.
Not sure these are of comparable scale. Whitby GO is about 36 acres with its parking. Similar for Oakville GO. Lets say the four GO stations in question are up to 200 acres. Ford removed 7400 acres from the Greenbelt.
But, isn't intensification of the PMTSAs already part of the plan?
500 units per acre is 1,250 units/hectare and about 2500 residents per hectare, 250,000/km2. That's extreme density. We can't keep dropping MCCs in the suburbs without the appropriate transit to support the density. 30 minute GO service won't cut it.
I don't think the land needs to or ought to be removed from the greenbelt.
I think any significant future greenfield development should be contingent on high quality transit being installed first and the whole development being built to be supportive of moderately high density (at least 8k to 10k/km2). Any transitional lower density development should be designed to be readily replaced with higher density in future.
Messing with the Greenbelt was politically stupid. Then again, the next election is in 2026. He might do a turnaround again. /sighThis will come back to haunt them next election. It will be just like E-Health and the Gas Plants.
If Ford does not reverse course on this is may hurt him down the road. The Opposition can paint him as corrupt and have the proof to back it up.
Forget about the integrity commissioner. This is the job of the OPP or RCMP. Even at the lowest level, this Amato guy needs to be arrested for abetting corruption.
People in Ontario call for Doug Ford to resign after Greenbelt development scandal
Doug Ford is in potentially more hot water than ever today after a damning revelation that, as many suspected, big developers had an enormous influen…www.blogto.com
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/housing-minister-chief-staff-integrity-commissioner-1.6932582
“In one instance, according to a timeline of key events in the report, two prominent housing developers approached Amato in September 2022 at a building industry event and provided him with "packages" containing information on two sites — an area in the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve (DRAP) in Pickering and a site in the Township of King that was purchased that very month for $80 million.”
My friend who is a Ford humper tried to tell me that Ford had nothing to do with it. So I casually mentioned, that on that note Ford should have no problem cancelling the whole deal and pay the penalties if any, just like he did with the green hydro deals the former government had in place. I was told it was totally different. And no I absolutely do not buy the story that Amato sat down and looked at a map and thought: "Let's make a deal with a builder" "no one will know about it" The whole affair stinks like manure and I for one would not trust the OPP. Final question: Who signed off on these deals?Good summary here:
We are expected to believe that Doug Ford and the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Steve Clark, knew nothing. The mastermind was Ryan Amato, Clark’s Chief of Staff.
Knaves or Fools? If they knew nothing, they are either knaves or fools. I’d say both.
Selling the Greenbelt: Ryan Amato was the mastermind. Ford and Clark were kept in the dark - Gordon Prentice at Large - Politics in Newmarket
Steve Clark's Chief of Staff called the shots on the Greenbelt. That's what we are asked to believe.www.shrinkslessorsquare.ca