Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

[darwink]

but agree with councilors it should tie to units built and overall affordability rather than specific policies

this is the exact opposite of the program design. Won't relitigate this here, but the number of units built in a given year doesn't demonstrate success or failure of regulatory reform.

 

[outoftheice]

It looks pretty clear to me that some form of rezoning had to be part of the bargain in order to access these funds. Perhaps the funding wasn't dependent on rezoning the entire city to RCG but 4 units as-of-right is definitely way more than the R1 zoning Calgary used to have.

If Council is smart, they'd repeal the RCG and replace with a new city wide rezoning that is better than R1 all at the same time. It would lock in the federal funding and also provide certainty to developers amd residents. The current strategy of repeal but promising something new will come within this term is just a ridiculous amount of uncertainty and is no way to run a city.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1993453858899816589

 

[DougB]

Seems like the easy thing to do is wait for that third and final payment then repeal rezoning. I personally support rezoning, but agree with councilors it should tie to units built and overall affordability rather than specific policies. A city could simply pass rezoning and put up some other road block and the Feds are just playing whack-a-mole

Did Toronto with its Liberal MPs lose funding?

Ottawa doubles down on threat to reduce Toronto’s housing funding following sixplex vote

Toronto City Council’s recent decision to permit low-rise sixplexes in nine wards, instead of across the city as initially proposed, could cost it nearly $30 million in federal housing funding.

www.ctvnews.ca