That too

“you sadly increase the market cost of the ‘land price residual.’ That puts money that would have gone to public benefit into the pocket of the land speculator.”

1 pm community open air discussion tomorrow - city hall park - about the Broadway Plan. I have comments to make. Hope to see you there. Bring an umbrella!

This is an illusion, one that leads us away from the thoughtful urban planning traditions that have shaped our city for the better.

Revisit this plan and continue building the best modern city in North America.
Revisit this plan.

This is the opposite of planning and exhibits a maddeningly ignorant view of the way this urban land market works, and how we might capitalize on the strength of this vibrant urban land market to meet our social ends.

Revisit this plan. No one here is opposed to adding new residential density in the numbers anticipated. What is objected to is the narrow mindedness of this brutal non planning approach.

It wont, it will just make land speculators richer.

And yet this city and province are doing the opposite: they are removing zoning controls, removing land lift taxes, removing betterment fees, adhering blindly to the false premise that this will make housing more affordable.

Other cities are using these tools to secure 50% or more permanently affordable housing as a required feature of their plans.

- benefits such as parks, municipal infrastructure, and the social benefit we most need, affordable housing.

Tragically, the city is now intent on eliminating all planning controls - controls which if used intelligently as they have been used in the past, could shift a major portion of the increased real estate values spawned by the plan to be directed into social benefits