All topics Housing Getting Around Climate Food Growth & Planning Budget & Taxes

Janet Cox

City/Township Council · Woolwich Ward 3

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All topics Housing Getting Around Climate Food Growth & Planning Budget & Taxes
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Growth & Planning

How should councils weigh the long-term cost of maintaining existing infrastructure when making decisions about outward growth and expansion?ranked from highest to lowest importance
  1. Prioritize infill and intensification where infrastructure
  2. Require detailed cost and risk analysis before approving
  3. Use development phasing tied to infrastructure capacity
  4. Limit outward growth unless full lifecycle infrastructure
  5. Proceed with outward growth to address housing supply
How should councils balance provincial and regional mandates for increased housing density with neighbourhood opposition and local infrastructure constraints?select up to 4 per part
A. Planning & zoning tools
  • Expand as-of-right zoning to reduce case-by-case political decisions on housing forms
  • Allow small-scale housing forms city-wide as-of-right (e.g. up to four units per lot)
  • Eliminate parking minimum requirements
B. Managing neighbourhood opposition
  • Use public engagement to inform design, not to veto density
  • Phase or adjust density in response to neighbourhood concerns about design or servicing capacity
C. Infrastructure & servicing
  • Approve density where infrastructure capacity already exists
  • Pair density approvals with targeted infrastructure upgrades
  • Accept short-term constraints in order to meet housing demand

Describe one concrete zoning, planning, or development decision you would support (or oppose) that reflects how you would balance these priorities.candidate's own words

I support as-of-right permissions for missing middle housing in areas intended for housing, but never at the expensive of local forest or meadow infrastructure.

Please describe one concrete example of a growth or infrastructure decision you would support or oppose using this approach.candidate's own words

Support the construction of new developments that prioritize higher density housing models that support natural area enhancement and transit connection.

Would you like to provide any additional context for your views on growth?candidate's own words

I would be in favour of alternate models of community growth that favour eco-village and neighbourhood models that are integrated into the natural environment, provide opportunity for local habitat enhancement and local food production and have low carbon, healthy transportation modes integrated.

Other priority not listed abovecandidate's own words

Support innovative service demonstration models.

What can the municipality/region do, if anything, about land which sits vacant for years because it is being used as an investment (land banking)?candidate's own words

Vacant land can be taxed with provision given for NOT taxing areas that are actually providing important ecological services. Vacant housing should be taxed as a dis-incentive.