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At a time when the residential construction industry is finding it difficult to build homes that people can afford, it makes little sense for some municipalities to impose additional green building standards that only raise the cost of new housing further and add to the affordability problem.
The rules impose six categories of standards on development projects: air quality, building energy, emissions and resilience, water quality and efficiency, ecology and biodiversity, and waste and the circular economy. The standards are divided into three tiers. Tier 1 is mandatory for all development applications, while Tiers 2 and 3 are voluntary and operate on development charge rebate incentives.
The city’s powers are subject to limitations set out in superior provincial statutes. The City of Toronto Act notes the manner of construction and construction standards are not subject to site plan control. In 1975, the OBC was established to unify the design and construction of buildings provincewide. The provincial regulation supersedes municipal bylaws.
Municipalities are not technical standards development bodies. Nor are they equipped to deal with such regulations. This is why building codes are developed at the federal and provincial level.Nearly 30 municipalities have instituted such standards in recent years. Municipalities including Ajax, Aurora, Brampton, Caledon, East Gwillimbury, Halton Hills, King, Markham, Mississauga, Pickering, Richmond Hill, Vaughan, and Whitby have mandatory standards, with many others not far behind.
We are in the middle of a housing crisis. The situation looks bleak and starts are still declining. Outlooks suggest it is not going to get better anytime soon. We are on track for 81,300 starts this year, short of the 150,000 starts a year that are needed to reach 1.5 million homes by 2032.
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