Councillors approved a motion Wednesday to request an RCMP Greenbelt inquiry be expanded to include the unilateral expansion of Hamilton's urban boundary.
WATCH: Ontario Housing Minister Paul Calandra said Monday, after introducing legislation to return parcels of land to the protected Greenbelt, that the RCMP had not contacted any members of the government regarding its Greenbelt investigation. – Oct 16, 2023Hamilton, Ont. will be seeking an RCMP probe into the Ford government’s land-use policies contained in its expansion of some municipal boundaries.
“I’ve made it a priority to review past decisions to ensure that they support our goal of building at least 1.5 million homes and to ensure that the decisions that we made were done in a manner that maintains and reinforces public trust,” new housing minister Paul Calandra said Monday. Wilson, who equates the Hamilton land mass to the size of Orilla, accuses the Ministry of making 77 modifications to Hamilton’s official housing plan following “private meetings” with land developers, lawyers and their agents.
Ward 8 Coun. John-Paul Danko characterized the province’s decision as a “betrayal,” and said the council’s decision was “one of the most important” since it was based on a survey with 18,000 replies, suggesting 90 per cent of Hamiltonians favoured holding the boundary.“Not only did they decide they are going to build houses on every single available acre of farmland in the entire city, they also added parts of the Greenbelt, which they said they would not do,” Danko said in November.
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