PLAN471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jetboat, Spot Zoning, Dentures
25 Sep 2017
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Greenbelt plan is one of the senior acts in ontario (pg 251), tells you where not to grow. Facilitate growth and movement to provide for housing and development in white- land areas, intensification, this was places to grow act. Unlike an op, greenbelt and p2g is within jurisdiction of executive branch of province. All decisions made by planning authority must conform by growth plan (section. Decisions made by omb must conform to growth plan (section 14) If there"s conflicts, then growth plan prevails, unless if theres environmental conflicts then greenbelt plan prevails. Existing approval was 2 18-storey apartment buildings, tower in the park situation, no one supported this design anymore. Proposing 6 apartment towers from 20-32 storeys, much more intense proposal, welcomed by the neighbourhood, hotly contested hearing over many weeks dealing with whether it was an appropriate intensification. But after city of brampton appealed it, all of a sudden the region had a problem with it.
