Globe editorial: The (possibly fatal) flaw in Doug Ford’s Greenbelt plan

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Globe editorial: The (possibly fatal) flaw in Doug Ford’s Greenbelt plan
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What happens if his government’s favoured developers can’t build 50,000 affordable homes in the Greenbelt in 10 years, as he promised?

, but the implication of Mr. Ford’s “I have two options” mantra remains that his government can’t build homes without dispatching with fairness, impartiality, fact-based evidence, or respect for conflict-of-interest laws.

Start with infrastructure costs. The Auditor-General in her report found that “most of the land removed from the Greenbelt may not be ready for housing development in time to meet government goals.” But the Auditor-General did. She found that in the case of the single biggest selected site – located in the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve and accounting for 58 per cent of the acreage liberated from the Greenbelt – it could take up to 25 years to complete the needed infrastructure upgrades, at a cost of up to $2-billion.

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