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Doug Ford says Ajax sites could be returned to Greenbelt after learning developer aims to sell land (www.thestar.com)

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Ford expressed concern Tuesday that a company called Buena Vista Development is trying to sell 765 and 775 Kingston Road East in Ajax.

Those are two of the “sites that were selected as part of the land swap to build at least 50,000 new homes and grow the size of the Greenbelt,” the premier said in a statement.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be fine, but there's no system in place for the companies developing that land to actually pay for the building and maintenance of roads and sewers.

And you know there isn't, as suburb houses don't cost $2M each or anything. If that cost isn't on the price tag for buying the house, then there's only one other place the cost could have come from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AFAIK they do "actually pay" for the construction of sewers, roads, electricity, water mains, and any other required infrastructure. They don't pay for the maintenance, the municipality does. This is different than Quebec, where the municipality pays for deployment and maintenance. Again, there are pros and cons and ongoing debates about which way is better. One of the Canadian urban planning channels covered this a year or two ago.