A place to discuss all the news and events taking place in the province of Ontario, Canada.
Rules
Takes public land
Gives it to large land developers
Large land developers try to flip and rezone land for profit rather than do as desired by government
It's almost as if large corporations and their endless pursuit for profit can't be trusted.
If only he could have seen this coming...
You think he didn't know what they really had in mind? He's just lying to cover his ass now that he's been caught.
Oh, he entirely knew. The RCs got involved so it's time to start pointing fingers
Its all going to plan! This auditor's report is just a setback. Do a little dance of contrition, MAYBE make a head or two roll and then it's back to full steam ahead, boys!
None of this should come as a surprise. I'd be surprised if most Ontarians cared enough to vote the guy out.
Ajax, developer, sites...
Took me a few seconds to realize this isn't about web development.
What site isn’t an ajax site these days?!
Love the doublespeak of building 50,000 homes to grow the size of the Greenbelt
JFC, this is another sale story, not the one that got sold in west GTA.
Can you please share that story? I missed other sales stories...
Sorry it was north GTA - Markham.
Property records obtained by the Star show that Rehmatullah’s company Flato Upper Markham Village Inc. recently sold a large chunk for $62 million — four times what he originally paid in 2017 for the entire 102-acre property.
I want something to come from the RCMP investigation so badly..
50k new homes, in the middle of nowhere.
Exactly how much would it cost to build those new homes, including the infrastructure? How much would it cost to maintain? How much more would it cost compared to changing zoning laws and making high density housing near the city cores?
Who's going to be paying for all that? Ah yes, from our taxes.
In Ontario, "growth pays for growth", which is a pithy way of saying that developers are required to pay for the expense of deploying new infrastructure required for their development. There are debates about whether or not this is the best way to do things.
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.
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.