MZO approvals have skyrocketed under the Ford Government: report
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, left, confers with Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Paul Calandra, at Queen’s Park, in Toronto, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023
By Charlie Pinkerton, Orillia Matters, December 8, 2023
From March 2019 to March 2021, province issued 44 minister’s zoning orders; government had previously issued about one per year on average
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
After two years, the Ford government has neglected the vast majority of Ontario’s auditor general’s recommendations on how it could improve land-use planning.
The government has made “little or no progress” toward implementing 92 per cent of the auditor’s recommendations from its 2021 look at land-use planning in the Greater Golden Horseshoe and the overall suggestions the oversight officer made in that report remain the furthest from fruition of any of the audits it published that year.
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing promised to either implement, consider implementing, or take into account most of the dozen recommendations the auditor general made in its 2021 land-use planning audit, but “put on hold” those actions as the government reviews a pair of the province’s key development-guiding plans, according to a followup report released on Wednesday.
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