But a policy gap in Ontario's growth plan is putting much of that population in the wrong places, says new research from the non-profit Neptis Foundation. The linguistic loophole is really a contradiction between the 2006 growth plan and a subsequent supporting policy document published two years later. But drafts of an amended growth plan show ambiguous language being entrenched in the update that is supposed to be released in the first part of this year. Ontario's growth plan prescribes greater population densities in places with services such as transit throughout the Toronto region and beyond in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. "Development going in there on unbuilt land being counted as intensification is just a mockery of the (growth) plan," said Burchfield.

Source: thestar March 09, 2017 09:56 UTC