The meeting followed an announcement from Premier Doug Ford that he was walking back cuts to city services. “We cannot go quietly without saying something,” Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 13 Toronto Centre),” told the crowd. She noted the years-long campaign waged to stop the OMB in the first place. Significantly, Bill 108 returns the rules of the OMB, allowing provincially-appointed adjudicators to essentially decide what development is allowed where while, if they choose, overruling decisions of local councils. The proposed change comes just one year after the previous Liberal government did away with the OMB and replaced it with the new Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT), which was to give more deference to local decision-making.

Source: thestar May 28, 2019 01:30 UTC