{"id":126125,"date":"2022-11-10T11:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T16:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=126125"},"modified":"2022-11-10T20:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T01:11:01","slug":"council-objects-to-provincial-strong-mayor-accelerated-development-legislation-in-final-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/council-objects-to-provincial-strong-mayor-accelerated-development-legislation-in-final-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Council objects to provincial strong mayor, accelerated development legislation in final meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Edward County Council unanimously voted to oppose two controversial provincial bills concerning strong mayor powers and accelerated housing development on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomfield\/Hallowell Coun. Brad Nieman brought forward <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/15A5986361DF4594A2C34AADA5850C07-Strong%20Mayor%20(Bill%203)%20Resolution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the resolution<\/a> calling for strong opposition to the Ford government\u2019s <em>Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act<\/em> because of concerns over its application to additional municipalities; its erosion of municipal autonomy; and the instability it will cause council and municipal administration by giving mayors strong powers to legislate, set budgets, and control staff, unless overridden by two-thirds of their council.<\/p>\n<p>South Marysburgh Coun. John Hirsch also brought forward <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/7E971E8AED5946A7BBD2270FB14BC5BB-Bill%2023%20Resolution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a similar resolution<\/a> objecting to certain elements in the recent <em>More Homes Built Faster Act <\/em>(which is still in second reading as of this story\u2019s publication date). These include the ineffective proposed five per cent affordable housing subdivision (inclusionary) zoning limit; changes to the <em>Heritage Act<\/em> which force expedited designation decisions of heritage register properties; the curtailing of conservation authorities and their parent legislation (which could lead to wetlands development through offsetting); and the reduced development charges\/levies.<\/p>\n<p>Both resolutions will be sent to the provincial government, the 443 other Ontario municipalities and municipal advocacy organizations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Edward County Council unanimously voted to oppose two controversial provincial bills concerning strong mayor powers and accelerated housing development on Tuesday. Bloomfield\/Hallowell Coun. Brad Nieman brought forward the resolution calling for strong opposition to the Ford government\u2019s Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act because of concerns over its application to additional municipalities; its erosion of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":126129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[579,18223,20549,20551,20550,480,14241,16733,18658,20548,14085,20552],"radio":[13055],"origine":[267,269,13050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126456,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126125\/revisions\/126456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126125"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=126125"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=126125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}