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Heard a lot of complaints about it. From what I understand, PEO did this without consulting membership. Most that I've spoken to are wondering how this ensures those future PEs understand local regulations.

June 6/23

Again, assumptions. Not saying you are wrong, but nowhere (that I see) has the government said it will be 100% funded by this method. Also, I don't believe the average condo price in Vaughan is quite that high. Even in VMC on the subway it is lower than that.

OK, but have they actually said that? That's a lot of dough, $12.5K per unit on average.

This entirely depends on how much of Royal Orchard station's budget is actually funded by the developments, do we know? Everything that I have read has said that Provincial revenue from the TOCs will be used to fund it, but I have not seen something that confirms how much they expect it to be...

So really what we are saying is that the government is prepared to spend tax dollars to help certain developers sell units and make profits, but is not prepared to spend tax dollars in another area that helps existing citizens and isn't helping some other developers make mad dollarbucks?

Not quite. Still a lot of exterior work happening on the ground, hoist is still up, landscaping not started either.

Which is likely exactly the truth. On a project, there is almost never one party that is responsible for all ills. This is especially true on long-term projects.

Assuming Ellisdon is telling the complete truth, of course. We all know general contractors never lie or stretch the truth, after all.

Yes, this is a good point. The statement from the Province is effectively meaningless IMO, and I'm guessing there are no specific targets included in the MZO. With that title, my mind leads to "Developer's Lunch Buddy"

It is pretty funny that an 'expectation that a minimum of 10 per cent of these homes be offered as affordable and attainable homes" is viewed as effectively dealing with a housing crisis. In general, 10% of houses being offered as 'affordable' means that the other 90% of homes will be picking up...

Previously the podium for sure had just shy of 10,000 sq-m of office space. I believe only the ground floor had retail. This mix may have changed at some point, but the podium floor plates certainly are not residential.

There is nothing in the announcement that literally promises a GO Station, it specifically says a "prospective GO station", so it does not promise anything at all yet.

This government is so full of shit. "A prospective new GO station", what does that even mean? We might build it if we feel like it? Where will this fantasy station be built? Is this "new wastewater treatment plant" the same one Mississauga has already contracted the design for, and was paying...

The problem is not necessarily that there are thousands of them, the problem is that thousands of them are spread over hundreds of train car, which cannot be out of service at once, or probably even in a convenient order. So it will take a lot of shifts to remove them all. If Metrolinx did cite...

Is it? Because we still build guardrails to protect people from gravity. I know it is currently in vogue that if we simply give developers an open playbook, we will magically have more houses that will be affordable - but there is no guarantee of that. Developers are sharks that want to build...

Sometimes the free market should be restrained, because it is a bastard.

This could be removed in less than 30 seconds. They are just locked together with screws through the chairs. I would do it right now if I had a drill. It is only a lot of work in the sense that there are thousands of these.

It will take many, many years to solve.

I am not so sure this is true, but one thing people (especially politicians) don't talk about with all this building more housing talk is that more apprentices is not necessarily the easy answer. I can't have a crew just take on unlimited apprentices. You need adequate people to train and...