One thing the Ford government is doing right

Its plan to build density around major transit hubs makes all kinds of sense

Yonge and Eglinton, a midtown Toronto district, has undergone startling changes over the past few decades. When I went to high school there, it was a quiet low-rise residential neighbourhood sprinkled with a few postwar apartment towers. The only tall building at the intersection itself was Canada Square, a 17-storey office complex built in 1962.

Determined to tackle Ontario’s housing affordability crisis, the provincial government has vowed to build 1½ million new homes in 10 years. The part of its plan that has drawn the most attention is its push to loosen rules on development in the suburban and exurban parts of Greater Toronto. The government aims to encourage building at the big hubs of this growing transit network. It’s called transit-oriented development. Urban planners love it and the government has embraced it with both arms. That’s a very good thing indeed.

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