Ontario Greenbelt Alliance

We need your help: Please tell your local Council to say no to MZOs, oppose sprawl-style development and support more protection of natural areas, agricultural lands and water sources by bringing these lands into the protection offered by the Greenbelt. Across the Greater Golden Horseshoe developers and land speculators are lobbying local governments to put sprawl-style development on precious natural areas, farmland, and water sources. They’re using the COVID-19 crisis as a ...smoke screen saying these developments are necessary to get us through the crisis. And they’re convincing local and provincial governments to use an emergency-only tool, Ministerial Zoning Orders (MZOs) to ignore proper planning and environmental protection. And most recently, they’ve convinced the Province to take away the ability of Conservation Authorities to stop bad development. We need to stop them. Local governments must focus on protecting the natural spaces, farmland and precious water sources we deeply depend on. They must stop sprawl and stop requesting the Province to use MZOs. Instead they must protect farmland, natural areas and water sources by adding them to the Greenbelt. Take one minute now to contact your local Council and let them know you want them to stop MZOs, stop Sprawl and grow the Greenbelt! Take Action Now! Click on the link below to contact your council today! www.greenbeltalliance.ca

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A member of Doug Ford’s Greenbelt Council, mandated to offer government officials guidance on the protected environmental lands, has resigned over the province’...s decision to issue a ministerial zoning order for a development that will destroy a provincially significant wetland in Pickering. http://torstar.co/t2oj50CbStC See more

ACTION ALERT - This provincially significant wetland should be safe from development but apparently this provincial government thinks otherwise. If we let the government get away with this, what else will be next? Make your voice heard!

'MZOs' or 'Ministerial Zoning Orders' are the monsters we all fear this Halloween. Read more below about the MZO that threatens to gobble up a provincially significant wetland!

Farming for the future!