Please see the attached full…

Please see the attached full submission from the Ontario Home Builders' Association.

Please accept our submission to the government’s request for feedback on the ‘New Regulation to focus municipal environmental assessment requirements’ (ERO 019-7891 / 23-MECP025). Our comments follow on and complement our previous submissions on ERO 019-4219 (Moving to a Project List Approach Under the Environmental Assessment Act) and ERO 019-6693 (Evaluating municipal class environmental assessment requirements for infrastructure projects).

To summarize, OHBA supports the Ministry’s efforts to focus environmental assessment (EA) regulations on municipal infrastructure for higher-risk projects. To have a process that is both effective and efficient, OHBA makes a number of recommendations in the attached submission that we hope the government will take into account and consideration in their work on streamlining EA regulations for municipal infrastructure for higher-rise projects and more generally, in how to encourage efficient infrastructure projects that support and enable housing.