Quality In Our Backyards
in Erin Mills South
Save our Shops and Services at 4099 Erin Mills Parkway
Save Our Shops & Sevices: Our Bank, Our Grocery Store, Our Ice Cream Shoppe, Our Hair Salon, Our Vet, Our Pharmacy, Our Pizza Shop, Our Bakery, Our Pasta Shop, Our Dentist, Our Medical Centre, .... Erin Mills was carefully planned 50 years ago to have walkable amenities: shops and services for each of the neighbourhoods (outlined in yellow in image from "Erin Mills New Town")
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Subject: Your Flyer February 2, 2023 and application by QUEENSCORP (ERIN MILLS) INC re 4099 Erin Mills Parkway
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To:
Sheref Sabawy, MPP
Mississauga-Erin Mills
4181 Sladeview Cres, Unit 40
Mississauga ON L5L 5R2
My name is [enter Your Name].
My address is:
9999 Your Street or Crescent,
Mississauga, ON
L5L 9X9
[Enter your full street address. The MPP needs to know that you reside near the proposed Development AND in his riding].
I respectfully disagree with the statements made in your flyer delivered to homes in my neighbourhood on February 2, 2023.
1. Which crisis?
You state that we are in a housing crisis. Which “crisis” are you describing? Are you suggesting that Developers and the real estate industry are in a state of crisis because they are not generating enough profit for their shareholders?
2. Who are the victims?
Developers are not victims in the housing affordability crisis. Young families and Seniors who need homes in which to live are the victims in the housing affordability crisis. The housing affordability crisis has been created by inflation in housing prices during the construction, buying, and selling of houses as a commodity. Bill 23 serves Developers by cutting costs for Developers. It increases profit for Developers. There is no requirement in Bill 23 that Developers cut costs for new homeowners who wish to live in the homes they purchase. Bill 23 does not help young families and Seniors to find affordable homes where they can live. Isn't the real social issue, the lack of affordable homes for young families and Seniors to live?
3. What Should be Built and Where?
You say there aren’t enough homes. It is apparent from Region of Peel water meter data, that many homes where families and Seniors could live are not available to them, because the homes are not currently being used as places for people to live, but rather as a trading commodity. Too many homes are bought and sold for profit. Developers can make a higher profit by building and selling “homes” that are are marketable as a trading commodity. Such homes are ideally sized not, as a family would require, but as small, high-density units in less dense urban areas, that already have good infrastructure. Growth without a social purpose, i.e. building homes that sell well as a trading commodity is not what we need. Young families and Senior won’t benefit. Developers will benefit. Brokers will begin to profit, by advertising and selling condo pre-registration opportunities, for homes to be bought and sold, primarily as a trading commodity (for example see "Platinum Insider Access" at https://vipcondostoronto.net/property/4099-erin-mills-parkway-condos/).
4. Who should suffer the costs of the growth Bill 23 demands?
Are Mississauga taxpayers and Mississauga businesses the cause of the lack of affordable housing? Should taxpayers who have been resident, in your riding for 40 years, since Erin Mills was first built, bear the Region, School Board, and City infrastructure costs of the growth that Bill 23 demands? Should thriving Mississauga shops and services, essential to existing local neighbourhoods, be eliminated to make space for the high-density housing that Bill 23 demands? Our City, School Board, and Region taxes will increase if the City, School Boards, and Region need to build or modify roads, bridges, classrooms, water mains, sewers, parks and other infrastructure to meet the Billl 23 demands for growth. Should existing taxpayers in the local community pay significantly more taxes to provide the infrastructure that should be the responsibility of the Developer?
If growth provides no benefit of any kind to your constituents, why are you supporting that growth? If growth destroys thriving businesses in your constituency, why are you supporting that growth?
5. Does the 4099 Erin Mills Parkway Development Application Illustrate Why Bill 23 is Disingenuous?
The Application eliminates thriving businesses that provide walkable shops and services to the neighbourhood.
The Developer has maximized the number of small housing units.
The Developer does not appear to have produced a plan or given an undertaking to make the new housing family-sized, affordable, or supportive. There is no guarantee under Bill 23 that the Developer will turn increased profits into lower-priced or supportive homes for families or Seniors.
The Applicant uses up the existing infrastructure with no payment by the Developer to assist the City, School Boards, and Region in building the needed additional infrastructure.
The Application ignores the heights, density, and planning of the existing well-planned neighbourhoods of Erin Mills South, where your constituents live.
Who will pay for the additional classrooms, the additional electrical infrastructure, and the traffic chaos? We, the existing residents, will pay through increased taxes.
6. You and the Developer Can Do Better.
Many years ago another Developer, Don Mills Developments Limted, put together a plan for “one of the most imaginative planned communities on the continent.” They built that community. Before and after they started building, They planned and built for diverse housing:
Diversity of Environment
Diversity of Dwellings
Diversity of Tenure
Diversity of Housing Costs
They planned and built Erin Mills with high-density housing in specific places, medium-density housing in specific places, and low-density housing in specific places.
They planned neighbourhoods with walkable "neighbourhood shopping centres" and circular "finder streets" like Folkway Drive.
Why can't you and QUEENSCORP work within the existing planned and built community?
Why can't you save our "Main Street” of thriving businesses and services AND add some limited medium-density housing, consistent with the original plan for Erin Mills, for medium-density dwellings surrounding neighbourhood shopping centres?
7. What you can do.
I request that you intervene on my behalf with the Premier and the Minister to mitigate the disastrous effects of Bill 23 as it applies to this Application by QUEENSCORP.
I acknowledge that we have a need for more affordable housing in Mississauga. Housing is a human right in Canada. In-filling of available spaces with new housing is appropriate, but that in-filling should fit the surrounding community, perhaps with medium-density housing being added to the existing commercial plaza. I understand that we need more affordable housing in Mississauga, but this plan is inadequate.
I am open to reviewing revised plans by the Developer after your intervention with the Premier and the Minister.
Thank you for your careful consideration of this planned development in the context of the existing carefully planned neighbourhoods of Erin Mills South, that are the heart of your riding. Your constituents need your intervention.
Yours very truly,
[enter Your Name or Signature]
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Link to copy of the flyer and discussion
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