MPP Sheref Sabawy Can Help Us By Working With Doug Ford to Change Provincial Priorities

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cc: Premier@ontario.ca, mariana.ghobrial@pc.ola.org, Steve.Clark@pc.ola.org

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Subject: Statement of Provincial Priorities 2023

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Honourable  Sheref Sabawy MPP
Mississauga-Erin Mills

Dear Honourable Sir:

I reside in Mississauga-Erin Mills. I live in Erin Mills South because it is a planned community, carefully developed by Don Mills Developments starting in 1969. My neighbourhood in [choose one: Olde Burnhamthorpe / Sawmill Valley / Arbour Green / Pheasant Run] has one “neighbourhood shopping centre” at 4099 Erin Mills Parkway. It was carefully planned as our only neighbourhood place for a very special food store, a pharmacy, a dentist, a bank, medical services and other retail and services. It is a place where neighbours meet. We can walk to it from our homes using the planned system of trails and natural ravines. It provides employment for our children and grandchildren. Its small businesses are thriving and long lasting.

I need your help. A new developer wants to tear down the whole plaza, remove all the trees, and close down these longstanding family-owned businesses. The new developer wants to ignore the careful planning by Don Mills Developments in 1969.

I respectfully request your help. The Ontario Government is re-drafting its Statement of Provincial Priorities. The 2023 Statement of Provincial Priorities will direct the City of Mississauga as to its duties under section 3 of the Planning Act. The new Statement will be cited by the Ontario Land Tribunal in its decisions. The Minister will be guided by this document when making Ministerial Zoning Orders. You have the authority as my MPP to advocate on my behalf to the Premier and the Minister to modify the draft 2023 Statement of Provincial Priorities to add the following priorities to your Government’s intention to build more homes faster:

    a.   preserve and protect existing thriving small businesses, their owners and their employees,

    b.  preserve and protect existing walkable neighbourhood centres and infrastructure,

    c.   encourage pedestrian safety for children and adults, 

     d.  protect the property values and quiet enjoyment of residents of established planned communities,

     e.   encourage consistency with the original plan, as it has evolved, within  existing planned communities, such as Erin Mills,

      f.  protect the local environment, including creeks, streams and air, and

      g.  encourage the building of affordable, family-sized units of new housing, rather than housing sized for investment purposes.


Thank you for your concern in saving the local businesses at 4099 Erin Mills Parkway and protecting the homes in our community.

Yours very truly,

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