Human Resources committee  I think the biggest problem is the levy situation, which prevents you from building large units. In the past six years, I've built 600 units, and at least 75% of them were two and three-bedroom units over 700 square feet—closer to 900 and 1,000 square feet—and they were always th

Human Resources committee  That's okay.

Human Resources committee  My question in this regard is: Why does the municipality have to load up development charges in a multi-residential rental building when there's very little cost to the municipality of having that building in the municipality? All it does is produce property taxes for them, and i

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry about that.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for your comments. I could go on for hours about specific examples where I feel that the supply of developable land is being held up and is not able to proceed to the construction stage because the bureaucracy in the municipalities doesn't want to process tho

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. My name is Edward Goldstein. I'm the president of Redwood Corporation, a family-owned business that develops land and builds subdivisions, plazas and purpose-built rentals. In trying to prepare my presentation to this committee