Ten years ago in front of a packed room, two “planning detectives” presented the hard evidence on who’s actually responsible for the challenges in the development approval process in municipalities. Today, development streamlining is at the top of everyone’s agenda as the apparent panacea to the housing crisis. But is this really true? In the last ten years, did development approvals get faster or slower? In the next ten years, how much faster is “fast,” and if speed is the new normal then what does it take to be fast? Join “planning detectives” Rory Baksh, RPP, MCIP, and Todd MacDonald, MPA, to hear about their latest detective work. Rory and Todd will be joined by colleagues who will shed greater light on their accomplishments in-house at municipalities to achieve development streamlining in the midst of the housing crisis.
