{"id":83,"date":"2026-10-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:00:00","slug":"toronto-board-of-trade-urges-ontario-to-amend-zoning-and-building-code-rules-to-spur-housing-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/17\/toronto-board-of-trade-urges-ontario-to-amend-zoning-and-building-code-rules-to-spur-housing-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto board of trade urges Ontario to amend zoning and building code rules to spur housing growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Ontario is projected to fall over 550,000 homes short of its 1.5 million new homes target by 2031 due to fragmented and outdated zoning and building codes. A provincial zoning code with standardized rules for housing types and limits on restrictions like parking and setbacks is recommended. Changes to building codes, such as allowing single-stair buildings up to six storeys, could reduce costs and delays. Increasing housing supply is essential for lasting affordability.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/toronto\/article-ontario-unlikely-to-meet-housing-target\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario is projected to fall over 550,000 homes short of its 1.5 million new homes target by 2031 due to fragmented and outdated zoning and building codes. A provincial zoning code with standardized rules for housing types and limits on restrictions like parking and setbacks is recommended. Changes to building codes, such as allowing single-stair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephbitton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}