Municipal planning can been a barrier to new housing developments, but it doesn't have to be this way

One of the key intersections between getting a housing project built centres on the process between municipal planning offices and developers. Planning policies, which are approved by Councils and guided by provincial (and sometimes regional) policy directions are often complex and cumbersome. As a former mayor of a mid-size city in Canada, the delays in the planning department was one of the most common complaints. Now how valid all of the complaints where is open for interpretation - but there is truth in the middle. On this episode of Searching for Solutions, Mary Lou Tanner, President of NPG talks about her experience as a municipal planner and how in her current role as the president of a planning company that now works with developers in Ontario she can see where improvements need to made by municipalities, provincial governments and by the development industry as well.