Civil Municipal Magazine - Nov 2023
107 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 11 PLYMPTON-WYOMING , ONTARIO likelihood of an available workforce; and the area’s social, entertainment, and cultural environment. Housing has room to grow As to the first item, Sobanski says there are some pluses and some minuses: “Plympton- Wyoming has been quite successful in attracting single-family dwelling, especially near the lakefront where you tend to have larger estate lots and persons moving from their smaller properties in the Greater Toronto area. So, we are well ahead in the single-family dwelling area. One area we’re currently not meeting our targets in, but we’re looking to change that, is with more middle-of-the-road housing – townhouses and multi-family buildings.” “We’re working with developers and, hopefully, the federal government through the CMHC’s (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation) Housing Accelerator Fund to find innovative ways to entice developers to bring forth what the government calls ‘middle-missing housing.’” (The Housing Accelerator Fund provides incentive funding to
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