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Why would city hall reject these 360 new homes? | Opinion

A little plot of land south of Stittsville illustrates just how silly the government-run planning regime is.

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Do Ottawa city councillors want more houses built or not? Their recent rejection of a plan to build 360 homes south of Stittsville is indefensibly stupid, unless you happen to be a city planning bureaucrat.

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