Ontario wanted massive density around its transit projects. Then the plan vanished [Video]

It was supposed to be an announcement to supersize housing developments around the busiest transit corridors in the Greater Toronto Area but it never took place.

Earlier this year, Housing Minister Paul Calandra was scheduled to hold a news conference to unveil new legislation that would have allowed homebuilders to intensify development on land surrounding subway, light-rail and other transit stations.

“We have a housing crisis, we’re building billions of dollars worth of investments and along those corridors, we just expect that there will be even more density,” Calandra teased in December 2023, promising details “early on in the new year.”

While internal government documents suggest Calandra’s team circled March 12, 2024, as the date he planned to hold a “transit heights announcement,” the news conference never happened, after the Ford government shelved the policy.

Hundreds of pages of internal briefings and plans obtained by Global News hint at just …