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The Ontario government is looking to reform the way that development charges are collected from homebuilders in a bid to get more homes built faster in Canada’s largest province. On Thursday, Rob Flack, Ontario’s minister of municipal affairs and housing, announced the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act. The bill tackles a huge swathe of development and housing-related issues in the province, including streamlining approvals, ensuring a single, consistent building design standard and removing Toronto’s ability to require new builds to have a green roof. The bill also tackles other...