Ontario Municipal Chief Planner Survey 2025
Ontario’s Chief Planners are working at the intersection of political urgency and practical constraint. StrategyCorp’s inaugural 2025 Chief Planner Survey finds that municipal approvals are moving faster than ever, yet housing starts are not keeping pace.
Chief Planners overwhelmingly support the province’s housing ambitions, but they point to the real bottlenecks: high borrowing costs, limited servicing capacity, infrastructure funding gaps, and a constantly shifting legislative environment that slows delivery on the ground. The result is a growing disconnect between expectations and reality; an approvals pipeline filled with projects on paper, but comparatively few homes under construction.