What to know about the plan to build housing on former Greenbelt land in Pickering, Ont.

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The battle over the future of the largest chunk of land the province removed from the protected Greenbelt in December has intensified in the last week, ever since Ontario’s auditor general revealed how a small group of developers influenced the process.

As many as 30,000 housing units could be built on the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve (DRAP) in north Pickering in the coming years on farmland that was supposed to be forever protected.

The homes would make up the bulk of the 50,000 units Doug Ford’s government hopes to produce through its changes to the Greenbelt — a vast area of farmland, forest and wetland stretching from Niagara Falls

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