Hamilton chief planner Steve Robichaud is resigning for a role with the City of Burlington, leaving another vacancy in a top job at the city — this one in a key file, given the ongoing housing crisis.

Robichaud, who submitted his resignation Wednesday — effective Sept. 1 — will assume the role of commissioner of development and growth management with Burlington Sept. 2.

The chief planner oversees planning and development applications in the city — particularly relevant in Hamilton, where council has frozen its urban boundary, focusing on residential intensification through urban infill and denser housing types to meet an expected population boom. However, recent legislation changes by the Doug Ford government now allow privately pitched urban expansion applications of any size at any

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