New legislation in Saskatchewan aimed at ensuring land is being set aside for new schools is raising alarm bells in the home-building sector.

The provincial government says the Building Schools Faster Act, introduced earlier this month, is meant to “streamline the acquisition of land for school construction in rapidly growing neighbourhoods.”

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The new legislation will amend the Planning and Development Act to give municipalities the authority to collect a school land development charge from developers, and to increase the amount of municipal reserve land in a subdivisi

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