As part of A Place to Grow: Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, the Minister released a new policy framework for protecting employment areas that are critical to the region’s economy. These changes provide flexibility by allowing municipalities to consider employment area conversions prior to the municipal comprehensive review while ensuring protections are in place to protect key employment areas as needed.To ensure important employment areas are not converted during this window, the province introduced a policy that allows the Minister to identify provincially significant employment zoneswhich are employment areas that cannot be converted prior to the municipal comprehensive review without a more comprehensive assessment approved by the province.