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Amber light for green plan
By ZEN RURYK, CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF

Mayor David Miller's green plan won support at a city committee yesterday amid warnings Toronto may have to dish out some tough love to fight climate change.

Toronto's influential executive committee voted to seek comment from the public on Miller's plan which outlines possible measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases

Taxing parking spots, encouraging people to abandon gas-powered lawn mowers and planting lots of trees are all possibilities raised in the plan. The 27-page document sets ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goals -- 6% by 2012, 30% by 2020, and 80% by 2050.

"Eventually this program will hit a wall. It will hit a wall when you have to make the tough decisions like limiting car entry into the downtown core," warned Councillor Howard Moscoe, who added it's easy to talk about the "warm and fuzzy" stuff.

"When the going gets tough, that's when people will start to bail out. That's when this whole thing won't become easy."

But Moscoe said he's ready to support the measures to combat global warming. The plan currently does not contain proposals to impose tolls or restrict traffic from coming into the core and it does not provide any analysis of what it would cost to implement them.

Councillor Michael Thompson argued it's imperative the public have an idea of the cost of implementing a plan to deal with climate change.