There’s a group of planners in the Region of Waterloo who are toiling
away, with one eye on the clock, to turn their municipality into a
model for how to handle the population boom headed its way. The region
has until 2009 to make sure its official plan conforms to a new Ontario
law that wants 25 communities outside Toronto to stop gobbling up
farmland and, instead, start putting up houses and apartment buildings
on urban lots that have been passed by.
away, with one eye on the clock, to turn their municipality into a
model for how to handle the population boom headed its way. The region
has until 2009 to make sure its official plan conforms to a new Ontario
law that wants 25 communities outside Toronto to stop gobbling up
farmland and, instead, start putting up houses and apartment buildings
on urban lots that have been passed by.
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