Petition calls for public consultation and proper protection of land and waterAWARE Simcoe August 14 2012 updated This document has been prepared with input from Environmental Defence (ED) and Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition.We have set up a petition with some of the key points from this document. We wa...

Comments regarding Simcoe Draft Proposed Modified Official Plan From Midhurst resident David Strachan to Simcoe County Clerk Brenda Clark August 10 2012 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on Simcoe County’s revised Official Plan. The County is to be congratulated for its extensive efforts to br...

Response with respect to growth By Alec Adams AWARE Orillia July 2012 The focus of the Official Plan is the location and management of growth. It seems to be assumed that growth is either beneficial to communities, both economically and socially, or is inevitable. While it is true that most economist...

By Bill French AWARE Springwater August 1 2102 As a guiding principle the lower tiered governments are permitted to make their official plans more restrictive than the provincial policies. They have the authority to be quite restrictive in their OP placing much more control on how development should ...

By Sandy Agnew AWARE Oro-Medonte July 28 2012 The greatest weakness of the OP is its failure to provide a vision of a long term stable society in Simcoe County. Twenty years is much too short a time span to establish population targets.  Those of us over 50 have seen rural municipalities in the GTA [...

Comments on the Simcoe County Official Plan Draft By Bernard Pope Ontario Farmland Preservation July 27, 2012 The Draft version of the Simcoe County Official Plan that was recently released by the County has the basis for general guidelines for the County and the lower tier municipalities in the Coun...

Timing couldn't be worse for public input on Official PlanBy Sandy Agnew North Simcoe Community News August 9 2012Simcoe County has released its draft Official Plan. This is perhaps the most important document that will shape the future of Simcoe County and all the sixteen member municipalities. It’s...

Some municipalities don't want Ombudsman looking into their in camera dealings By Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press August 9 2012In the past three years, 1,438 people from across Ontario -- with nowhere else to turn -- have complained to the Ontario Ombudsman about a wide range of municipal government...

By Sara Ross, Orillia Packet & Times August 7, 2012 SIMCOE COUNTY - The County of Simcoe is continuing to seek public input in finalizing its food and agriculture charter....

Letter to the Toronto Star July 11 2012Re: York Region: "Keep on sprawling cities told" Toronto Star, July 7, 2012.While the rest of the world is looking to establish local food supplies for themselves maintaining their food security initiatives - here in Canada we are allowing foreign interests to b...