Places To Grow: Still Unsustainable
Urban planners and municipal councils can do better
Sustainable Urban Development Association release December 7 2011
Municipalities in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) have incorporated provincially-mandated
“Places To Grow” targets for both population and employment growth into their official plans for
development between now and 2031.
…Unfortunately, regional municipalities are taking the minimum targets as maximums. As a result, within a single generation, over 425 square kilometers of rural and agricultural lands in the GTHA will have been lost by 2031 – an area almost the size of the cities of Brampton and Mississauga combined.
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