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Jan 15th, 2015
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AWARE Simcoe Factsheet on LRSCA’s Subdivisions-in-Wetlands policy...
Jan 15th, 2015
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AWARE News Network Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO) will host a webinar on January 22 at 1:00pm to highlight his report, Managing New Challenges. In this one-hour session, he will present his perspective and his advice to ministries on several issues in the news this past year...
Jan 12th, 2015
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online  New Tecumseth and the Walton South Simcoe Residential Development Corp have agreed to a subdivision agreement and draft plan whose initial approval will kick-start $4.1 million worth of construction for 123 new homes west of Daniele Avenue in Beeton. West Country, ini...
Jan 8th, 2015
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From STORM (Save the Oak Ridges Moraine) Town Hall Meeting Wednesday January 28 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Brougham Hall, 3545 Brock Road, Brougham, ON Farmland and forests in Ontario’s Greenbelt are at risk of being paved over. Ask questions and hear from experts about how a proposal for an unneces...
Jan 2nd, 2015
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Suggested highway would run from Vaughan to Milton running through the Greenbelt and prime farmland By: Noor Javed Toronto Star The province is in the midst of planning a new highway that will carry drivers across the GTA from Vaughan to Milton — in the hopes the infrastructure will help ease traffic...
Dec 17th, 2014
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By John Bacher Niagara at Large Tragically few seem to appreciate the wonders of our relatively well ecologically restored landscape around the eastern edge of Lake Ontario where most of the province’s population lives. In the 1950s, part of what is now the core of Ontario’s Greenbelt, the Oak Ridges...
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Dec 13th, 2014
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By Laurie Watt Barrie Advamce  Barrie is poised to rezone open space and environmental protection lands (EP) to allow 131 homes to be built on a former golf course on the city’s western boundary. Without a word of debate, councillors gave initial approval for a plan that will create a subdivision on ...
Dec 1st, 2014
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AWARE News Networ  About 150 Springwater residents packed into the council chambers Monday night to see their new council sworn in. In his inaugural address, Mayor Bill French picked up on themes from the election campaign to outline a program for the next four years – preservation of the township’s ...
Dec 1st, 2014
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By Sandy Agnew AWARE News Network Following a deputation by Paul Bonwick (president and CEO of Compenso Communications, representing the Collingwood Airport Industrial Development) complaining about their high plan review fees, the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) board has thrown out...
Dec 1st, 2014
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online New Tecumseth’s deal to settle an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) appeal of its Development Charges (DCs) will reduce the rates across all categories, according to the Order issued on November 27. The agreement requires New Tecumseth to reduce its per unit DCs on s...