Residents urged to fill out questionnaire to assist in audit of county operation RAINFOREST ALLIANCE PUBLIC MEETING January 17, 2017 7pm to 9pm Elmvale Community Hall (33 Queen St. W.) from the Rainforest Alliance Rainforest Alliance is undertaking a conformance verification audit to evaluate the pro...
By CHERISE BURDA The Globe and Mail Cherise Burda is executive director of the Ryerson City Building Institute. A number of critics would have us believe that Ontario’s land-use legislation is the top culprit for rising house prices in the Greater Toronto Area – namely the Greenbelt, which protects f...
Letter to the Springwater News from Rick Webster In a previous edition of this newspaper I stated that the existing Springwater Council should take careful note of the Township’s lawyer, Barnet Kussner advice to council in 2014. He was clear in saying that while he could not think of a way to stop t...
John Morrison -Alliston Herald photo Warden satisfied with local planning standards By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald The province’s growth policies either need to be more restrictive or more flexible, depending on what side of a municipality’s settlement boundary one farms on, say members of Simcoe ...
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from the Ontario Farmland Trust For the first time, all of Ontario’s major farm organizations, representing some 52,000 farms and 78,000 farmers, have come together to present a strong, united message to the province: freeze urban boundaries now to stop urban sprawl and protect farming in the Greater...
Some of the concerned Wasaga Beach residents who attended a county council hearing on the Easdale wetland. Among them – front row, fourth from right – is Town Councillor Sylvia Bray. -AWARE Simcoe photo By Kate Harries – AWARE News Network Some 30 Wasaga Beach residents watched from...
from New Tecumseth Free Press A Markham based developer is proposing to build 157 residential units along Patterson Street in Beeton between the 9th Line and Wright Street. The Flato Group – which is paying Markham $1 million for naming rights to that municipality’s theatre – has a...
By Matt Setzkorn Hamilton Spectator Now is the time to protect at-risk farmland in Ontario for good. Collectively, we in the agricultural sector call on the province to freeze all urban expansion and introduce firm, permanent municipal growth boundaries in the Greater Golden Horseshoe to prevent the ...
By Heidi Riedner Georgina Advocate An appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) filed Thursday morning is the latest attempt by an environmental group to save significant wetlands from development in Georgina. The North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance has always contended the town’s official plan is “f...
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