Mike Cluett
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Those of us who like Milton the way it is, may be in for a fight
With the changes that are being made and expanding the province’s green belt (ie. “cant build here” legislation) it could definitely throw a monkey wrench in municipalities’ plans for further growth. Just a couple of years ago, Dalton McQuinty made changes to the “Places to Grow” quotas for population growth and places like Georgetown, Oakville and Milton among others made changes to their development plans.
Now it seems the province wants to change the rules again without making amendments to the other legislation. This esssentially means that the province wants more people in smaller areas. Seeing how they’ve laid the ground work for more people or population density in a specific area, they have now made that specific area much smaller.
Those of us who like Milton the way it is (minus all the highrise apartments that dot the skyline of places like Toronto and Mississauga) might be in for a fight. WIth Premier Dalton and the Ontario government making these changes, it will force municipalities to make more changes to their official plans for growth, change bylaws that are in place for height restrictions on buildings like we have here in Milton, and before you know it, Dalton and his boys have just erased the view of the escarpment for 90% of us.
And its not just that. Milton, for all its good and bad, has a certain feel to it. We can drive in along Derry Road or Britannia Road, enjoy a bit of farmland (at least for the time being) and have our view unobscured by large apartments and condo developments. Things are definitely in for a change.
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