[All] National Support for Waterloo

Ginny Quinn ginny at kw.igs.net
Wed Jan 30 17:17:40 EST 2013 

Thanks   Kevin....Somebody  from GREN   (John Jackson  was on their Enviro Committee  for a few years)  will have to make contact with the Region...Rob Horne,   Kevin Eby ,   Eric Hodgson ,  Don Corbett  and all Councillors +++++....   Council speeches  (of short duration ...they have all the facts and we ALL are in agreement with them... but we have to physically show support  to them ....  even just attending a meeting of Regional Council  and standing up  silently    in support of our  chosen speaker  for GREN .   St. Mary’s Hospital was “a done deal”   I’ve been told,   when the community got involved      ...as you know with  this community support, from businesses and individuals,  we   got  100,0000 signatures on our petitions..... and we not only won the stay of closure of St. Mary’s,   but we also got MUCH needed health care  of which we had been bypassed  for many years.   GOOD THINGS DO COME FROM BAD!!!!!.        KW  got  a much needed Cancer Centre  and a  now State of the Art  Cardiac Facility .   So this community IS far better off for  the terribly  negative intentions  of the people  involved in that fiasco.!!! 

  WE  have the will and the power to help the REGION  turn this around..   Our group  CCFNP    stopped   a Contaminated Soil Remediation  Company from operating in  the Heritage Designated District  of  Victoria Park.  City of Kitchener could not stop them as the old Zoning was in place....as questionable as it was at the time.  (in the old    Canada Blower and Forge   location at Queen St and Highland Road   by the  Harry Class   Pool )    Took a LONG   time   but we THE CITIZENS did it   and city of Kitchener   was  most grateful.   I will be forwarding this  to someone at the Region  and ask that they forward it on  to show community initiation of ‘group’ support in this community  and you can bet there will be a lot of support   once citizens understand the implications of this  totally negative and invasive 

Ruling  of the OMB  for the quoted ‘ large’  group of Developers  (which in comparison to the MASSIVE   group of RESIDENTS for the FUTURE  well being of their CHOSEN home.  ....and the fact that the REGION is obeying and in compliance with...the Province’s  direction  of THE GREENBELT PLAN.

  As we know, 95%  of the people   don’t follow and don’t understand  the future implications  of this  negative decision  by the OMB,  in favour of a few  acres   for new homes  and the paving over of  life sustaining   water and oxygen from the trees  in those specific  places  (they’re too busy working and raising families...so , those of us who know,   have to ‘step in and educate’ them, that this involves their children and their children’s children .)   This community understood LOSS of health care  access because they use it ;’first hand’    but they have no idea of potential and future LOSS  of new WATER WELLS   and OXYGENATING TREES....  and LOSS of contaminated wells  (ie.   GREENBROOK...   5 wells  lost  BUT FINALLY RECOVERED ...due to the ‘travel of contaminates from the OTTAWA St. Dump,  as I understand it,   from some of the more knowledgeable experts;..... (we are one of the smoggiest communities  in Canada  because of many factors     including  our ‘basin’  type of geography..... to the total viability  here,   because   this community accepts   ‘clean water and air ‘  as a GIVEN   and ‘don’t NEED to understand  it’ .  This is no criticism of the average citizen...it is merely fact of what we have to ‘get across’  in order  to get support by way of petitions ,  activity letters of support for the Region   etc. . Enough said...I know all GREN members are in agreement that, as Kevin T. Has written , we must get ‘involved ‘.       Ginny           

 

From: All [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Kevin Thomason
Sent: January-30-13 2:34 PM
To: GREN
Subject: [All] National Support for Waterloo

 

Good Afternoon,

 

Many GREN folks have been following the recent ruling by the OMB in favour of developers demanding additional urban sprawl and the subsequent unanimous decision by the Region of Waterloo to appeal this ruling against our Regional Official Plan.

 

I have just been sent a copy of a press release below from Environmental Defence that has gone out to the media supporting the Region of Waterloo on their appeal and making clear the potential impact of this disappointing ruling on Waterloo and municipalities across Ontario.  You can find a copy here:

 

http://environmentaldefence.ca/articles/statement-erin-shapero-land-and-water-program-manager-waterloo’s-decision-appeal-omb-ruling

 

Hopefully with the strong support of the community, the Region will be successful in this appeal and we will ultimately see our Regional Official Plan approved over the coming months.

 

Please feel free to share any ideas on what we can do as a community to ensure that our vision and not judges orders on behalf of developers determines our future.

 

Kevin.

 

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Toronto, ON -- We applaud the Region of Waterloo’s decision to fight back against last week’s OMB ruling.

The Region had done the right thing by creating an official plan designed to curb sprawl and build more livable communities, meeting the goals set out by the province in its Places to Grow Act.

The OMB’s ruling – which overturned parts of the Region’s official plan – is the equivalent of a slap on the wrist for a municipality trying to do exactly what it was asked. The OMB’s ruling rewards those developers that want to keep sprawling, gobbling up prime farmland with cookie cutter developments that already cover much of the landscape in southern Ontario. The OMB ruled that the Region needs to open up over 1,000 hectares of land for low-density sprawl, more than 10 times the area in the official plan.

The decision could kill the province’s Places to Grow Act, its density targets, timelines and any hope of preventing more urban sprawl in the Greater Golden Horseshoe.

The outcome of this hearing, if left unchallenged, could have significant impact across the Greater Golden Horseshoe and beyond. The implications are serious for municipalities and their residents who deserve better from the planning process. 

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