[All] a qu re Places to Grow Act

[Eleanor Grant]

You've all been very helpful.

The LRT naysayers just want KW to stay the way it is, and they don't
believe all this pop growth will materialize.
But I don't think W Reg has a choice about it - that's what they don't get.

Eleanor
 On Mar 16, 2014 4:19 PM, "Ginny Quinn" <ginnypq at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, Eleanor.   The Places to Grow  Act  ( I was at the local  meeting
>  many
> years ago HERE at the 'French School House'  on Erb St.  (Met Kevin T.
> there, also  David  Wellhauser )  The Region agreed to accept  250,000 more
> immigrants  by the year 2035  (not 2031)   (that description is  anyone who
> is currently NOT  living here) from any country...Canada    U.S.   any
> other
> country qualified  by acceptance of our rules  citizenship    etc.  because
> the province had enacted the Greenbelt Protection Act.)  and needed
> somewhere else to  'house' these people.  Our Universities and Conestoga
> College  are a BIG  attraction.
>
> My greatest concern at that time was WATER   to feed  all  these new
> people,
> especially  being  so heavily dependent on Ground water   and the builders
> pushing so hard for 'new development land.'
>
>   We had a speaker one time at the Real Estate Board   who was a rep.  of
> ACTIVA   and told us  that  he had been here for a few yrs.  looking  for
> and purchasing more land for  them.   Activa had  been buying land over the
> last 50 yrs.   and that was 15 yrs. ago that I was at that meeting.
>
> In our battle  we often quoted   that "It's like buying a lottery ticket"
> there's always a chance that you WON'T WIN .(as in the push of developers
> to
> cross OUR OWN GREENBELT   now  at the COURTS re OMB.
>
>   You can get more accurate info  if you call John Milloy's office
> (before
> he retires)     or Kevin Thomas will be a wonderful source of actual
> FACTS....Kevin never ceases to amaze me  with that busy and factual mind of
> his.!!!!   Hope this helps ...I'm not sure if I kept the info I picked up
> there as I'm trying to clean out  as much as I can.   We'll soon be
> downsizing...and I'm a SAVER....don't like to be called a 'pack rat'   but
> I
> do tend to 'save  stuff'  to help others  or refresh this old mind of mine.
> Your  question took me back many years...thanks for the memories.   Ginny
>
>
>
> From: All [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Eleanor Grant
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:58 PM
> To: GREN2
> Subject: [All] a qu re Places to Grow Act
>
>
>
> Hi All.  I thought the Places to Grow Act designated some regions, incl
> ours, as having to absorb more ppl, and that that's WHY we have to move
> toward intensification here.
>
> Is this true?
>
> When the pop of W Reg is forecast to increase by 50% by 2031, is it because
> we are a designated region for expansion?
>
> Just wondering.  I can't find any links that aren't pdfs (which I can't
> read
> on my little device).
>
> Eleanor
>
>
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