[All] Visionary Waterloo Regional Official Plan Successfully Approved!

[Deb Swidrovich]

Awesome, Kevin!  I am so appreciative of those who stepped up to get the
best outcome -- particularly the persistence and hard work from you, Kevin
Eby and Mark Reisser.  Well done.

Deb Swidrovich


On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13 PM Kevin Thomason <kevinthomason at mac.com>
wrote:

> We did it!!!!
>
> The Waterloo Regional Official Plan update was approved tonight by full
> Regional Council in an impressive 14 to 1 vote with Councillor Mike Harris
> being the only elected official to vote against this visionary plan so
> broadly supported by citizens across our communities.
>
> Similar to previous pioneering Regional Official Plans that have helped
> Waterloo Region become a global leader, this progressive plan with its
> focus on sustainability, climate action, intensification, farmland
> protection, housing choice/affordability, and 15 minute complete walkable
> neighbourhoods will guide so much in our communities and should serve us
> well until 2051.
>
> Kudos to everyone who spoke up for the future they wanted to see,
> delegated, e-mailed, called, and attended so many meetings and events.
> Thanks also to Regional Staff and elected officials who listened to all our
> ideas and feedback.  What started three years ago as an insufficient and
> inadequate draft document through a lot of hard work has evolved to become
> this visionary plan that will help ensure our region continues its
> provincial and national leadership with continued core renewal, more active
> transportation routes, new public transit options including potential Phase
> 2 and Phase 3 of iON LRT, minimal farmland loss, and a focus on the missing
> middle to create more affordable housing options for all ages throughout
> our communities.
>
> Over the next two years there will be an opportunity to further this
> Regional Official Plan with even more progressive elements as additional
> sections on Green Development Standards, Aggregates, and Source Water
> Protection are updated.
>
> For now lets celebrate this amazing achievement of such a unique,
> progressive future plan that other communities claim as impossible being
> articulated so well by Regional Staff and so strongly endorsed by our
> elected officials.
>
> Congratulations, thank you and well done!
>
> Cheers!
> Kevin.
>
>
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>
> Kevin Thomason
> Vice-Chair, Grand River Environmental Network
>
> c/o 1115 Cedar Grove Road
> Waterloo, Ontario Canada  N2J 3Z4
>
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