[All] Visionary Waterloo Regional Official Plan Successfully Approved!

[Susan Koswan]

Brilliant Kevin! Thank you for the enormous amount of work, time and 
energy you put into this!

Best,

Susan K

On 8/18/2022 11:12 PM, Kevin Thomason 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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