<p dir="ltr">To add to the west side woes, now they're planning a Costco across from the dump. A Costco?! I asked Sean Strickland why we're building LRT when everything else we're doing promotes more car travel. He just said, oh it's still inside Wilmot line so it's OK. Do we need some activism on this?</p>
<p dir="ltr">BTW I might go down to Camb council Mon, cuz I think there's going to be a presentation on Barrie's L dvlt.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Eleanor<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 16, 2014 10:10 PM, "Louisette Lanteigne" <<a href="mailto:butterflybluelu@rogers.com">butterflybluelu@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif"><div><span>Hi folks</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
<span><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><span>The Places to grow act started about 30 years back with a Liberal scheme to build Waterloo into a big city because the aggregate was easy to get. The closer to the city the gravel is, the cheaper to build. Of course that vast amounts of gravel also provides our local water supply so along with that a pipeline scheme that was crafted into the deal
to bring water from north to here. Years later laws changed that bound municipalities to only taking water from their own watershed basins so the pipeline plan switched to Erie and right now that Lake is doing poorly. </span></div>
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<span>Initially to build their big city vision they created strong alliances with gravel pit owners and developers, industry and universities to create this big city future and they invested a bundle in it but then hydrology evolved in the 90's and now they are trying to balance priorities without ruining our
water supply or their revenues. It takes around 12 years or more for the government to dramatically alter plans of this nature. </span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
<span><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><span>The reason we have been able to stem off damages this far is due to Walkerton and to our innovative Region for leading the way with ESL policies, intensified growth and other water protection policies. We are also blessed with the GRCA which has always been a leader in protection of the Grand and we are blessed with the concerned public pushing for protection of these
features. </span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><span><br></span></div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><span>The population numbers in 2004 for the Region was 495,000 but the projected growth in the next 17 years will increase that to 742,000. That's roughly the entire population of Kitchener to be added to the Region by 2030.</span></div>
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<span>By far the most vocal political advocate blowing the whistle on the non sustainable growth in Waterloo Region is Ontario Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller. Great article about it here; </span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
<span><a href="http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news/drawing-the-line/" target="_blank">http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news/drawing-the-line/ </a></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">If you want further details specific to Waterloo Region he has plenty of info in this report. </div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><a href="http://www.eco.on.ca/uploads/Reports%20-%20Annual/2006_07/2007ar.pdf" style target="_blank">http://www.eco.on.ca/uploads/Reports%20-%20Annual/2006_07/2007ar.pdf</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> On Sunday, March 16, 2014 4:36:26 PM, Eleanor Grant <<a href="mailto:eleanor7000@gmail.com" target="_blank">eleanor7000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div><div><div><div dir="ltr">
You've all been very helpful.</div>
<div dir="ltr">The LRT naysayers just want KW to stay the way it is, and they don't believe all this pop growth will materialize.<br clear="none">
But I don't think W Reg has a choice about it - that's what they don't get.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Eleanor<br clear="none">
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<div><div>On Mar 16, 2014 4:19 PM, "Ginny Quinn" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:ginnypq@gmail.com" target="_blank">ginnypq@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Yes, Eleanor. The Places to Grow Act ( I was at the local meeting many<br clear="none">
years ago HERE at the 'French School House' on Erb St. (Met Kevin T.<br clear="none">
there, also David Wellhauser ) The Region agreed to accept 250,000 more<br clear="none">
immigrants by the year 2035 (not 2031) (that description is anyone who<br clear="none">
is currently NOT living here) from any country...Canada U.S. any other<br clear="none">
country qualified by acceptance of our rules citizenship etc. because<br clear="none">
the province had enacted the Greenbelt Protection Act.) and needed<br clear="none">
somewhere else to 'house' these people. Our Universities and Conestoga<br clear="none">
College are a BIG attraction.<br clear="none">
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My greatest concern at that time was WATER to feed all these new people,<br clear="none">
especially being so heavily dependent on Ground water and the builders<br clear="none">
pushing so hard for 'new development land.'<br clear="none">
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We had a speaker one time at the Real Estate Board who was a rep. of<br clear="none">
ACTIVA and told us that he had been here for a few yrs. looking for<br clear="none">
and purchasing more land for them. Activa had been buying land over the<br clear="none">
last 50 yrs. and that was 15 yrs. ago that I was at that meeting.<br clear="none">
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In our battle we often quoted that "It's like buying a lottery ticket"<br clear="none">
there's always a chance that you WON'T WIN .(as in the push of developers to<br clear="none">
cross OUR OWN GREENBELT now at the COURTS re OMB.<br clear="none">
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You can get more accurate info if you call John Milloy's office (before<br clear="none">
he retires) or Kevin Thomas will be a wonderful source of actual<br clear="none">
FACTS....Kevin never ceases to amaze me with that busy and factual mind of<br clear="none">
his.!!!! Hope this helps ...I'm not sure if I kept the info I picked up<br clear="none">
there as I'm trying to clean out as much as I can. We'll soon be<br clear="none">
downsizing...and I'm a SAVER....don't like to be called a 'pack rat' but I<br clear="none">
do tend to 'save stuff' to help others or refresh this old mind of mine.<br clear="none">
Your question took me back many years...thanks for the memories. Ginny<br clear="none">
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From: All [mailto:<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:all-bounces@gren.ca" target="_blank">all-bounces@gren.ca</a>] On Behalf Of Eleanor Grant<br clear="none">
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:58 PM<br clear="none">
To: GREN2<br clear="none">
Subject: [All] a qu re Places to Grow Act<br clear="none">
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Hi All. I thought the Places to Grow Act designated some regions, incl<br clear="none">
ours, as having to absorb more ppl, and that that's WHY we have to move<br clear="none">
toward intensification here.<br clear="none">
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Is this true?<br clear="none">
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When the pop of W Reg is forecast to increase by 50% by 2031, is it because<br clear="none">
we are a designated region for expansion?<br clear="none">
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Just wondering. I can't find any links that aren't pdfs (which I can't read<br clear="none">
on my little device).<br clear="none">
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Eleanor<br clear="none">
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