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line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(197, 30, 36);"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Liz Monteiro</span></a></span></span></span><span class="article__author-credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0.4px; font-family: "Merriweather Sans", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Record Reporter</span></span><div class="article__time-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="article__published-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Merriweather Sans", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Thu., June 2, 2022</span></span><span class="published-date-border" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); margin: 0px 8px;"></span><span class="article__readtime" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; position: relative; justify-content: center;"><div class="c-article-body__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 757px; width: 757px;"><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">WATERLOO REGION — When it comes to regulating growth in the Region of Waterloo, there’s a battle brewing.</p><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Staunch supporters of keeping the greenbelt say the Region must act on the climate emergency and contain urban sprawl to protect precious farmland.</p><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Intensification of housing and people should be kept to the core areas of the cities and the townships, they say.</p><div class="undefined seo-media-query" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="undefined seo-media-query" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Another vocal group — many of them developers — say the region is quickly running out of land to be developed. Most of the existing vacant land is already planned for development, they say. </p><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">At the heart of the struggle is the <a class="text-block__link" href="https://www.therecord.com/news/provincial-election/2022/05/30/kitchener-couple-put-in-12-separate-house-offers-and-each-time-they-were-outbid-by-someone-willing-to-pay-more-than-650000.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-shadow: rgba(255, 142, 146, 0.45) 0px -3px inset;">housing affordability crisis </a>that many communities in Ontario, including Waterloo Region, are now facing. The region’s population is projected to grow to just shy of a million people by 2051.</p><div id="fsk_splitbox_2804_onscreen" class=" fsk-always-on-box-background sb-opened fsk_splitbox_2804_onscreen" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 602px;"><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Everyone agrees we need more housing, and different types of housing, from three- to four-storey walk-ups, stacked townhomes or tiny homes — the kind of gentle density known as <a class="text-block__link" href="https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/02/22/housing-report-addresses-waterloo-regions-missing-middle.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-shadow: rgba(255, 142, 146, 0.45) 0px -3px inset;">‘missing middle’ </a>housing.</p><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The question is: where should this housing be located? Advocates would like to see most development in core areas, as well as infill development throughout the region.</p><div class="undefined seo-media-query" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p class="text-block-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; font-family: TorstarTextO3, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.75rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">This is where the countryside line comes in. 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