<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hi GREN Executive,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have continued to try to balance racing to complete many aspects of our new house build prior to winter along with trying to keep up with the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance campaign that is rapidly unfolding. Thankfully Dr. Franz Hartman, Linda Lukasic and others are doing a great job keeping things moving forward.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With dozens of MZO’s - Ministerial Zoning Orders now coming forward from developers everywhere now that the Ford government has discovered they are a great way to circumvent all public involvement and process in development decisions there are settlement boundary expansion requests, Greenbelt land removal requests, and all sorts of inappropriate developments happening - including here in Cambridge and Stratford with recent MZO approvals. There have been more MZO’s approved in the past month than the previous two decades combined…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The OGA and environmental groups are trying to gear up to push back and bring more awareness of this to the public. Part of the funding grant that GREN is a part of from the Greenbelt Foundation includes getting materials into our community such as this proposed letter to area Councils countering sprawl and promoting green space:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="https://protected-places.good.do/oga/sign/" class="">https://protected-places.good.do/oga/sign/</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is still just a mock-up that will be released in the weeks ahead. I will keep working with the OGA leadership on the development of these materials and keep you posted. With our Countryside Line in Waterloo Region it makes things a bit different and materials are being adapted for each Region.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let me know any ideas or ways that GREN can be involved.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kevin.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Franz Hartmann <franzgreenbeltalliance@gmail.com><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">URGENT: Need "sign off" on ACTION</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">October 31, 2020 at 11:27:06 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Tim Gray <tgray@environmentaldefence.ca>, Lynda Lukasik <llukasik@environmenthamilton.org>, Debbie Gordon <debbierawngordon@gmail.com>, Margaret Prophet <margaret@simcoecountygreenbelt.ca>, Kevin Thomason <kevinthomason@mac.com>, John Bacher <pals@becon.org>, Anne Bell <anneb@ontarionature.org><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is <a href="https://protected-places.good.do/oga/sign/" class="">the draft Action</a>. We will "clone" this once people are happy with this general lay out. Orgs would put their logos beside the OGA logo at the bottom. We can also fine tune the letter to the Council<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Please let me know ASAP if you are okay with this.</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">Franz Hartmann<div class="">Ontario Greenbelt Alliance</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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