Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[danbrotherston]

Resistant to rezoning?  You mean the public is?  I think that's true pretty much everywhere, it doesn't seem to be effective against sprawl at all.  There are some protections in Waterloo Region, but I'm guessing that the growth that is allowed will be eastward.   Wellington County has even less protections.  And provincially there are no real protections, not greenbelt, no watershed, nothing at the moment for this area.  The highway is going to pave the way for development here.  IMO.

Both the public and the township councils are resistant to allowing additional urban/suburban development on farmland: as a rule, it is simply not allowed.  The region's stance is the same. Take a look at the Woolwich official plan, for example:
http://www.woolwich.ca/en/townshipServic...ficial.asp
Having lived in Woolwich before, I can tell you that in the past decade development has been limited to essentially Elmira, plus specific areas of Breslau and St Jacobs.

Where in the (Waterloo Region) townships are you seeing uncontrolled sprawl, in the last 10 years or so?

You mean, besides, Breslau, New Hamburg, Elmira, and huge areas in South Kitchener, and north west Waterloo?

Look, I don't mean to say that Waterloo Region is not one of the better areas for limiting sprawl. Heck, I grew up in London Ontario, a 10 minute walk from the edge of town, and now, it's probably almost 2 hours to walk to the edge of town. I know KW isn't that bad. But I don't think townships and public individual disagreement with rezoning is an effective protection, especially because it usually comes to NIMBYism. We need real legal protections, and we need to stop prioritizing sprawl through our transportation decisions.

We're definitely making progress on both, but we're not yet done.