Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[danbrotherston]

Dan, the Region of Waterloo side (Woolwich Township) has a lot of protections in place and has its growth plans in place for the next 15 years.  It doesn't envision cheap tracts of unsustainable greenfield housing along a new highway 7.  I'm less familiar with the Guelph side. 

That's right.  Breslay and Maryhill are in Woolwich, which is very much resistant to rezoning farmland (or forest) into residential or commercial.  I doubt Wellington County will be all that much different, either.

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.