Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[tomh009]

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?

Breslau and Elmira developments are within the current zoning and part of the official plan.  New Hamburg is in Wilmot -- and Wilmot, too, limits development of (sub)urban areas.  Take a look at the land use map on their official plan:
http://www.wilmot.ca/en/doing-business/O...-Plan.aspx#

South Kitchener and NW Waterloo ... well, they are part of those two cities, not the townships.    But while I have no particular love for those subdivisions, I don't think they qualify as "uncontrolled sprawl", they are simply the remaining residential areas in the two cities that can accommodate suburban growth.