06-07-2018, 12:53 PM
(06-07-2018, 11:31 AM)chutten Wrote:(06-07-2018, 11:06 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: I invite anyone who doubts the impact of creating highway capacity on our ability to hold off on development to take a look at the unprotected land area between the triangle of Cambridge, Waterloo, and Guelph, and watch as the new highway 7 turns farms into subdivisions.
I too appreciate the pressure that tollways place on restricting sprawl, but at what point do we let the municipalities off the hook for permitting subdivisions to be built? Ultimately zoning is a local decision, not a Provincial one, no?
The green belt is a provincial responsibility, but municipalities will always respond to signals from the province. You can do things like Places To Grow, forcing zoning to be increased, growth and development patterns to change, or you can shrug at transit infrastructure and push to make highways more greatly used, and send the signal to start sprawling again. The NDP's pocketbook focus has been very decidedly pro-sprawl and car-centric development.