Growth Plan and Greenbelt

The Growth Plan was an attempt to rein in the low-density sprawl that was a signature of development in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ontario launched the Greenbelt Plan’s 10-year review, which is taking place concurrently with reviews of the Niagara Escarpment Plan, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan & Places to Grow.

In less than two decades Caledon’s population will be 75 per cent urban. Can its countryside values survive the shift?

There were many good farms around the perimeter of Orangeville that have become subdivisions.

Although food prices have risen in recent years, farmers haven’t received their fair share of the increase.

In just five years, between the 1996 and 2001 censuses, 12 per cent of Ontario farmers left farming.

Losing its prime agricultural land isn’t Caledon’s only worry.

The Planning Act provides the legislative framework for land-use planning in the province.

The greenbelt is only one part of a gutsy and massive initiative by Dalton McGuinty’s new Liberal govern-ment to overhaul land-use planning in the province.