Dear Editor:
RE: Province unilaterally extends urban boundaries in county, May 11.
Only five per cent of land in Ontario is prime farmland and 319 acres per day is disappearing from farming use. Yet this government says we need to increase food production by 30%. Then they wipe out decades of careful planning and push urban boundaries out into prime farmland.
None of this adds up. No consultation or local information like servicing or infrastructure capacity taken into account. Just do the impossible without development charges funding municipalities. Really?
Agricultural groups are incredulous, municipalities at a loss in many ways, Conservation Authorities disempowered, the Greenbelt Swiss-cheesed and called “the so-called Greenbelt” by our so-called premier and housing start numbers are actually going down.
Please bring back consultation tier to tier, good planning and common sense, and do the homework before declaring undemocratic, high-handed and outrageous pronouncements.
Donna McCaw,
Elora