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https://whitchurch.civicweb.net/document/130520
The Problem: Integrity of the Moraine
https://www.amcto.com/Blog/December-2018/Bill-66-Greenbelt-Implications
https://whitchurch.civicweb.net/document/130520
Best of the best farmland--
Ontario lost 18% of its Class 1
farmland in 10 yrs. ('96-'06).
W-Stouffville
Council will ask
province to
“unlock” Greenbelt
lands for their
“economic
potential”
W-Stouffville’s
Greenbelt lands along
Hwy 404 are
important not only
because they have
Class 1 agricultural
soil.
In some cases (LEFT:
Aurora Rd. at
Woodbine) they are
“Wellhead Protection
Zones."
Council is encouraging
Doug Ford to open the
Greenbelt along all
400-series highways--
like here
W-Stouffville has
properties on the Oak
Ridges Moraine along
Hwy 404 that have
"economic potential” if
protections are
removed.
But at what cost?
Some properties are
protected for their role
in charging the aquifer
and are highly
vulnerable.
Doug Ford is throwing
good planning into
ABOVE: Woodbine Avenue south of Stouffville Rd. chaos.
The Oak Ridges
Moraine Plan
protects a diversity
of “landform
types” that
directly affect the
ecological and
hydrological
character of the
moraine.
W-Stouffville is
asking that
protections be
removed from
lands along Hwy
404.
ABOVE: Bethesda Road, between Hwy 404 and Woodbine
Light green identifies
“Landform
Conservation Areas -
Category 2” in the
Oak Ridges Moraine
Plan, lands with up
to 50% distinctive
and complex
landform patterns.
W-Stouffville Council
is asking province to
remove protections
along Hwy. 404
corridor
ABOVE: Bloomington Rd., between Hwy 404 and Woodbine
The “Greenlands System
Corridor,” north of Bethesda
Rd at Hwy 404, is some of
the most significant,
complex and vulnerable land
in the Oak Ridges Moraine
Plan (see earlier slides)
It is surrounded in the south
by “countryside area”—30%
of the land protected by the
ORM Plan—as “buffer” and
“transition” between “ORM
Natural Core” and
Settlement Areas.
W-Stouffville Council is
petitioning Doug Ford to
remove protections here.
The Region’s
“Greenlands
System Vision”
identifies green
corridors that
perform (or will
perform) “major
bridge
functions.”
LEFT: Bethesda
Rd. at Hwy. 404.
Stouffville
Council is asking
Doug Ford to
remove
protections here.
Whitchurch-Stouffville is located
on the provincially protected
Greenbelt with limited
“Expansion Lands.”
(See red arrow for “Community
of Stouffville”)
On Dec. 6 Doug Ford tabled
legislation (Bill 66, “Open for
Business”) which would allow
municipalities to override
existing environmental
protections, breaking an election
promise.
On Dec. 11, W-Stouffville Council
was first in line to signal to the
province its intent to unlock
Greenbelt lands along the Hwy
404 corridor
W-Stouffville is “requesting”
and “encouraging” Doug Ford’s
gov’t to unlock Greenbelt lands
near any 400-Series Highway in
any town.