As part of its plan to open 7,400 acres of the Greenbelt to development, the province pledged to add 9,400 acres — most of them in the town of Erin.
acres of the Greenbelt to expedite development because of the housing shortage, it also pledged to put 9,400 acres into the protected zone in a land swap.
Edward McDonnell, CEO of the non-partisan of the Greenbelt Foundation, said the land to be added into the protected area “includes farmland … and there appears to be existing development happening there.At a council meeting last week, staff for the town of Erin asked a similar question. They had told the province earlier this year it was “unnecessary” to have the town’s lands added into the Greenbelt, given existing municipal protections for farmland in the area.
According to the province’s proposal, the land was chosen because it is in the Paris Galt Moraine, an area that runs from Orangeville, around Guelph and down into Haldimand County, and includes the headwaters for many rivers and streams. Its unique geology also filters, stores and recharges groundwater that is used by more than 800,000 people in towns along the Grand River watershed, including the city of Guelph.
But at the town council meeting last week, Jack Krubnik, director of planning for Erin, said the province’s proposed expansion doesn’t match its own mapping of the moraine. An employee of Stewart’s Equipment in Brisbane — a truck rental business also proposed to be added into the Greenbelt — said the Star’s phone call was the first they had heard of the proposal and said they didn’t know enough about the situation to comment on record.
The province had pledged to add the same valleys into the Greenbelt in the spring, but had not yet done so.
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