Some Developers Are Making A Lot Of Money After Expanding The Province Of Urban Limits
East Farm is a small part of the 654-acre urban expansion imposed by Steve Clark on Nov. 4 when he sidelined a hotly debated 2020 city ordinance — one of several recent controversial steps taken by the Progressive Conservative government to boost housing supply . Unlike other land the province has earmarked for future suburbs, and beyond the 1,281 hectares council itself had approved, the Watters Road farm wasn’t even slated for development during lengthy discussions in 2021 because political Ontario’s planning laws require the protection of good agricultural land....