05-30-2023, 08:13 AM
(05-29-2023, 07:25 PM)neonjoe Wrote: Wellington County does have the municipalities of Centre Wellington etc. Some of the bigger communities in these include Fergus and Elora. Fergus is actually quite large now and also has the same sprawl problems as our rural communities.
I believe their point is that those towns (Elmira, New Hamburg, Breslau) are seen as small rural communities so they tend to grow as such, with sprawling single family home subdivision. If there were a more focus on urbanizing and densifying our surrounding towns we could save even more farmland. The Regions official plan made density minimums for the cities, but no minimums we applied to the towns.