General Suburban Updates and Rumours

[neonjoe]

The building is quite far along already, I believe they are on the 2nd floor already

[neonjoe]

There’s a sign for Copper Bay Homes at the fenced off lot where the former gas station was at Westmount and Laurentian. If there’s residential here it’s a bit odd as it’s partially surrounded by a shopping plaza.

[ijmorlan]

There’s a sign for Copper Bay Homes at the fenced off lot where the former gas station was at Westmount and Laurentian. If there’s residential here it’s a bit odd as it’s partially surrounded by a shopping plaza.

Very convenient! That close to the FreshCo they don’t even need refrigerators!

[TMKM94]

I'm kind of surprised DQ didn't open a drive thru location there.

[ZEBuilder]

There’s a sign for Copper Bay Homes at the fenced off lot where the former gas station was at Westmount and Laurentian. If there’s residential here it’s a bit odd as it’s partially surrounded by a shopping plaza.

Looking on their website it appears they're making a commerical building instead of a residential building. They have a render on their website but it looks like you're generic strip mall. There's also no building permits right now so anything they're doing is just remediation from the gas station.

[tomh009]

It's pretty small for a residential project, unless they were to slice off some of the Freshco parking lot. I don't think the location is bad for residential, it's next to a residential neighbourhood, with a supermarket next door and a trail a block away.

[Acitta]

Dundee North Secondary Plan: Subwatershed, Transportation and Land Use Study

We are planning a new community in Kitchener and we need your help!

The purpose of the Dundee North Secondary Plan is to create a detailed planning framework to guide the development of this new community. Learn more about this planning process by reviewing our process map.

As outlined in our Official Plan(External link) we are committed to creating a complete and healthy community through:

the promotion of a compact urban form
efficient and effective delivery of services
employment opportunities
environmental conservation
the provision of arts and culture, and
the protection and promotion of cultural diversity.
Right now, these are agricultural lands and some environmentally protected areas. We expect to develop new urban uses such as homes, parks, open space, commercial and schools. This will follow our Official Plan and other regulatory frameworks.

[neonjoe]

Its unfortunate that this area was originally protected by the countryside line but due to the pressures of the development community is now open for development.

[Acitta]

Its unfortunate that this area was originally protected by the countryside line but due to the pressures of the development community is now open for development.

Developers have more money for lobbyists than do people who care about the environment and prime farmland.

[danbrotherston]

Its unfortunate that this area was originally protected by the countryside line but due to the pressures of the development community is now open for development.

Developers have more money for lobbyists than do people who care about the environment and prime farmland.

Yes, well...

When we are starving because we have paved all the farm land, we can eat the developers right?

[Joedelay Highhoe]

Developers have more money for lobbyists than do people who care about the environment and prime farmland.

Yes, well...

When we are starving because we have paved all the farm land, we can eat the developers right?

Much of the farmland around here is cash crop rather than food for humans. There will be plenty of lentils coming in from Saskatchewan to feed the hungry revolutionaries.

[clasher]

We could just eat the soybeans instead of feeding it to pigs and eating the pigs. Would need a lot less farmland for the same amount of protein.

[ijmorlan]

Much of the farmland around here is cash crop rather than food for humans.

I’m confused by your terminology. Most of the food that is grown for humans is sold for cash. Does “cash crop” mean something else?

[clasher]

There's a lot of corn (and other stuff?) grown for ethanol too.

[ac3r]

Much of the farmland around here is cash crop rather than food for humans.

I’m confused by your terminology. Most of the food that is grown for humans is sold for cash. Does “cash crop” mean something else?

I think they're illustrating that a lot of the stuff we grow is just sold for livestock feed, filler or shipped off to other markets. That is in contrast to more traditional forms of subsistence farming where what is grown is used locally (either by the farmer, village, nearby towns or cities). Before globalization, we would farm in the latter method.

In that sense, they're right in that we grow a lot of "useless" stuff like soy bean and corn that is used to feed livestock which we then slaughter by the hundreds of millions just to eat them or turn them into some other meat product (pet food etc). If, instead of killing nearly a billion animals each year, we could just eat the crop we grow and still get the same amount of protein, we'd waste much less farmland - not to mention cut emissions down as well as water usage. People love to blame oil companies and stuff for destroying our planet, but people who eat meat have a pretty heavy hand in it as well. Meat production is an extremely destructive industry.