05-14-2015, 02:26 PM
Region of Waterloo Official Plan
Region of Waterloo ROP website: http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/region...ousROP.asp
Region of Waterloo Official Plan
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05-14-2015, 02:26 PM
Region of Waterloo Official Plan
Region of Waterloo ROP website: http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/region...ousROP.asp
05-14-2015, 02:26 PM
Any news on the OMB appeal at for the Region's OP? Timeline for it?
05-14-2015, 04:28 PM
I was doing some research on it this week, and as far as I'm aware - no.
Last I heard is some of the issues will try to be resolved through settlement.
05-26-2015, 01:56 PM
Region settles land dispute with developers
May 26, 2015 | Paige Desmond | Waterloo Region Record | Link Quote:WATERLOO REGION — The Region of Waterloo has settled a drawn-out battle with developers over its Official Plan, which guides land planning in the region to 2031.
05-26-2015, 01:58 PM
Good compromise, but I definitely say it's a win for the Region
05-26-2015, 02:04 PM
I wonder what is supposed to happen between 2019 and 2031?
05-26-2015, 02:17 PM
A new OP I would imagine.
05-26-2015, 02:24 PM
The 455 hectares will be developed- 200 hectares of which will be made available now; and 255 hectares of which will be made available sometime between now and 2019. Not all will be paved over by 2019; it will take time.
05-27-2015, 05:41 AM
I'm glad a compromise has been reached but I would have liked the number of available development land to be closer to the 85 hectares.
05-27-2015, 07:43 AM
On one hand, 455 is closer to the region's 85 than to the developers' 1,000+.
On the other hand, the amount of developable land the developers would have had in our region with their number, new and existing: ~4,500 Now, they see "only" ~4,000. So really, it's only reducing the developable area by ~10%, not 50%+. I'm also curious if the rationing - 200 now, 255 in a few years - will add argument to make this a regular assignment of land to the developable area, that being whatever land a developer purchased at a discount on the peripheree of the region.
05-27-2015, 08:03 AM
(05-27-2015, 07:43 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: On one hand, 455 is closer to the region's 85 than to the developers' 1,000+. The pessimist in me saw the compromise and thought that the developers can only develop half of what they originally wanted, but will now be able to develop more than five times what the Region initially thought was sensible.
05-27-2015, 09:13 AM
(05-27-2015, 07:43 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: On one hand, 455 is closer to the region's 85 than to the developers' 1,000+. I wondered if it had to do with particular plots of land being approved while others being rejected
05-27-2015, 11:15 AM
And in a few years they'll go back at it to develop more land and it'll never end...
05-27-2015, 11:43 AM
I don't know. In Japan the trend towards the suburbs came to an end about 25 years ago. Of course since then they also had no more population growth so this trend happened faster there than it will happen here, but I do think the new generation will be several times more likely to live in dense areas and even raise a family in denser housing formats.
Please don't tell anyone, as not to spoil a good thing, but if you have kids the ideal location to raise a family is a townhouse complex, with many other kids of a similar age to play with and a large common green area where to do so.
As Herbert Stein said, if something can not go on forever, it will stop. "Never" is a very long time, and there are any number of things that could (eventually) put an end to suburbanization, or the civilization that creates it. Sprawl is not sustainable.
I agree with BuildingScout that the market will put an end to the pace of sprawl we have seen in the last half century. We won't be able to afford to subsidize it like we have forever, and few people would be able to afford it at its true cost. There are many benefits to living in denser areas, and young people are increasingly seeing that. |
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