My family and I have spent a lot of time at Big Bay Point on Lake Simcoe in Ontario. The development of the Innisfil and Barrie areas has been a common and often sad conversation. The building boom has literally exploded with new development over the past years.
With each passing trip, familiar farmer's fields are being replaced by new homes and shopping complexes...all inching closer towards Kempenfelt Bay and Lake Simcoe. All of sudden, the burbs are right around the corner and an area that once was pure cottage country...well...isn't.
Developers have simply been leap-frogging over the Escarpment and Greenbelt areas and focusing in on land in Simcoe County.
Concerns over this type of unchecked growth is one of the reasons why there was a citizen movement to create an Act which protects Lake Simcoe and her precious resources.
“Simcoe County is the Wild West of Ontario urban sprawl and the new Lake Simcoe Protection Act must bring it under control if Lake Simcoe is to survive,” said Dr. Rick Smith, Executive Director, Environmental Defence. “The province has correctly identified land use changes, meaning urban sprawl, as a primary cause of water quality decline. Now the government needs to do something about it.”
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With each passing trip, familiar farmer's fields are being replaced by new homes and shopping complexes...all inching closer towards Kempenfelt Bay and Lake Simcoe. All of sudden, the burbs are right around the corner and an area that once was pure cottage country...well...isn't.
Developers have simply been leap-frogging over the Escarpment and Greenbelt areas and focusing in on land in Simcoe County.
Concerns over this type of unchecked growth is one of the reasons why there was a citizen movement to create an Act which protects Lake Simcoe and her precious resources.
“Simcoe County is the Wild West of Ontario urban sprawl and the new Lake Simcoe Protection Act must bring it under control if Lake Simcoe is to survive,” said Dr. Rick Smith, Executive Director, Environmental Defence. “The province has correctly identified land use changes, meaning urban sprawl, as a primary cause of water quality decline. Now the government needs to do something about it.”
Read more here
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