I agree that protection for…

I agree that protection for a Provincially Significant Employment Zone is needed.
The Lake Erie Industrial Park, located in Haldimand County, currently contains several businesses which support employment for Haldimand County and surrounding areas, most immediately, Norfolk County.
Stelco Lake Erie Works is the largest employer in the park. Other businesses in the park are Imperial Oil, an asphalt plant, a soil regeneration operation, Air Products, a potential hydrogen plant, and they all provide jobs.
The businesses in the industrial part, in particular Stelco Lake Erie Works, also support other important businesses, such as trucking, and of course, all of these operations provide employment directly. In addition, many of these employees live locally or in surrounding areas and support many smaller businesses.
The Lake Erie Industrial Park certainly meets the requirement under this proposal that the industrial use is unsuitable for mixed use areas (i.e. steel manufacturing and houses) and that the park itself with Stelco and the other operations in the park create a provincially significant employment zone. A current proposal to significantly reduce the provincially determined buffer zone around the park to allow a new housing development for 40,000 people next to this heavy industry would threaten this important employment.
Please retain the current industrial zone designation on these lands and protect them as a Provincially Significant Employment Zone. Thank you.