The pros and cons Of bill 97…

The pros and cons
Of bill 97. (Building homes throughout southern Ontario)
Let’s start with the cons(there is a reason for this)
Southwestern region police report 550 accidents between automotive vehicles and Slow-moving farm vehicles(SMV’s) in the last five years. Why are these autos in SMV areas?
Noise, (working all hours of the day/night.) smell,( manure and sludge especially ) dust , spray drift, …the usual suspects of farming conflicting with residential that everybody is aware of.
Trespassing (atv’s snowmobiles, dirt bikes, cars! ) non-farmer residential seems to think farmland is public property.
Traffic overload on downtown cores. Example- Simcoe- hwy 3 east/west and hwy24 N/S are already bumper to bumper. Adding any more homes in the eastern part of Norfolk county will jam these roads impassably. The same can be said of any small town or village outside the GTA. The cost to make these 4 lane hwy’s through town 6 lanes would be inconceivable.
Carbon emissions. Many of the people building/buying homes outside the “corridor” are travelling to the corridor every day to work. Driving short distances to work rather than a long distance would reduce emissions. ….more on this later
Homes being built Willy-nilly throughout southern Ontario would render public transit systems to be infeasible.
Garbage pickup , mail delivery, and all other services, spread over distances would be more carbon intensive and wasteful than if homes were concentrated in one area.
Building infrastructure great distances in every direction would be far more expensive than building in one direction for a short distance.
There is already too many people for the number of jobs outside the corridor.
Farm equipment avoiding mailboxes. Seen more than one of them ripped off by farm equipment going past.
Carbon emissions - school buses travelling great distances rather than around a concentrated setting.
People travelling home from the corridor after a long days work would be much safer if they were only driving a few miles instead of many miles. (Tired)
Family life would be better if working parent(s) didn’t have to spend so much time on the road. ( build where they work!!!)
More housing spread everywhere means less habitat for creatures that don’t thrive near humans.
Heavy traffic load- four way stops at every intersection? Stoplights at every intersection? Overpasses so farm equipment can get to the other side of the road? The infrastructure costs become punitive with unplanned population growth. It’s time this country actually had some intelligent development planning.
Is farm theft or vandalism a greater threat with more population in the rural areas? Farmers leave equipment unattended in fields regularly. Pros; ….none, actually.
Where should development happen ?
Build where people work. Actually -close to where people work. This solves all of the problems listed above.
It separates residential from farming as much as possible, shortens driving time makes public transit feasible, etc…
The perfect place to develop (east of Toronto) would be the area south of the 403 from Ancaster to Brantford .
there is an existing underused four lane highway already there. (Infrastructure)
It’s next to the 403 for easy and quick access and movement of people on a “400” series highway.
The farmland is some of the poorest in the province- no loss building there.
It may improve the usage of nearby Hamilton airport.
A well- planned growth area located in the proper place makes public transit, services, and maintenance (etc) feasible and affordable .
Growth south of Hamilton also fills the same bill with the same set of reasons.
The green belt in the area from Ancaster south and east to smithville doesn’t actually have any positive attributes. Might as well build in it.
There hasn’t been any intelligent development planning in the past. It’s time to change that.