Dear Minister, Innisfil…

Dear Minister,
Innisfil likes to approve anything that comes its way, and its history with MZO's is not good. The Orbit has languished, there is still no GO station, and the building of infrastructure for the Orbit is an ongoing challenge. I thought we had learned that expanding infrastructure all over rural municipalities was wasteful in both the short term and long term. The province, having allowed communal servicing for wastewater (with increased threats to public health and safety) no longer stands in the way of wasteful sprawl like this.

A long term care facility is a well-practiced pretext for allowing land speculation to drive development that open up lands outside settlement area boundaries via an MZO in Doug Ford's Ontario. It already happened in Environmentally Protected Lands in north Innisfil : https://www.simcoe.com/news/tollendale-village-2-in-innisfil-gets-green…
But if urgency were real, and if the province stood by its claim that MZOs were for priority, shovel ready projects, this project approved by MZO in 2019 would likely have advanced. It has not. https://tollendalevillage.ca/expansion/expansion-history/
Let's watch and see if it is built or if the land is flipped.

Let me point out that this is how Innisfil is losing its' natural cover and Environmentally Protected lands - cut by cut.

There are serious concerns however, about public safety which remind us that planning matters. A resident died, just going for a walk from her long term care home in Bradford, on rural Sideroad 10, with no sidewalks and no safe connection to town. https://www.bradfordtoday.ca/police-beat/bradford-woman-88-struck-and-k…

Much-needed long term care homes should be situated where there are services, and sidewalks. That would be within the settlement boundary, as per the Growth Management Plan Ontario had until Doug Ford's government got rid of it. If the project is worth doing, an MZO is not necessary. All of Ontario, and Innisfil in particular, should have learned this by now.