Bill 66, Restoring Ontario's…

Bill 66, Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act breathes fresh air into the Dark Ages mentality held by the Town of Halton Hills since I have become a resident here over the past three and a half decades. The temerity demonstrated by council to enact proposals for change held our community back from the pursuit of economic, industrial and personal growth through fear mongering and unsubstantiated prediction of doom and gloom. Again, according to the IFP article of Jan 3, 2019, the Glen Williams Community Association is embarking on the same old hackneyed tactics they employed in the past. Predicting that change will bring about such calamities as upstream communities polluting the Credit River and Mayor Rick Bonnette's hyperbole that the Greenbelt will be 'cut in half'. OPA amendments to allow land development for residential permits are often railed against by those residents who were lucky enough to purchase homes in the most sought after areas of the town often stand in the way of progress claiming, "We don't want our community to become Brampton or Milton!" Lets face it, does this not sound like covert discrimination? Why shouldn't new residents have the same access to live in those same desirable neighbourhoods as the existing homeowners. Careful consideration to allow residential and environmentally clean industries to arise in small pockets of the current Greenbelt areas will foster fresh economic and personal growth. As a result, the Town maybe able to maintain our dilapidated roads and other infrastructure. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to be heard.