Greetings, I have been on a…

Greetings, I have been on a response team to stabilize banks of a river after Hurricane Irene in Pennsylvania. I've done a lot of different jobs on the land, including farming. I understand the "lay of the land" from having worked it by hand.

Please be advised that land located up-stream from a low-elevation floodplain, is a 'contributor' to flooding. Sheetflow from impervious surfacing, during the paving of such an area, will add surprisingly high volume to 5 year, 10 year, 100 year and 500 year storm events.

When old-fashioned practices to develop suburban housing are still used, it is guaranteed flooding in storm events. that costs $40,000 per house, and millions in emergency infrastructure repairs

Lets us not make the same mistakes during this time of increased awareness about the performance of ecological infratcuture as superior to culverts and channelized streams.

These days flood protection means increasing the sizes of wetlands.

The following link is a youtube recording, of the case in point recently in Toronto, where the , as we have seen in the Humber River watershed that got over-developed. The Rockcliffe Community ended up incurring costs , that in the case of Bill 23 and Bill 39, continue to make fiscally very risky , and render dangerous, the proposed changes to the existing Greenbelt.

Thank you kindly for considering the important live feedback we have about GTA/GTHA development standards.

In conclusion, Please do not remove any land from the Greenbelt, and coninue to increase it's capacity to clean Lake Ontario water, and protect communities.