From what I understand this is not a housing issue. Nor is it about Orangeville.

It’s about about the Conestoga Rovers(CRA), a company, that provides engineering and ‘environmental’ consulting to bigger more aggressive companies. Companies that have been trying for years to develop that land.

If the CRA can get a toehold in the country line, these other companies will quickly be able to follow suit. Then in an eel like fashion they will slide all over our rural farmlands. Forcing the agricultural population to move because it really is impossible to run even a small dairy farm when you’re surrounded by four lane highways.

The CRA can despite their whinging easily adapt their ‘headquarter’ plans to re-develop in urban areas that ARE available. The cost effectiveness that they mention should not include the clients bonuses from companies that are packing their bags preparing for further development once the country line has been crossed by the pioneering rovers.

How many 10 floor or higher buildings can you name in KW?

You are right in one thing Brenda. The buildings that ARE going up up up (10 or more floors) are all apartment buildings, while the corporations in the area are more inclined to sprawl (have you visited the RIM infrastructures recently?) We need to re develop the inner city with our juggernaut corporations not bulldoze the agri-population.

We have a lot of local power heads we should be very proud of.. but they should stand tall at the heart of the city and stop laying about on the fringes.

It’s far too important to me to have locally grown produce available to me in the grocery stores and farmers markets than have unripened “fresh” produce imported from away.

To maintain these vital productions and really support the backbone of what is Waterloo Region we need to protect our farmland and it’s custodians.

It’s the difference between paving all of paradise for a parking lot or paving a corner of it for a 10 story parking garage.

(no I don’t wear birkenstocks nor eat granola as often as I should)

I hope the planning staff can nip the roving Rovers in the bud before they rove too far and the countryside line needs to be renamed urban line.

The CRA’s environmental footprint is getting far too big for it’s socks if you ask me. And it’s time they learned to wipe their feet on the mat at the door instead of tromping all over the rural rim.

How can they justify building OUT. When the inner core of KW is in dire need of building UP.

It would be far more responsible simply to regenerate what you’ve already destroyed instead of stretching out and shoving the rural areas around with your “cost prohibitive” nonsense. That’s a whole bucket load of bull pucky if you ask me.

*goes off to hug a tree*