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Irene Ford Profile picture
@vaughanvoice22
Jun 19, 2021 • 9 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
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Attack on #YorkRegion's #Greenbelt ROPA 7 requests portions #Greenbelt prime agr. to be re-designated to rural in #Markham #Vaughan. Lipstick on a pig. ROPA 2, ROPA 3 brought lands into urban boundary & areas subject to ROPA 7 protected as Regional Greenlands System 1/x ROPA 2 Subject LandsROPA 3 Subject LandsROPA 7 Subject Lands
Vaughan, Markham & York Region staff don't support ROPA 7 b/c it's premature. Areas called 'Greenbelt Fingers' part of ongoing Policy Direction review for #YorkRegion's #OfficialPlan2051. About protection of watersheds, habitat connectivity & corridors, urban agr. 2/x
Applicant is over simplifying the request. Rural recreational uses are not well defined, for eg. a golf course could be allowed. Explained well in #Markham's Staff Report 3/x
pub-markham.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ash…
pub-vaughan.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ash…
MMHA letter to #YorkRegion added to @City_of_Vaughan's agenda via TACC email. Block 41 #MZO was approved w/ open LPAT, requested parks on GB endorsed by Council, not approved by @SteveClarkPC
ROPA 7 is the workaround... 4/x
pub-vaughan.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ash…
pub-vaughan.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ash…
This a #MZO in disguise on #Greenbelt. Province @SteveClarkPC is ultimate approval authority to change prime agr. on #Greenbelt. Support from #Markham #Vaughan & #YorkRegion Councils is a courtesy & endorsement of developer's request. 5/x
#Vaughan Council supported ROPA 7 at CofW meeting against staff recommendation but can change this at Council Jun 22. Learned nothing from #MZO scandal. @realindajackson undermined @City_of_Vaughan staff rebuked for not supporting ROPA 7 aka developer 6/x
pub-vaughan.escribemeetings.com/FileStream.ash…
Please send letters to @cityofmarkham Council clerkspublic@markham.ca by 5pm Sunday June 20 and to @City_of_Vaughan Council clerks@vaughan.ca by noon Wednesday June 22 requesting Council not support the private request for ROPA 7 and support staff recommendations. 7/7
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Irene Ford Profile picture
May 9, 2023
.@City_of_Vaughan Council approved zoning enabling development on land protected since 1990, was a seminal court case establishing case law for "conservation of land" under S. 28 of the CAA
Justified b/c @ONtransport Highway 427 construction damaged natural heritage
1/5 ImageImage
No history in the staff report
Spoke to ensure history was known
To ask what will happen if #Highway413 is built; to Nashville Conservation Reserve, 80 tributaries & streams crossed?
Council spent more time, had more ?'s & interest in the pickleball update 2/5
.@realindajackson was Chair, was dismissive said it was @TRCA_HQ issue, applications are 30yo
She's @City_of_Vaughan's TRCA representative?!

Funny cause I've seen her advocate to keep 30yo applications/tribunal cases on the #Greenbelt & Oak Ridges Moraine alive... 3/5
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Feb 7, 2023
#Vaughan Block 41 Public Meeting 7pm. Subject of a #Greenbelt removal & downgrading of #Greenbelt protection from prime agricultural to rural to allow active urban parks (#ROPA7)
It's a mess. 1/x
Agenda Link: pub-vaughan.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?I…
LiveStream: vaughan.ca/council/minute…
First figure is the Block Plan as submitted by the Landowners Group. It's not in compliance with the PPS, Greenbelt Plan, CAA.
The second figure is the Secondary Plan approved by Council in 2019, reaffirmed by the tribunal approval in 2021 (OPA 50) 2/x
omb.gov.on.ca/e-decisions/pl…
Landowners never had any attention of complying w/ the Secondary Plan as approved by Council & reaffirmed by 2021 tribunal decision. Always planned illegal #Greenbelt parks...As is evident by this 2017 figure 3/x
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Jun 30, 2022
Voting on 2051 Official Plan now, looks as though it will include 250Ha of Oak Ridges Moraine (ORM) #Greenbelt land in #Vaughan...they are talking now about splicing it out & voting on it in parts? Staff clearly said can't sign off if it includes ORM land...1/x Image
Chair Emmerson who has failed to call motions out of order says on the whole the plan should be supported and it's only a little bit of the Oak Ridges Moraine here and there, not a precedent setting vote @YorkRegionGovt Code of Conduct 2/x
The poor Clerk is being asked to splice Official Plan apart so @YorkRegionGovt Council members can support the bits & pieces...It's crazy. So messy! It all stems from motions brought forward by politicians that should have been called our of order 3/x
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Jun 29, 2022
Insane because @townofeg doesn't have an approved W/W servicing solution. Worse, at the behest of Mayor @VirginiaHackson @YorkRegionGovt is set to approve an urban boundary expansion on #farmland for 660Ha more. Wonder if the fire department can service it all? 1/4
#EastGwillimbury is still using open waste water lagoons in #HollandLanding, operating well past their best before day since 1974, discharging to #LakeSimcoe. Great article by @fatimabsyed 2/4 thenarwhal.ca/york-region-wa…
#YorkRegion Council will endorse the 2051 Official Plan tomorrow then submit to @ONmunicipal for approval by @SteveClarkPC. Growth proposed in EG is most expensive, requires 2 upgrades & EAs to the yet to be approved & built Upper York Sewage Solutions 3/4 yorkpublishing.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ash…
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May 2, 2022
#Stopthe413
@ONgov recently erected #Highway413 billboards at Hwy 10 & Old School Rd. Timed well w/ writ dropping & #OntarioBudget2022.

Argo owns land on SW corner.

Why here @ONtransport @C_Mulroney? 1/4

caledon.ca/en/town-servic…
Developable land owned by Argo in #Vaughan preserved, #Stopthe413 preferred route moved N destroying Nashville Conservation Reserve.

How land got into urban boundary when it should’ve been frozen in #Highway413 study area is a mystery @ONtransport? 2/4

thestar.com/amp/news/gta/2…
Argo owns lands rezoned by @SteveClarkPC via #MZO 171/21
Justified b/c of the 👻 #Bolton Go Line & Humber Go Station 🚉 that aren’t a @Metrolinx priority.

By approving @ONmunicipal sided w/ @TownofCaledon dismissing @regionofpeel’s objections.
3/4
argoland.com/project/macvil…
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Nov 10, 2021
Here is another powerful lobbyist that we haven't heard about for #StopThe413. @LIUNA Joseph Mancinelli. Did you know that LIUNA invests their pension with Fengate Asset Management who specializes in investing in P3 infrastructure projects & real estate?
Fengate & LIUNA invested in the Walmart Distribution Facility in #Vaughan that needed an #MZO only to rezone 4 acres of #wetland to allow for 200 tractor trailer parking spots and is located just south of where the proposed #Highway413 will end. fengate.com/blog/2020/09/1…
Fengate invested in the controversial massive, ill suited #LakeSimcoe Friday Harbour Project. fengate.com/blog/2017/07/2…
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