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Irene Ford
@vaughanvoice22
#Vaughan #YorkRegion resident/#ClimateAction/#MZO/#Stopthe413/ #HandsOffTheGreenbelt
May 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
.@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
Feb 7, 2023 • 13 tweets • 14 min read
#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…
Jun 30, 2022 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
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
Jun 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
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…
May 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 7 min read
#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…
Nov 10, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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…
Oct 22, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Community Value Plan #StopThe413 meetings @ONtransport admits noise studies aren't complete. They can't even talk to us about how the community will be protected from noise; can't tell us anything about a "major physiological stressor"! 1/x
gta-west.com/wp-content/upl… Here is the description of what a Community Value Plan Meeting is, note noise attenuation is the first item listed.
Jun 19, 2021 • 9 tweets • 10 min read
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