The SCOOP on Lake Simcoe

The SCOOP on Lake Simcoe

January 14, 2011

ACTION ALERT - TIME IS RUNNING OUT

Comment on the Simcoe County Growth Plan until January 31st to help save greenspace in Simcoe County

We encourage everyone to submit comments to the Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) using our comments outlined below, and on our website, or your own thoughts. To make comments on the EBR, go to: http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/

Enter # 011-1528 to get to the page for the Simcoe Sub-Area Amendment.

Click on the number, scroll down to make your comments, and submit.

Or you can email placestogrow@ontario.ca

The Ontario Growth Secretariat released a document that outlines how growth should occur in Simcoe County in the next 20 years.

Campaign Lake Simcoe needs your local community group to support our submission! (Please ensure your PDF reader is up to date to view the document).

If your local community group would like to sign on to our response to the Simcoe Growth Plan, or if you're having problems downloading the document, email agrovewhite@environmentaldefence.ca

Please cut and paste what you want from our response below, and send it through the EBR. Or, write your own comments.

Campaign Lake Simcoe's Draft Recommendations:

Do not proceed with employment areas on Hwy 400. They are unnecessary and will lead to further sprawl and unsustainable development;
Establish clear transition rules from the “Wild West” of planning that exists now to the planning framework proposed in the Amendment, and make implementation of the amendment fair in all communities;
Extend the requirement under the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan to undertake environment assessments on supporting infrastructure before approving land use designations, to all of Simcoe County;
Do not decrease the density allowed anywhere in this plan, and instead increase density targets to 75 jobs and residents per hectare, and use that number as a condition for future population allocations;
Introduce a community design, water/wastewater management and green building standard against which population allocations can be assessed.

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