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Greenbelt Proposed Around Toronto

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Michael Sullivan
23 December 2003 - 11:00am

Development is banned in the fast-growing Ontario region known as the 'Golden Horseshoe'.

"Development will be banned for a year on a huge swath of land around the Golden Horseshoe slated one day to form a permanent greenbelt. The one-year ban is to give the new provincial Liberal government the breathing space to come up with a long-term plan to control urban sprawl in the area... 'Within 15 years, it will be the third largest urban region in North America after New York and Los Angeles.' "

Full Story: Green law curbs sprawl
Source: The Toronto Star, December 17, 2003
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